Life Hacks for Polymaths

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Welcome polymaths !

Ever get the feeling that you seem to don't know what to do with your life because there are just so many things that you want to do ? I know, I've been there, so welcome to the club.

My name is Zigfred Diaz and I am a polymath. After more than 6 years of bloging about almost anything under the sun and having sort of a "blogging identity crisis." I've finally embraced who I am and decided to turn my main blog into some sort of guide for people with so much interest. Feel free to poke around.

What on earth is VOIP ?

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Last week I wrote something about VOIP in a post although the main topic was not all about VOIP but about business. Some of my readers who are not technology savvy are wondering what VOIP is. (Voice Over Internet Protocol) It is very important to know what VOIP is, since it is considered as the "Next big thing" to  computers. I will be writing more about this in the business category. For those of you who wish to understand what it is, here is a nice little clip from Youtube. The clip may be old (2004) but it tells you basically what VOIP is all about. By the way VOIP technology has somewhat advanced for the past 3 years. Here's the clip. … [Read more...]

How to add a giant RSS button in your header

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The thing about deciding to stick it out with a theme is that you get to learn a lot. You are forced to study in order to tweak the theme. One of the things that I’ve always wanted to accomplish is putting a big RSS button in my header. Sure you can have the default RSS button in your side bar but it is a small teeny winy button. I wanted a big RSS button, not only because it looks nice but because they say it will increase your number of readers (subscribers I should say) And I must agree it will increase your feed subscribers. For who wouldn't wont to click that shiny orange button ? Go ahead click on mine ! I discovered a big nice juicy orange RSS button by GEEK WHAT. So I decided to use this button. Now that I have the .GIF file for the button how do I link this to my RSS and how do I place it in my header file? It's quite easy. I’m no good at HTML. In fact I just learned to manipulate HTML codes for the past few weeks because I have no choice. I was forced to study it … [Read more...]

How to get rid of the “TTMS NAA NA DIRE! DONT WORRY IM NOT A CORRUPT LIKE YOU!!” virus

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There are just some people that have nothing to do in life than to make the lives of other people miserable. To the author of this virus, why don’t you get a life and try blogging instead? You might be able to make some money instead of spreading useless viruses? Anyway, I’m just venting out my anger. My shrink tells me it’s unhealthy to hold grudges against people. Hehehehehehe Last week my computer got infected by a virus. There is really no formal name for the virus since most of the anti-virus makers up to know have still not identified it. In fact when you search for a “remover” for this virus in google you cannot find any. (Correct me if I am wrong) There are only instructions on how to remove it and only a few websites are giving such instructions. In fact my onboard antivirus has still not identified it until now. The reason for this is because this virus is local. Yep, you got right, made in the Philippines. Since all of the big anti-virus makers are outside the country, … [Read more...]

How to display ads in your header and footer

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I’ve been using the BLOGGER PRO word press theme by Design Disease for using this theme hehehehe:-)) for more than a month now and I love the theme. However I wanted to accomplish some stuff that I see are done by other bloggers on their site using the same theme as I have. In order to do this I have to tweak the theme a little bit. There are times that I get discouraged, especially when I could not find a solution to the desired effect I am looking for. I am sometimes tempted to switch themes in order to solve the problem immediately. However until now I have resisted that temptation. I figure out that it is better to face the problem than run away from it. I always tend to look at the glass half full hence I decided to stick it out with this theme and study hard in order to achieve the desired effect I want implemented on my blog. As I said I am no HTML expert, and I mostly rely on widgets to make tweaks to my blog. However since I desire to transcend to the level beyond the … [Read more...]

A new way to place a non-obtrusive ad in a blog

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There are three forces that are constantly struggling to dictate how a blogger will design his blog or website. Those three are ads, rich user experience and search engine optimization. Those three are always at war with each other and it is up to the blogger to maintain a balance between them. Some blogs have too much ads that visitors to the site get turned off by pesky ads. (Ads such as Pop-ups, pop-overs and pop-unders) But what can I say, a blogger has to earn some dough for what he is doing. There’s a new way to put a non-obtrusive ad in a blog that will not in anyway affect a user’s experience. This is made possible by a Word Press plugin called MaxBlogPress Stripe Ad 1.2. (If you notice there is an ad strip at the top of this blog. This is what I am reffering to) Most leading bloggers refer to MaxBlogPress Stripe Ad as a new non-obtrusive way of displaying an advertising message. Putting ads and their corresponding links is very easy. There is even an option to put … [Read more...]