You’re looking at an old blog with a new face. Oh yes, it still is breathtechnology.com but now with a new face!

I decided to look for a new theme that would represent the personality of this blog — motherly, geeky, creative. I am of course thankful for the pretty Zoxengen theme of Dezzain which I used for a long time also, a theme I had fun modifying and feature-packed. Only, the featured images at the top sidebars of the page really takes time to upload and for a minute, the page would look distorted until it rearranges itself. This is one of the reasons why I decided its time for a change.

After choosing over hundreds of free wordpress themes online, I stumbled upon the works of Brian of http://www.templatelite.com, a really creative and passionate themes designer. It took me some time to really decide which one I would use for this site as he has a lot of beautiful creations to choose from. I would say the guy is truly an artist.

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One of my birthday wish for next year is to be given a Nintendo Wii Fit so I can lose away undesirable pounds I’m bound to get from holiday eating sprees.

Her royal highness though need not wish to have her own set of a specially-made Nintend Wii. The gaming company THQ which positioned Nintend Wii as the gaming console of world designed and presented  gold-plated Wii to the Queen of England as a gift. Read that? Queen Elizabeth’s very own Wii is gold-plated!

According to Geek.com, “the gift is actually meant to build awareness for the upcoming game, Big Family Games, which is meant to include the whole family from kids to grandparents. What better family to send it to than The Royal Family in England.” Would the queen play the game? If the scoop of the site Insiders is true, Queen Elizabeth was “addicted” to playing Prince William’s Wii last Christmas.

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When I came to work today, the craze among the men, and actually even the women, was about the sex video of Hayden Kho and Katrina Halili. I was not surprised by this because I watched the evening news while I was in Malolos, Bulacan last night, and from there, I learned that Katrina is now suffering from depression because of the sex video of her and with the doctor gigiolo.

Even our on-the-job-trainee, a teenager at 17, was asking me where to actually download the sex video of Hayden and Katrina. Some said it was available at youtube so I believe that at this point, a lot of people are actually searching online for this particular sex video.

What I actually felt when I first saw the news about Bong Revilla who ravaged Hayden Kho in the Congress and wanting the doctor to be barred from practicing his medical profession, I just smirked and told myself that this is just another play of an actor-politician to be noticed by the public. I found out later that Katrina was just one of the victims of this “pervert” whose habit is to take videos of his sexual escapades with women he lured going to bed with him.
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Being a self-confessed shopping addict, I was totally struck by an article about Green shopping which I incidentally stumbled upon during one of my “online window shopping” activities. Since my time was too hectic to do even the things I love like shopping, I’ve turned to the internet to window shop.

I was surprised when I read about the idea of green shopping which really caught my interest. By reading the coined word, I immediately got the idea that this type of shopping would allow me to do something good for the environment while doing my shopping round.s. Very ideal right?

According to buy.com, a popular online shopping site,a study by the Carnegie Mellon University’s Green Design Institute proved that “shopping online consumes less energy and reduces carbon dioxide emissions by 35 percent compared to shopping at traditional retail stores.” Here’s a diagram to show you a better picture of this:

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What would you consider when buying a laptop? Will you consider the brand? What about the features? Are you the type who would put high importance to looks or the physical attributes of the laptop? Will you rely on the reviews of blogs on the popular laptops in the internet?

Laptops are getting more and more popular these days. People are getting dependent on mobile technology and laptop is becoming  an important tool to those who wanted to always be in touch through the internet as well as those who wanted to journal everything that goes around.

It was barely a couple of months ago when I started using my very first laptop. It was an old one, a hand-me-down from a boss. It was simply an inexpensive Neo, quite “problematic”as my boss used to describe it. Using my ability with computers, I reformatted it, installed the right software, put my special touches like my really kikay green and pink laptop sleeves, and voila! The simple laptop turned into something very useful and attractive. It is now my life, one I depend on to do my work and one that I depend on for my other works like graphic designing and blogging.
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If you lose a laptop, are you just counting the lost according to it’s price when you bought it? Are you not going to count the cost of the files and private information stolen together with it?

A study by the Ponemon Institute in the US which was sponsored by the chip magnate Intel discovered that companies business secrets are taking at risks when a laptop computer is lost or stolen. This means that businesses will be losing a lot of money by losing laptops which accounts for stolen or lost data, intellectual property, replacement, lost work time and legal expenses. The lost of a laptop by executives or what is called as “power users” in the United States is calculated amounting to an average of more than 49,000 dollars or a staggering 2.2M in pesos.

The study divulged that more and more employees are being turned into “mobile users” which put corporations’ sensitive and confidential information at great risk. Corporate data and other significant information are stored in the computers. Laptops are usually lost in taxis, rental cars, hotels, airports, pubs or restaurants, and conference centers.
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Google recently acquired the hot website Feedburner.com which most bloggers use to deliver and manage their feeds to their subscribers via email. This includes me who uses feedburner services for all my three blogs.

For a long time,  Feedburner has been a reliable service provider for my blogs. My feed statistics as well as the “subscribe to email headliners” are customizable. I excitedly  watched my feed stat grow daily and really feel good each time there are new subscribers signing up.

When Google acquired  Feedburner, one of the best news was that we can now use our feeds for google adsense by migrating your feedburner account to your goggle account. This means that you can now manage your feedburner account alongside your google accounts. It was really rewarding right? I agree but probably because Google is still working on this new acquisition that that there are still annoying glitches like feedburner statistics reverting to 1 which happened to my blogs for a few days. I was really unhappy with this that I took off my feedburner widget so that people won’t see that because they would look at a wrong feedburner subscription stat.  I only brought the feedburner widget when the stat came back to the correct number but again experienced the same glitch sometime after.
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Do you want to surf the internet even without an internet connection? Seemed impossible right? Not anymore. A website called MyWebDownload.com is designed to allow internet users to download the whole world wide web in their computers and surf the internet via the download when offline. Amazing ‘ayt!

This program was initiated by three Computer Science students of the University of Kingsman in Georgia: Michael Larrock, Steven Finchel and Larry Cusack. Their brilliant project was supported by some non-governmental organizations (NGOs) which funded the cost for the servers and bandwidth consumption.

If proven successful, this website and its downloads will surely hit the online market very very soon. Although the popularity of internet has reached great heights and people now have recognized the importance of internet in almost all aspects of life — relationships, business, education, politics, world news, and much much more — a lot of people are still not drawn or have not experience the power of internet for lack of access.

Just today, when I visited their website, the notice was:

There are 1,203,304 users downloading The Web right now. We were forced to temporarily disable new downloads, therefore, else our servers would not be able to sustain the load. Please come back in a couple of hours.

Interesting right? Makes you go to their website now and download the web but would get frustrated because more than a million are doing that right now and probably experiencing exasperation because of the terrible slow download. Worth a try anyway. So here are some of the excerpts from their website to enlighten you more on this unbelievable but very welcome program:

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For days now, online news has been dominated  by the Conficker C Worm Virus threat which is supposed and feared to strike today, April 1 as an April Fools Day disaster gift. The news spread like wildfire, especially after it was covered by international broadcasting agencies like CNN, and caused panick to the online community too wary of malicious viruses cracking down systems and breaking down computers.

In the Philippines, I.T. department of some companies were rumored to be shutting down their systems on the dreaded attack schedule where the virus is set to change programming. The virus, also known as Downup, Downadup and Kido has already infected about 3 millionto 12 millioncomputers running Microsoft Corporation’s operating system. An info that sent shiver to my spine since I’m a Microsoft OS fanatic.

The said virus was set to steal money from people by getting personal information like credit and bank account numbers and passwords. As to how the virus would do this, I don’t have any idea since it sounded ridiculous but nevertheless, the guys behind this dreaded virus were undeniably smart.

For months now, the Conficker worm has been causing sleepless night for computer technician and I.T. people who maintain computer system of private and government agencies. There was even a news that the European media reported that French military even grounded some of its fighter planes after the Navy’s network was infected over the winter. (Source: Yahoo News)
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Very soon, breathtechnology.com will have some major overhaul. I recently purchased a new hosting for this blog from my old friend’s hosting. During the process of migrating this blog, I would take the opportunity to improve its layout and design and other functionality, just like how I did it with my other blog marikenya.com.

Developing a blog has always been an exciting challenge for me. I love choosing a new wordpress theme and customizing it to suit my style. I’m very glad Neil, my blogger friend who influenced me into blogging, taught me how to use Core FTP for installing plugins, themes and uploading photos and editing files.

For a while, Neil accommodated my self-hosted wordpress blog in his hosting. It took me some time to actually look for a new webhost and transfer my blog. Since I haven’t talked to my blog master Guru, Neil, I just chose a small webhost company recommended by a friend. Neil scolded me for choosing this one because he’s not familiar with it and its services. He then told me he’s going to transfer his blogs (more than 10 of them), to a new webhost which he carefully chose. This hosting company is a big one with a good marketing scheme and known for its services, the Hostgator. This hosting charges more than my new hosting but my friend wanted a stable and more prominent company managing his blogs.
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