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Who would have thought that thoughts can be taught and be the thoughts of all. Hahaha! Got you there huh! Its actually a trick sentence. But there is actually a place on the world wide web where your thoughts is the IN thing. Its the place where you can share your thoughts and other stuffs (like photos, videos, podcasts, etc..) with other people. Or just blog about anything, like the recent NBA championship or what happened to photobucket or anything you have in your mind.

I’m talking about thoughts.com, where anyone can register an account for free. Yes its 100% free as long as your 14 years or older. And from there you can start sharing your thoughts to all the members by having your own blog and it comes with your own personalized URL. There’s no need to worry about the space because thoughts.com would give you unlimited free space to put all your blogs, photos, videos, and podcasts.

Then for some socialization you can express yourself at the Thoughts.com Forums. You can ask, interact, discuss, or just be a plain lurker and learn from all the different threads and opinions coming from people all around the globe.

And if your doing some research. No need to open up another window because at thoughts.com they integrated the power of the three best search engines. With just one click you got 4 result pages from  Google, Yahoo, MSN and Thoughts.com. Isn’t that neat!

Its like hammer and saw to a carpenter, a blogger need some tools too for their work. Pen and paper is alright, but a more sophisticated equipment is much preferred. And that would be a computer (any pc that has a word processor), and a camera (capable of still and video is much better). From which I have found on my recently acquired HTC Wizard.

Its a Windows Mobile Pocket PC (PPC) with mobile phone capabilities. Running on Windows Mobile 6 (WM6), although the original unit has WM5. I have unlocked and upgraded it all by myself, well of course with the help of an expert (grinminded of airfagev and xda-developer forum).

This wizard have come a long way before it landed on my hand, lol! I actually found it on Ebay (the seller is in Miami) and I let my friend (Gerard) from New Jersey bought it for me. Very timely because his wife auntie is coming back home (free courier haha) and I just picked up the unit near my place.

So what does the HTC Wizard can do as a blogger tool. Well aside from all the usual stuff an ordinary mobile phone can do (sms and phone calls). It can also run lots of application that you find mostly on a personal computer; and it comes with an Office Mobile (Word, Excel and Powerpoint) so basically I can use the Word to write my blog using the stylus or the QWERTY keyboard that slides to its side when you need it.  A built in 1.3 megapixels camera (just right for snapshots and short clips). It can also play videos and mp3, a sound recorder if you want to do some podcasting or just to want to record a reminder, a drawing board for some sketching, and many more! But whatI really really like about it is that I can my write my blog almost anywhere (bus, restaurant, up a tree, hills, comfort room, etc..).

Connectivity from wired to wireless (infrared, bluetooth, direct cable, and wifi) So I can go online anytime or anywhere there is hotspot, GPRS or direct connection to upload my blog and photos. There are new models from HTC do check them out! But for the meantime I’ll just stick with my Wizard. So that’s my blogging tool. Handy and portable. What’s yours?

More information on HTC Wizard available on links below:

http://www.htcwizardweb.net/
http://www.htcamerica.net
http://forum.xda-developers.com/
http://pinoywindowsmobile.net/
http://www.airfagev.com 

blogging tool HTC Office Mobile podcasting Wizard Windows Mobile
 

Who wouldn’t appreciate romance from time to time. I guess everybody wanted to be in some kind of situation every now and then. And did you happen to know that Google Bot needs it too!?

A very informative article for those (bloggers and webmasters) that was recently smacked by the Big G. Its either you have lost your pagerank on your site or worst got de-indexed from the search engine.

For most of us, Google is a hard nut to crack. Efforts upon efforts are put forth to increase your site’s SEO and while your efforts are working in other search engines, they just seem slow when it comes to Google. So what do you do? Try romance!

Yes, romance. Who isn¡’t looking for romance? Non-human bot or not, the Google Bot also wants it. It wants to be romanced and feel the love from your site. If it doesn’t, oh, look out! Just like a scorned woman, you are going to pay. Come on, everyone knows what I mean. It’s either “Penalty City” or “the silent treatment”. It all depends on what you did or didn’t do.

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