Monday, May 31, 2010

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective!

From the creators of Phoenix Wright Series comes to a new game!

Watch the video and be amaze! LOL

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Pokemon Updates!

The Version mascot is out and set to be release next year Spring 2011 in US!




Video Update:

Friday, May 28, 2010

How to Secure Your Facebook Account

Here's how to navigate the new settings and keep your profile secure:

1) Review Settings
Simpler controls may help most users, but an opt-out system will do little for users who don't look at those controls, says Paul Stephens, the director of policy and advocacy for the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group. Unless users say otherwise, everything is shared. Use the "preview my profile tool" on Facebook's privacy settings pages to see what others can spot. Also consider downloading the free tool at ReclaimPrivacy.org, which flags unsecure settings and offers tips to revise them.

2) Eliminate 'Everyone'
Users would do well to stop thinking of social networks as somehow cut off from the broader Internet. "People understand that when they tweet [using Twitter.com], that it's a broadcast to the world," Aftab says. Anything in Facebook settings that's available to "everyone" is available publicly in the same fashion, potentially showing up to anyone who clicks on your profile, visits sites such as OpenBook or conducts a search on Google (GOOG, News. "Don't post it unless you want your parents, the police, predators and your principal [or boss] to see it," she says.
3) Opt for Security
Facebook's new policy still allows users to specify restrictions post by post. Opt for a more secure setting and tighten or loosen it further if the situation calls for it, Aftab suggests. For example, users can set photo sharing to "friends only" but then specify that their boss can't view the newly uploaded pictures from a recent party. On the other hand, they can broaden a job-hunt status update to include "friends of friends," instead of just people in their immediate circle.

4) Share With Caution
Even information shared with "friends only" could pose a security threat if a friend's account is hacked or a bug occurs, Stephens says. Seemly innocuous data, such as a birthday, a mother's maiden name or a favorite pet's name is enough for hackers and identity thieves to do serious damage. "You're providing a source of data that might be used by a hacker to access password-restricted sites," he says.
There's also the embarrassment factor. In February, a temporary bug resulted in a handful of Facebook users receiving hundreds of private messages meant for others. In early May, another glitch allowed users to view friends' private chats with other people.

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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

How to never oversleep again

 (got this from site, here's the link)

And it seems like I can totally relate to this topic and can be an update to my blog at the same time :D

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Is oversleeping a habit you can’t break?


Have you ever considered the consequences of oversleeping?

Well, sure, oversleeping can make you late for work or for a class. It can get you fired.

But here’s the worst consequence of oversleeping: you’re missing out on life.

Alright, maybe that statement needs some clarification. So let’s see what I mean. Take a look at your past sleeping habits. Right, now pick a time where you were full of energy and ambition. How did you wake up each morning? Did you slowly roll out of bed, turn off the alarm clock, go to the bathroom, only to convince yourself in your cognitive fog that you should probably go back and lie down? And what happens then — oops, you’re back asleep.

When your life is full of energy and ambition, this rarely happens. What does happen? You wake up with a jolt, excited to tackle the day. You think “there’s so much to do, and so little time,” but this motivates you to start working early. Sometimes you wake a few minutes before the alarm goes off.
The problem with oversleeping is that it affects the rest of your day. If you lazily crawl out of bed after a 10-hour sleep, what’s the rest of your day like? Full of energy? No. The rest of your day is spent in a cognitive fog. Why is it that getting a 10-hour night of sleep makes us feel worse than an 7-hour night of sleep?

Sleep—the more the better, right? Well, it doesn’t seem that way.
Fortunately, oversleeping is curable. But let’s first look at why we oversleep.
Oversleeping is caused by a failure in the body’s wake-up mechanism. Unfortunately, disrupting the body’s wake-up mechanism isn’t necessarily a difficult thing to do. Just a few bad habits can cause this failure.

What wakes you up in the morning? Increased blood flow to the brain, which is triggered by the hormones ACTH and cortisol. ACTH and cortisol levels slowly rise as you sleep and spike upon waking up, after which their levels decline during the day. Without a healthy spike in these hormones, waking up will be difficult.
This wake-up mechanism is competing with your body’s desire to sleep as long as possible. If the wake-up mechanism fails to kick in properly, then you will oversleep by a few hours. This extra sleep is usually poor-quality light sleep (stage 1 and stage 2), so it provides little extra benefit.

So how do we control this wake-up mechanism? It’s rather simple.
First, ACTH and cortisol naturally want to spike when your body thinks it should wake up. ACTH and cortisol response are closely tied with your internal body-clock, which dictates your circadian rhythm. To stabilize your circadian rhythm, you need to keep wake-up times consistent. It doesn’t matter if you wake up at 5AM or 10AM, as long as it is consistent from day to day your body clock will stabilize into a 24-hour rhythm.

Once your body clock is stabilized, then ACTH and cortisol will consistently spike when they’re supposed to — during your body’s wake-up time. This hormone spike will give you a strong morning jolt of energy.
One problem with oversleepers is that they are inconsistent with their sleep schedule. In a sense, their body clocks can’t decide when to start the wake-up mechanism, so the hormone spike becomes either too broad or too weak, which leads to unnecessary oversleeping and trouble waking up in the morning.
What else can we do to optimize our body’s wake-up mechanism?

One study showed that by merely anticipating a wake-up time, our bodies will spike ACTH and cortisol higher than normal. Researchers took two groups of volunteers. Group 1 was told they would be woken up at 6AM. Group 2 was told they would be woken up at 9AM. The volunteers all went to sleep at midnight and their ACTH levels were monitored throughout the night. At 5AM, the ACTH levels of group 1 started to rise in anticipating of the 6AM alarm. Levels spiked at 6AM when they were woken up. What about group 2? To their surprise, the researchers woke them up at 6AM as well — and guess what, their ACTH levels remained low even after waking up.

What does this mean? It means that by anticipating our wake-up time we can give ourselves that hormonal jolt of energy to hop out of bed with ease. On the other hand, if we go to bed with the intention of eternal slumber, we will oversleep and miss out on that jolt of energy our body intended us to have.
This brings up a couple points. Have you ever noticed that during your high-on-life periods you needed less sleep than usual? This is partly because through daily ambition we train ourselves to be excited to jump out of bed each morning. That anticipation facilitates the hormonal wake-up mechanism we’ve been talking about.
Conversely, depression has the opposite effect. It’s no surprise that several studies have shown a link between depression and long sleep — when sleep is used to escape the world, there is no anticipation for waking up, thus no hormonal boost.
In summary, how do we avoid oversleeping?
  • Keep wake-up times consistent
  • Maintain a positive, energetic attitude and “anticipate” each wake-up as best as you can.
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So after reading the article, it makes me think "what if I'll follow this habit everyday?"
One advantage I can think as of the moment is, this will be applicable if I'll be working later and can make myself a productive and cheerful person.
Remember when someone wakes you up and you lack a sleep? Tantrums. Don't want to happen that again

One thing also that I am very agreed to is the "body clock mechanism". It makes me think that this theory is really true. I've experienced this always especially when you have a day and you need to wake up early.

So that's about it.

For now, I'll enjoy my summer vacation and when I almost accomplished my personal and academic goals it's time to move to the next phase of my life :)

    Monday, May 17, 2010

    Awesome Pokemon Updates!

    Saturday, May 15, 2010

    Sa wakas! HERO na :P


    XD

    Generation 5 Updates





    Looks cool huh?

    Thursday, May 13, 2010

    5th Generation Pokemon Revealed!



    Nung nakita ko ito nagulat talaga ako. XD Ayus naman ang Generation 5 ah, tsaka hindi pa ito 100% sure. Ang cute ng Grass Starter XD



    Picture I got from Pokebeach. It shows about the trainers and some screen-shot about the game.

    Tuesday, May 11, 2010

    Generation 5 Pokemon Starters!


    Watcha think guys?

    Monday, May 10, 2010

    Saturday, May 1, 2010

    Iloilo Strucked by an Earthquake!

    Grabe talaga ang feeling. Nasa kwarto ako at biglang gumagalaw lahat. I thought my sister was jumping sa other side of the room pero hindi pala! Nakakatakot talaga na experience, to think gabi na at matutulog na lahat ><

    Info about the said earthquake
    Yahoo News