Surveys and Polls
Surveys and polls are helpful tools in getting the demographics of your audience for a certain topic. It also helps us web developers evaluate the desires or the demands of our visitors. It’s a good tool in determining what type of users our web site has. It also gives us an overview of our market, for the case of e-commerce websites.
WEP for my Friend
My friend recently got his laptop (a newer, better laptop than mine… T_T), and since his dad and older sister also have laptops and they have two desktop PC’s (three if they didn’t donate the other one, but they thought they already had too much. [You think?!]), his dad decided to buy a wireless router, for at least the networking if not for the net connection sharing.
So, my friend set it up and it work like a charm and all that. Anyway, he remembered that his cousin used to “steal” net connection from thier neighbor by using his mac out in the porch. My friend then realize that he should probably setup a password of some sort, though he doubts that his neighbors are not that smart enough, but then again, who knows.
So, in comes, well, me. He asked me to help him set the, what he calls, “selfish thingy that some coffee shops do”. Anyway, I asked him if he prefered WEP or WPA and I swear, I think I saw something red ooze out of his nose. I decided for him and used WPA. No reason for choosing that rather than WEP, it’s just that it was the first option in the list. I also mentioned to him that this WEP thing works like the American Home Shield, it protects you from those connection thieves. He now has the, ahem, “selfish thingy that some coffee shops do” in his own home and I managed to set up all their PC’s fine.
WiFi in Offices
My friend was recently hired for an office job. Since he is more on customer service, he has to use a computer to make his job faster; you know, with the searching for records and service applications and stuff. Even though he was given a PC with an LCD screen, he says it’s still bothersome to use the keyboard and mouse since they still have wires.
It’s the kind of workstation where the CPU is hidden and the wires for the I/O peripherals are just passed through a small hole. He says this makes the moving of the mouse a bit hard since the wires get tangled in the hole. He says this is understandable since wireless keyboards and mice are expensive. He complains more on the network and power cables located near his feet and legs.
Choices of Coffee Shops in Davao
A lot of people, whether tourists or locals, are wondering which Coffee Shop offers the best service in town. The idea of listing my choice of coffee shops hit me. I’m not the type of person who orders the same type of coffee every time I hang out in a coffee shop. Most of the time, I make it a point to visit and try every coffee shop in the city. Of course, it’s part of my niche to collect data of the wifi hotspots of these shops.
Wifi finding #1: Dog accessory
Ok. I’m starting this series of posts. It is a series of posts which may be of any topic as long as it is something interesting finding from the internet using my WiFi device of course.
For the first post for this series, my WiFi finding #1 is a dog accessory called UGODOG. It’s a dog potty. A dog potty is like a toilet for pet dogs. It may be a piece of decorative box with special matting material or a simple piece of plastic intended for keeping the dog’s dirt in contact of your floor’s surface.