Next? What’s next? ahmmm.. I think we’ll be visiting the world-known Statue of Liberty and other prominent monuments in New York City. There are so many places to sojourn in New York. I don’t know what are those places that’s why I decided to search the world wide web to see more must-to-visit places in New York. (more…)

In Zenni Optical they manufacture their own merchandise from their factories to you. So you now have the freedom to “customize” your own glasses. You can choose whether you want to have your glasses a Premium Photo chromic Lenses (clear indoors and darkens in outdoors if there is sunlight), Premium Anti Reflective Coating, Sunglass Color Tint Coating and many more. (more…)

I’ve witnessed how Davao’s restaurant and coffee shop industry shifted its way from a for-the-rich image to a for-the-mass image.  Nowadays, people from the middle class who owns wifi devices can utilize the free internet access offered by restos and coffee shops.

Thus, when opening a business, it is highly recommended that you incorporate the WiFi service to drive customers to your establishment.  WiFi routers are now sold in the country at a very cost-effective price.

Of course, like any business establishment, you should also have a point of sale system for monitoring your sales.  Since you are connected online, it is good to utilize web-based pos system to save on equipments and software costs.

When I opened my laptop and scanned for the available wireless network APs, I saw a new one on the list.  Its network SSID is AdduNet.  My teacher told me that it was him who installed the new AP.  I asked if it’s a router that he used for that AP.  He said no, it was his laptop which hosts the network AP.

Unknown to me, some PCMCIA Wireless Adapters have the capacity to host a wireless network.  I think I still need to research on the proper procedure for internet sharing via a self-hosted AP using an ordinary laptop.

One favorite topic of our teacher is ergonomics. She seems to be fixated on this. This is probably because most of the work now occurs in an office, sitting in a chair, looking at a computer screen, typing on a keyboard placed on a table. There are only a few instances where hard, manual labor is being done. So our teacher decided to focus on office ergonomics. This branch of safety engineering is focused mostly on the comfort and ease of doing a job and not only on the actual safeness of an object.

Things like repetitive strain injury from typing on a keyboard, or back strain from a poorly designed chair, and others like this. It’s more on the small aches and eventual permanent discomforts of office work that ergonomics focuses on.

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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.

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.

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