CYBER TOUR
As cyber-citizens, the Ytings indulge them selves with the luxury of visiting homes and sites from far away places. Now just in case you haven't gone to the sites we mentioned below, or have not made a stop by recently, then have a look on what we found. The links by the way are provided as shortcuts and we are not responsible for their contents.
Ytingvigator
Tested to work with
Internet Explorer,
Mozilla Firefox,
and
Netscape
browsers.
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In case you reside from the south,
particularly Butuan City, you can visit
Butuanon.Org and try to savor the fresh air of Butuan. The site have
greatly improve their discussion board and you may join if you like. I
recommend this site to anybody who wants to learn some tricks about
discussion board. |
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Need some cyber storage for your
stuffs. Go to FreeDrive.Com. They
can give you about 50M of disk space to store your MP3s, Videos, and
movies. Of course you can store as well ordinary files that you might need
on the internet while your are away from your own PC. This site was
formerly known as DriveWay.Com. |
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Have you wonder where those people
get such an awfully wonderful stuffs? Where else than in
Download.Com. Here you can find
almost every downloadable thing that your PC needs. From freeware to
payware, name it and its certainly there. If the amount of downloadable
software overwhelmed you, read first what others are saying before you
pick up something. It's really worth a visit. |
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Election time! whotovote.com and
botohan.com can provide you with the
list of candidates, both local and national, as well as some election
updates. |
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What happened on September 11, 2001
has really brought great impact to the cyber citizens. I've seen so many
websites close down. Some of my favorite hang-outs no longer exist. Well,
at least, those that mange to stay are either have deeper pocket or have
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| ☺ For those computer enthusiasts I recommend you to visit tomshardware.com. Featured in this sites are reviews, tips, and comparison of latest computer hardware available in the market, useful information about maintaining or upgrading your PC's and lots more. Novice and pro will surely find this site useful and informative. |
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In case you are not yet aware of
it, there is a web browser that offers a 3-D like window on pages you are
viewing. You can view five pages simultaneously as the window resembles
like a cube. All of the pages are active and what's more, you can rotate
or zoom on any pages that is active. Try visiting
2CE.com and see for yourself. There is a
draw back though and I would like to mention it. Unlike Internet Explorer
or Netscape this browser is not free although it offers a free trial
version. Also, you better check first if your computer satisfies their
minimum system requirements. Older computer or operating system will
surely not qualify and it is depressing if you download it first and know
later that it will not work. |
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I received some questions asking me
which search engine is the best. In my humble opinion, I suggested
to them three sites and I would suggest the same to all of you. Whenever I
look for something, I always go to
Google.com first. Why, because they have substantial amount of web
pages on their database (over 2 billion and still keep on searching). Most
likely, obscured web pages can be found here.
Excite.com is the first search engine
I've discovered to offer other means of searching than just websites. To
give due credit to them, I use their site to search for images and other
stuffs. Lately though I noticed that
google, altavista and others
offer similar services. Raging.com
(maintained by Altavista) offers a
faster option because it is text-base. Apart from that it has a language
filter so that only the desired language will turn up. If you are using an
older system, this search tool is your best alternative. |
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The global economic situation has
change the landscape of the cyber world. Many of the websites that I
frequently visited had vanished like bubbles. Others resorted to asking
premium for its services just to survive. Take for example
FreeDrive.Com, before, you can use
it as your hard disk on the web where you can freely save and manage your
files in it for free. Now, although you can still maintain an account for
free, you can not save anything from there unless you pay a certain amount
every month. If you have a free account all you can do is download what
other members had deposited into your account. Do you know that they have
deleted the entire copy of this website without even informing me? Really
disgusting... 2CE.com is another
casualty. That just mean that the cyber citizens has just been denied of a
unique 3-D browser. Hopefully when the global economy would pick-up we can
see new and exciting development. |
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If you are worried that while on
the cyber world somebody is watching your every move or has already taken
control of your computer without your knowledge, then I guess its now time
to put a firewall between your computer and the outside. Firewall by the
way is either a software or a hardware that you can install in your
computer so that you will become invisible while on the internet. A word
of caution though. Although most of the products available on the market
can shun away intruders, not all of them can give you total protection.
However, I have found one that protects you both from inside and outside.
If you are interested try zonelabs.com
and pick up one that benefit you. Their Help file contains valuable stuffs
about internet protection. It is a must read specially for newbies. Now, if you want to test the integrity of you firewall, you can download a small file called "Leak Test" from grc.com. By the way, take your time and roam around this website and the supplied links to learn more about internet protection and other facts. |
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For music lovers out there, you can
download or share audio/video files using
Morpheus,
BearShare,
AudioGalaxy or
Kazaa. As of this writing, I think
Kazaa is much better because you can
download or share using p2p not just audio/video files but games, images,
documents and other software as well. Be forewarned though that this sites
are the haven of many spywares and some downloadable items might contain
viruses that may wreak havoc to your innocent computer. |
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