Student's Outlet

I started blogging late September 2009. I know I’m new at this kind of thing, but I’m really thankful how Google Reader changed the way how I read blogs.

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In my early Internet blog hopping habits, normally, I bookmark every home page of my favorite sites and just go again to my bookmark’s tab, then click and open again it one by one just to read my favorite sites updates, not knowing if there would be an update or not. Well, Google Reader optimize the way I read blogs. I just point my favorite sites to my Google Reader, then it automatically generates the RSS feed of the site. If the site does not provide a RSS feed, then Google will just automatically generate a feed every time the page gets updated. Isn’t it cool? :)

As you can see in my image, I could organize, by any means of classification, my subscriptions – Tech Stuff, R-18, Followed Blogs and Black hole of Time.. What I love most about this is that when something isn’t read yet, or your subscription gets updated, Google Reader lets you know. It is technically e-mails you. You can also share the updates to you subscription to your followers and they could read it. You could also ‘star’ your favorite updates so you could read it again later. You can also search keywords in the search form anything that might be in your subscriptions.

It optimizes my time and it could also let me follow/read more blogs. The best feature of Google Reader might be its keyboard shortcuts. It really cuts half of your time.

In case you haven’t noticed it yet, Google is allowing visitors to play Pacman on their Homepage. This came from Google’s Help Forum:

Hey Web Searchers,

If you’ve visited our homepage today, there’s no doubt that you noticed our Pac Man doodle honoring the game’s 30th anniversary. If you insert the virtual coin, you can begin playing this legendary game or you can wait 10 seconds and it will automatically start. If you’re not a Pac Man fan or want to skip the music and lights, just enter you search query as usual and you’ll be directed to our normal search results page. Other options include:

1. Closing your browser

2. Turning the volume down or off on your computer

3. Playing Pac Man all day long (or at least until you beat your co-workers)

I remember this game when I was still a kid. It’s a great game. :) Just go to Google‘s Homepage and press insert coin! I think it will be just for today, so enjoy!

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Last May 16, 2010 Sunday, I saw this very beautiful arrangement of heavenly bodies in the sky. It’s the moon and Venus! I don’t know when will this be going to happen again but it’s great. I don’t have any high-resolution camera to capture this moment but luckily one of my contacts in Facebook did a nice job. Well, I would just like to share this to everyone who haven’t seen this yet. Really wonderful.