Advice & Tips

Sprain: How To Do First Aid

When we talk about summer, it means lot of traveling and walking for most. However, when we get all excited, we tend to be reckless and cause our bodies a certain level of injury. Sprains and strains can occur during a walk.

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What to do When You Lose Your Valuables in Cebu City

Losing valuables is actually a pretty common thing in Cebu. It could be because you misplaced it. Or someone stole it from you / robbed you. Cebu is not exactly the safest place in the world and it’s no secret that there is quite a community of pickpockets, cons, scammers and robbers here. Yep, they're a community.

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How To: Balance Inquiry and Reload Roaming Globe Prepaid

A quick share on how to do a balance inquiry and reloading, others call it load top-up, with a roaming Globe prepaid account.

For Balance Inquiry:

1. Type *122#, then press "Send".

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How To: Viewing Unread Gmail Messages

Have you encountered those times where your received a notication on your unread Gmail messages. But despite looking at your inbox or from your custom folders, you still can't find it.

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Use Amazon Simple Pay: Why I Hate PayPal

What Happened?

I availed of a service from the US and the UK on the 12th of October. Both providers main payment method is Paypal. Since, I don't have the enough Paypal balance, I topped it up thru my bank account. The top up was successful, reflecting the local currency in SGD.

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Tutorial: Compress Your Files with 7-Zip

Earlier today, I asked a colleague to send his works with its attachments. Due to the attachments huge size, the guy is having a hard time uploading – my guess is it’s also because of the fast blazing internet speed here in the Philippines *I’m being sarcastic*. And so I told him “just compressed those files and send it over”. And he asked, “Compressed..?

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Tutorial - Microsoft Office: Easy and Quick Formatting with “Format Painter” Tool

Most of us use and are very familiar with Microsoft Office - Excel, Word, and Powerpoint, which are the most used applications I presumed, as it is in my case.

With that I'm going to share with you a quick and simple way of formatting your documents

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Tutorial – Windows 7: Knowing the Calculator's features

When we run into simple mathematical problems like computing the discount off an “on sale” item at SM, our mobile phone always comes to our aid. At work or at home, while using our desktops or laptops. Most of us use the built-in "Calculator" in Windows.

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Tutorial: Creating Local Email Storage in Microsoft Outlook Through a PST File

Today, I got a message from friend asking me how to fix his MS Outlook as he was running out of storage. And so I told him, just create a PST file, and
transfer all your email messages to your new PST file. And he said, how can I do that?

Here's how (This done in Windows 7 and Outlook 2007) :

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Tutorial – Windows 7: Skip Recycle Bin when Deleting Files

By default, deleting files in Windows is much like moving your files to another location or folder -specifically the “Recycle Bin”. The “Recycle Bin” is Windows’ safeguard for accidental file deletion.  

This tip is useful for:

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