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Sarah Geronimo a Filipino recording artist, actress, dancer and now a worldwide trending topic with over day being on top at Twitter, Facebook and Yahoo! Search. Even American Idol Star Stefano Langone asked "What is Sarah G Day? remained number 1 trending topic on twitter..don't have any idea about it??" and added "Filipino's you really have the power to trend anyone! Social Networking is really fun in the Philippines!"

Update: (02/20/2012) Sarah G. Day is still Twitter's top trending topic in the Philippines, United Arab Emirates and Worldwide. That's 2 days at the top and now becoming one of Twitter's longest trending Philippine-related topic in its history.

Update: (02/22/2012) Sarah G. Day is now on its fourth day as a top trending topic on Twitter, and still number 1 on Twitter's top trending topic in the Philippines. It may also get the record for the longest trending topic in the Philippines.

Sarah G. Day term on Twitter started because Sarah Geronimo appeared on three ABS-CBN shows on Sunday - ASAP, The Buzz and Gandang Gabi Vice. The shows were used to promote Sarah Geronimo’s new show called Sarah G Live. Sarah G. Day with hashtag #SarahGDay was Twitter top trending topic in the Philippines, United Arab Emirates and Worldwide.


Also in Yahoo! Philippines Sarah Geronimo was also number one as the most search topic and Gerald Anderson also comes in fifth.


Source: Twitter, @sarahgfans

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Didn't like the Facebook's new Timeline feature? Then here's how to remove it using Social Fixer for Facebook, a free browser extension that improves the Facebook site by eliminating annoyances and adding lots of great enhancements and functionality. Social Fixer method of eliminating Facebook Timeline won't bring back the old Facebook layout, but it will remove some of Timeline's annoyances, like the cover photo, friends box, check-in maps and two-column view.

How to remove Facebook Timeline using Social Fixer for Facebook:
Step 1
Download Social Fixer and install the extension for your browser.
- Social Fixer is available for Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera. Internet Explorer is not supported.
Step 2
Head over to your Facebook Timeline page, you’ll notice a small wrench icon called Social Fixer Options in the upper left corner. Click on that and choose "Social Fixer Options".
Step 3
Once there, go through each of the categories and uncheck every box you can see.
Step 4
Then go to Timeline category and check this four boxes - display post in a single column, hide cover photo, hide the "Friends" box and hide maps of check-ins. Click Save.
Step 5
Reload your Facebook Timeline page.

Note:
- Social Fixer cannot revert Timeline profiles back to the older “wall” style completely.
- Social Fixer cannot change how others see your Timeline profile. Since it is a browser plug-in, it only affects how you see Timelines.

Video Tutorial:

Source: lifehacker, Social Fixer Blog

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Google is embracing Valentine's Day today not only in its homepage but also in Google Search, if you type the algebraic equation below into Google Search it will produce an algebraic equation plots several different functions on a graph that forms the shape of a heart.

To try it out yourself, just type or paste this algebraic equation into Google Search:
sqrt(cos(x))*cos(300x)+sqrt(abs(x))-0.7)*(4-x*x)^0.01, sqrt(6-x^2), -sqrt(6-x^2) from -4.5 to 4.5 

Source: Mashable

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Whitney Houston, an American pop music singer, actress, producer, model and the most awarded female act of all time with six Grammy awards, two Emmys, 30 Billboard Music Awards, and 22 American Music Awards, among others, has died at the age of 48.

According to her publicist Kristen Foster, Houston was found dead at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, in Beverly Hills, California, of causes not immediately known.

This morning tributes and messages praising Whitney Houston are taking over Twitter and Facebook streams. Both Philippines and worldwide Twitter trends show R.I.P Whitney Houston as the most trending topic in Twitter.


Source: Twitter, Yahoo! News, Mashable

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A TV ad produced by an Israeli Cable TV station Hot showed four men posing as women who use Galaxy Tab to trigger a nuclear explosion. But it didn’t go well with Iran's officials and even considering a plan to cut off the country's economic transactions with South Korea's Samsung in reaction to the company's anti-Iran teaser, even if the commercial was meant for the Israeli market.

Arsalan Fat'hipour, Head of Majlis Energy Committee said "the double-urgency plan, aimed at imposing a complete ban on buying all Samsung products, would make the company regret making the insulting teaser." Fat'hipour also added "Samsung's apology to the Iranian nation, though necessary, would not be enough and that the company must be held accountable for producing the teaser."

Update: Samsung issued a statement to CNN saying "Samsung Electronics is aware of a recent news report in Iranian media regarding an advertisement aired by HOT cable network of Israel,” Samsung also added "This advertisement was produced by HOT cable network without Samsung’s knowledge or participation."


Source: PressTV

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Negative afterimages are caused when the eye's photoreceptors, primarily those known as cone cells, adapt from the overstimulation and lose sensitivity. Normally the eye deals with this problem by rapidly moving small amounts, the motion later being "filtered out" so it is not noticeable. However if the color image is large enough that the small movements are not enough to change the color under one area of the retina, those cones will eventually tire or adapt and stop responding. The rod cells can also be affected by this.

When the eyes are then diverted to a blank space, the adapted photoreceptors send out a weak signal and those colors remain muted. However, the surrounding cones that were not being excited by that color are still "fresh", and send out a strong signal. The signal is exactly the same as if looking at the opposite color, which is how the brain interprets it.

Negative Afterimage examples:


Instructions:

1. Stare at the red dot on this woman's nose for thirty seconds.
2. Then, look over at a blank white space.
3. Did you see the "correct" version of the image?

Source: Wikipedia via Yahoo! Games

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Mozilla just released the newest version of Firefox and is now available for download on PC and Mac. Firefox 10 new features include a Forward button that remains hidden until you actually need it, anti-aliasing for WebGL is now implemented, APIs that allow you to build a web application that runs full-screen, CSS3 3D-Transforms are now supported and better extensions management.

You can download Firefox 10 directly for PC and Mac at source links below.
Download Firefox 10.0 for PC
Download Firefox 10.0 for MAC

Source: Mozilla via The Verge

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Here in the Philippines it's common for some traffic cops to dance while directing traffic in the streets, just to give a little smile to some of our bored motorist here in the country. But none them is more awesome than this person (pictured above), who dance to the tune of "Billie Jean" while being possessed by the spirit of Michael Jackson.


Source: YouTube

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Rovio announced that the Facebook version of its popular Angry Birds game will be officially launched on February 14. According to Rovio, Angry Birds on Facebook will feature a full-screen capability and a higher quality animation. It will also include power-ups, bird types, and other content, which can be earned in-game or purchased via in-game microtransactions, such as earthquake or special birds for $0.99.


Source: Penn Olson News

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Katy Perry kiss of former Pinoy Big Brother housemate Ivan Dorschner during her concert last night at the Mall of Asia Concert Grounds in Pasay City went viral and even becomes a trending topic on Twitter this Monday morning.

The kiss happens as Katy announced on stage that the person who can take his shirt off first can come on stage. Many of her fans took off their shirt but it was Ivan who was the luckiest of them all. There is even a video of the kiss which you can watch below.


Source: vinceme29 (YouTube)

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Angry Birds. More fun in the Philippines (Photo: by Fol Rana Jr.)

Filipino photo hobbyist Fol Rana Jr. made a series of humorous campaign to promote the Philippines using different photos as well as the DOT’s "It's more fun in the Philippines" tagline and one of his works is Angry Birds from Lal-lo, Cagayan, which actually a cockfighting session, a popular blood sport here in the Philippines not the game that everyone is playing by smashing those little green pigs.

If you want to see more of Fol Rana Jr. work, just visit his blog at source below.

Source: FOLRANA JR PHOTOGRAPHY

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Found this photo last night at Kevin Durant's Facebook page. According to Kevin Durant's Facebook page, this photo (pictured above) recently came through Kevin Durant's fan email, which Kevin said "These are kids in the Philippines that are trying to hoop despite flooding. Man, this is the true meaning of BASKETBALL NEVER STOPS!"

As of now the photo has been like more than 23,800 times, with 4,300 people sharing this photo and it also generated more than 2,400 comments on Facebook.

Source: Kevin Durant (Facebook)

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The image above about mountain biking, a popular photo subject on Twitter becomes one of Mashable most interesting photos from Twitter last week after the Philippine’s Department of Tourism launched a new tourism campaign "It's more fun in the Philippines" which got a lot of attention because of its similarity with a 1951 campaign by Switzerland.

According to Mashable, they partnered with social media search engine Skylines, to focused on the most popular Twitter trends and took the most popular pictures from these tags.

If you want to view all of Mashable most interesting photos from Twitter, just click at the source below.

Source: Mashable

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Microsoft has announced at the CES 2012 event in Las Vegas that it will be offering an HTML 5 browser version of mobile hit game Cut The Rope for free. It is playable on all HTML 5 browsers, but a set of special levels are only accessible to those people who use Internet Explorer 9 and pin the game to their Windows 7 taskbar.

You can play the HTML 5 version of Cut the Rope at: www.cuttherope.ie.

Cut the Rope Behind the Scenes:

Source: Internet Explorer (Facebook)

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Fast & Furious: Fast Five comes out on top of TorrentFreak list of the most pirated movies of 2011 with over 9.2 million downloads, leaving The Hangover II with over 8.8 million downloads and Thor with 8.3 million downloads behind in second and third place respectively. The total number of downloads for Fast Five according to TorrentFreak, pales in comparison to last year’s hit movie Avatar which was downloaded more than 16 million times.

The data for this list of most pirated movies in 2011, is collected by TorrentFreak from several sources, including reports from thousands of BitTorrent trackers. All release formats, including cammed versions are counted.

Most Downloaded Movies of 2011


Source: TorrentFreak

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RockMelt's latest beta,version five, brings the Chromium-based browser with three new features. The first feature is turning the chrome Omnibox to let you upload pictures, initiate chats, and search your Facebook contacts. Second, a new tab page that revises the mildly dynamic "most recent" sites view to build in some people news from Facebook's social graph and the third is the browser support for apps with its own app store called the RockMelt App Center.

The new RockMelt browser is available for both PC and Mac.

Source: RockMelt via CNET

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Lolong a 21-foot male crocodile that was captured by residents and crocodile farm staff on September 4, 2011 claims the top spot on Yahoo's Top Viral Photos of 2011, while the one-eyed albino shark that was found off the coast of Isla Cerralvo near La Paz, Mexico claims second and the young couple at the Vancouver riot claims the third spot.

According to Yahoo, with millions of images being shared on the Internet every day, it takes a certain measure of magic to become a viral hit.

Top Viral Photos of 2011










Source: Yahoo! News

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Nokia’s classic Snake game is now playable at the official Nokia Facebook page and it’s now made out of tiles that you find on Windows Phone and it is going after presents, because of the Christmas theme.

The flash-based game can be controlled by the arrow keys on your keyboard and after you’re done playing you can also share your score with others. Anyone with the Flash Player plugin and a keyboard can play the game, that means you don’t need to ‘Like’ the page or even need to have a Facebook account to play it.

So check it out using the source link below.

Source: Nokia

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See how the World Searched with Google's 2011 Zeitgeist Year in Review Video.


Source: YouTube

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Facebook's most played games of 2011 list revealed that Disney-owned Playdom sits at the top of the list with Gardens of Time, with EA's The Sims Social taking the number two spot, and Zynga's Cityville taking the third spot. But neither Playdom nor EA can compare to Zynga's four entires on the top 10.

According to Facebook, the list was compiled by looking at the top games on Facebook with more than 100,000 monthly active users and giving priority to those games with the highest user satisfaction scores. The result is a list of the games that received the most user recommendations in 2011.

Most popular games in 2011

1. Gardens of Time (By Playdom)
2. The Sims Social (By EA)
3. Cityville  (By Zynga)
4. DoubleDown Casino (by DoubleDown Interactive)
5. Indiana Jones Adventure World  (By Zynga)
6. Words With Friends (By Zynga)
7. Bingo Blitz (By Buffalo Studios) 
8. Empires & Allies (By Zynga)
9. Slotomania-Slot Machines (By Playtika)
10. Diamond Dash (By wooga)

Source: Facebook

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