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Monday, December 17, 2007

Extensions! Extensions!

If your a Firefox user you definitely know what Firefox Extension do to your browsing experience if not download Firefox and see for yourself.

Here are the extension that I'm currently using:

Better Gmail 2 0.2
Download Statusbar 0.9.5.2
FEBE (Firefox Environment Backup Extension) 5.1.1
Firefox Universal Uploader (fireuploader)0.3.2
Flashgot 0.7
Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer
Gmail Notifier 0.6.2.2
New Tab Button on Tab Bar 2.0
Personas For Firefox 0.9.1
Reminderfox 1.5

For more extensions/addons go to addons.mozilla.org

Here ia a nifty extension for Firefox. Personas for Firefox is a extension that adds lightweight theming to your browser. I like this theming extension because as stated before its lightweight, it's easy to change from one theme to another without restarting Firefox and themes are readily accesible via a Fox mask icon on the status bar.

Personas for Firefox[labs.mozilla.com]

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Apps on My PC: Virtualbox

I'm a jealous type of guy, last week i got jealous because my boss has "spaces " installed on his mac and so i Googled and got Virtuawin. Now i'm jealous of his mac because it's running parallels with Windows Vista as his guest and i said to myself I want one too!!! And so with the help of the mighty google i found a bunch of virtualization software and tried them. I tried VMware, Qemu and Virtualbox. Among the three i really like Virtualbox, I like it because its not that big of a download its around 16.9mb compared to VMware's 100+mb and its user friendly.

What is Virtualbox? Virtualbox is a hardware emulation virtualization software(say that 10x faster), by mapping the host computer’s hardware resources directly to the virtual machine’s resources, it creates a virtual copy of your computer. With this virtual machine you can install and run different operating system within your host computer.

I'm currently running Virtualbox on an Windows XP (XP being the host) and gOS Linux as guest. Everything works out of the box. :)

Screenshots:

Virtualbox[www.virtualbox.org]
gOS Linux[www.thinkgos.com]

Apps on My PC: VirtuaWin

I'm a linux user since wayback. One of the things i like to use in linux is the virtual desktop because i like switching from one desktop to another basically to hide NSFW stuff. :D

A couple of weeks ago my boss showed me is his brand new os x leopard and all its features and the one thing that caught me is "spaces" which kinda look familiar oh wait i know its the same as virtual desktop on linux except it has a better name. So i figured i want one on my office laptop which sad to say is running windows xp. I googled for some virtual desktop software for windows and i found this wonderful piece of an open-source software named VirtuaWin. its just a simple program that sit on your systray and does its job pretty well. But what does its really do? well here's a quote from the official site of VirtuaWin:

A virtual desktop manager lets you organize applications over several virtual desktops (also called 'workspaces'). Virtual desktops are very common in Unix/Linux, and once you get accustomed to using them, they become an essential part of a productive workflow.

nuff reading start downloading!

Screenshots:

VirtuaWin[virtuawin.sourceforge.net]

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

My Very Own Youtube Downloader

While Googling for some PHP scripts i saw this blog post on Sizlopedia about a Youtube Download PHP script. With this script you can run your own downloader on your site or blog. Currently i have been using VConvert.net service for downloading youtube's video but with this script i now have my very own downloader... cool!

Thanks to Thirdnipple(the author of this marvelous script) and Sizlopedia

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

My 2007 Christmas Wish List

This is a list of items i want for Christmas. Currently there are only 2 at the moment but this list will grow as Christmas gets nearer and nearer. There is a slim chance to nil of getting these items but hey its just a wish list anyway! :D

First on the list is the Asus Eee PC which i previously posted here on my blog.

Second i want to have the trade paperback issue of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home TPB. This is the 1st five issue of Joss Whedon's season 8 of the show that is only available in comic.

Thats it for now...P

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

All I want for Christmas is a Asus Eee PC

I have been reading so much about this sub sub notebook that i want to have one this Christmas. I can go on on about why i like to have one but i'll just let you read the stuff other people said regarding the Asus Eee PC, you can read it here here here and here. Oh and the official site is eeepc.asus.com.

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Simpla 3 Column Updated

Simpla3c now works with the new blogger. Download the XML file here. Its totally bare so its up to you to add widgets and stuff. Have fun! :)

Pinoy Ako Button

I made this button to show my patriotic side.

right click the image then select "Save Image As"

*leave a comment if your goin to use the button... thanks

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

A Different Kind of Networking

Tire of those social networking sites such as Friendster, Myspace, Multiply, Facebook well here is something new Hatebook the Evil side of networking. Hatebook is a parody site based on Facebook. Everything you know about social networking is thrown out the window cause what you'll find here is quite the opposite. Remember the albums or galleries of your friends well in Hatebook they have "Hate Albums" where pictures and descriptions of everything you hate is listed.. weird huh? They also got "I'm Better then You" instead of those testimonials/comments. Curious? well just go to www.hatebook.org and spread the hate.

Monday, October 15, 2007

Knoppix Button

Knoppix Small Button by 1ijack

Linking to Knopper.net

Link to knopper.net/knoppix with this buttons by using the following code (XHTML):

This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Skins for DScaler

A couple of years ago i made some skins for a program named dscaler. DScaler is the program i used for watching Television on my PC. Its Default Skins is kinda lacking so i made a skin for it and this is one of my early foray into skinning. Here is the description of dscaler quoted from their official site www.dscaler.org:

DScaler 4 is a piece of software that captures video, processes it, and scales it for presentation on a projector or computer monitor. DScaler implements highly sophisticated algorithms that work in real-time to provide PC owners with image quality matched only by very expensive equipment.

Go to www.dscaler.org for more info and to find out what capture card are supported.

Here are some of the skins i made for dscaler

Download Brown Coat Skin

Download Kreen Skin

*Kreeen is inspired by logixoul's Kreen for deKorator 0.2
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=33652

Download Mac Style Skin

go to dscaler-skins.blogspot.com for more skins by me, Liviu and Klaus Staedtler.

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Just updated

I have just updated my blog/Simpla-3C template to work with the new blogger. Still have a lot of thing to workout but overall its functioning widgets and all... YEY!!!

here's what my blog/template look like b4

i'm tired i'm going to bed now... goodnight

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

What's New

Haven't updated this blog for quite some time now. I have been busy with work lately plus i have a crappy internet connection (Thanks Smartbro.. Not!)

News:
I might never update the templates anymore cause i don't have the time to do it, so sorry for those who wanted the template to be new blogger compatible.

You can go here here and here for templates that works with the new blogger.

Sunday, April 8, 2007

Hey that's my template!

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