Boldest move I ever did.(Yugatech & BlackBerry dare you to BE BOLD)

The boldest move I did was to sing in front of the girl that I like. It was our team Christmas party and me and the guys decided to do some song number, then it ended up to me doing a song number for her. The song was Harana by parokya ni edgar.

IE9, A Web Developer’s Companion

I was recently employed by a great company last June, knowing that they focus on C#.Net development I took the opportunity and face the challenges given to me. In my mind I was thinking that I’ll be developing Windows Apps, since I was more practiced on that field. But my manager put me on Web Development instead, which at first I hesitated. But as my colleagues guided me and with some readings, I got hook on Web Dev a few days after. It was like being in love with my girlfriend all over again. And the great part about it is I got a great companion on debugging codes and editing styles, IE9 and its developer toolbar.

IE9’s Developer Toolbar can be accessed by pressing F12 on your keyboard. Here’s what it looks like:

You can view the Developer tool as a windows or as a dock b pressing the docking button the top left of the window. With the DevTool docked on the site, you can easily access the site’s HTML, CSS, and Javascript codes. Here’s the docked view of IE9 DevTool:

IE9’s DevTool also features a color picker, which is very handy if you’re a Web Designer. The
Color Picker can be accessed by selecting it through the Tools menu or by pressing Ctrl + K (make sure that the DevTool window is active):

The Color Picker allows you to get the Color Code and apply it to your website through CSS.

Most of the time, Web Developers are very significant with the width and length of certain parts of their site. With IE9’s DevTool Ruler, pixel measurement is pretty much like measuring centimeters with a real ruler.

The Ruler Tool allows you to precisely measure areas of your website. You can even apply Pythagorean’s Theorem through Pixel measurement.

This is just a small part of IE9. It has a lot to contribute when it comes to Web related matters. Whether its development or just plain web browsing, whether you’re a beginner, web surfer or a web developer, IE9 makes it easy for you. I’m just a beginner on Web Development, but IE9 has made it easy for me to tackle every code problem I face in my job. Try to discover other things that IE9 has to offer!
PS: Did you know, IE9 has a browser mode that allows you to access your sites using IE8 and IE7?

God Bless the Philippines!

Backup your Documents with Windows 7

Most of the time, I help my friends with their computer dilemmas. I usually solve them through restoring, reformatting, installing, and the likes. But not all of them are easy to do, especially the backup process of reformatting. The need to drag all the files to a different location where reformatting won’t erase it in the process, then the file explorer suddenly stops responding, I freak out when that happens. Sometimes I just wish I have the ability to get inside the PC and move the files myself.

Good thing there’s windows 7. Backing up is just a few clicks away! Let’s tackle the steps.

FIRST, you need to have a partition or a separate drive that has a 50GB or more spaces, depending on the cumulative size of the files to be backed up. Be sure to take note of that drive’s address or name (e.g. “C:\” or “D:\”).

SECOND, with your backup drive ready, click the start button or press the WINDOWS button on your keyboard and type “shell:UsersFilesFolder” on the search bar, then click enter.

THIRD, after the second step is properly executed, a new windows opens up showing all of the PC’s personal folders (Documents, Music, Videos, Downloads, etc.). Right click on one of the folders that contains important files to be backed up, and click “Properties”.

FOURTH, when the Properties windows comes up, click on the Location Tab and change the location of that folder to the location of the partition or separate drive mentioned earlier.

For example, the location of my partitioned drive is “D:\” and I want the files to be in a Folder location of “Jerome Guarin\Documents”.

FIFTH, when the right address is typed in, click “OK” or “Apply”. Then Windows 7 automatically moves the files to the partitioned drive.

Easy as pie if I may say so myself. Windows 7 really makes every task simpler!

God Bless the Philippines!

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How to get to PLM

Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila is located at General Luna Street corner Muralla Streets, Intramuros, Manila.

There are several landmarks that surround PLM. Two of them are LRT Central Terminal Station (Top Blue circle) and SM City Manila (Middle Blue Circle) / Manila City Hall (Beside SM Manila).

If you will be coming from the LRT Central Station, go through Natividad Almeda Lopez Street going to the Padre Burgos Street. Between Padre Burgos and Lagusnilad is an underpass that extends to the other side of the Padre Burgos street. After passing the underpass, ride a jeep that has a route of “Mabini” / “Pier” / “PLM”, some jeeps also line up beside the underpass’s entrance. Then tell the jeepney driver drop you off at “Round Table” (Green circle), “Round Table” is the first curve that you will be passing through when you ride the jeep. Once you go down the jeep, you will see a the wall’s of Intramuros (show in the Picture below).

Go through that wall, and PLM in at the left side of the street(which is General Luna Street).

That is also the same route if you will be coming from SM Manila.

The route that I take coming from my house is from Espana. I take the “Mabini” jeep from Espana, then the driver drops me off at Round Table, same as the one I mentioned above.

PLM is also part of the Intramuros University Belt(U-Belt South), together with MAPUA, Letran, and Lyceum. The map below is just the same with the first map, some street were disregarded.

God Bless the Philippines!

Internet Explorer is love

It’s been months since I last posted a blog, been busy with some projects at school that needed some major documentation full of computations, flowcharts, block diagrams, and more equations. I also lost some weight for the past months, making me so thin like I’m a walking shirt hanger.

While I was busy, from time to time I relax by browsing the net with the new IE9 beta(click to download) that was released last September 15, 2010. I had a lot of fun with agent8ball, made beats with beatkeep, and updated my status with Facebook.

I’ve been connected to the internet, 24/7, ever since I got my first laptop. The first thing I usually do is open a browser, then check my mail, check my Facebook, play a game, download the latest anime episode, download some interesting apps, read some tutorials on programming, photo editing, video editing, and lots of stuff. Selecting which browser to use has been an issue for me, what I need is something sleek, stable, clean, and user-friendly.

But now, I found the right browser for me. The new Internet Explorer 9 Beta!

SLEEK: Below is a screenshot of IE9 from my desktop.

Completely borderless dudes! I like the new sleek and clean design of IE9, allowing me to see more, read more, and learn more. The favorites button (star, top right) also allows me to access my favorite sites in just a click.

STABLE: IE9 is stable; each tab you create is independent. When a tab stops responding, IE9 prompts you if you want to recover it. Once you click the Recover Webpage button, it will send a report about the issue and restore your tab in seconds.

CLEAN: IE holds the record for the most secure, and with IE9 I don’t have to worry about malware and any web virus out there.

USER-FRIENDLY: Opening IE9 is a breeze, click the IE9 Icon on your taskbar once and IE9 opens in less than 8 seconds! And if you want to open another one, it opens in less than 5 seconds! Now that’s fast! My mom has experienced this a lot of times, she can be very impatient sometimes.

Also, IE9 allows you to pin web shortcuts of your favorite sites into your taskbar or start menu, allowing you to access sites directly. Below is an example of a Facebook web shortcut.

Though IE9 is still in beta, it already blew me away with its new features. I can’t wait when the Final IE9 comes out!

God Bless the Philippines!

The IE Kid in me

I’m a kid who grew up knowing the internet through the windows of Internet Explorer. I can still remember the first site that I visited was go.microsoft.com, ‘cause it was the default home page that IE goes into when it opens. But seriously, the first site that I visited was ultimate-guitar.com, I was a guitar geek at that time.

I first experienced IE when my Auntie bought a desktop PC running Windows95, the desktop was for my cousin who was back then a college student of UST taking up a Fine Arts course. Windows95 was preinstalled with Internet Explorer 4, but the most memorable thing about Win95 for me was Solitaire.

Honestly IE has let me down countless of times because of its connection speed. But when I had the chance to try Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 4 (IE9 PP4, download it here), I got so excited that I want to be the first one to see it.

So let’s take a look at some test in the PP4 and compare it to another browser. Let’s try the Psychedelic Browsing in PP4 and in another browser. It demonstrates how a HTML5 canvas does when it’s fully accelerated with the GPU.  

As you can see, there’s this really a big difference between IE9PP4 and the other browser. The result of the other browser was very disappointing, it’s been my default browser when I had my first laptop. But with IE9 PP4, I even had the chance to do Hallucinogenic Mode, and here is the result:

With so much innovation made by Microsoft, from Windows 7, Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft Office 2010, to Expression Studio 4, IE9 will surely blow our screens away. Taking us to next level of Internet Browsing.

Hello world!

Welcome to WordPress.com. This is your first post. Edit or delete it and start blogging!

Hey! I now switched to wordpress.com from Live Spaces! I’m new with wordpress and I still coping up with some changes. If you were able to see my first post in Live Spaces, I included a music video there from the Script entitled “for the first time”. All about not giving up.

God Bless the Philippines!