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Youtube to iPod, PSP Converter

2008-06-23T06:47:00.007+08:00

Freeware, you can now easily download all your favorite videos from youtube(*.flv) and converts it for your iPhone, PSP, or any mobile device. Convenience at its best, just a click of the mouse and you can enjoy videos with your friends, and its user friendly too.
download it here.

Free irc shell

2007-10-22T16:29:00.000+08:00

I found a free shell provider but they only support irc only

no need to pay or a number of required post in forums, but you only have to wait for admins approval. They have a decent number of vhosts to provide for your irc bouncer. 750GB/m bandwith check them.

http://www.free-shell.net

How to make you own TeamSpeak server

2007-10-22T16:12:00.000+08:00

A quick guide on how to setup your own teamspeak server

TeamSpeak 2 Server English
download here

MySql 4.0.25 or higher
download here

1. Install the Teamspeak Server

2. Run the server, this will create the server.ini file to be edited later

3. Close the server (Right click on icon in system tray)

4. Unzip and Install MySql 4.0.25 (Setup.exe)

5. Open Command Prompt (Start Menu ---> Run)
Type: cmd then press enter
Command Prompt will open....... Type the following in command prompt:
C:\mysql\bin\mysqld.exe --install (C:\mysql is the directory to mysql)
This installs MySql Server as a Windows Service
Close command Prompt

continue reading here...

A Run down for a First Post

2007-09-07T23:26:00.000+08:00

After the skinny pants reigned wide leg pants are next. Actually I have seen this trend two years ago (at least) when I watched the movie “The Prime” that was starred by Uma Thurman. Most of her bottoms were wide Leg pants which was going against the grain since skinny jeans was the fashion at that time. Two months later, I was in Shang and saw the Mark's and Spencer collection of Wide Leg Pants (I bet it flopped in the Philippine Market). This Wide Leg pants is not like the fad elephant leg pants years ago. It has a wider thighs, knees and leg opening. As a continuation of the early 90’s rejuvenation, high-waisted pants, shorts and skirts will be seen too. But skinny jeans are still visible and still current but with a twist of high- waist features. Some say that it could be that skinny jeans might be the next classic item just like the fate of the havaianas since it has embraced a larger range of market. This we’ll have to see in the coming months. Tunic dresses are starting to parade on the runway. Patterns and big Geometric prints in bold colors in single jersey are already visible. This was actually forecasted for spring- summer 2007 and yet the trend is still subtle in the local industry. I think the saturation point will be on the Holiday Season.
The jump suit or the "jumper" that we all know has a new name-- playsuit. Well I guess after the 80's power dressing fashion revival the early 90’s slack down era is to come. Boyfriend shirts in plaids and solids could be the next attraction. Denims in red, violet, royal blue are also on queue. Actually Topshop and Zara already started putting these on their racks.

Rumors of PSP Slim

2007-09-04T07:09:00.000+08:00

Rumors spread from Tech sites about the product itself but not a PSP 2 genre, but only it gets a new design. Internal hardware are still the same, the only thing that's different is the slim design. But there is more sony got under their sleeves, psp now got a new LED screen that will give you a better and crisp display but take up far less space. The LED itself helps pump up the battery life of this slim model which can last four times longer than the original PSP. This new gadget still uses the UMD Drive like from the original PSP but it will be a faster version and will help speed up load times and gameplay, the portable will come packed with 8GBs of internal flash memory. Buttons of the Slim PSP has got a new tweak from the original PSP, and the D-Pad has got a major adjustments giving players more like a PS3 D-Pad.

Final price of the new PSP has not yet been set, but Sony is hoping to sell it for under $170 or so.

Check back soon for more details of the new PSP.

2007-08-31T05:42:00.000+08:00

Eraserheads - Kaliwete Lyrics

Noong nagsama tayo
Ay kanan ang ginamit mo
Ngunit biglang natorete
Ikaw pala ay kaliwete

Sunod-sunod na kamalasan ang dumarating
Hindi ko na malaman kung pa’no ang gagawin
Sabi naman ni Rico J. Puno
Mag-ayos lang daw ng upo

Niyaya niya kami
Sa kubeta
Mata ay lumuwa sa nakita
O bakit ba ganyan
Buhay ng tao
Mag-ingat ka na lang
Baka ika’y makarma oh

Niyaya siyang lumabas kahapon ngunit ayaw niya
Hindi niya raw mahanap ang kapares ng bra niya
Sampung oras ka kung maligo
Pati ang kaluluwa mo’y babango

Niyaya niya kami sa kubeta
Mata ay lumuwa sa nakita
O bakit pa ba may kulay ang tao
Hindi mo na alam
Kung anu-ano at sino-sino

Noong nagsama tayo
Ay kanan ang ginamit mo
Ngunit biglang natorete
Ikaw pala ay kaliwete

What is ExpressionEngine?

2007-08-20T17:10:00.000+08:00

A content management system that empowers thousands of individuals, organizations, and companies around the world to easily manage their website.

Features Overview
Web Publishing

ExpressionEngine’s publishing features are broad, comprehensive, and highly flexible.

* Multiple Weblogs/Site Sections
ExpressionEngine supports an unlimited number of weblogs. You can separate your weblogs into independent pages, or you can put multiple weblogs on the same page.
* Custom Entry Fields
Each section can have its own unique set of entry fields. These can be input boxes, pull-down menus or textareas.
* Search Engine Friendly URLs
The URLs produced by ExpressionEngine do not contain query strings which are disliked by search engines. Rather, they mimic the directory structure of static sites.
* Custom Statuses
Create editorial work-flow by creating statuses that you can assign your entries to, like "first draft", "revision", "final edit", etc. You can color-code them too.
* Multiple Categories
Each entry can be assigned to multiple categories, and you can create as many unique category groups as you want.
* RSS and ATOM Syndication
With RSS, your content can be made available for syndication. ExpressionEngine supports all major syndication formats, including the new Atom format.
* Moblog Publishing
Email weblog entries and photos to ExpressionEngine using your mobile phone or email program.
* Relationships
You can create relationships between entries in different sections of your site, enabling information to be shared.
* Entry Versioning
The Entry Versioning feature lets you save previous revisions of your weblog entries, so you never lose any edits you make.
* Multi-Entry Editing
This feature permits multiple entries to be edited at one time, saving you time.
* Entry View Tracking
You can track up to four "zones" per entry so see where your entries are being viewed.
* Ping Servers
Each user can define their own servers to ping when new entries are added.
* HTML Formatting Buttons
Each user can store their own formatting elements that are available at the click of a button.
* URL Titles
Each weblog entry can be given a "human friendly" title for use with your comments or your permalink page.
* Sticky Topics
Weblog entries can be made "sticky", forcing them to always show up at the top of the page.
* Future Entries
You can post entries into the future and they won't appear on your site until that date.
* Expiring Entries
You can set an expiration date and your entries will be removed from your site automatically on that date.
* Pagination
This feature allows your users to view older entries by clicking "next" and "previous" page links.
* Article Pagination
You can split your articles into multiple pages.
* Image and File Uploading
Upload to multiple destinations, and limit uploads to specific user groups.
* Image Resizing and Thumbnailing
ExpressionEngine lets you resize images and create thumbnails, with support for the three major image manipulation protocols: GD, NetPBM, and ImageMagick.
* Image and File Browsing
View your uploaded images in the convenient File Browser
* Emoticons
Add "smileys" to your weblog entries and comments.
* Bookmarklet

Add-On Modules and Plugins

ExpressionEngine comes with 22 add-on modules and over 100 plugins.

* Discussion Forum
ExpressionEngine's Discussion Forum module is a complete community building solution that integrates seamlessly. Visit our community forums to see it in action. Note: The Discussion Forum is sold separately.
* Moblog
ExpressionEngine's Moblog Module enables you to send content to your website via email. Send photos to your image gallery, weblog entries to your blog, or data into your site sections simply by sending an email to your own account. You can have as many moblog accounts as you need, and each email you send can contain special tags which let you control how the content gets stored and displayed.
* Weblog
In ExpressionEngine, the term "weblog" refers to a section of your website, so even if you don't use EE to manage a blog you'll use the weblog module. The weblog module is the most flexible and powerful system we offer, enabling you to display your content in an almost infinite variety of ways. The Weblog Module supports advanced features, like custom data fields, multiple nested categories, sticky topics, workflow, publish and expiration dates, and other features found only in high-end content management solutions. You can even have multiple weblogs on the same page to create an ezine or complex brochure site.
* Wiki
The ExpressionEngine Wiki Module is a powerful, full-featured wiki that integrates with ExpressionEngine. Its a great way to host and manage community created content. Your site members can add and edit articles while your admins moderate the site as you see fit.
* Member Manager
ExpressionEngine supports an unlimited number of members and authors in a single installation, and comes with advanced member management tools so you can control exactly who can do what.

Powerful Member Groups allow you to restrict access and assign privileges to any area of your site, or within your administrative control panel. Create custom membership fields for required member information, enable editorial workflow if you have multiple authors contributing to your content, restrict pages to members of a certain level, and more.

Each member has their own profile management area where they can set their own preferences, manage their account, store notes, send email and private messages to other users, upload their photo, and more. Member management is integral to ExpressionEngine, so it provides the tools you need.
* Mailing List
Included with ExpressionEngine is a double-opt-in mailing list module that allows you to send mass email to subscribers of your site, or registered members. The Mailing List Module supports multiple sending protocols, HTML email, batch mode, and other advanced features, yet the user interface is a very simple to use.
* Simple Commerce
Introducing the ExpressionEngine Simple Commerce Module by pMachine. Fully integrate the purchasing power of PayPal into your existing ExpressionEngine site with this easy to use, flexible solution. Customizable email notifications for each product, member group assignment upon purchase, built in encryption, and automated purchase tracking through PayPal's Instant Payment Notification service give you the power you need to make your own store.
* Photo Gallery
Are you among the millions of people who take digital photos? Now you can organize and display them on the web with the ExpressionEngine Photo Gallery! And since it works seamlessly from within your ExpressionEngine installation, you no longer need to use separate programs to manage your photos and your web content.
* Blogger/MetaWeblog API
ExpressionEngine supports all three of the XML-RPC posting APIs (Blogger API, MetaWeblog API, and MT API), enabling you to use desktop software to send content to your site. Each author in your system can have their own API accounts, so different authors can post to different sections of your site.
* Commenting/Trackback
ExpressionEngine supports user commenting and trackbacks, both as separate features or combined together. Our comment module supports an array of display options, as well as the most comprehensive suite of security features of any system on the market.
* Recently Updated Sites
This module enables anyone using ExpressionEngine to run their own "recently updated sites" list. If you are familiar with sites, like weblogs.com, blogrolling.com, or blog.gs you'll know that these are sites that you can "ping" whenever you publish new content, adding your URL to the top of the list published at those sites. Well now you can run your own "recently updated sites" list at your website.
* RSS
RSS feeds are an important component of any professional website since they allow other sites to syndicate your content. ExpressionEngine supports all RSS protocols - .93, 1.0, 2.0, and Atom - and gives you the flexibility to cutomize your feeds as you desire.
* Email
The ExpressionEngine Email module lets you easily create feedback and tell-a-friend forms on your site. ExpressionEngine's flexible tag syntax makes the process of creating and managing these forms very simple, and since it supports all major Email protocols (SMTP, Sendmail, PHP Mail) it'll work in virtually any environment.
* Search
ExpressionEngine supports fast, flexible, and precise content searching, through simple and/or advanced search forms. As the site admin you can set search criteria, so that your users can search only the areas you specify, and you can have multiple search forms, each with different search criteria.
* Referrer
Anytime someone arrives at your website as a result of clicking a link at another site, ExpressionEngine will track it with its Referrer Module, and display that info in a list. This can be valuable information in determining how people are finding out about your site.
* Blacklist/Whitelist
The Blacklist and Whitelist Module is part of ExpressionEngine's extensive security features, designed to prevent spam in comments, trackbacks, referrers, etc. This module let you ban (blacklist) or allow (whitelist) URLs, IP addresses, and User Agents.
* Statistics
The ExpressionEngine stats module enables you to show a "who's online" list of users viewing your site at any given moment. You can also display various statistics, like the total number of entries, comments, trackbacks, members, page hits, etc.
* Query

More Product features and information here.

Torn City, Crime of your life

2007-08-09T18:13:00.000+08:00

Torn City is a web based online game in which the goal of the game is to level-up as fast as you can by committing crimes as much as you can in your nerve bar and by attacking someone, can also be categorized as a real time strategy game. Here are samples in game in which committing crimes are based how your level is:

1. You walk through the door of the convenience store and immediately draw your gun.
2. You walk over to the clerk, and shove the gun in his face, and shout 'Open the till'
3. He turns an odd shade of white and passes out. 'Oh great, I get a wimp' you mutter.

Result: You grab the register and run home. Once there you crack it open to find $256 in it!

As you progress in game, there are a lot of privileges can be obtained, for like accessing the city bank for your investments in your money, missions in torn city in which some anonymous bosses are going to contact you and do this kind of crime they wanted you to do; and with pay.
There are also pets if you are the type of animal lover but the selection is limited, dogs are available in-game and is sold in the city itself and by other players.

To simply put, this game is all about crimes where which we can't afford to commit all in real life. But I'm not encouraging to do the crimes in game to real life, always remember its only a game. For past time purposes only.

more info and tutorials offered here.
the url of the said web based game is TornCity

note: This is only a game review, the author is not liable to any actions you inherit through playing the game. Self discipline among readers and players are still essential even with the kind of games played.

Place the Videos on your iPod in the category they belong

2007-08-04T01:01:00.000+08:00

Have you noticed that iPod automatically places all videos under the Movies category, hence your video files appear in the wrong (i.e. Music Videos and TV shows appear in Movies) category? There is a way to sort this and place them where they belong. If you purchase your contents from iTunes then you don’t have to worry about changing anything because iTunes does this for you. However if you prefer other ways of downloading contents or simply want to copy movies you already have on your computer to your iPod – you may find this quick how-to helpful.

This tutorial assumes that you have an iPod with Video (Fifth Generation iPod), iTunes installed and Videos in your iTunes Library.

1. Select the Video from your iTunes Library that you want to be categorized as Music Video

2. Right-click on the Video > Get Info

3. Go to Video Tab > Video Kind drop-down menu and select the video type.

For the purpose of this tutorial, select Music Video.

Once you’re done, the Video will be transferred to the category it belongs to – if it was a Music Video it will be in the Music category in your iTunes Library.

How to Install Joomla

2007-08-02T07:33:00.000+08:00

This tutorial will help you install joomla on a localhost.
1. Download the latest project of joomla here

2. Unpack it and transfer the files to your site.

3. Now that you have it on your site run the installation wizard for joomla from your browser.e.g. http://localhost/

4. Setup/change some file permissions on your server for joomla. e.g. All User privileges: Read/write

5. Enter your database information and configuration on the config file in joomla

6. Delete the install folder in your joomla directory.

once the installation is successful it will be your default website on your web server. This tutorial is done for base installation of joomla.

for more detailed installation of joomla click here

MacBook Pro

2007-07-03T08:37:00.000+08:00

Latest Intel mobile architecture

Powered by the most advanced mobile processors from Intel, the new Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro is over 50% faster than the original Core Duo MacBook Pro and now supports up to 4GB of RAM.²

Leading-edge graphics

The NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT delivers exceptional graphics processing power. For the ultimate creative canvas, you can even configure the 17-inch model with a 1920-by-1200 resolution display.

MacBook Pro Application Performance

MacBook Pro Graphics Performance

http://www.apple.com

Technical Specifications for iPhone

2007-07-03T08:22:00.000+08:00

Capacity

4GB or 8GB flash drive¹

Display

3.5-inch (diagonal) widescreen multi-touch display
480-by-320-pixel resolution at 160 dpi
Support for display of multiple languages and characters simultaneously

Operating system

OS X

GSM

Quad-band (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)

Wireless data

Wi-Fi (802.11b/g)
EDGE
Bluetooth 2.0+EDR

Camera

2.0 megapixels

Audio

Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz
Audio formats supported: AAC, Protected AAC, MP3, MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 1, 2, and 3), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV

Video

Video formats supported: H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; H.264 video, up to 768 Kbps, 320 by 240 pixels, 30 frames per second, Baseline Profile up to Level 1.3 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats

Headphones

Stereo earphones with built-in microphone
Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz
Impedance: 32 ohms

Mac system requirements

Mac computer with USB 2.0 port
Mac OS X v10.4.10 or later
iTunes 7.3 or later

Windows system requirements

PC with USB 2.0 port
Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, Enterprise, or Ultimate Edition; or Windows XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 2 or later
iTunes 7.3 or later

Environmental requirements

Operating temperature: 32° to 95° F (0° to 35° C)
Nonoperating temperature: -4° to 113° F (-20° to 45° C)
Relative humidity: 5% to 95% noncondensing
Maximum operating altitude: 10,000 feet (3000 m)

Input and output

iPhone
- 30-pin dock connector
- 3.5-mm stereo headphone minijack
iPhone Dock
- Dock connector

Power and battery

Built-in rechargeable lithium ion battery
Talk time: Up to 8 hours
Standby time: Up to 250 hours³
Internet use: Up to 6 hours⁴
Video playback: Up to 7 hours⁵
Audio playback: Up to 24 hours

http://www.apple.com

Mind-Blowing Performance

2007-06-25T10:56:00.000+08:00

I'm not an NVIDIA GeForce fan for their graphics card, nor a fan of its counterpart the ATI Radeon. But looking on their benchmarks and performance the GeForce 8800 Ultra speaks for itself. Here are the specifications/performance for GeForce 8800 Ultra and the ATI Radeon™ HD 2900.

NVIDIA® Unified Architecture

Unified shader architecture
GigaThread™ technology
Full support for Microsoft® DirectX® 10
- Geometry shaders
- Geometry instancing
- Streamed output
- Shader Model 4.0
Full 128-bit floating point precision through the entire rendering pipeline

NVIDIA Lumenex™ Engine

16x full screen anti-aliasing
Transparent multisampling and transparent supersampling
16x angle independent anisotropic filtering
128-bit floating point high dynamic-range (HDR) lighting with anti-aliasing
- 32-bit per component floating point texture filtering and blending
Advanced lossless compression algorithms for color, texture, and z-data
Support for normal map compression
Z-cull
Early-Z

NVIDIA Quantum Effects™ Technology

Advanced shader processors architected for physics computation
Simulate and render physics effects on the graphics processor

NVIDIA SLI™ Technology¹

Patented hardware and software technology allows two GeForce-based graphics cards to run in parallel to scale performance and enhance image quality on today's top titles.

NVIDIA PureVideo™ HD Technology²

Dedicated on-chip video processor
High-definition H.264, VC-1, MPEG2 and WMV9 decode acceleration
Advanced spatial-temporal de-interlacing
HDCP capable³
Spatial-Temporal De-Interlacing
Noise Reduction
Edge Enhancement
Bad Edit Correction
Inverse telecine (2:2 and 3:2 pull-down correction)
High-quality scaling
Video color correction
Microsoft® Video Mixing Renderer (VMR) support

Advanced Display Functionality

Two dual-link DVI outputs for digital flat panel display resolutions up to 2560x1600
Dual integrated 400MHz RAMDACs for analog display resolutions up to and including 2048x1536 at 85Hz
Integrated HDTV encoder provides analog TV-output (Component/Composite/S-Video) up to 1080i resolution
NVIDIA nView® multi-display technology capability
10-bit display processing

Built for Microsoft® Windows Vista™

Full DirectX 10 support
Dedicated graphics processor powers the new Windows Vista Aero 3D user interface
VMR-based video architecture

High Speed Interfaces

Designed for PCI Express® x16
Designed for high-speed GDDR3 memory

Operating Systems

Windows Vista /Windows Vista 64
Windows XP/Windows XP 64
Linux

API Support

Complete DirectX support, including Microsoft DirectX 10 Shader Model 4.0
Full OpenGL® support, including OpenGL 2.0

As for Radeon HD 2900 Series

ATI Radeon™ HD 2900 Technology – GPU Specifications

700 million transistors on 80nm HS fabrication process
512-bit 8-channel GDDR3/4 memory interface
Ring Bus Memory Controller
- Fully distributed design with 1024-bit internal ring bus for memory reads and writes
- Optimized for high performance HDR (High Dynamic Range) rendering at high display resolutions
Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture
- 320 stream processing units
  - Dynamic load balancing and resource allocation for vertex, geometry, and pixel shaders
  - Common instruction set and texture unit access supported for all types of shaders
  - Dedicated branch execution units and texture address processors
- 128-bit floating point precision for all operations
- Command processor for reduced CPU overhead
- Shader instruction and constant caches
- Up to 80 texture fetches per clock cycle
- Up to 128 textures per pixel
- Fully associative multi-level texture cache design
- DXTC and 3Dc+ texture compression
- High resolution texture support (up to 8192 x 8192)
- Fully associative texture Z/stencil cache designs
- Double-sided hierarchical Z/stencil buffer
- Early Z test, Re-Z, Z Range optimization, and Fast Z Clear
- Lossless Z & stencil compression (up to 128:1)
- Lossless color compression (up to 8:1)
- 8 render targets (MRTs) with anti-aliasing support
- Physics processing support
Full support for Microsoft® DirectX® 10.0
- Shader Model 4.0
- Geometry Shaders
- Stream Output
- Integer and Bitwise Operations
- Alpha to Coverage
- Constant Buffers
- State Objects
- Texture Arrays
Dynamic Geometry Acceleration
- High performance vertex cache
- Programmable tessellation unit
- Accelerated geometry shader path for geometry amplification
- Memory read/write cache for improved stream output performance
Anti-aliasing features
- Multi-sample anti-aliasing (up to 8 samples per pixel)
- Up to 24x Custom Filter Anti-Aliasing (CFAA) for improved quality
- Adaptive super-sampling and multi-sampling
- Temporal anti-aliasing
- Gamma correct
- Super AA (CrossFire™ configurations only)
- All anti-aliasing features compatible with HDR rendering
Texture filtering features
- 2x/4x/8x/16x high quality adaptive anisotropic filtering modes (up to 128 taps per pixel)
- 128-bit floating point HDR texture filtering
- Bicubic filtering
- sRGB filtering (gamma/degamma)
- Percentage Closer Filtering (PCF)
- Depth & stencil texture (DST) format support
- Shared exponent HDR (RGBE 9:9:9:5) texture format support
CrossFire™ Multi-GPU Technology
- Scale up rendering performance and image quality with 2 or more GPUs
- Integrated compositing engine
- High performance dual channel interconnect
ATI Avivo™ HD Video and Display Platform
- Two independent display controllers
  - Drive two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls and video overlays for each display
  - Full 30-bit display processing
  - Programmable piecewise linear gamma correction, color correction, and color space conversion
  - Spatial/temporal dithering provides 30-bit color quality on 24-bit and 18-bit displays
  - High quality pre- and post-scaling engines, with underscan support for all display outputs
  - Content-adaptive de-flicker filtering for interlaced displays
  - Fast, glitch-free mode switching
  - Hardware cursor
- Two integrated dual-link DVI display outputs
  - Each supports 18-, 24-, and 30-bit digital displays at all resolutions up to 1920x1200 (single-link DVI) or 2560x1600 (dual-link DVI)¹
  - Each includes a dual-link HDCP encoder with on-chip key storage for high resolution playback of protected content²
- Two integrated 400 MHz 30-bit RAMDACs
  - Each supports analog displays connected by VGA at all resolutions up to 2048x1536¹
- HDMI output support
  - Supports all display resolutions up to 1920x1080¹
  - Integrated HD audio controller with multi-channel (5.1) AC3 support, enabling a plug-and-play cable-less audio solution
- Integrated AMD Xilleon™ HDTV encoder
  - Provides high quality analog TV output (component/S-video/composite)
  - Supports SDTV and HDTV resolutions
  - Underscan and overscan compensation
- HD decode acceleration for H.264/AVC, VC-1, DivX and MPEG-2 video formats
  - Flawless DVD, HD DVD, and Blu-ray™ playback
  - Motion compensation and IDCT (Inverse Discrete Cosine Transformation)
- HD video processing
  - Advanced vector adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing
  - De-blocking and noise reduction filtering
  - Edge enhancement
  - Inverse telecine (2:2 and 3:2 pull-down correction)
  - Bad edit correction
  - High fidelity gamma correction, color correction, color space conversion, and scaling
- MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, WMV9, VC-1, and H.264/AVC encoding and transcoding
- Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time
- VGA mode support on all display outputs
PCI Express x16 bus interface
OpenGL 2.0 support

I will now leave the judging from you on which graphics card you would choose for each of us have different tastes and standards. Happy Gaming!

Myths and History from Lineage 2

2007-06-03T21:47:00.000+08:00

Chapter 1: Interlude - The Chaotic Era

Prophets foretell of its coming. Historians record its passing. But the only ones who can fully understand it are those who have survived its reign… and they are often few and far between.

The so-called Chaotic Era stemmed from the erosion of royal power, that final vestige of the Elmoreden Empire. With each passing year, the king and his court saw their sphere of control shrink further. They could still influence fashion, but ultimately little else. Nor could the ecclesiastical rulers, no matter how full their temple treasuries. The world had simply become too large, too fragmented, too diverse for any single group to dictate the course of events. That was the nature of the chaos that permeated the age.

It was the Battle for Giran Castle that finally showed the truth of a world turned upside down: even an unknown adventurer of common birth could aspire to — and attain — the power hitherto reserved for nobles. Groups of adventurers, bound together as clans, demonstrated their ability to dominate local and regional affairs, particularly when they harnessed the power of the castle.

Chapter 2: Interlude - Protection Against Darkness

The clans became numerous, but most were politically naïve. Shadowy cabals sought to manipulate them in order to advance their own agendas, sparking widespread conflict and disorder. Like a shadow creeping across a darkening room, chaos spread inexorably across the land. Strange new monsters appeared to wreak destruction, and ancient terrors were reawakened.

But as the clans grew stronger, they also grew wiser. They threw off the controlling influence of the cabals and asserted, consciously and intentionally, their own power to shape events. New Heroes and Noblesse gained positions of power and leadership within the clans, imparting a higher moral standard.

Once the bane of villagers and townspeople, the clans gradually became their protectors against the forces of darkness. As their power waxed, even foes like Antharas, the terror of Giran, and Valakas, the lord of Goddard, fled before them.

Once merely the hirelings of lords, the clans had eventually supplanted their masters. Authority was no longer an accident of birth, but the result of merit. Power resided with those who could not only grasp it, but hold it. History had pronounced its verdict... or had it?

Chapter 3: Interlude - The Giran Reunification

The fact is that other, less visible forces were also at play. A new spirit of cooperation between the Five Races – Humans, Elves, Dark Elves, Dwarves, and Orcs – began to grow, particularly following a secret meeting between the elders of each race.

This “Giran Reunification” occurred thanks to the efforts of a mysterious woman in blue, who gathered the elders together and revealed to them the existence of a sixth race, as well as powerful primitive creatures dwelling on a remote island who had somehow survived the ancient War of the Gods.

Faced with new opportunities and potential new threats, the elders began to covertly assist the clans with potent new mass-produced weapons and key strategic information.

Far from the final result, the clans were to be the building blocks of a new Golden Age, one that blended the best attributes of each of the races: the wisdom of the Elves, the strength of the Orcs, the cleverness of the Dwarves, the knowledge of the Dark Elves, and the versatility of the Humans.

Whether that Golden Age has yet been achieved is a topic for another day…

- The Chaotic Throne
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AMDG teamed up with NCsoft

2007-06-03T19:24:00.000+08:00

Lineage 2 from NCsoft will now be in South East Asia and will be distributed in the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore. The Company behind all this is the Asian Media Development Group (AsianMedia) which is firmly set on the market for online games within the South East Asian region and is projected to generate an estimated revenue of 141 million USD by 2010.

About Asian Media Development Group.

We all know that Lineage 2 The Chaotic Throne is already in its Interlude chapter. A lot of changes and improvements, new skills for each class, increase in land size (more searchable areas), new items including armors and weapons. But it seems that South East Asia is late for this kind of game. A game which is in its first chapter of the chaotic throne will only be available on such regions, some people will no more be thrilled and be excited mainly because they have played it elsewhere. More like in Lineage 2 US or Europe. Some from China, Taiwan, Thailand. It seems that the filipino people and its neighboring countries are a bit late for this game, but hey! Some filipino gamers are already playing L2 in some private servers around the globe, even I myself as a writer and author on this blog had been a developer on some Lineage 2 private servers (Leaked server software, which is Illegal). We just can't wait for it to be released, we know how to play the game, we know what we will do. God speed Lineage 2

Microsoft Surface Unleashed!

2007-06-03T18:49:00.000+08:00

Greetings everyone, I'm gLiTcH_, if all goes well with this blog, expect me to contribute some of tech articles, news, and maybe some funny content. Enjoy guys! More power to this blog. Thanks for the invite! My articles will be all original so please leave reference if you plan to blog about this. :)

Microsoft has recently announced their latest new technology that is actually been used in the late 80's. Thing new about this is that this technology has been pushed to the masses and may soon start the era of multi-touch computing. Whether your pro-Microsoft or anti-Microsoft, you have to give them credit for this accomplishment. This technology is freaking awesome and I want one! Too bad this is gonna cost at least $5,000 - $10,000. But I'm sure by next year, more affordable personal ones will be available. I believe that this is the weapon against Apple's iPhone which also uses similar technology.

So what is the Microsoft Surface? Combine touch screen technology with a table..... and a 30-inch screen. Watch the video and see!

Wordpress review

2007-05-30T16:40:00.000+08:00

Rating: 8/10
Release version: 2.1
License: GNU/GPL, Open Source
Homepage: http://wordpress.org
OpenSourceCMS.com demo
CMSMatrix.org listing

Wordpress is the most used blogging platform in the world, and for a good reason: it's easy to install, easy to use and is supported by a vibrant community that makes significat contributions. Many people use it to rant, blog about their passions or even run their online businesses.

I think most people are attracted to Wordpress because it's not limited as other blogging applications (think Blogeer or Wordpress.com) and the fact that it simply works - once you've installed it you can go straight to work without any other customization (still, it's good to tinker with the settings!).

Wordpress requirements:

PHP (v4.2 or newer) and MySQL (v3.23.x or newer) are required. Installing takes only a couple of minutes at the most, and even someone who is new to the Internet can do it without any hassles.

Wordpress learning curve and usability:

Wordpress is extremely easy to learn for anybody who has some computer experience. If you can create folders and use a document editor it shouldn't take more than a half hour to an hour to get used to the system.

The administration back-end is very simple and laid out clearly: "Write", "Manage", "Comments", "Presentation" and the others are pretty self explanatory and most people get used to it in no time whatsoever.

Another thing that takes Wordpress 2.1 closer to a content management system, and not just a blogging platform, is the possibility to specify a certain page or post as the frontpage. In the 1.x series of Wordpress you had to install a plugin or mess around with the index.php file to get the desired result.

A little bit about search engine optimization: the search engines simply love Wordpress - the light and valid output code (depends on the webmaster too, of course), the option for trackbacks and pings, configurable and clean permalinks, all of this is spider candy. If you have great content and a few good links then you'll be on the road to good rankings soon enough.

Wordpress security:

Unfortunately, one of popularity's bad side-effects is that every bug will almost surely be discovered - that's why it's crucial to update an install as soon as patches are released. There have been a few notorious cases of security exploits being used to hack Wordpress blogs, the last one targeting search engine optimization blogs (more details). However, most people will be safe if they patch their installations with the latest updates, so security is not that much of a concern.

Another good thing about Wordpress is that if you plan on making a site where you have contributors there are different access levels that you can grant to your users - you will be able to control what appears on your site and still give contributors some of the freedom they deserve.

One of the best Wordpress plugins that helps control the scourge of blogs - comment spam - is Akismet. Whether you care about your rankings or the way your blog appears to your visitors, or even both, spam does big damage everywhere it appears. Akismet is a great service, and although it has some false-positives is the best spam stopper out there.

Wordpress plugins and applications:

Wordpress has really benefited from having a great community - there are a lot of plugins that can extend its basic capabilities; some of the really good ones are:

Akismet - the best plugin for comment spam actually comes bundled with the default Wordpress installation. All you have to do is get an api key by registering for a free Wordpress.com account and then activate the plugin from the "Plugins" menu in the blog back-end.
Adsense Injector - for those that want to monetize their blog the best bet is usually contextual advertising, and that means Adsense from Google. After you activate it you'll see a lot of options: you can choose if your ad is to appear on the homepage, full posts, static pages, category pages and/or archive pages. You can also define all the colors in the block, ad formats, number of ads, ad positioning (set it to random to minimize ad blindness) and the option to not show ads for the blog administrator.
Google Sitemap generator - the plugin creates an XML sitemap (that is actually compliant with Yahoo and MSN too) that will help the search engines index your site better, especially if your post count goes into the thousands. Get more info about the sitemap format at Sitemaps.org, the project's official site.
Exec-PHP - sometimes you just need to execute a few lines of PHP, but Wordpress doesn't allow it. This plugin comes in handy just for that.
PXS Mail Form - exposing your email address is not always the best ideea so contact forms are a usual part for many websites. PXS Mail Form creates a contact form with configurable error messages, redirect after form submission, CC sender and mail subject.
WP Cache - considering most webmasters host their blogs on shared servers, site performance is a very important concern when you start getting hordes of visitors. WP Cache helps take off some of the load from the PHP compiler by storing the pages as static files. Caching is especially useful when you get Dugg, Slashdotted or end up on the Del.icio.us frontpage.
Related posts - this plugin is a good ideea for when you have first time visitors to one of your posts. If they're interested in information on a certain subject they will most likely want more of the same; this is what "Related posts" does, it shows links to other pages with the same subject. It's also good for SEO - when the site linking structure is more developed you increase your chances for indexing and ranking.
Lightbox JS v2 - if you have images on your site the lightbox is a nice classy touch (see a demo of the script).

Of course, there are a lot more very useful plugins but these are the ones I used the most. Take a look over the plugin list at Wordpress.org if you need to extend your blog's capabilities.
source: http://needforcontent.com

Drupal Tutorial: Installation

2007-05-30T07:54:00.000+08:00

Drupal tutorial - installation

For this install I assume that you have a server that has Apache, PHP and MySQL installed (it doesn't matter if it's on Windows or Linux). Also, most modern hosting companies offer Cpanel and PhpMyAdmin so I'll use them in my tutorials.

Here's how to install Drupal:

1. Get the latest Drupal release from the official Drupal site. On the right hand side there is a menu with a link to the latest stable package - click on that and download it to your computer.

2. Extract the files from the downloaded archive to the htdocs or public_html folder. If you are on a local server extract them directly to the folder where you want to install it.

If you want to upload it you'll have to use a FTP client (I use FireFTP , a FTP addon for Firefox) to upload the files to the server.

3. You'll want to create a database and user for Drupal. If you have CPanel you can do this by clicking the MySQL Databases icon.

4. Create a new database. We'll name ours "test"; make yours a little bit more decriptive :).

5. Create a new user and password from the same page.

6. Add the user to the database you created earlier.

6.1. An optional step before you log out of CPanel: open the File Manager from CPanel and browse to where your Drupal files are (usually in the "public_html" folder). Click on the "Create New Folder" link on the top left of the page and create a folder named "files". This will be used to store images and other uploads made during the use of the site.

7. Go to the browser address bar and input the address of the new Drupal installation; hit enter and next you shoud see the Drupal installer. Enter the name of the database, user and password and click on "Save configuration".

8. If everything is ok you'll get the same page as below:

9. Now go to the base URL where you'll see the welcome message and default theme.

10. The first thing you should do now is to create a new account - the first user is the super admin so do this quickly. Click the "Create new account" link on the left of the page and put in a username and email address. Make sure the email is real because that is where you'll receive your password (however once in the account you can change it to whatever you desire).

That's all. I hope you enjoyed my visual walkthrough of the Drupal intallation.

source: http://needforcontent.com

Drupal Tutorials: Installing modules and themes

2007-05-30T07:53:00.001+08:00

Drupal tutorial - installing modules and themes

Now that you have clean Drupal install it's time to start customizing. The best way for this is to look for the modules that will give your site the functionality you want it to have and then grab a theme that looks nice and fits your needs.

The first thing you should do is to go to Drupal's main site and take a look at the available themes and modules. Pick the ones that you want and download them to your desktop; be careful to download the versions that match you installation - modules for Drupal 4.7 will have a "4.7-" in the name and ones for Drupal 5.x will have a "5.x-" in the filename.

So, now that you have the files on your desktop follow the next steps:

1. Log into your websites' CPanel and click on File Manager.

2. Browse with the file manager to Drupal's themes directory (it's in yoursite.com/themes) and then click on "Upload file(s)".

3. For each file that you want to upload click on one of the browse buttons, select the file and then click on "Open". After you have selected all the files click on the "Upload button" on your browser and in a few moments the files will be uploaded. Make sure that you don't mix them up and upload the wrong files in the wrong folders.

4. Do the same for your modules (the modules directory is at yoursite.com/modules).

5. Now you have to extract the files from the archives. Go to the modules and themes directories, click on an archive and then select "Extract file contents" from the links that appear in the top right part of the webpage. Do this for every archive, both modules and themes.

You should log out of CPanel, you won't need it anymore.

6. Go to your site and log in to the Drupal administration interface. To see what modules you have uploaded go to Administer -> Site building -> Modules. You will see a few lists depending on what modules are on the server; the modules I uploaded are Meta tags, Pathauto and Webform and are in the "Others" list.

Under each module description you'll see what module dependencies are - for example Pathauto depends on the Path module so I will have to enable them both to use them. Check the boxes near the corresponding modules and then click on "Save configuration" to enable them.

After the modules are enabled you can configure them from the Administer -> Site configuration page.

7. To see the themes you have installed go to Administer -> Site building -> Themes. You'll be presented with a list of the themes that are on your server; to enable them you have to check the boxes, but as a super-admin you can activate them even if they aren't enabled.

If they are enabled, at the right of the themes will appear a "Configure" link that lets you enable or disable certain elements like site name, favicon, search box, logo and upload a custom logo or favicon.

source: http://needforcontent.com

About Drupal CMS

2007-05-30T07:32:00.001+08:00

Drupal is a very powerful content management system but it's pretty clear that beginners have a though time using it, and the Drupal specific terms aren't at all helpful. Yes, the taxonomy system is how content is categorized but why the hell don't they just say categories?

What are nodes, pages, stories, blocks and all those other terms that Drupal is using?

Taxonomies:

Let's see what the Drupal handbook has to say about the taxonomy system:

Nodes can be organized into categories, also called taxonomies. Forums are an example of content nodes organized by category. Categories can be hierarchical, where one parent category contains multiple child categories.

Yup - taxonomies are categories. The thing that makes them different from other category systems is that they can be used as tags (set them when you write a page) and you can have the same page in more than one category at a time (some content systems don't have this option).

This makes the taxonomy system very powerful and to call taxonomies just categories would be an understatement; still, if that makes it more comfortable for you just do it!

Nodes:

In Drupal, a node is a piece of content. It may be in the form of a page, blog post, story, poll, forum thread or any other content type. But why is the content called nodes and not just what it actually is - a page or blog post?

Although, I must confess, I'm not sure about this, I believe it's Durpal's modular nature that calls for this way of organization. As long as you remember that a node is a piece of content you'll be fine - just like I am :) .

Input formats:

This one will get your panties in a bunch if you don't know its importance. The input formats are a set of filters that will go through the text you submit and then process it before display to the user. There are 3 input formats, one of them being set as default (when creating a node you can choose another input format just for that node).

The default for every installation is "Filtered HTML", which you should leave if you plan on having a site where there are contributors. This filter allows only a few tags to be used (a, em, strong, code, ul, ol, li, cite, dt, dd, dl), the rest will be stripped by the system.

The "Full HTML" allows all HTML tags to be used, and "PHP code" lets you run PHP code. These should only be available to trusted editors or administrators, as they can do some damage if used with malicious intent.

Throttle:

This is a useful feature for heavy trafficed sites, and even better if you get slashdotted or dugg. When your site gets a certain number of visitors (you can define this) modules start being turned off to take some of the pressure off the site.

After you enable the throttle module you will have the option to select which modules are to be throttled, and I suggest throttling everything except the basic modules that run your site.

That's it for this tutorial. Hope it helped!

source: http://needforcontent.com