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Happy 5th Birthday Firefox ! Glad to hear and celebrate a prospering success of an open source browser, Firefox, in 5 years in a row beating the Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Firefox was release on November 9, 2004 written by the Mozilla geeks which I would say, runs in a cross-platform (M$ Window$, Mac OS X, Linux/Unix) just like Sun Microsystem's Java programming language results in "software that is portable across multiple machine architectures, operating systems, and graphical user interfaces, secure, and high performance" . Due to Firefox innovative technology in the browser arena, many of the browsers that are up-to-date being innovative, and does alleviate its flaws to something more reliable User Experience , obviously, Internet Explorer 8 (I feel being cynical). Firefox still my best choice, not to mention the fast pacing Google's Chrome browser, compared to other browsers. Safari does a good job specially loading a heavy AJAX application. S...

If you might notice, installing Yahoo toolbars might override the settings in your Mozilla Firefox browser. I am not quite fan of Yahoo's search algorithm, as it seems quite naive to me, and I need to change the search engine using Google. To change it, just type (see image below) : about:config on the location toolbar of your Mozilla Firefox browser. Then search for keyword.URL then double click it or right click, and select Modify and paste this http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I'm+Feeling+Lucky&q= Try typing keywords on your location bar and hit enter, you will be redirected to a particular site, or else the Google's default search page. Happy Googling!!! ;-) If you're viewing this blog from a feed, click here to fully read this post =)

I just see the HBO's Episode for the fight of Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao over Puerto Rico's pride, Miguel Cotto in youtube.com. Most analysts, still favors Manny Pacquiao for his abilities in the boxing ring, with speed, strong punches, and a good training along with his coach, Freddie Roach . Miguel Cotto stands at 5'7 with with 34 winds, 27 knockouts, and 1 Loss. While Manny Pacquiao has 49 wins, 37 knockouts, 3 losses, and 2 draws. Both of them shares the prominence and noble respect with their respective country, Philippines for Pacquiao, and Puerto Rico , for Miguel Cotto, as heroes bringing forth the name of their country on their behalf in the sports entertainment. I both salute for these guys but only one can win on their match. I love Manny's speed and strong punches, and I love Cotto's stance, looks like a ferocious bull to me, and his devastating punches just like Manny too. We'll see what they can do in the ring, and of course, entertain us...

I really love this very funny prank video from Brazil. It's about frightening the people, wittingly, with those skeleton props using a remote device to obtain manipulation over the vehicles had been used for this video. The first video, shows a skeleton--resembles like " Ghost Rider "--riding on a bike and yawping on those people walking alongside the cemetery. Watch it and, I bet no penny would be wasted on your time. It really scrumbles my stomach because of so much laughter. I can't imagine if I would be the victim, I might perhaps throw a heavy stuff I can grab on that Skeleton! LOL!!!! I put the translation on the first video below the video object. Note: For the translation on the first video, I just relay on one of the comments where the skeleton is saying, "Hey you, do you want a ride to hell muahahahaha, don't run I will get you one by one!", and on the drunk or the hobo part, he said "hey you drunk let me take you to hell muahahahahaha...

Have you heard of this song? Such a great composition! I was waiting for this album to be release and hearing this significant collaboration of two famous legendary music icon in the Philippines, Ely Buendia and Francis Durango Magalona . Their hit song entitled "Higante" (which means Giant) top at the Philippine charts at #20 in Myx and ended at #10 in the month of October. The lyrics of the song seems embodies some political views or power because of the abusive power that the "Higante" has, oppressing "Higante's" diminutives. Have a listen to their video, it's really a cool song! Here's the video of their gigantic song, "Higante" courtesy of Youtube : I posted the lyrics of the song below. Higante Lyrics (Ely Buendia) Narito palagi Di nawawala Ang bendisyon ng pari Laging nasakanya 'Sing taas ng ulap Ang kanyang tindig Nakaupo sa palad Ang buong daigdig Chorus: Ahhhhhh Siya ay dambuhala Siya'y nakakalula Dadalhin ka niya S...

"Soon thereafter, everything we are using will stay in the cloud!" Well, what does really " Cloud Computing " means? Salesforce.com has a pretty decent explanation about cloud computing on how this operates between the user and within the Internet. Cloud means, the Internet. Conceptually, Cloud Computing is designed to make abstracted behind the users of the software, where no need for in-depth knowledge of some specific software. Actually, Cloud Computing will be far more adapted for so many years. Watch this movie from Salesforce.com: Well, why should I say that? Well, as we all know, globally, we are down with such crisis. Financially really hit many countries down, specially the United States of America (well, thanks God, this happens because alternatives are arising!). Cloud computing doesn't want you to buy or pay every applications you use. It does only counts every time you use your applications, basing on how much have you used or scaling your statistic...

Ever since I'm connecting to my wireless router WRT54GL from LinkSys, I never thought of WPA and the wpa_supplicant for my Slackware Linux box. I do connect through WEP security mode for my encryption algorithm. I know it's just a basic authorization for my wireless, instead with wpa_supplicant for WPA, until I found out that my neighbors are abusing my connection, and don't want my stuffs to be exposed. It was funny actually when my neighbors approach me and ask me if I'm the owner of that connection that they able to detect, and say, "hey, don't put any password on that". Really, it sounds daring and hilarious but rude. I do connect from my Slackware Linux via shell using the commands: $> ifconfig wlan0 up $> iwlist wlan0 scan $> iwconfig wlan0 essid "myssid" key "8EEDEEFE41" $> dhcpcd wlan0 The first command will take my wireless LAN card to be up, which actually down during start up. Somewhat like, disable and enabl...