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Lola Techie is so Cool!

itpinoy — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:29:03 +0000

this is probably the kewlest ad to date, meet lola techie (grandma techie) as she tries out online gaming!!!

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Pinoy Scientists - Share Your Knowledge Globally!

itpinoy — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:08:07 +0000

PINOY scientists are urged to post their medical research on to a globally shared portal, which hopes to serve as a “one-stop shop” for scholarly researched information made available for everyone.

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Cory

twistedbanana — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:05:26 +0000

Today, I cried hard for someone who isn’t close to me. I cried when your daughter Kris cried on national television and said that you will be in the hospital indefinitely because of your sensitive condition. I know it sounds crazy to cry for someone whom I was not a family or a friend but Cory made me proud to be a Filipino. I felt we were losing an icon more than an idol and that’s why I cried.

Mrs. Aquino, I was only three years old when your husband Ninoy was assassinated at the tarmac of the old International Airport in August of 1983. I was too young to understand what happened but I remember my mom crying as she watched the news on our old black National television set. We even kept a Betamax tape of NHK Japan as they analyze how your husband was murdered.

Sometime in 1985, I recall the song Tie A Yellow Ribbon being played over and over and the entire country literally became yellow because of the ribbons tied not on oak trees but on every home, on every tree, on every vehicle, and on every arm of the Filipino people. This probably was the first encounter of every Filipino of the Cory Magic. The people believed that things can change for the better.

In 1986, EDSA Revolution happened. I was only five years old but I remember marching along EDSA with my mom and my aunt. She carried me on her shoulders and asked me to give flowers to soldiers on tanks. I was still too young to understand what was happening but I knew in my heart this was very important. In the same year, you became President of the Philippines and became a mother to millions of Filipinos. You made us realize that Filipinos are strong if we only unite and stand together as one. It took me several years before I understood the importance of democracy and why we need to fight for truth and justice.

You showed us the value of faith and why it was important to have a personal relationship with God. Probably this was the reason why none of the Coup attempts were successful and why your detractors failed every time they would try to create an issue against you and your family.

Mrs. Aquino, you were there to be guiding light of every Filipino whenever there was a political crisis. You were there to remind each and every one of us that we need to protect our democracy, we need to support the innocent, and protect our government from the corrupt. You taught us that power is nothing without the support of people. You made us realize that it is faith, courage, love, will, and determination that makes the person and not the position.

You once said that you are not embarrassed to say that you believe in miracles. I pray that God will do a miracle.

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Battle with the sun

ApplesH — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:23:08 +0000

For many years, I have associated sunblock with Coppertone, the beach, sand, sticky, and white. Back then the thought of wearing sunblock on a daily basis was pretty alien to me despite my addiction to beauty. I did the whole cleanser-toner-moisturizer regimen but lost out on the sun protection piece of it.

It was only when I met a skincare consultant, got interested in Cosmo and Marie Claire, and realized that I was not young anymore that I discovered the importance and benefits of protecting my skin from the sun. I also learned that whitening creams and lotions are not necessarily the same as sunblock creams

How to Spot PTC Scams

nepspeed82 — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 06:26:47 +0000

Due to the roaring success of PTC programs, fraudulent PTC sites which are run by scamming people populate the internet. According to some, 99% of the PTC industry is a scam. I’d say that’s way too many. We can’t be completely sure how many of these programs are scams, but for someone to exaggerate it in such proportions is reason enough that scams are flagrant in the PTC business.

If there’s one thing for sure, PTC programs don’t last forever. Most of them last only a few months. They appear legit in the beginning then end up scamming their members when they disappear all of a sudden. They disappear because of two reasons: they were really setup to scam people; or the site admin can’t maintain the site anymore. Hence, knowing when a PTC site will eventually disappear is a valuable skill a PTC user should acquire.

How then can you avoid being scammed? Here is a list which could help you spot the most likely candidates of turning into scam.

1) First things first. Like what I’ve said in my previous article about how to find the best paid to click programs, check if the site is in any scam list. There are people who are dedicated on tracking these scamming sites and they make lists and PTC updates to warn people about the scams. For starters, google something like ptc scams or ptc scam list to find them. You could also check out GPT boycott and scam.com for the same matter. Check PTC forums. No, not those within the PTC itself, I mean those forums dedicated to talking about PTCs. Take PTCTalk and TalkPTC for example. They’re oozing with the latest about PTCs and their owners.

2) Joining PTC programs should be free. If it requires a fee to join it’s definitely a scam.

3) Check out the pay rates of the company. Legitimate sites typically pay $0.01 or $0.02 for a click. If the company advertises extravagant rates such as $1 to $10 per click, it is 100% scam.

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General Assembly

guru_vaj — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:08:26 +0000

General Assembly
Place: Mabini Covered Court
Date : 07, July, 2009
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My Brute is MyBrute! A My Brute Definitive Guide

sylv3rblade — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:52:08 +0000

Time wasters are usually just that, a waste of time but once in a while you get something really really really interesting. Take the new hit, MyBrute for instance.

If you’re new to the game, Read the MyBrute Guide and participate on a Pupil Trading List.

Happy 63rd Philippine Independence Day - A Baybayin Typepad gift for every Filipino

JC John (ᜑᜓᜏᜈ᜔) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:27:39 +0000

For my 63rd Philippine Independence Day post or now known as the Filipino-American Friendship Day - July 4, 1946, I’m releasing my adjusted version of Banyuhay’s Baybayin Typepad hereby called as Baybayin Typepad No.01.

Yes, as the name suggests this is the first. This great tool was developed by Banyuhay (a blog site written completely in Baybayin / ᜊᜌ᜔ᜊᜌᜒᜈ᜔). This is the first typepad for Baybayin I found and it won’t be the last.

Nordenx is also creating his own Baybayin Typepad. I am also writing my own, two jQuery-based Baybayin Typepad, the first jQuery version is already online (if you can find where I am hosting it, congrats) but it is not ready yet.

Simple instructions are inside, no need to download any fonts as long as you are using Firefox 3.5; Safari 4; and the latest Chrome nightly. Enjoy ᜊᜌ᜔ᜊᜌᜒᜈ᜔ and I hope this will encourage you to love and revive this beautiful writing system that we can call our own.

Check it out by clicking here.

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Fil-Am Thia Megia’s Got Talent and She’s only 14!

dmeemai — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:21:53 +0000

I’m still quite sad over Karla Garcia’s short lived stint in So You Think You Can Dance and promised myself will stop watching the rest of the show this season. So I head over to my least liked reality talent show, America’s Got Talent (AGT) just to see what they have been showing.

Watching “America’s Got Talent” turned out to be a cheer me up for me. Oh my, watching and hearing 14 year old Thia Megia sing out “I am Changing” by Jennifer Holiday was unreal. But there she was, confident, beautiful and powerful! Seeing is believing! I have been scouring her and people have already compared her to Youtube sensation Charice.

Yes, she is of Filipino descent, born in Redwood City, California in 1995. Her long full name again gave her “filipino-ness,” Thialorei Lising Megia. (Any relations to Filipino comedian Gary Lising?)

Watch her audition video on America’s Got talent where the crowd goes wild for her, leaving all three judges wowed and awed. Her mom is also shown in the vid:

Red Ribbon Cookies and Cream Cake

ApplesH — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:50:55 +0000

I hate Cookies and Cream. I recall that I enjoyed it when I first tasted Selecta’s Cookies and Cream ice cream but pretty soon its popularity wore down my taste buds and I really avoided eating anything resembling that combination for several years.

When McDonald’s came out with Mcflurry, I was tempted to reconsider. I did but not totally. So I wasn’t too excited when I saw Red Ribbon ads showing their newest cake offering - Cookies and Cream! That is also why I couldn’t join Sago’s Mother’s Day Contest because I couldn’t just come up with the words to explain how Cookies and Cream made my day.

It’s a Go - RP 2010 Poll Automation

itpinoy — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:30:55 +0000

nearly a week after the winning bidder’s quarrel, Smartmatic and TIM have come together to revive their commitment in automating the Philippine’s 2010 elections.

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Install Chickhen R2 on your PSP

sylv3rblade — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:17:56 +0000

[What is ChickHen?]
ChickHEN works as a homebrew enabler for all PSP models (1000, 2000 and 3000) and allows execution of homebrew games and apps on 5.03 Official firmware. It can allow you to play games such as Bugz!, Jellycar or run apps such as pspfiler and PSPTube. Homebrew enhances the experience of a normal PSP without any faulty side-effects.

[What it does not do?]
- Run ISO, CSO or any other form of UMD backup.
- Run PSX Games
- Touch The Flash of your beloved PSP
- Magically allow the use of Custom Firmware (on TA-088v3 or PSP 3000)
- Load plugins

How to install ChickHen on your PSP? Read this how to install ChickHen r2 on your PSP guide.

If you want to run ISO, CSO or any other form of UMD backup. You can install 5.03 Gen-A or install CFWEnabler. Both custom firmware allows you to run games from your memory stick AND run homebrew.

[via How to install Custom Firmware on your PSP]

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Dead Jeff Goldblum Twitters!

itpinoy — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:52:22 +0000

thought this was funny and crazy esp. how technology has changed delivery of rumors/news nowadays. with the recent passing of michael jackson and farah fawcett everybody gets fooled easily, even the google search results reported jeff goldblum (of jurassic park, the fly) is dead!

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Other New Features That Comes With Firefox 3.5

JC John (ᜑᜓᜏᜈ᜔) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:40:18 +0000

Firefox 3.5 is out and Mozilla once again leading in the race of advancing the web to embrace new technologies. But let’s find out and see examples of the other new features that were not included in the Press Release. Just click here to find out more.

There’s the new audio and video elements, webfonts, word-wrap, canvas . . .

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How to Find the Best PTC Programs

nepspeed82 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:53:40 +0000

Spotting the best PTC sites isn’t hard if you know what to look for. Let me start off by saying that even the once best PTC site can start having trouble. Some of them can become scams over night and some can just run out of money. So in the PTC world you must always be on your toes and constantly be on the look out for signs that your PTC site is going through hard times. Make sure you never spend too much money in any one site. Trust me when I say; even if a site looks like it will always be around, don’t go spending too much at once. Some people sign-up to a PTC site and start upgrading their membership, buying tons of referrals, and changing all their referral strategies to get more out of their new site in an instant. Before they knew it, poof, the site’s nowhere to be found along with their cash.

This isn’t the way to go. There’s such a strategy called “testing the water”. Always give it some time and earn a little before you spend too much time or money. Remember, it has to stick around long enough for you to get your money back.

Read the rest of How to Find the Best PTC Programs…

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Technology Age Gap

itpinoy — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:46:52 +0000

found this interesting feature from Yahoo Phils. where it says how you use technology would in fact reveal your age… in a recent market survey by WorldOne Research, it was reported that age in fact plays a big factor in the way professionals today embrace technology @ work.

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National Interest Waiver

Severina Castor — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:23:40 +0000

National Interest Waivers Provide Individuals with Permanent Status.

A foreign national may apply for lawful permanent residence status (green card), and seek a waiver of the job offer and labor certification requirements, by establishing that his or her admission to permanent residence would be in the National Interest.

There is no regulatory or statutory standard as to what will qualify an alien for a National Interest Waiver. The USCIS considers each case on an individual basis. The procedure is to file the case with evidence to establish that the alien’s proposed services will be in an area of substantial intrinsic merit and will have a national benefit, and that the alien has some track record of success in his or her field.

The value of the National Interest Waiver classification seems to be that it does “not” require an employer to sponsor the prospective employee. Thus, it is referred to as a “self-sponsorship” classification for the green card. Of course, if the National Interest Waiver is done with the support of an organizational sponsor, the case can be perceived as being “stronger” by the CIS adjudicators.

The National Interest Waiver is an EB-2 classification. This means that the priority date numbers reported by the U.S. Department of State are likely to move the green card faster for the applicants then in the EB-3 classification. For Nationals of China and India (and some other countries) this consideration is very important.

In deciding whether the proposed work will be in an area of substantial intrinsic merit, factors that have been considered in successful cases include:

*The foreign national’s admission will improve the U.S. economy.

*The foreign national’s admission will improve wages and working conditions of U.S. Workers.

*The foreign national’s admission will improve educational and training programs for U.S. children and under-qualified workers.

*The foreign national’s admission will improve healthcare.

*The foreign national’s admission will provide more affordable housing for young, aged, or poor U.S. residents.

*The foreign national’s admission will improve the U.S. environment and lead to more productive use of the national resources.

*The foreign national’s admission is requested by an interested U.S. government agency.

In addition to requiring the showing of a benefit that is national in scope, national interest cases require that the emphasis rest with the overall value and potential of the particular beneficiary’s individual contribution to the United States. National Interest Waivers are granted to aliens who will substantially benefit prospectively the national economy, cultural or educational interests, or welfare of the United States. The alien may qualify by being found to be a key or critical member of a team if it can be shown that the team function would be severely impaired without this member. However, merely working in an area of national interest does not necessitate a finding of national interest qualification.

Many of the National Interest Waivers that have been approved were supported by affidavits from well-known, distinguished and influential people or organizations. Strong National Interest Waiver cases also document past achievements. They may include proof, for example, that the foreign national has already created jobs, has turned around a business, has created an increase in exports, has published articles in scholarly journals, or has made presentations at symposia.

CIS Officers look for realistic evidence of substantial prospective benefit to a national interest item or agenda which specifically sets the alien apart from others in the field.

If you are considering the National Interest Waiver, you will need to provide the following:

Evidence of a one-time achievement (i.e., a major, internationally-recognized award), or at least three of the following:
* Receipt of lesser nationally or internationally recognized prizes or awards for excellence in the field of endeavor,
* Membership in associations in the field which require outstanding achievements as judged by recognized national or international experts

* Published material about the foreign national in professional or major trade publications or other major media,

* Participation on a panel or individually as a judge of the work of others in the field or an allied field,

* Original scientific, scholarly, artistic, athletic, or business-related contributions of significance in the field,

* Authorship of scholarly articles in the field, in professional or major trade publications or other major media,

* Display of the foreign nationals’ work at artistic exhibitions or showcases,

* Evidence that the foreign national has performed in a leading or critical role for organizations or establishments that have a distinguished reputation,

* Evidence that the foreign national has commanded a high salary or other high remuneration for services, or

* Evidence of commercial successes in the performing arts, as shown by box office receipts or record, cassette, compact disk, or video sales.

Recently, we helped a Researcher Professional working on potential drug therapy for autism gain a national interest waiver. We have also assisted doctors who are willing to practice full-time in an area designated as having a shortage of health care professionals or in a facility operated by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

To see more of our National Interest Waiver cases that have been approved by the CIS, please visit our website at www.visaserve.com.

Norton I.T.Lympics

itpinoy — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:39:35 +0000

are you the geek slash jock @ the same time?

now is your time to prove that IT PINOYs are not just brains but brawn as well, join the 1st Norton I.T.Lympics!

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Cebu Inmates Dances for Michael Jackson

itpinoy — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:37:00 +0000

the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) inmates became famous two years ago when they danced along Michael Jackson’s Thriller (and earned them 25M+ youtube hits so far), yesterday they paid tribute to the King of Pop.

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The Case of Google’s Michael Jackson Queries

itpinoy — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:33:48 +0000

‘thought this was crazy… an great influx of search queries on the death of the King of Pop (Michael Jackson) led Google News to believe they were under attack!

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