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Where to find top Online sportsbook?

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

I happen to ask some of my friends if they know a website where I can find a list of safe and true sportsbook websites. Most of them don’t know any site that gives a list or reviews to any sports gambling sites. One of my friend asked her sister if she know one, she checked her notebook and finally gave us the URL of top online sportsbook.

When I got home, I checked the site and found out that Top USA Online Casinos is a free guide to assist players to find fun and safe online gambling destination. Its professional design makes it easier for any online users to view the top sports gambling sites and the following reviews about it. They really have a good review system and even break down the criteria to the users. The categories of their reviews are Software Rating, Trust factor and Bonus and Promotions.

I am really impressed with the system that they uses, with these we can be rest assured that the online casinos we are playing on or about to play on is really a good one.

Tags: online casino, online gambling, top gambling site, top online sportsbook
Posted in Internet | 2 Comments »

Web Advertising in London

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

For those who are looking forward to promote their advertising business in a directory which is geographically focused in London, I suggest you to check out London Advertising Directory. It is primarily focused on accepting website links from advertising agencies or other related industries which are based in London.

London Advertising Directory accepts both Free and Paid Listing for as low as 4.99 GBP for a website listing with a nofollow attribute. Unlike other web directories, London Advertising Directory offers a great way for a site to be rated and be commented by a user. These votes will reflect the popularity and position of the listing in the directory.

London Advertising Directory’s website has a very clear navigation system which makes it easier for both advertisers and online searchers to find what they are looking for. Aside from the relaxing color of the site’s theme, the content of the site, categories, links and ads are perfectly arranged and does not hinder the site users to click links and explore the site.

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Open source software for your windows platform

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

I know a lot of people who wanted to try Linux operating systems but they are afraid that most of their software applications is not compatible with Linux. There are also some who doesn’t want to explore other operating systems beside Windows platform OS because they are already used to the Windows environment. So if you are one of them who can’t leave their windows operating systems but wanted to use open source programs and say goodbye to the paid softwares you are using and try other alternative softwares which are available for free, check out my list of open source softwares for Windows.

Web Browsing

Mozilla Firefox – The premier free, open source browser with tabbed browsing, pop up blocker, themes and extensions.

Email Client

Mozilla Thunderbird – Free and opens source Email client with all the features you need including spam filtering.

Office Suites

OpenOffice – Big, full featured suite of tools for word processing and spreadsheets. Compatible with and a free replacement for Microsoft Word documents. Also supports OpenDocument Format.

AbiWord – A word processor. Leaner and quicker than OpenOffice. Compatible with Microsoft Word documents and OpenDocument Format.

Graphics/Photo Editing

GimpShop – Phoo Editing application that rivals Photoshop in features.

Paint.net – Graphic Editor.

Inkscape – Vector graphics application that can be an alternative to Adobe Illustrator.

FTP

Filezilla – For me, this is the bes FTP client.

3D Graphics and Modelling

Blender – A powerful 3D modeling software.

Antivirus

ClamWin – Open Source Anti-Virus. Very good at detecting viruses. Can be plugged into hMailServer for e-mail protection LIMITATION: Real Time scanning not implemented yet.

MP3 Player

MusikCube – Open Source MP3 Player, ripper and organizer written using the .NET Framework.

Podcasting

Juice – Solid podcasting client.

To know more open source softwares for windows, click here.

If you happen to know more open source softwares that can be use in a windows platform computer just hit me up and I’ll add it on my list. For those people who are saying that I just copied the content from other people’s blog, then you are wrong. I may have took the description of the softwares from http://www.opensourcewindows.org/ and I only Included here the programs that I use in my system. I will not refer it to other people if I have not used it yet.

Tags: blender, firefox, free download, free software, Gimp, linux, open source, openoffice, operating system, windows
Posted in Operating Systems | 5 Comments »

Hyundai Video Commercial From France

Friday, October 26th, 2007

I really thought that the center of the story is the lady with his young guy. I never thought that it is the other way around. Damn he’s too gay..

Posted in Commercials | 2 Comments »

Web designing with Ubuntu

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

As a freelance web designer, I really thought migrating to Ubuntu Linux will give me a really hard time. I never thought that Ubuntu Linux has a very good graphic design tool that can do what I am doing with Photoshop. Although Gimp is still way too different with Photoshop, I still see Gimp as a very powerful tool in graphic and web designing. It also possess features that Photoshop has.

Another tool is Pixel, although Pixel is a commercial software which means its not free and currently sold at $38, its interface is more similar to Photoshop than Gimp.

With these powerful tools along with Inkscape Vector Illustrator, my graphic and web design freelancing will experience a major leap and I am thinking of promoting these tools to freelance filipino designers or other freelance designers out there and be one with the open source community.

If still, you have no plans of using this tools that Ubuntu Linux provides, and choose to continue designing in Photoshop but you wish to migrate to Ubuntu Linux, then just download Wine so you can install Adobe Photoshop up to version CS2.
So what do you guys think? Are we gonna go open source?

Tags: filipino designer, freelance web designer, Gimp, linux, open source, photoshop, pixel, ubuntu
Posted in Operating Systems, web development | 2 Comments »

Inkscape Vector Illustrator in Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

Good news to all Vector Graphics Designer’s who want to migrate and experience Ubuntu Linux Gutsy Gibbon. Inkscape Vector Illustrator is an open source solution for all your vector graphics need.

Inkscape Vector Illustrator is an open source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. and uses Inkscape is available for Linux, Windows 2000/2003/XP and OSX.

For more information about this very promising product visit Inkscape’s Website.

Tags: graphic design, linux, SVG, ubuntu, vector graphic
Posted in Operating Systems | 1 Comment »

Gimp and Photoshop CS2 in Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

After several days of exploring Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon, I finally installed Photoshop CS2 in my desktop. For those who doesn’t know, Photoshop CS2 can only be installed in Ubuntu through Wine. Although it Photoshop looks a bit dull and runs a bit slower in Ubuntu, I still prefer to use it for now. I am really planning to explore Gimp, I am still not used to its interface but it really looks promising and I also browsed the internet for sample of images/graphics that was created in Gimp and I am starting to love it.

I am still using Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon as my secondary platform and Windows XP as my primary. I still need to get use to the programs in Ubuntu that will replace my current Graphics and Web Design tools.

I will be posting more about my experience in this two softwares and sample designs from Gimp on my next post.

Tags: Gimp, gutsy gibbon, linux, Photoshop CS2, ubuntu, web design, wine
Posted in Operating Systems | 5 Comments »

Web design package for as low as $150

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

I currently finished redesigning my personal freelance web designer website. I currently offer the following services: website design, search engine optimization (SEO), blog writing service and content writing.

As a Filipino freelance website designer, I always put into consideration two things which are, Quality and Price. I always believe that having a small budget will hinder us from having a good quality website. I also take care of my clients as my business partner not my customer.

My current website design packages goes as low as $150 US Dollars for a 5 pager website design which also includes 1 year of FREE Domain and web hosting.

So for those who wants to have their website be designed by me, please feel free to contact me through this blog.

Tags: filipino freelance website designer, filipino web designer, free domain, free web hosting, web designer, website designer
Posted in Business | 2 Comments »

My first glimpse at Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon”

Friday, October 19th, 2007

I finished downloading my ISO of Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon a few hours ago and was really excited to explore this new Linux distro.

Ubuntu 7.10 is one great operating System. At first look, you will notice that visually Gutsy Gibbon isn’t that different to Feisty Fawn although the theme is now much easier on the eye but the overall look is pretty much the same.

One aspect that you can feel much improved is its speed. Compare to previous versions of Ubuntu, Gutsy is more faster and snappier, from loading up the OS to clicking the menus and dragging everything on its desktop.

I am really impressed with the improved speed and will be checking the new features as time goes by and will be posting more bout this operating system in my later posts.

Tags: gutsy gibbon, linux, open source, operating system, ubuntu 7.10
Posted in Operating Systems | 2 Comments »

Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon now available for download

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

After the long wait, Ubuntu Linux 7.10 code name Gutsy Gibbon’ stable version is now available for download.

The new features since Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn are the following:

With more than a dozen of new features, Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon will surely make it’s way to become the best linux distribution available.

You can choose to download the current ubuntu release on the links below or you may choose to order the free cd from Canonical. I prefer to download it and at the same time order it because it usually takes a month or more before you recieve the Free CD.

Below are the links on where you can download Gutsy Gibbon:

Gutsy Gibbon – All Platform(direct torrent file download-4.2gb)

Ubuntu Download Page(iso file 700mb)

Tags: download, gutsy gibbon, gutsy gibon, iso, linux, open source, operating system, torrent, ubuntu 7.10
Posted in Operating Systems | 2 Comments »

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