UNLOCKER

Have you ever got this annoying windows message?

Before, it always happens to me while I was going to delete a video file in my hard drive that I already have burned to a disc. At first, I thought other system resources was just still using it, or windows just forgot to close it. But even after rebooting. This message still appears.

Well no more. Just go to this site ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/ and download a program called UNLOCKER. One thing I like with this software is that it is small(only 192 KB) and easy to download. After installing, it will create an UNLOCK option in you right click when you are in windows explorer.

For more info. just go to their website at ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/

Better than keepvid

vixy.net
This site is better than keepvid.com. In keepvid.com (which I have posted last Nov. 28,2006) you could download a YouTube video, but only in .flv file. This site (www.vixy.net) you can download a YouTube video file on a variety of file format. You can have them as a .avi(DivX), .mov(MPeg4), .mp4, .3gp and even .mp3 file.
Just like keepvid, it is very straight forward. This site only needs the url of the YouTube file. Copy and paste it to this site and click start to download.

This is much easier, because you just cut off the hastle of downloading a FLV player and installing it to your computer.

FREE STUFF

Free Comics

City of Heroes
This is actually a site of the City of Heroes online computer games. They also published a comics based on their characters that is free to download. This free comics if in PDF format. So you better get a PDF reader first before downloading this comics.
Currently they have a 16 issues that has been published under the Top Cow(Image), but before that they had already published a 12 issues under Blue King publication.


Free Raps Songs

Filipeanut
This is a cool Site that has a FREE COOL COOL Rap Songs all about Filipinos. He is (the Rapper) basically a Filipino that grew-up in the states that is very proud to be a Filipino (my kind of guy). This is a must have song for your collection.

OLD PICS.

I was going through some old stuff last night when I came accross to this picture. This was taken, I think around year 2000 when I was still a student of Gilbert Monsanto at LEARN in SM megamall. With me in the picture is the big guy him self, Whilce Portacio. Founding member of Image comics and a great artist. Also with us is Gilbert Monsanto the headmaster and little old me.




Speaking of known people. I also saw this old pic of me and Andrew E. At that time, I was a huge fan of him. I used to memorised all of his Rap song back then.
I was luck enough to be able to have this pic with him when he was promoting his 3rd or 4th album back then in SM north edsa.

When I look at this pictures, I alway get the notion that I realy gotten realy fat on this past few years. I was realy skinny back then. Now I look like a 5 month pregnant woman. I realy need to get this excess fats off.

Pixelperfect & Easy download

I have recently downloaded and watched Pixel Perfect. It is a tutorial for artist that is using Photoshop to do colors and add special effect. And Im very very much impress. For those artist out there. This is a must see tutorial.
You can download it from http://www.revision3.com which I already have a long time link on the right site of this blog. And once your in there goto Pixelperfect and download the files. Currently there are 8 episodes.

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Hey. Need an easy way to download a Youtube .flv file?
go to this site http://keepvid.com
It's very simple, it's free,absolutely no software to install. Just simply copy and paste the URL of the youtube file and click download.

writetomyblog

I just found a greate site to edit and manage Blog.

writetomyblog.com

This is for the bloggers out there. There are many greate feature in this site. It is like microsoft word on the web that is specialy designed for a blog.

DSL is in the house

We just got installed with BayanTel DSL today. And I might say I'm quite impress.
I've got 2 computers, An aging AMD powered desktop and a 4 year old laptop. But they have gone into the web like The Flash and Quicksilver.
I have measured the speed using this site http://speed.skyinet.net and it registered a whooping 1453.04 kbps. But the technician said that it will go down in a few hours or so.

DSL Connection

This comming week, I will have a DSL connection in our house. I realy need this for my work. Since because for the past 2 months, I am only working at home and sending update of my programs to our office in ortigas. At first, the dial-up connection was tolerable. But recently, it has been sooooo sloooow.
At first, I thought it was just my computer. So I reformat it, but with no luck. It was still as slow as a dying snail. That is also the reason I was not updating this blog more frequently.

Hopefully with the connection it would be lighting fast. The sales agent of BayanTel DSL that I have talked(Yes, were BayanTel. No PLDT in our area) to said that its a 384 kbps download. I know in reality that is not the real/actual speed that consummer would have. That would be on a non peak hours only. But I am still hoping it will be so. But come to think about it, an approximate 200 kbps to 250 kbps is already fine with me.

Arsenal-Page 8 of 8

Here is the last page of Arsenal. I am also giving a big though on putting here the first issue of Kalayaan. Since self publishing is a little bit time consumming and not to mention very costly for me. For comments and ideas pls. free to email me at gioparedes@yahoo.com

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I hate being sick

For more than a months now, I was diagnosed with Hepatitis B. My whole body and eyes are yellowish. And I am still trying to recover from it. But before that, I was also suffering with a bad case of ulcer. Ulcer plus heap B makes a very bad combination. There were times that I have stayed awake a whole night round until morning because I could not sleep because of my stomach ache.

But I’m a little bit ok now. But my doctor said that I should take a lot of rest. And this means that I cannot go to the 2nd Komikon in UP. What a bummer.

I was fortunate enough to have a very compassionate boss to let me work here at home and send me money on my bank account. This is a very big help, since my medicine, laboratory test and Doctors fee are rely expensive, and I also have to pay the bills on our house and support my wife and kids.

I rely have being sick. :-(

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