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Want a job in las vegas? (super funny)

Palahubog — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:14:13 +0000

I have been very busy with my new work and haven’t updated my site for over a week I think. Finally got the time to reply to comments and emails and make a post.

I was opening my facebook account when I saw this video. This is supposed to be a promotional or hiring video for promotional models in Las Vegas. This is a very funny video especially if you really listen to what the model had to say. Subtitles are below the video. Enjoy.

Are you etin to twenti wan yers old?
Do you have kood englis eskils?
Aplicing fersonality? and a desire for a exciting new life.
ep so, dis offortunity mibee for yu
ep dis sounds entiristing, ples emell us so we can arens a personal enterview.

thanks

Changing the face of facebook

Palahubog — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:23:01 +0000

From a reliable source I have heard that facebook will soon be changing its mainstream design. The designer is Barton Smith from We Are Tol and you can see some pictures below of the redesigned facebook with new features.

You will also probably notice that some of the interface and features would look like something from google calendar, flicker, picasa, wordpress, old facebook and a bit of a myspace/multiply. All of these will be part of the new face of the mainstream facebook.

Weather current facebook users will like this or not, this will possibly be implemented anytime soon.

What can you say about the new face of facebook then?

How to add captions to youtube videos

Palahubog — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 05:54:39 +0000

YouTube has a global audience, so if you want to reach as many people as possible, you’ll have to make sure subtitles are available for your videos. You’ll want closed captioning to reach the deaf and hard of hearing, too. Thankfully, that process has shifted from relatively easy to an absolute breeze in recent months. Here’s how to make it happen.

Once you’ve uploaded a video to your YouTube account, you have two options for generating subtitles for the video: You can use the CaptionTube web app that Google has created, or you can upload a transcript you make yourself and use Google’s speech recognition technology to automatically assign the right times to each caption. In either case, you’ll end up with a text file that you can edit to make corrections if need be, and viewers will be able to either read the captions in their native language or translate them on the fly when watching your video.

CaptionTube

First, direct your browser to the CaptionTube website and you’ll find a well-realized web application for importing videos, adding and timing captions for them, and exporting the captions however you want them. You’ll have to sign in with your Google account. After you’ve done that, you’ll have two options for importing a video; you can either import a list of all the videos on your account, or you can specify the web address for a public video.

Whichever way you go, the path to importing the video you want is a pretty easy one. Click the edit button next to your video once it’s been imported to get to the caption creation screen.

Click the “Add Caption” button and then type in what you want your caption to say. Pick a start time in seconds and milliseconds, then specify how long the caption will stay on the screen. Once you save it, it will appear in a time line at the bottom of the app so you can see it in relation to other captions. When you’ve added all your captions, click publish.

Choose the “Download to My Computer” option (either file format will work) and CaptionTube will give you a text file that you can tweak as needed and add to your videos. To add the file to your video, go to your YouTube My Videos page, find your video, and click the “Caption” button to reach the caption options. Click the button to add new captions, browse to find the file CaptionTube gave you, check the “Caption file (includes time codes)” option, and hit “Upload File.” That ought to do it.

Captions By Voice Recognition

The CaptionTube method used to be the only easy way to add captions to your video, but Google introduced a new one towards the end of 2009: captions generated by voice recognition. Google’s computers use the same technology that powers Google VoiceGoogle Voice to listen to your video while reading your transcript, then automatically generate captions at the right times.

First you’ll have to watch your video and create your own simple transcript of the words spoken in the video. This should be pretty easy; no special formatting is required. Just save it as a basic text file using Notepad if you’re a WindowsWindows user or TextEdit if you have a Mac.

After you’ve saved the file, go to your YouTube My Videos page, find your video, and click the “Caption” button to reach the caption options. There you can click the button to add new captions, browse to locate your new text file, and select the “Transcript” option. Hit “Upload File” after that.

YouTube will think for a while, then your video will have captions. If Google’s voice recognition system made any errors, you can hit the download button from the captions screen to fetch a copy of the caption file with timestamps included. Make any modifications you need, then add your new captions using the “Caption file (includes time codes)” option described at the end of the CaptionTube segment of our how-to.

Funny A Cappella: Poker Face by Noteworthy

Palahubog — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:49:29 +0000

UC Berkeley’s Noteworthy performing “Poker Face” featuring Brian Wang and Joey Goodknight at the 9th Annual West Coast A Cappella Showcase on 11/13/09

This is a very awesome presentation of Lady Gaga’s poker face song via a cappella. I wish the sexball dancers in 1&1 can do this too. Try a cappella for a change.

The Chinese guy singing and dancing looks like my cousin Carlito Duterte Castañares Jr. Youtube users like Asian singing videos(like the Asian version of boom boom pow), they think its funny and I agree to them. This funny a cappella made me laugh for hours that I even shared this in facebook and twitter. Here is the video. Enjoy.

Avoid fines and lawsuits; 5 sites for legal music downloads

Palahubog — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:38:47 +0000

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a group which represents the recording industry(music and video) distributors in the United States. Its members consist of record labels and distributors.

The association has commenced high profile lawsuits against file sharing service providers. It has also commenced a series of lawsuits against individuals suspected of file sharing, notably college students and parents of file sharing children. It is accused of employing techniques such as peer-to-peer “decoying” and “spoofing” to combat file sharing.

If did not understand the firsts 2 paragraphs, that means “If you are fond downloading free stuff(music/mp3/music videos) from the internet, RIAA can put you in a lawsuit and troubles to have you for fines.” RIAA is a pain if they were here in Cebu. I have not heard any news of them putting up fines and lawsuits to anyone here in the Philippines but we should be careful atleast.

Fortunately, there are multiple websites that aim to provide free, fully legal music downloads. You may not find the top music listened to this week, and probably last week but you will find these sources provide new independent music, while others focus on the older public domain recordings.

1. MP3.com Free Music Directory

Among the oldest music download sites still in existence, MP3.com has gone through a few phases in the past. When I first used it about 10 years ago, it was populated with independent musicians and used as a place to share, download and buy their music. These days it has morphed into a more commercial enterprise, hosting mostly streams and including a large list of high-profile musicians. Few of the well-known tracks offer MP3 downloads, but there’s still a wide variety of indie artists who do.

2. Public Doman 2ten

If you like older recordings of classic artists like Leadbelly, Louis Armstrong, and Billie Holiday then this is the place for you. The selection isn’t very large, but it’s got tracks you’d have a hard time finding anywhere else. It seems to focus mainly on blues recordings but has a fair amount of jazz, swing, and even some classical.

3. GarageBand

Were it not for persistent troubles with their streaming software, I would probably list GarageBand.com as my favorite of the sites listed here. They’ve got an extensive list of genres to choose from, a large collection or artists and tracks, streaming “radio” to discover new music, and reviews for many of the bands and tracks available. Not all tracks have MP3 downloads, but many. Among the sites reviewed here, GarageBand has, in my opinion, the best “one-stop” music experience. You can choose a “radio” playlist that will pick songs from within your chosen genre, find and stream individual tracks, or of course download the MP3s.

As hinted earlier, the only thing holding me back from giving GarageBand a glowing review is their stream player. Perhaps it’s just me, but in the weeks I’ve been trying it has not yet properly played a single track on Linux or Windows XP.

4. Free Music Archive

With GarageBand’s streaming difficulties, I’d pick the Free Music Archive as my favorite of the sites listed here. It’s got a fairly wide selection, clean simple site design, and allows browsing by genre. Much of the music available on FMA is licensed under Creative Commons, so it can also be a great source for samples and tracks to use in remixing. Speaking of remixing…

5. ccMixter

This site is unlike any of the previous ones, not just in content but in purpose. The idea behind ccMixter is that users can post tracks or individual samples for others to download and remix or re-purpose. For example, you can download individual vocal tracks with no music, and create your own guitar line to match with it. If you choose, you can then re-upload your new and improved version to share with others. Someone may take your version, add some drum & bass and make a club mix. Not that that’s necessarily an improvement.

Facebook: Add music(Muziic) to your profile

Palahubog — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:30:08 +0000

When Imeem got owned, where do you get your music now? You wish facebook had a good music application. Well, your wish just came true. Introducing Muziic, music application in facebook which allows you to add some radio stations, to search and listen to specific tunes. And most importantly, you have the ability to create playlists and share them with your friends just like Imeem.

Is this imeem’s reincarnation? Apparently not, its from facebook, the non-stop innovation social network. What more can you expect from such a social network giant?

In contrast to many other music-related apps on Facebook, as soon as you install it, you’ll be able to listen to music – and lots of it. Besides the featured songs, and the ability to search for albums, artists and songs (the actual music is pulled from YouTube YouTube), the most welcome part of the app is a list of online radio stations, organized by category, similar to the one found in iTunes.

Though you are listening to free music and radio stations, you won’t be hearing many advertisements. Here are a few words about Muziic from the application’s creator, David J. Nelson:

“With Muziic, the goal was to create an application that actually gives Facebook users what they want in a music app. As someone who is not a big fan of most Facebook apps, I wanted to keep the experience clean, functional and user friendly. No incentivized garbage, forced friend invites, etc… Just a music app that delivers.”

Muziic also enables you to easily create, save and share playlists, and comes with a quite useful Facebook tab that displays your listening habits, similar to the way it’s done in Last.fm. On it, you can find user’s playlists, recently played songs, favorite radio stations, top artists and top tracks.

Though, you cannot download music from this facebook music application yet. We can expect that in the future and I am quite optimistic soon that will come. This application is rock solid as it is constantly gaining fans and users right now. You can now go to facebook and start enjoying this application. Let me know if you have anything bad to say about this app.

Ivanka Trump

Palahubog — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:29:55 +0000

You might think that our girls section is for perverts. NO NO NO! We palahubog also admire women of class. Businesswomen so to speak. But we won’t just feature any businesswomen, we feature only the most attractive girls in this section of palahubog.com.

Ivanka Trump is an Executive Vice President of Development & Acquisitions at the The Trump Organization. She is the daughter of Ivana and Donald Trump. Pretty big names as you can see. Her dad is the Chairman and CEO of the Trump Organization, a US-based real-estate developer. Not to mention an American business magnate, socialite, author and television personality.

I think it is impossible to see her here in Cebu, Philippines because I don’t see her coming here for any reason. Though it would be possible that she may come to Boracay, Philippines for a vacation. I wish I would be there when she comes.

Her American beauty is unique and she has a very awesome body. She was a fashion model afterall. I just love the executive beauty of this woman. I would no doubt want to work for the Trumps if she was my boss. Hell, I would even work for free. Her simple beauty is a perfect combination of her glamorous look.

Here are some pictures of her so that you will know why she deserves to be here in palahubog’s girls section.

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Good news for onemanga readers

Palahubog — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:18:13 +0000

I am so busy this week that I didn’t have a chance to read manga for 2 weeks straight. I just visited onemanga today and found out that they already have an RSS feed button. That is good news indeed for us manga readers. I was looking for this subscription link before but back then they did not have this.

What are RSS feeds? Click here for a brief and simple explanation of how it works and how we can use it.

Now, you don’t have to go to onemanga to check for updates. You can easily subscribe to their RSS feeds and you will be able to get updates from their website directly to your RSS reader directly.

Below you will see a picture where you can find the RSS subscribe button of onemanga.

If you like palahubog.com and would want to know our latest post, you can read them from your RSS feeds reader. You have to subscribe to our RSS feed to get our latest feeds. You will find our subscribe button as shown in the picture below.

What is an RSS feed reader?

What are RSS feeds? Are they useful?

Palahubog — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:21:38 +0000

What are RSS feeds?

RSS feeds are the updates of the website that you subscribe to. For example you subscribed to onemanga.com, you won’t have to go to onemanga every time just to check for updates. You can just go to your RSS feed to read all of the updates that came from the sites that you subscribed to. And if you did subscribe to onemanga’s RSS feed, you will receive their RSS feed right away as soon as they have updates on the site or a new manga posted. This saves you time and resources.

What is a RSS feed reader?

It is a tool that allows you to read the feeds that are delivered to you from the websites that you subscribed to. This tool allows you to read various updates from selected websites of your choice. It works like google mail or yahoo mail where you read emails, but in the RSS feed reader, you read RSS feeds.

Why are RSS feed very useful?

It saves you lots of time of having to go to a website just to check for updates. If you subscribe to an RSS feed of a website, everytime that website updates, you will be notified through your RSS feed reader. Not only will you be notified, you will be able to read the updates(which are in the form of feeds).

Below is a video from google with a very simple explanation of how RSS feeds and RSS feed reader work. This is about their RSS reader, the google reader, which is what I am using right now as my RSS feed reader.

RSS feeds makes bookmarking websites look oldschool. Back in the days, when if we like a website and want to visit it some other time to check for updates we bookmark it.

Today, most websites offer RSS feeds. Especially blogs like palahubog.com offer RSS feeds. This makes it easier for readers to read and get updates from the sites that they like.

Several websites design their RSS feeds to look attractive. RSS feeds today come in many designs and forms. Below are pictures of how they may look like.

If you like to track or get the latest feeds/updates from a specific website, you can just look for buttons that may look like any of these buttons. Just click them and subscribe to the feeds.

When will Philippines support SMS with twitter?

Palahubog — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:48:05 +0000

Twitter just partnered with Australia’s mobile titan Telstra to provide SMS support for Twitter. As is typical, receiving notifications is free, with standard text message rates applying for sending tweets via SMS.

If you happen to live in Australia and your mobile provider is Telstra, you can enable the service by sending the text message “START” to 0198089488. Associating your phone with your Twitter account will enable all the usual Twitter text commands.

Officially, this adds Australia to the list of countries supporting tweets via SMS. Below is the list of countries supporting tweets via SMS.

United States
United Kingdom
Canada
India
Indonesia
New Zealand
Australia

I wonder when will they be having this in Philippines. Twitter blog says there will be more countries supported soon. Facebook SMS support is already in Philippines since mid way this year, (2009). Tweeter is under rated here in Philippines but I hope they will support this soon. I hope we can learn to appreciate twitter, I think its already in its peak and we should not miss this era in our rapidly changing technology. You may ask why you need a twitter account? Click here to find out.