Corel and the New Intel Core i7 Mobile Processor

Checkout this new marketing effort from Corel and the new Intel i7!!!

... and yes she's hot!!! ;)

My Wishlist for this Holiday!!!

Ok.. looks like I was not able to meet the 4 tutorials per month that I'm targeting.. :(

I'll just have to publish more tutorial this month. Anyhow.. it's (dec 1) and officially the xmas season and it's time to post my long kept wishlist which gets longer every year. Hopefully I can remove even just one item on the list!!!

17 "MacBook Pro or Alienware: Just checkout the specs.. who would't not want these!!!


17" MacBook Pro

• 2.8GHz or 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 6MB on-chip shared L2 cache
• NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT graphics processor with 512MB of GDDR3 memory
• 4GB (two 2GB SO-DIMMs) of 1066MHz DDR3 memory; two SO-DIMM slots support up to 8GB
• 500GB 7200-rpm hard drive
• Built-in stereo speakers
• an eye popping 17-inch (diagonal) high-resolution LED screen

Alienware

• Intel Core i7 720QM 1.6GHz
• 512MB NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 240M
• 3GB DDR3 at 1066MHz
• 250GB SATAII 7,200RPM
• Internal High-Definition 5.1 Surround Sound
• AlienFX® Illuminated Keyboard
• Add a 15 inch Hi-res Screen to the mix

Nikon D90 with any or all of the following lens (AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-85mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR/AF Micro-NIKKOR 60mm f/2.8D/AF NIKKOR 85mm f/1.8D): so I can stop using other people's photos on my tutorials. :)



Anybrand of mobile hard drive... preferable 500 GB to 1 TB of space.


TechnoMarine (UF6 Chronograph) Watch: just to be different from the usual.. lineup of watches..


Palm Pre: Not really into that Iphone thingy.


Nike Zoom Hustle Men's Basketball shoes: Yeah.. I know.. I a Pro-Ninoy come election but that's not the reason why I like this shoes... I really really really like to play ball but the ball doesn't like me. hehehe.


Honda EK: This has in my list for the longest time now!!!

Photos are copyrighted by their respective owners and I do own (not yet!!) any of the items above. :)

Happy Thanksgiving: FOD Style!!!

How to spend the Thanksgiving with the whole family using the latest Holgram Technology! :-)

This Contains strong language, drug use and crude humor!! :)

So don't tell me I didn't warn you!!!!

Hologram Thanksgiving - watch more funny videos

Credits from http://www.funnyordie.com

How to use an image as your Font ForeGround (Fill) using MS Paint

Talk about all PacMan. I'm just riding the popularity of PacMan. Blog traffic-wise. ;) Anyhoo.. enough of the boxing stuff. Let's go back to our normal programming. ;)

Ok, here's one tutorial that I'm sure you will like. Let's say, you want the photo below as the fill or texture of your text, instead of just using the same old (boring) colors.


For this tutorial, we will be using the very first photo/graphics editing software that I used. We'll use the ever so present MS Paint. Since this program is install on almost all version of Windows, You can open this by press on the Windows button and letter R, then type the word "MSPAINT" or click on START > ALL PROGRAMS > ACCESSORIES > PAINT.

For this tutorial, we will be using 2 instance of MS Paint, and use the image above as our foreground image.

1. You can open two instance of MS Paint. On one program, open the image that you want to use as the ForeGround this my case the "beach.jpg".


and on the second program you will need to open a new blank canvas.


2. On the blank canvas click on the FILL WITH COLOR Tool then select the any color, that you prefer, just to diffrenciate the white fonts that we will be using the gray that you can see on the right side of WHITE.


3. Now on that same MS Paint, using the Text Tool , use the color WHITE, then click anywhere on the canvas. The Text toolbar will then appear. You can select any Fonts and Size that you prefer and type the text that you want.

For me, here are the settings that I used:
Fonts: PUMP Demi Bold LET
Size: 90
Text: "I Love Online"


If the text area is small for your text, you can enlarge the text area by using dragging the nodes of the text box.


NOTE: If you do not have the TEXT TOOLBAR open, right click on any section of the text box
on the canvas then select TEXT TOOLBAR.


4. Once done typing click on any area of the canvas, then use the Select tool and select the text that you typed and make sure that the space on all 4 sides are even, then select the Transparent Background tool , then press on the keyboard the CTRL + C (copy) the selected section or click on EDIT > COPY.


5. After copying the selected section to your clipboard, open the MS Paint where you opened the "beach.jpg"then Paste the copied image by pressing CTRL + V or click on EDIT > PASTE.


6. The copied image will then be pasted on the upper left corner of the second MS PAINT, then immediately move the pasted image to the section that you want to serve as your ForeGround, make sure that the Transparent Background tool is selected as well. Once you are done, click on any section of the image to deselect the pasted image.


7. After deselecting the fonts, you will see that the white foreground will act as if it was a transparent background inheriting the beach image as its ForeGround fill. Once done, change the gray color to white by using the FILL WITH COLOR Tool .


8. Now go back to the untitled MS Paint, where you still have the original text selected. Using the FILL WITH COLOR Tool again, change the white color to black. and the gray background to white. Your text should look like this or similar to the one that I have below:


9. Following the same process on step 4, copy the text and paste it on the MS Paint where "beach.jpg" where you pasted the first text. This time move the second text to an area that will not affect the first text that you pasted.


10. Now click on the Transparent Background tool , then using the Select tool select the first text with the white background and move it adjacent to the text with black color. Creating a drop shadow effect. You can select the degree and angle of the shadow by moving it farther and slightly aligned or misaligned to the black text.


11. Or you can just change the text on the MS PAINT with the untitled image to black and keep the gray background. Then paste the it on the Beach.jpg, To keep the gray background.


Then just repeat the step on step 10. You should have an image similar to the one below:


12. Then just clean out the unnecessary image or crop the image, so that you will only have the text and the effects that you created. I have created different variations of the text below and all you need to do is to just play around with the colors and the way you arrange the text to get that unexpected results. ;)

Pound 4 Pound Rap Song

Still can't get enough of Manny "PacMan" Pacquiao?

Here's a song by Whiz Almighty/The Trackrunners video by Jsantosfilms, that featured none other than the Pound 4 Pound King Manny "PacMan" Pacquiao!!!

It's does have a catchy tune and a very good lyrics!!!

Watch the video after the jump:

Enjoy!

credits:http://www.youtube.com/user/jsantosfilms

Manny Pacquiao: The Best Fighter in the World!!!

Yeah... I tried watching the fight on Watchpad but it was a very disappointing service by PLDT. Just ask the Teknisyan... * tsk! * tsk! * tsk! * I did manage to find another source!!! hehehehe

Anyhow, I found this video of a proud and yet humble fighter.. he even manage to inject some hummor!!! You know!!!;)

Watch the video after the jump.

Pacquiao - Cotto Live!

Yeah... this is a live streaming... and not just a cheat youtube streaming or some other streaming by someone who is using a web cam to broadcast a fight from his t.v.

If you just sign up for the PLDT Watchpad, then you can watch the Pacquiao - Cotto Mega Fight. Good thing I signed up before Nov. 7, if not then I won't have a chance to watch the fight live.

If you want to know more about the PLDT Watchpad, you can visit The Teknisyan's Blog: PLDT WATCH PAD

Hey... gtg and will go watch the fight now!