Saturday, June 25, 2011

My Windows 7 Ultimate Customized [RANDOM]

So just recently I upgraded my OS from Windows XP to Windows 7 Ultimate, I'm very particular with the look of my screen so I decided to crank up the designs, themes and everything.

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I decided to share the links to you on what I used. There's an instruction included in the link of the theme so don't worry about it. I personally made the wallpaper to partner with the theme. Of course windows 7 has a default sidebar for the gadgets and its a personal choice to use google desktop.

Windows 7 Visual Style: http://bit.ly/l80pVQ

Start Orb: http://bit.ly/lSxdTX

Wallpaper: http://bit.ly/kPLwYn

Sidebar: http://bit.ly/1jm1CZ

Dock: http://bit.ly/ublU

Monday, June 6, 2011

Will Work To Pay School? [LIFE]

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So uhm, today I went at school to enroll for this coming 2011-2012 1st semester. All students needs to be evaluated on what subjects are to be taken prior on what they already took the last previous years. It turned out real bad for me because of the stupid decisions I made early in my college life of not attending and dropping my subjects. During my 1st & 2nd year, It's all good for me, I wasn't able to feel the pressures and problems of not attending my classes. But now, it's my 4th year this year and everyone is expecting me to graduate but it's the other way around. My teacher who is evaluating me explained everything clearly and to make the long story short, because of my stupidity earlier in my college life, I'm not graduating in the next two years. I was just so depressed during that time. I was kinda expecting it for me to happen on not graduating on time but two years is just so far. I was already practicing on what to say to day because he'll be super pissed for sure.

I made a lot of thinking and I kinda figured out why I feel so nervous and feeling guilty about the situation, it's because I'm not paying for my studies and I'm just asking for money from my parents. It came into my mind on what if I'll pay for my studies so that I can do whatever I want. Maybe that's the answer but it will be not easy though. I haven't work for anyone ever in my entire life except of my practicum this last summer, that's the only experience of “work” I'm leaning into. I'm lazy and all but this is the price that I'll have to pay for my stupidity. The first place that came in to my mind of where I want to work was my brother's. I'm still waiting for something so that on what decisions that I'll make.

This situation haven't really sink-ed into my head, maybe this is just a sudden decision because of the situation but I really have to face the fact that I'm not graduating this year but in two years.

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Summer Updates[LIFE]

Wow! It's been a while since the last time I published a post here. I've been very busy with my summer class but it's about to end anyways. Let me give you a short brief update of what's happening with me these last few days.

My summer class is about to end, in fact tomorrow is the last day but there's a catch, I've been an apprentice at a government office as part of my practicum subject. Even though tomorrow is the last day of class, my work won't end until the 30th of May. Nonetheless I've been enjoying my experience there, I'm a graphic artist at the office and I'm loving every single minute of it. I still have a lot of requirements pending to be passed though.

I've been bubbly since yesterday for a reason. Her and I are back on track, I am just so happy that we got our communication back again, it's been a while since the last time we talked. Asked her yesterday to go out lunch with me cause I just grabbed the opportunity while she was just a text away. Cause ya know, she lives far from me so I barely see her since the summer started. I just love being with her, it makes my heart skip a beat. HAHA Plus now, I think I found the reason to continue cause I was thinking twice of continuing my communication with her. But now, I'm loving that we're communicating again. She has been showing interest these past few days, she's always the first one to chat me on facebook. That's a good sign, don't ya think? :D Our date yesterday is still fresh in my mind. I can continue sharing but this is enough for now. Oh, we're planning to watch dvd's at her place on Saturday, definitely looking forward on that one, hope it'll push through,

I have been asking for a vacation and finally we're leaving for boracay on the 24th of May. So excited to hit the beach again after a stressful summer class. This is definitely a much rewarded vaca for me. We originally planned to go to Cebu before summer classes started but good thing it didn't happen cause I'd pick boracay any time of the day all day. It's just a 4-day vaca though but it's better than nothing.

So yea, that's it for now. I'll keep you posed on what's happening.

Thursday, April 7, 2011

JCs HP MINI [LIFE]

I posted this to share to you all what I use on my tiny laptop or netbook. Netbooks are limited because of its size and what’s inside the system compared to a more powerful and big laptops. I’m happy with my laptop even though its small and its limited but I still managed to customized it and make it pretty.

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Lets start off with what’s inside the system.

System:

Windows XP Professional
Service Pack 2
Intel ® Atom ™
CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz
1.60 GHz, 504 MB of RAM
8GB (only) Hard Drive
Screen Resolution: 1024 x 600

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Even though I only have 8GB of disk space (C:), this netbook came with a 2GB removable drive and I also got a 4GB memory card for it. Every time I install a software or I download stuffs I use my 4GB memory card. Not all softwares can be installed in a removable drive though so I have no choice but to install it on drive C. My friend installed a recovery on my 2GB removable drive because I turned off my system recovery because it eats a lot of the memory so I just have to boot it on my 2GB drive in case my netbook gets broken.

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PhotobucketAppearance, since my netbook is limited to a 1024 x 600 screen resolution I have to customize the screen. I enabled auto-hide on my task bar so that I can maximize the screen and installed rocketdock so that all my applications will be in one place. I also made a little tweak on my cursors and icons appearance. Both my cursors and default icons are mac os designs so that it’ll look fresh.



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What I use: Softwares and utilities that I use on my netbook. This is where I need to be choosy and wise in choosing the softwares because my disk space is limited.

Utilities:

ESET NOD32 AntiVirus 4. Ever since I got ESET I loved it, its easy to use and easy to clean files but it can’t completely remove viruses though, it’ll just clean it and when you reboot, its back. None the less it’s a thumbs up for me.

Tune Up Utilities 2008. This software is a great help to scan and fix your system if there’s something not right. It can also customize the look, whether the boot screen, startup screen, icons, etc. This is what I used in changing the look of my default icons into mac os.

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Space Sniffer. This is a freeware that you can download, it basically scans your drives and gives you a detailed look of what’s inside your drive.

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Battery Monitor 1.1.12. I got this from my classmate. He showed me how it works. The thing I love about it other that monitoring your battery (obviously) is that you can customize the sound whenever when your laptop is fully charged or the battery is low.

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uTorrent. This is probably this lightest bittorent client. Its only 400+KB I think. I’ve been using this for years now.

Media:

NCH Video Pad Video Editor. This is the only video editor that suited my netbook because my previous ones can’t fit in a 1024 x 600 screen. The only features that I like about this are cropping and it can read a lot of video formats.

Windows Media Player and Movie Maker. As we all know these softwares are stock but I use it sometimes. If only movie maker has the two features I mentioned in Video Pad this’ll probably be my default video editor.

Total Video Converter. This is my favorite converter off all, it has a wide variety of video/audio formats to choose from and you can also crop videos with it.

VLC Media Player. This can read almost all video formats and the thing I love the most is you can play the video on the desktop. Now that’s gangster.

Virtual DJ Pro. This software is mainly used to mix songs. Add effects and stuffs. What I like about this is the automix feature, you play your playlist and it mixes it like a DJ does.

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Photo Manipulators:

Adobe Photoshop 8.0. Vintage right here. I really love editing photos especially using photoshop and since my disk space is limited I had to get the oldest photoshop version, its only 200MB I think. I use CS5 on dads laptop so it’s balanced. LOL

Photoscape. This is a common photo editor. It has a lot of features and I’m telling you, you can do a lot with it and the best thing is, it’s free.


Office:

Microsoft Office Professional 2003. I know it’s already 2011 and office 2010 is already out there but I prefer office 2003 because its light and fast. I only installed word, exel and powerpoint because that’s the only things I use.

Notepad ++. I use this because I am an IT student and when it comes to hard coding this software is the shit. I can also use notepad that came with XP but its nothing compared to notepad ++.

Microsoft Visual Fox Pro 9.0. I have the same reason with the notepad ++. But with this you can design the look of your form. We use this on my database management systems (DBMS) class.

Foxit Reader. This is a great alternative to adobe pdf reader. This software is lighter compared to adobe’s.

TugZip. This is what I use to unzip/zip files.

Browsers:

Mozilla Firefox 4. I have been a loyal user of firefox, especially when firefox 4 came. I love it. My theme for my firefox 4 is Bloomind FT Graphite Glow.

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Comodo Dragon. I know right? The name is kinda funny but this is a serious browser. A great alternative to google chrome and its based on chromium like chromes. So the apps/themes of google chrome are all compatible with comodo.

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Social Network/IM:

Tweetdeck. I love tweetdeck because I tweet a lot and you can follow me on twitter. @supJC

Skype. Who doesn’t have skype? I think almost everyone has.

I also customized the startup and shutdown tone of my netbook, watch.



With all of this I still managed to have 3.5GB on C:. 2.5GB on both of my removable drives. I may have a limited disk space and screen resolution but that wont stop me from maximizing the capacity of my netbook.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Cousins Bond [LIFE]

Reunited with my closest cousins because they're in town.

Bredco Chillin'.
Mcdo Desserts.
Wasted Booze.
NGC Photoshoot.
Westown Videoke.

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