Updates on Ondoy: Places to donate – Efforts by bloggers

September 28, 2009personal

A call for help. If you are able, please donate whatever you can spare to the victims of Ondoy(Ketsana). I collected some details of donation centers and numbers but it pales in comparison to what other bloggers were able to post.

Project 10^100: The Voting Begins

September 25, 2009websitegoogle

Project 10^100 is a Google Project that transcends the information superhighway. It’s aim, simply, is to help – to help people so they can help others. How ? They promised to give 10 million dollars to fund any project that can improve peoples lives. But as funding is finite, they need to find the best ideas.

Use Export Command To Help Linux Find Your Scripts

September 25, 2009linuxbashscripts

You compiled and installed a linux binary or made a nifty script but you don’t want to mess the server bin tree. So you placed it in an isolated folder like so:

Picasa 3.5 comes with Face Recognition

September 24, 2009googlewebsiteimages

Google released Picasa 3.5 yesterday, with some cool features. In keeping with Picasa Web Albums enhancements,  Developers have added face recognition and geo tags to their photo-organizer-slash-jack-of-all-trades software.

NES on Javascript

September 21, 2009gamejavascriptwebsite

Here’s something amazing for Javascript, your good-ole  NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) games are now available and playable via Ben Firshman’s JSNES page. JSNES, is an NES emulator built on javascript’s canvas objects.

XOXO Creativity

September 20, 2009websitefun

Here’s a good way to promote creativity and have fun at the same time. The rule is to draw as many things as your imagination can conjure up from X’s and O’s.

Resume on Youtube!

September 19, 2009websitevideo

Streaming Video giant, Youtube, recently announced a Resume feature along with other improvements for their groundbreaking service. (Cheers! claps! Bring in the beer! LOL).

Google got reCAPTCHA

September 19, 2009googlesecurityfrontend

Google announced recently in its official blog, that it has acquired reCAPTCHA. CAPTCHA is a web technology made out of necessity. It primarily is used to prevent BOTS (or automated apps designed to do malicious tasks) by adding an extra step to site pages that require human interaction.

M I STUPID?

September 19, 2009websitefun

Do you know how to send an SOS in morse code? Do you know your birthstone? Or the winners of the Oscars since 1927 ? MIStupid.com has an assortment of trivia and topics not known by the most of us. As a bonus they have categories with games and puzzles you can play with when you catch a bit of an information overload.

How to Write a Backup Shell Script using Tar and Gnu Zip

January 02, 2009bashlinuxscript

Happy New Year! As promised I made a rudimentary Linux shell script utilizing the tar and gzip commands to archive or make backups. If you’re new to shell scripting you might like to read these articles. Unix shell scripting with ksh/bash Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide If you’re lazy like I am. Don’t worry I’ll explain parts of the code.

Linux: Snippet – Backup using Tar and gzip

December 07, 2008linuxscriptbash

As a programmer i have to make multiple revisions of a project on a remote site. Getting things wrong and messing up the files tend to happen more often than I am comfortable with. Fortunately, making quick backups in linux is a breeze. You can either make a folder and just copy your existing files via recursive cp command or; archive it using tar and gzip. Personally, I prefer archives since they tend to be smaller and easy to manage.