My Orange and Bronze Google Experience

Mr. Butch Landingin discussing about Google Technologies

I was definitely surprised, amazed and excited when I first heard Orange&Bronze Software Labs Inc. was going to have a seminar about Google Technologies in our school.


I was one of the lucky few who were able to join the seminar. Mr. Butch Landingin, our first resource speaker from O&B, discussed Google Technologies such as the Google App Engine, Google Maps and Android. Aside from that, Mr. Calin Martin D. Legaspi, also from O&B, interestingly discussed about Agile Software Development which a lot of us IT students learned so much from.

The seminar helped me understand how Google App Engine can help build web apps using the same system that powers Google applications. As a graduating student of Information Technology, this kind of information is very crucial for me to know and learn to easily get a job in the Information Technology industry.

Mr. Calin Martin D. Legaspi discussing Agile Software Development

I also find it fascinating how Google Maps made map navigation easier and more comprehensive than ever before. Additionally, I have learned how the Android had become the number one operating system for mobile phones today which is of great interest for many, including myself. And last but certainly not the least; I learned that Google is more than just the best search engine in the world. Google Technologies has proven to be one of the few biggest innovations of our generation. It uses the best and most powerful programming language in the world to run these new, spectacularly brilliant, and state-of-the-art technologies.

A Samsung mobile phone showing Google Maps

In a synopsis, the seminar made by Orange&Bronze opened my eyes to a whole different dimension of a new world, one that is more prepared and technologically sophisticated, a world where everyone can touch colors and make imaginations expand to new possibilities, a world where everyone wear smiles because of a life made practically easy and conveniently real.

More photos in our seminar:

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Ressurected!

After more than a month of staying idle here in blogger, at last I've finally managed to spare a time to make a new post once again!

I've been very very very busy in the past few weeks,  doing our undergraduate thesis and at the same time working for my On-the-Job Training. I work 6 days a week from Mondays to Saturdays and during Sundays I work on with our thesis with my groupmates. That means I do not have even a single day for rest! Whew! That is why even if I have the chance to surf on the net (I usually do so during the night), I cannot manage to make a new post since my mind is already pre-occupied with doing other important tasks. Also, sometimes when I get home after a hard day's work, I am already very tired and sleepy to have the energy to turn on my personal computer and try to check my blog or make a new post.

But I'm glad my efforts paid off now, well at least almost all of it, since I am still not done with our thesis. However, I am glad that our project defense turned out successful. Right now, I am still not done with my tasks at school. I am still preparing all the requirements that I need in order for me to graduate this coming April 1, 2011. I need to make a documentation report of my OJT (even though I'm still not done yet), prepare at least five certificates of the seminars I have joined at school relating to my course (Information Technology), finalize our proposed system as well as our thesis documentation, have it approved for binding by the panelists during our project defense as well as by our college dean, and finally, print five softbounds of our project. That's all!

And the deadline for all these requirements? This coming Monday, February 28, 2011. So help me God!

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Taking the chance to write...

Here I am right now in my work area, just got back from my lunch break and currently taking a rest and getting the chance where I could write a new blog post. I've been here in Legacy Sales and Printing Press for more than 3 weeks already and for that time duration, I've been feeling more and more comfortable with the people, the environment, and the kind of work I have right here. I'm glad I do!

I have done a lot of job orders already, since the job orders they give me are not so difficult ones, so far!

I guess I only have two weeks more to stay here. Next week is the last week of January, and we, the Information Technology students in our university will be having our field trip/educational tour in Cebu and Bohol next month, and I'm getting excited already! Thus, I will be having my leave at work next week and will resume by the first day of February, so I will be ending up my OJT by the second week of next month. AJA to me!

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Unexpected good news

I went to work today past 1:30pm, sad because of a painful circumstance I had experienced yesterday, and the feeling it had brought still linger up to now. (I'm sorry but I won't tell the story anymore.) I'm supposed to start my duty at 8:30am, but i decided to work half-day instead because i felt week and preferred to stay in bed for long hours. I even got late when i arrived, (I'm supposed to enter work in the afternoon at 1pm sharp) because I don't have much motivation to do so. My heart was heavy as I climbed up the stairs to the second floor of the building to where my office is, I wasn't showing much of a happy face to my coworkers, though I tried to, so as to avoid them being skeptic about how I feel or why I have a heavy face. When I arrived at our work area, I was surprised to see that my PC is finally back in good condition. Somehow at that moment, I felt lighter on the in side. It was a pleasant surprise. My coworkers told me it was already fixed by the computer technician earlier in this morning. I realized that the technician reformatted my PC, which is the solution I thought in the first place was the best for my PC in order for it to be fixed. However, the operating system installed in my PC was Windows XP instead of Windows 7. I was expecting for a Win 7 OS, and the technician forgot to install a Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome web browsers which are now used essential to net surfers nowadays. Glad I got installers of both browsers, thus I installed them myself. Voila! I'm finally ready to use my original PC once again. Somehow, I was glad to know that there was a good news as i arrived at the office today, though I really feeling blue today, I prayed at the church after my OJT and thanked God for the unexpected surprises he has given me at the point where I felt so down.

"Thank you so much Lord Jesus, for not letting me down. As always."

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An excruciating pain in the chest

This is probably the shortest blog post I could ever write in my whole life...


All I want to say at this very hour and day is....


I WISH I'D DIE TODAY.

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One of my favorite mellow love songs...

I dedicate this meaningful and mellow song to someone special...you know who you are.

ALL I WANT IS YOU TODAY

by South Border

SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE 

SOME THINGS WILL REMAIN 

YET I ALWAYS HOPE AND PRAY 

THAT I COULD CHANGE THE DAY 

AND MAYBE FIND A WAY 

TO MAKE YOU COME TO ME AND STAY 

Chorus: 

YESTERDAY DOESN'T MATTER 

TOMORROW YOU MAY NOT EVER KNOW 

(TOMORROW I JUST MIGHT BE GONE) 

SO LISTEN TO ME NOW 

AS I TRY TO SAY 

THAT ALL I WANT IS YOU TODAY 

IF YOU ONLY KNEW 

WHAT YOU PUT ME THROUGH 

YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE GONE AWAY 

HAVE YOU EVER FELT EVEN FOR A WHILE 

SOMETHING'S MISSING IN YOUR LIFE 

(Repeat Chorus) 

THAT ALL I WANT IS YOU TODAY 

IF YOU DON'T NEED ME ANYMORE 

DON'T SAY IT, IF YOU DON'T LOVE ME ANYMORE 

DON'T SHOW IT, BECAUSE THIS LIFE I HAVE IS SHORT 

SO MAYBE YOU COULD TRY FOR NOW TO LOVE ME AGAIN 

(Repeat Chorus) 

ALL I WANT IS YOU TODAY

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My dream DSLR camera for graduation!:)

Weeeh!!! My graduation is nearing, and I could almost smell my toga...lolz....and if I were to receive gifts (hopefully there will be!) on that special day, I would definitely prefer to receive gadgets - cellphone, iPod, camera, and most especially laptop!


But out of all the gadgets, what I really preferred the most of receiving as a gift on my graduation is a DSLR Camera...and not just any DSLR camera, but this one!


So check it out!:)

The baby brother to the EOS 450D, the Canon EOS 1000D is the typical, almost-identical, but slightly less-powerful, version of that camera.

Design

Though it essentially uses the same body as the 450D, it shaves a couple of grams of the weight; it only weighs 450 grams. Its smooth, plastic body still feels a little on the cheap side, and we're not crazy about the grip. We can't quite put our finger on the reason; it's not especially shallow, and Canon has improved it over the 400D's by giving it a more rubbery-feeling cover. Still, we don't find it as comfortable to hold as most other dSLRs. Almost all the buttons lie under your right hand, and each feels slightly different so that you can grope them without looking. None require two-handed operation; when you push the button to change ISO, white balance, metering and so on, the menu persists while you navigate the options.

The biggest operational advantage the 1000D offers over competitors is My Menu, which, unlike some other features, it inherits from higher-end models. With My Menu you can build a go-to-list of the most frequently accessed menu settings — in our case, for instance, Format and Live View settings. However, like the 450D, the menus can be — irritatingly — a little inconsistent and sometimes dumb. For instance, you can change ISO sensitivity with either the dial or the navigation buttons, but can only navigate metering choices via the navigation buttons. Also, in some cases, when you have two columns to navigate, as with Picture Style settings, it doesn't let you navigate to the right or left; you must navigate all the way down the first column to get to the settings in the second.

But, we consider the AF indicators in the viewfinder the most annoying aspect of operating the 1000D (this was true in the 450D, as well). The AF indicators are tiny red dots that briefly flash when focus locks. They're neither persistent nor large enough to be easy to spot, so we frequently found ourselves having to prefocus several times to make sure that the spot was on the correct subject and that it was focused. As you can imagine, it slows shooting a bit. Is it more annoying than the faint focus lines Sony uses? We think so.

Features

For the most part, the 1000D offers a solid set of entry-level specs: 10-megapixel, APS-C-size, CMOS sensor (for Canon's traditional 1.6x focal-length multiplier) and 7-point user-selectable autofocus system. That falls behind the Nikon D3000's 11-point AF system and the 9-point AF in the Sony Alpha DSLR-A230. We also mark the switch from CompactFlash to SD/SDHC in the plus column. Also, like the 450D, the 1000D includes Canon's Auto Lighting Optimiser, which automatically adjusts contrast and brightness in case the image you captured isn't quite perfect. Introduced in the 40D, the Auto Lighting Optimiser is now available in all exposure modes and employs face detection to prevent the underexposure of backlit faces we complained about in the 400D. Remaining specifications are in line with the 450D. For example, shutter speeds range from 30 seconds to 1/4000th of a second, with a flash sync speed of 1/200th of a second, and the camera employs a 35-zone TTL-metering system. Canon also offers the BG-E5 battery grip.

On the other hand, the 1000D lacks common perks Sony, Pentax, and Olympus include in their cameras, like in-body mechanical stabilisation and a wireless flash controller in the body — a feature that we occasionally find quite useful. The inclusion of an image-stabilising lens in some of the kits doesn't quite compensate, since additional optically stabilised lenses tend to cost more in the long run. The 1000D's sensitivity range also tops out at ISO 1600, whereas some others go to ISO 3200 (but those models generally don't have usable photo quality at that level). Though it offers a Live View shooting mode with contrast-detection AF, Live View's usefulness is limited without support from an articulating LCD, and it functions too slowly to be of any use with live subjects. Furthermore, all the manufacturers seem to incorrectly think that the equivalent of Canon's Picture Styles — custom contrast, sharpness saturation and colour tone — are more important in this market segment than the capability to save groups of custom exposure, white balance, metering, drive-mode settings, and so on. Our biggest peeve, though, is the lack of a spot meter — not even the huge four per cent spot from the 450D.

Another attribute of the 450D that the 1000D lacks is the Highlight Tone Priority mode, which helps preserve detail in the brightest portion of a scene. And the 1000D has a 2.5-inch LCD compared with the 450D's 3-inch version — the A200 and K200D have 2.7-inch LCDs

Image Quality

The 1000D's only really obvious advantage over the competition is its photo quality, which is quite good, especially at high ISO sensitivities. In general, colour and exposures are accurate (as accurate as you can get when the situation doesn't require a spot meter), it renders a relatively broad dynamic range, and the kit lens delivers sharp photos for its class.

source: http://www.cnet.com.au/canon-eos-1000d-339289627.htm

Although there are a lot of DSLR cameras nowadays which are better than this buddy, I won't settle for anything less or anything more. This one's just perfect for me, and I'm already contented with all it's features!


So right now, all I can do is to pray that mom and dad, or somebody else would really give me this one as a gift...(please lang Lord!...sana meron talaga.) I'm definitely craving to own one!!!

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