Developers Definitely Need a Hug Sometimes

World's Natural Wonders Video, Made with iMovie

This is the first video I made with my MacBook. This one is made with iMovie which is included in Mac OS X. With iMovie making video is really easy. This video took me about 10-20 minutes to make. And what's cool about iMovie is you can upload it directly to YouTube. Check it out.

Get Free Hosting Services at Tribuhost

Tribuhost is a website that offers free hosting services. At present, it is hosting two of my websites, Free Funny Jokes Collections and Online Recipe Collections, and so far, I am contented with there services. The support is fast and very helpful. Here's what Tribuhost offers:

- 250 MB disk space
- 6 GB Monthly transfer
- 5 MySQL databases
- 5 Add-on domains
- 5 Sub domains
- Vista Panel
- Automatic installer (29 scripts)
- Php 5
- FTP account
- File manager (browser upload)
- Web mail
- POP email accounts
- and more...

When you sign-up, you get a sub domain (ex: you.tribuhost.com) and you can create your website immediately. Also, a 468x60 banner ad is placed at the bottom of your website to cover the free hosting services - which I think is too little compared to the good service you get.

Yahoo to Reject Microsoft's Plans to Buy the Internet Giant

Yesterday, reports came out the Yahoo plans to reject Microsoft's plans to buy the internet giant Yahoo.

Last February 1, Microsoft announced that it made an unsolicited offer to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion, both in terms of cash and stocks. This is Microsoft's move to counter Google's an unstoppable superior status in the web.

The $44.6 billion bid, according to Yahoo's board, is way too low compared to it's current value.

My JoelBadinas.com Domain Is Not Working at the Moment

If you guys are wondering why joelbadinas.com is not working at the moment, it's because I am having issues with my registrar. For the meantime, this blog can be access via kabalweg.blogspot.com.

I'm already working to get my previous domain to work, unfortunately, it may take days before it will be back to normal. So please bear with me for the meantime.

Free Online Recipes

Get free recipes at Free Online Recipes. This site features hundreds of free and practical yet mouth-watering recipes for homemakers, hobbyists and food enthusiasts or anybody who likes to cook. You can choose from several different recipe categories.

If you are a homemaker who don't know what dish to cook next for you family, a kitchen hobbyist who want to serve unique meals everyday, or just someone who would like to experiment something in the kitchen, this site is for you.

10 Type Of Girls in the IT World

Do you have women in your IT department? See if she belongs to any of the list below.

1. HARD DISK GIRLS: she remembers everything, and FOREVER.

2. RAM GIRLS: she forgets about you the moment you turn her off.

3. WINDOW GIRLS: everyone knows that she can't do a thing right, but no one can live without her.

4. SCREENSAVER GIRLS: She is good for nothing but at least she is fun.

5. INTERNET GIRLS: Difficult to access.

6. SERVER GIRLS: Always busy when you need her.

7. MULTIMEDIA GIRLS: She makes horrible things look beautiful.

8. CD-ROM GIRLS: She is always faster and faster.

9. EMAIL GIRLS: For every ten things she says, eight are nonsense .

10. VIRUS GIRLS: Also known as "wife'' when you are not expecting her, she comes, install herself and uses all your resources. If you try to uninstall her, you will lose something, if you don't try to uninstall her, you will lose everything...

Have you ever come across with this types of girls at your workplace? Well. I'm lucky enough, there's no girl in our team (gay maybe). It would have been more difficult. (^_^)

See also:
Top 25 explanations by programmers

Bill Gates Will Resign from Microsoft

If you still haven't heard of it, Bill Gates will retire as Chief Software Architect and Chairman of Microsoft this coming July 2008. He will be working part-time for Microsoft while working full-time for the foundation he and his wife Melinda founded. He announced his resignation last week in a press conference.

As of July 2008, Gates will transition from his day-to-day role as Chief Software Architect and Chairman of Microsoft to just being the Chairman. Chief Technical Officer Ray Ozzie will immediately assume the title of Chief Software Architect and begin working side by side with Gates on all technical architecture and product oversight responsibilities while Chief Technical Officer Craig Mundie will immediately take the new title of Chief Research and Strategy Officer.

"I don't know what it's going to feel like not to come in every day and work 10 hours," Gates said. "I have a sense of what it's like to do foundation work because I've squeezed that in part time, but I think it will probably take me a while, just like six years ago when I switched off from CEO. It might take me a year and a half to get used to my role. That's a little bit of an unknown now and because I've got two years, I don't even really want to go there now, because I'll figure it out when I get there."

Warning for RealPlayer 11 Users, You are Vulnerable to Hacker Attack

If you a RealPlayer user, this is for you.

Experts in the field of internet security issued a warning saying that RealPlayer is vulnerable exploitation. The flaw of the recent version of the product, the RealPlayer 11, could allow hackers to remotely control a PC if successfully exploited.

This security flaw was discovered by Evgeny Legerov, of Russian security firm GLEG.

Webuser reports:

As yet unpatched by Real Networks, the vulnerability "is caused due to an unspecified error and can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow," according to an advisory from a separate security company, Secunia.

Secunia also warned surfers not to open untrusted media files or browse unfamiliar websites, rating the vulnerability "highly critical".

Top Ten Useful Google Search Tricks

Google is really a big machine that has many uses. Some are known, some aren't. Good thing that Lifehacker listed some of it for us to know and use the tricks such as below.

1. Make Google recognize faces
2. ID people, objects, and foreign language words and phrases with Google Image Search
3. Find music and comic books
4. Find related terms and documents
5. Remove affiliate links from product searches
6. Use Google as a free proxy
7. Compare items with "better than" and find similar items with "reminds me of"
8. Convert currency, metrics, bytes, and more
9. Track flight status
10. Get the local time anywhere

Read more here.

Great Resource for Pet Lovers

Here's another good online resource when buying dog supplies, the JeffersPet.com website.

This website is your best source for discount pet supplies. They have been in operation since 1975.

JeffersPet.com brings that same dedication to providing the best discount pet supply selection to our online pet supply store. We strive to offer the latest discount pet supplies and pet vaccines with the best customer service available anywhere.

Whether you have one dog or ten, a few farm animals or a whole farm, Jeffers Pet has the products you need to keep your animals safe, healthy and happy. Our online pet supply store is constantly updated with the products you tell us you need — and all at great prices.

Is This The End of Agloco?

Today, I received an email from Agloco (I think all members do). Is this is a sign that Agloco is going down.

We would like to update you on the status of AGLOCO's operations. We continue to believe in the AGLOCO concept, but our revenue is currently not sufficient to give Members a meaningful distribution. And though there are increases in membership, the resulting revenue is not enough to support operating costs. As a development team we are unable to continue to use our savings to fund the operations. If any Member would like to pursue continuing the operations of AGLOCO, you may contact us at agloco1@live.com .

We would like to thank every Member for supporting our effort to bring a piece of the Internet directly to the user. We hope that we can find a way to keep the operations going.

AGLOCO Development Team

Accumulated Hours and Members



This is my accumulated hours and network members as of today. I can still remember when I signed up for this. I was hopeful at that time that this will earn me money.

My friends and officemate would be disappointed with this news. I was the one who introduced and invited them to this program. They were also hopeful that this will become profitable.

Well, I just hope this is not going to end like this.

Search Engines Infected by Hackers

It appear that the saying that "Christmas is a season of Love and Crime" is also true in the internet. Just recently, Google Yahoo and MSN search engines have been infected by hackers.

Users who uses this search engines is fooled into visiting malicious websites crammed with malware.

The websites, which came up in results for innocuous terms such as "Christmas gifts", "infinity" and "hospice", contained software that exploited vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer.

Visitors to the booby-trapped sites faced having their computer taken over and personal data stolen.

Hackers have exploited the coming Christmas season by targeting and exploiting the keyphrases "Christmas gift shopping", "Christmas holiday sale" and "holiday shopping fun".

Google have removed the websites from the search results after they had been appearing in searches, but it is believed the websites are still cropping up in Yahoo and MSN Live searches.