Move over “Kung-Fu Panda” and “Kiwi”.

Meet the bird with the greatest angst in all of Youtube. Meet Tux-fu! (Watch out for the surprise ending!)

Who said geeks can’t make good movies?

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Well, the title says it all! You really make us all proud of being Filipino.

For those who still don’t know (and lives inside that virtual cave called MySpace), Vincent Bueno was the only Asian contestant, and apparently, grand winner of this season’s installment of Musical! Die Show (Musical! The Show), Austria’s ratings juggernaut ala-American Idol, which not only showcases singing talent but also amateur total performance (e.g. acting, singing, dancing, and tight-noodle walking… of course the last one is a joke).

To give you an idea how it looks like, here is, in my opinion, Vincent’s most engaging, and production-wise, the glossiest performance in the show.

I like the production better than American Idol (AI doesn’t have any design at all…), and the show pushes each performance to be musical-grade, complete with props and backup dancers.

Vincent Bueno, according to an ABS-CBN News article , is a pure-blood Filipino who grew up in Austria, and finished his Bachelor of Arts in Music and Theater Arts at the Vienna Conservatory of Music. Her mother Cora, Filipino nurse in Vienna, even joked that her son was already dancing even when he was in her womb. Her father Tony, on the other hand, said he knew his son will be a star because even when he was young, he seemed like dancing while strolling the city streets.

It seems like we’re having a Pinoy invasion these days! First, Charice Pempengco, now, Vincent Bueno. Again, congratz to our talented Filipino brothers and sisters.

Technorati Tags: musical! die show, vincent bueno

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Not really a reliable test, but imagine loading this home page in a normal browser. I say this is pretty much of a big-ass simple test for comparing Safari and Firefox 3. Googling gave me no comparison between Gran Paradiso (Firefox 3’s codename) and the newest version of Safari in Leopard, so I tried it myself using the simplest way I could do.

My home page pretty gives all the stress a browser could get: YouTube and MySpace videos embedded, images, HTML DIV sections, ads, Google Analytics, Wordpress Analytics, and a bunch of Javascript from my widgets. Here are the results:

From the looks of it, I guess both fair well when it comes to memory usage (Safari, I think, is using its native Webkit framework, so it comes out already preloaded, thus the low real memory and vsize, but I don’t really know if that’s the case, so please bear with me), and as for load time, Safari loaded my page around 13.5 secs, while Firefox did it at a close 13.7 secs. I was actually testing Gran Paradiso yesterday, and, apart from the surprise crashes (when I load GMail and network is down), I should say I’m pretty impressed the Firefox team has done it again, even though they don’t really win in the performance side of things.

But you know, I still use Firefox not because it’s the fastest browser in the planet (some pages load faster in Firefox, but most of them run faster in Safari), but because of the plugins I get from it. This blog post, for example, is written using ScribeFire, a wordpress / generic blogs plugin for Firefox, not to mention I can browse pages a lot cleaner through Firefox than in Safari (some divs are “misplaced”, etc., but this is arguable because Safari is Acid-test compliant while Firefox isn’t yet).

You can download Firefox 3, Beta 1 here.

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Sir Dan Dorato, one of our company’s avid and patient beta testers for PiKitchen-Xackup, has made the most perfect tech-combo so far: The EEE PC and Leopard, the latest Apple offering for Mac OS X. I’m so proud I met this guy, and he’s really cool for doing this.

You can find the original post here: Load OSX 10.5 on the eeePC

As of date, EEE PC units are being sold like hotcakes in the US, and it’s also a potential bestseller here in the Philippines. Most of our fellow Filipino ma and pa’s just want a laptop that’s lightweight, cheap, and easy to use. Most reviewers say that the EEE PC could be the answer for that, but the only “problem” they could think of is that it’s running Xandros Linux installed. It’s not that big a problem for me, knowing that I’ve been a Linux user for years now.

Adding Mac OS X on the platform kinda solved the issue. With Mac OS X and its carefully and intuitively designed interfaces, the ma and pa laptop is complete! Imagine buying hardware for around $200 (minimum, but you’re better off with the $400-tagged unit) and legal software (Mac OS X) for $129.

I personally want to try this one. My only problem is that I still don’t have hardware to test this. Kudos to Mr. Dan Dorato’s find!

Photo courtesy of Dan Dorato from UneasySilence.com

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I’ve heard about the experiment where you could use an onion as an electricity source, but this demo made my jaws drop! I don’t even know that an onion is powerful enough to charge an iPod classic, and as you can see here in the demo, you can use the onion for as long as 15-20 minutes worth of charging time. That’s time enough to fully charge your iPod / iPhone.

I won’t try this one with my Kirei, though.

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I have to agree with this documentary’s conclusion of which of the two – Bill Gates and Steve Jobs – is the computing world’s most powerful person. Extensive and very good narrative of how the computing industry has been pioneered by these two, except for the overrated narrator who seems to leave his tone hanging on the ceiling.

I also like the way they handled the interviews. They really went deep to the bone of the issues and events that occurred on the two pioneers’ lives. Inspiring, intriguing, and informative.

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It was awkward… just this week, I planned on using Kirei to check my personal GMail account (jofellxcite [at] gmail [dot] com), and I kinda got frustrated for having GMail load my emails down my phone (even the settings I used for POP saying). Knowing that GMail used to have POP as the only protocol for grabbing emails from clients, it was pretty obvious that I should remove my account in my 8GB iPhone (I have tons of music, ebooks, and apps in it).

And then, I saw this article from TUAW: GMail Flips the Switch on IMAP Support. It really started my day right. Finally! A working version of GMail in my mobile phone!

Update: Just tested it and it’s really nice to see my labels as folders inside my account. I don’t remember ever seeing them in POP. I tested sending messages, and archiving emails, and they all work like your usual toaster. The only weird thing I noticed was a new label was added in my account called “Sent Messages” and contains all my IMAP-sent messages. Weird, but neat.

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UneasySilence’s Blog Post About Picasa for Mac

Really late. What I actually need is the iPhoto ‘08 plugin so I could upload my photos to Picasa. It’s been quite a while since I uploaded my last album to Picasa, and having no Picasa plugin for iPhoto ‘08 made me create my own (note: sluggish) gallery website. At least there’s a way for me to upload my photos in its original resolution, with a bunch of plugins for me to choose from. Besides, Dreamhost is giving me gigabytes of storage to be used for anything I could use it for.

Speaking of Dreamhost. I noticed that I hardly scratched my weekly bandwidth and storage consumption, and thought how the hell can I fill the limits up? Dreamhost seems to be too good to be true (and I’m very glad about it) considering its meek price of $10 a month. Well, that’s a lot if you compute it per year… but hell, it’s still cheap!

Anyways, before I go off-topic, here is the link to download the latest Picasa version for Mac. According to this announcement, the only significant changes they made were: (1) Picasa being built on top of the public Google Objective-C GData Library, and (2) support for iPhoto 08.

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I just featured a US Air Force Soldier who sings acoustic, to the tune of Hey Ya! Yaouve got to see this for you guys to believe!

I myself can’t believe this guy sounded really good! I believe he can be better than John Mayer!

Anyway, I just did an email interview of this guy (Chris Alvarado) and you can see part 1 of the interview’s transcript at CoverCove.com.

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Yesterday, I had fun meeting again all the Open Source peeps I knew since college. This year’s celebration was a success, and I would like to personally congratulate the local team for bringing us a more relevant, less-geeky leg of the Software Freedom Day.

It’s just sad I needed to leave early to attend my brother’s girlfriend’s birthday celebration back home, but the programme’s pretty interesting, especially for those who want to use FLOSS in their systems. I also missed the part where Rep. Teddy Casiño spoke about the updates of the FOSS bill here in the Philippines.

Another interesting bit was the idea of having a "UN" for FLOSS, with each country having its own representative.

Not to mention there was free food for everyone. Yum! (I personally like Chopseuy and Barbecue. Nice choice Phil Team!)

Program Premises Entrance

UNDP Banner

PREGINET Presentation

Philippine Team Leader for SFD

Presentation About Sourcecamp

Live Feeds from Vietnam and Davao

Official SFD Shirts

Ruby on Rails Presentation

Yehey.com Founder Presentation

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