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We've got an android ínside our ride this morning

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Lately we've been minding some few renovations inside our ride. When we have just purchased a new sound system inside it, we thought of actually having something to view upon. A mobile theater system so to speak. We usually place our notebook in the dashboard then let our kids watch from the backseat, but too bad, it doesn't have some solid state drive so we're afraid it might get damaged because of some vibrations. Then we just decided to buy an APad , a smaller one and something that would fit rightly on top of our dashboard. We grabbed a unit of an aPad ( MID APad M701  7.0 Inch Touch Screen  Android Tablet PC ) because its cheap and its running in Android OS. Android is opensource and there's an android app market installed in it where we can shop for cools apps for free. And for it's purpose as an in-house movie player for our car, it would serve very much beyond our need. I can do my e-book reading (as a colored version of a Kindle ), plants vs zombi

The whereabouts of our car repair and maintenance

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We gave our ride, a Daewoo GTE Racer, some holiday treat this Christmas season. Since it's a second hand auto, we had it's airconditioning system fixed and we bought a set of interior car mats on it. Next up, is its periodic car maintenance by changing the brake pads, spark plugs, fuel and oil filters, change engine and gear oil and replaced the wiper blades. Finally we've had the auto tint replaced, bought a new car stereo and speaker. Here's a map of our whereabouts regarding our car maintenance. View CAR SOLUTIONS in a larger map Periodic Car Maintenance at CAPITOL AUTO SUPPLY Auto Tint installation Car Stereo, Speaker and Power Antenna Installation Maintaining a car was quite expensive but really the comfort it brings us especially when we have our kids on board is really worth the spend.

This Family Badly Wants a Blackberry Curve 3G for Another Weekend/Holiday Adventure...

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It's Christmas time and I'll take a break on writing some geeky stuff and do spend this rare chance to post about my wonderful family. It was my 4th Christmas away from my mom and dad, and also my 4th being a mom to two wonderful kids and a very loving husband. And as I may say I'm so blessed. We do take shots of the very precious moments we do spend together. Be it a simple ice cream eat out, birthdays or our Anniversary, we do keep and treasure every moment were blessed to share together. We say we're camera whores and we badly need a Blackberry Curve 3G to do the task for us. My phone is almost retiring now, and it's a good thing TechPinas has their TechPinas Gadget Bonanza # 1 where I am crossing my fingers on getting a new phone. You know moms, being "kuripot" and all, just of course to save even a little will count much to hardly make both ends meet. Me and my husband Perci are always out for work on weekdays and even on Saturdays too for Perci

Deciphering FX Driver Weird Phonetics

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Everytime I ride an FX on the way to school or the office, I am having this trouble understanding the terms that the FX drivers use when they talk over their radio (walkie talkie). It feels like I'm being alienated or whatever out of place in their conversation with another driver over their walkie-talkie. Quite strange, even wondered why are they having such codes? What if they are leading us to some odd place... "Money Market, Tango, Oscar Kilo Oscar Kilo!" WTF?  hahahah...  Here are some of their frequently used terms,  just so we may be well informed. oscar kilo - OK Tango Sierra - Tandang Sora double mama - MMDA Money Market - Terminal/End of the line, lugar na pinagkakakitaan (NOVALICHES BAYAN) Tango - Tao Uniform Tusok - U-Turn Sierra Mike - SM North Sierra Bravo - SB Road Spaghetti pababa - clover leaf sa balintawak White lady - north cemetery, bagabag cemetery Legaspi - mayon tamagochi -pulis yellow boys - SB traffic officer Kilo Papa - Kingspoint subdivision

Creating Entity-relationship Diagrams (E-R Diagrams)

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Last semester for my introductory GIS class, part of a laboratory exercise is on creating E-R Diagrams which for me is a simple graph of the relationships between different objects within an interface. In programming, it is much like the UML (Unified Modeling Language) class diagrams that we are making before proceeding to the actual coding. E-R diagram  A data model, which is a high level description of the available data, is needed in storing relevant information in a database. In designing databases, there should be a conceptual and the physical phase. The creation of E-R (entity-relationship) diagrams belong to the conceptual phase. The E-R diagram serves as the blueprint before creating a database. There are things such as entity sets within an E-R Diagram 1. Entity – person, place, object, event, concept.  representation in the E-R diagram - table in the database shape in the E-R diagram -  RECTANGLE  2. Entity sets – collection of similar entities (same as “class” in ob

Free online color matching tool for your maps

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 Maps do convey relevant information to a target audience.  Maps, apart from being informative, should be artistic too. Cartography is art. I mean you cannot just combine your violets with the greens or blues with it. A right combination of RGB or CMYK swatches will make it appear more pleasing and more eye-catching. And if you have 12 classes in a thematic map, you wouldn't want it to be randomly picked as if making some sort of lantern decoration for the Christmas season. Color coordination really is the name of the game. My husband who's into creative design is my one true critic when it comes to color combination. He would just peek into my final map for a project or laboratory exercise and then tell me to use this color or another color theme instead of my initial picks. He was such a relief when I am finishing my maps when he's at home. But when  he's not around, hard part comes. Anyways, I have stumbled upon this book last semester and found it really useful

Free PDF to WORD options

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Latest versions of Microsoft Office and OpenOffice are already capable of  saving your  documents from doc, docx or odt to  pdf format. The reverse is quite unusual. There are trial versions of pdf to word converter with their limitations of course. PDF2Word  can only be used 100 times and allows the first 5 pages only to be converted to .doc format. Fonts change and the layout was a bit different after conversion.  The most useful for me is using the OpenOffice PDF Import Extension . If you have OpenOffice  installed in your pc, just double click the downloaded extension and an installation dialog will guide you through.  The pdf opens in OpenOfficeDraw and lets you do basic editing of text and images in the document. You can save the edited file as another pdf or export as an image file or in html format.  It's free and it's open source so let's see more developments of this extension on OpenOffice. It would be nicer if pdf files can be opened in OpenOffice.org Write

Free Class Schedule Notification on your Mobile Phone using Google Calendar

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At long last, after one long week, I am finally enrolled for the 2nd sem AY 2010-2011. The entire enrollment experience has been really tedious and cumbersome because of usual queues, considering the enrollment is already online and automated. Anyways, I am now officially enrolled, so I would just have to tidy things up in my calendar. I set-up my Google Calendar to send me notifications of my scheduled class for the night on my mobile phone. The notifications are free so why not!It pays to be organized for some time anyways. Here's my schedule for this sem. And some other events/notifications on my Google Calendar. I created a test event for today and scheduled it to arrive 10 minutes before the time. Voila! I received a text message from Google saying: Reminder:test @ Thu Nov 11 12:20pm-1:50pm in PIVS (melanie's google calendar). Memorizing class schedule and room assignments have been quite a mess during my undergrad years. I used to print it and paste it on my not

Image Registration and Georeferencing in ENVI (Cavite, Philippines)

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Georeferencing and Registration Methodology T he following steps were undertaken for the rectification or georeferencing of the image: 1. I have created a subset of the province of Cavite from the Landsat ETM+image that I have downloaded from GLCF . A topographic map of the equivalent subset has been obtained with the following basemap information. Fig. 1: Basemap information Scale 1: 50000.. Sheet name Cavite, Philippines Sheet number 3163 II Source NAMRIA 2.  A scanned 1:50000 topographic map of Cavite appears below. Fig. 2a: 1:50000 Topographic map of Cavite 3.  An Image-to-map registration was performed using the coordinates on the boundary of the map as ground control points. A total of 10 points are obtained with a total RMSE of 0.396853. 4.  An Image-to-Image registration was later performed, yielding 9 GCPs with a total RMS error of 0.970929. The Landsat ETM+ image that I have obtained has alread