Mom who Maps

I have had a hard time removing some files that contains an executable format. The antivirus that I am using archives it as a virus and were quarantined. I can't delete it by a simple "Delete"(add to recycle bin) or a "SHIFT+Delete" (permanently delete) mode. What I did was to use a Revo Uninstaller Tracks Cleaner Tool>Unrecoverable  Delete. You just have to browse for the files and/or folder and  press DELETE FOREVER to get rid of the notorious file. Easy.I love this Revo Uninstaller really!(^_^)

The Christmas holiday is over. The dilemma on late Christmas shopping, what-gifts-to-buy, and party hopping is finally over. And now for the first quarter of the year, fitness centers are on a boom! I sure bet that many swore again to loose the extra pounds they've acquired due to excessive partying, reunions and not to mention the abundant Noche Buena (Christmas eve dinner) and Media Noche (New Year's eve meal). Diet and exercise is again on top of the list of our ever famous New Year's Resolution. Well, since we've recently acquired a cool phone that allows us to download lots of free stuff over the net, I'd better start trying out this cool fitness android apps. Here are some of them (in no particular order since I haven't tried anyone of these just yet...) For exercise, weight training and just about any fitness routine: 1.   JEFIT   - Workout Planner with hundreds of workout exercise. Smart workout logs. Sync your progress with PC. Charts...

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...

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 (sa...

 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...

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 ope...

I have just learned that a friend's blog site was hacked and was totally deleted. The incident alarmed me so much that the same thing could possibly happen to my blog hence I tried to look for possible means of backing it up. An easy way to get all the posts in an XML feed. This is a better format if you intend to import it in a database. http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?max-results=1000 You can also backup the comments: http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default?max-results=1000 Another option is to send your blogs to your e-mail for back-up. Ultimately you may opt to use a third party software that downloads an entire site and have it saved in your local disk. HTTrac k is a free ( GPL , libre/free software) and easy-to-use offline browser utility. It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrac...

Now you can carry your favorite computer programs along with all of your bookmarks, settings, email and more with you. Use them on any Windows computer. All without leaving any personal data behind. Portableapps.com provides a rich array of programs that you want included in your suite. Apart from your usual Windows Start Menu, PortableApps suite produces another sort-of start menu in your pc, that of which containing your selected portable applications. I do not keep a printer at home, so as always, I would have to save all my stuffs on my USB drive and have the files printed at the nearest Internet Cafe. Oftentimes it annoys me that such "Internet" shops don't even have a pdf reader installed in their pc or at times didn't bother to consider installing openOffice Suite hence my .odt and .ods files can't be editted at all. But those are just simple but really very disappointing and oftentimes hopeless cases I have encountered before I discovered ...

For a work that's highly engaged in really terrible file-handling, memorizing filenames and their paths is really an oblivious task. " Everything " is the ultimate desktop search engine for me. Just pressing the hotkeys, which can be user-specified ofcourse, (it's CTRL+ALT+F for me), typing in just a few letters of the hinted file or folder name and voila the file I've been searching for  is already at my fingertips! " Everything " is an administrative tool that locates files and folders by filename instantly for Windows. Unlike Windows search "Everything" initially displays every file and folder on your computer (hence the name "Everything"). You type in a search filter to limit what files and folders are displayed. What I like about Everything: Boolean operators,regex and widcards can be used. It loads lightning fast! Can be assigned with a shortcut key It monitors file system changes. It opens in multiple windows. It...

I find this freeware very useful in safely removing flash disks and in deleting the cannot be deleted files! Unlocker is the ultimate unlocker assistant for me. Oftentimes it annoys me when an error message such as this appears on my screen. It's either another program is trying to index the content of my drive or there has been a sharing violation. The clear thing is I cannot do what I'm suppose to do next. Good thing there is this Unlocker Assistant for me. It gives you the option to choose a specific program that will "Unlock" the file or "Unlock All" if you want to stop all programs from accessing your file or drive. Just right-click on the file or drive that you want to delete or remove respectively and choose from a menu for your next actions.  I'm just glad someone out there took time to figure out how to solve this problem and spare me the headache on worrying much bigger problems than just safely removing my drive. Click this lin...