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Battery-talk

I was able to get my replacement battery for my powerbook and the replacement battery grip for my 20D today. It all happened at the last-minute. My supplier said the battery was available for pick-up. I thought I should call Canon as well to check if the grip was done as well (since both were in the same area).

Luckily, both were ready. Plus the driver wasn’t doing anything today, which was a godsend. There’s nothng better than not having to think about parking in those parts of Makati.

Also, the bottom case of my powerbook will be replaced as well… I swear, I could start selling this powerbook at a really good price as it practically will be in a refurbished condition. Any takers?

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YouTube killer?

A little bird told me to check out this site.

Dare I make a prediction? I bet sites like this will eventually kill YouTube. For as long as they remain free, I predict that the userbase can grow at an exponential rate.

Say what you will – but we all know how powerful pornography is. It’s not surprising actually, considering that it’s probably the most popular “activity” regardless of marketing (or lack of it).

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Just so I could post

Here’s a “daloy ng kamalayan” post just for the heck of it. Actually I wanted to post because I didn’t want my last post (about equality) to be the entry that stays in the main page for a long time.

First time visitors might read it and think I’m such an asshole when I’m really not hahahaha. Well ok, I’m a bit of an asshole – but you get my point.

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More useful dual-screen tips (Windows)

I can now chuck “calibration loaders” in my startup items (usually added when you install calibration software) in favor for using a powertoy for Windows XP.

It’s called the Microsoft Color Control Panel Applet. It’s free, and it’s designed to enable single-card users to load separate color profiles for multiple displays. The operative term here is single-card because if you have two video-cards, or are on a Mac, then you probably won’t have to worry about this. If you’re on a WindowsXP 32bit machine however, and are using a dual head card which is common in gaming GPUs, then you probably will have to deal with this.

Simply download the applet and install it (requires the .NET framework). It will then be available as a control panel applet as seen in the picture above.

After you add/install/load and set the default profiles you created for each monitor (with whatever calibration software you have), simply create a shortcut with the following target path (make sure you include the quotes):

“:\Program Files\Pro Imaging Powertoys\Microsoft Color Control Panel Applet for Windows XP\WinColor.exe” /L

Save the shortcut, and put it into your startup folder and you’re set. It should load the separate profiles natively on startup.

Now if only they update that to support Windows XP 64-bit.

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Awesome week

It was an extremely eventful week.

First of all, I wasn’t dicking around like I usually do since I was subcontracted again by a new employer. I only have to put in 5 hours a day and report at 10am to go over the tasks for the day and 10pm to sign-off. It started as a one week trial, but it seems that I’ve just finished my second week, so I guess he likes what I’m doing.

Next was that I had shelves inspired by IKEA/Bo Concept mounted on my wall. Now I have more storage space… space I so badly needed.

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