This is just an example of stuff you will want to know if you stumble upon it. I recently downloaded some new John Lennon MP3s (well, it’s old but its my first copy, so in my case, its new) then i saw that there are lyrics in it! Cool! See how an iPod virgin I am?

So, If you like to sing along with your tunes, you can display song lyrics right on the screen of a supported iPod. This includes:

• iPod nano
• Fifth Generation iPod

Entering lyrics

1. In iTunes 5 or later, select a favorite song.
2. From the File menu, choose Get Info.
3. Click Lyrics, then enter the words to the song in the text box.
4. Click OK when finished.
5. Copy the song to iPod.

Viewing lyrics

If you’ve entered song lyrics, you can view them at any time in iTunes 5 or later. Just select the song, Get Info for the song, and then click Lyrics. If you want to view them on iPod, do

1. On iPod, start playing any song to which you’ve added lyrics.
2. Press the Center button repeatedly. The number of times depends on if you have artwork or not. Here’s the order of things when you press the Center button:
   

   Play status > Scrubber > Album Art > Lyrics/Description > Rating

   If you don’t have Album Art or Lyrics, then you’ll just see the Rating

   Play status > Scrubber > Rating

Lyrics should display correctly in most languages. If they do not, try removing any special characters in the Lyrics pane in iTunes, copy the song back to iPod, and try again.

Tutorial taken from Apple support site … so if this doesn’t work to you, blame them.. :) — it works for me anyway, so that’s a little assurance. :)

This tutorial is from Matt Cutts himself found here. It’s unfortunate though that the tutorial presented there are for GIMP Ver. 054. Pretty old version. This little tutorial is a little more up to date using the latest version. As of this writing it’s Ver. 2.2.17

A little Intro

GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program. Like any other Open Source application, GIMP is a free. It is robust, powerful program for painting, image processing, and manipulating pictures.

It tries to complete with Adobe’s Photoshop in very obvious functions. If you enjoy using Adobe’s Photoshop ® program you’ll love the GIMP. The GIMP is a project of Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis at the University of California, Berkeley.

The Tutorial

Alright, let’s get into it. We will be needing a sample image.
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The My Documents folder is your own personal folder in which you can store your documents, graphics, and other personal files. When there is more that one person using the computer, Windows creates a My Documents folder for each user on the computer.

Below is the steps on changing the default location of the ‘My Documents’ folder

Why would I want to do that?

I will do t his to all the computers in our LAN slash computer shop (InnerChild). The server (the PC with the Timer, scanner and printer attached) has its drive D shared to all 10 computers. Drive D contains all the game installers and other stuff. This shared drive is mapped (as Drive Z) on all workstation in the network.

The printer is shared amongst all the workstations. I have all computers on the network use that shared printer. Aside from that I’m thinking of setting the default My Documents folder for all the PC to their Drive Z, so they all can print on the server.

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Does this (always) happens to your iPod?

Tonight, this is my 3rd time since I bought mine last February. Good thing I never deleted the original MP3 files.

When you’re prompted with this error, the usual (and only) solution is to restore your iPod to the factory default.

How’d you do it? Here’s how…

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Tons of ideas for a blog are flying in my head. This is just for the blog niches. It still doesn’t include other stuff related to it like cool blog template, layout/theme customization, time, resources for information, web hosting and others. They tons of things to consider and thinking about it and how to manage them makes my head ache.

And with this Paypal account handy, it’s so easy to (waste) spend impulsively for domains or web hosting. SysadmindayPh by the way was bought using paypal.

I have my preferred local web hosting company here in the Philippines. In the US, I know most of them are familiar with the Daddy something hosting company.
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Commute or car for a Bulakeño going to work (Makati area) everyday? That is tonight’s question. This is like the time versus money post. So this post is over in a few more words.

It’s been raining for 2, 3 days now (typhoon Chedeng Egay). Lucky me since past 2 days was my rest day, no work for me, (orientation lang). Unfortunately today, errr tonight, meron. I’m on a bus right now jotting this down.
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One of my millions and millions readers of PinoyBanda (*wide grin*) had asked me How To Auto Play YuTube Embedded Videos? I told him it’s easy, go check out http://www.everything-eli.com/inmylife …instead of saying “Go ask Google” *grinning still*

So I have to post the instructions on how to autoplay YouTube videos here - the one I found out when I asked Google a few months back.

All you need to do is get the embed code from YouTube’s page. For example, shown below is where you can see the code (and there’s Matthew dancing Itaktak Mo :)

Let’s extract that code to show you what part of it you must modify… Here’s the code:

<object width=”425″ height=”350″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/dqXEabmAY-Y”></param><param name=”wmode” value=”transparent”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/dqXEabmAY-Y” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” wmode=”transparent” width=”425″ height=”350″></embed></object>

Take note on the URL/Address within the embed code:

http://www.youtube.com/v/dqXEabmAY-Y

All you need to do is add ‘&autoplay=1‘ to the end of it, save and presssttooo! An autoplaying YouTube Video!

Here’s another one you could try. From that same address (with or without the ‘&autoplay=1′) you can still add another option. Try adding ‘&loop=1‘ (or autoloop, can’t remember which and too lazy to try it out). This will make your video loop around infinitely !

If you want to see the finish product, visit PinoyBanda and check out the featured YouTube video. It will autoplay for you! (disable the loop though). There! Hope it helps!

Here’s one quick tip for those who don’t know yet - Add an ICON to you blog’s URL. That’s the little picture beside the URL when you browse you blog.

Does this looks boring to you?

See that? Just plain old paper before my very beautiful (everything-eli.com) domain. :-)Would it be more exciting (well, probably much nicer) to have your face on your URL? Like this guy over here?

Here’s how to do it!………..To add an icon to your URL:1. You need an icon.You can try and search your PC for an icon. These type of files ends in ICO. Example filename.icoIf you can’t find one (or too lazy to search for one :)) You can create you own Icon, just go to http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/ and upload your favorite picture to create an icon.
2. Upload the icon to your directory on line the same location of the index.html

3. Rename the icon on line to favicon.ico

4. Add both lines below to the head of your index.html page

<link href=”favicon.ico” rel=”icon” type=”image/ico” />
<link href=”favicon.ico” rel=”SHORTCUT ICON” />

And you’re done!

Thanks to Allen for pointing out that the last two line of code is not there.. :)

I love my XDA II very much. I love it so much, I have no plans of buying a new PDA/Phone in the near future (dahil wala akong pambili). :-)

Bought this phone from Vic Del Rosario (nope, not the big boss of Viva, but a big boss in GMA 7) 2 or 3 years ago. My first fascination with Microsoft powered phone goes back to my NEC Components day, when people from Smart Philippines offered us a promotional plan with a free SmartPhone (tanager) for Plan 500. Since then, 6 years later, I still carry the plan and have replace the unit 3 times.

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I have roughly 500 CDs/VCDs/DVDs. That’s not a lot but its still a collection. And every collection is (my) precioussss… So we try and keep our priced possession in good, tip-top shape.

And then, there are kids.

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Here’s a good news for all you men… errr.. women. Did you know that Vitamin D, which is produced by the body primarily through absorption of sunshine, can help prevent breast cancer?
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