GTUG Philippines

Visit the Filipino Google Technology User Groups

http://sites.google.com/site/gtugph/

GTUG Philippines

Yahooo and Gooogle

Have a break and try this one.

Do you mispelled your favorite search engines once?

Here’s one trick.

When you misspell www.yahoo.com to www.yahooo.com or www.google.com to www.gooogle.com. It will redirect to the same website. Heheh. Try it for yourself.

Computer screen colors and energy consumption

Monitor colors and electricity

Monitor colors and electricity
By Green Living Tips | Published 03/19/2007 | home , gadgets , energy , business
Computer screen colors and energy consumption

Did you know that the color white displayed on a CRT (Cathode Ray Tudbe) computer monitor uses 25% more electricity than when the color black is displayed? The mind boggles.

I really had given no thought to monitors and electricity usage aside from knowing that CRT displays, bigger screens, higher screen resolutions and more powerful video cards did have an impact on power consumption.

The Department of Energy provided the chart below, which shows the basic 16 Windows colors and the amount of electricity each uses when displayed as a solid color on a screen.

White – 74 Watts Fuchsia – 69 Watts Yellow – 69 Watts Aqua – 68Watts
Silver – 67 Watts Blue – 65 Watts Red – 65 Watts Lime – 63 Watts
Gray – 62 Watts Olive – 61 Watts Purple – 61 Watts Teal – 61 Watts
Green – 60Watts Maroon – 60 Watts Navy – 60 Watts Black – 59 Watts

There’s quite a difference between the various colors.

If you’re a web site designer, here’s a palette of colors outside of the basic 16 found to be the most environmentally-friendly in terms of power usage

If you’ve ever worked on older computers, you’ll know that white text on a black background can make your eyes bleed after a while; so I’m not recommending you run your screen like that . As for myself, I run 800×600 resolution and use Windows’ Marine color scheme which is just a variety of greens. I didn’t pick this for energy conservation reasons, simply because I spend so many hours in front of a screen each day and I found that continual white backgrounds were getting little harsh. The greens I found to be very easy on my eyes. It’s nice to know I’ve probably saved a little electricity as well as a result. I also use a blank screensaver mainly because, well, I just can’t see the point of using anything else

You can certainly make some energy savings when it comes to your screen saver (if you’re using a CRT monitor); instead of tropical islands teasing you, go for plain old black – a watt saved here and there when millions of people do it can really add up. As for actual dollar savings, I don’t think you’ll be exclaiming “wow!” when your next power bill arrives; but every penny counts.

Don’t forget also to take advantage of the various power management features that are available on most modern computers. These settings can shut down your monitor after a specified period, stop your hard driving spinning needlessly when it’s not in use and a variety of other electricity saving options. If you’re a Windows user, these settings can be found by clicking on the Start button, selecting “Control Panel” and then double clicking on Power “Options”.

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[Ubuntu-PH] Announcement: June is National ICT Month

[Ubuntu-PH] ANNOUNCEMENT: JUNE IS NATIONAL ICT MONTH
Friday, May 29, 2009 8:46 AM

From: “Yolynne Medina”
To:

FYI

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Alvin Marcelo
Date: Fri, May 29, 2009 at 12:19 AM

The Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) is
pleased to announce June as National ICT Month. The celebration is
pursuant to Proclamation Number 1521, issued by Her Excellency President
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in May 2008, declaring June of every year as
National ICT Month.

National ICT Month is placed under the auspices of the Commission on
Information and Communications Technology (CICT), which is the lead
government agency tasked to plan, promote and oversee the country’s ICT
development. The CICT enjoins all government agencies and industry
partners to celebrate National ICT Month with activities that will help
promote and further strengthen the competitiveness of the Philippine ICT
industry.

We would like to invite you to inform the CICT of any events (conferences,
seminars/trainings, exhibits), which you may be organizing to celebrate
this year’s ICT month. These will be included in a calendar of activities
that the CICT will be posting on our website for the information of the
general public. Please email to Ms. Gemma Peñalosa at OSEC@cict.gov.ph.
For other inquiries, you may call telephone nos. 4261526 or 9271714.

Thank you.

–
Alvin B. Marcelo, MD (www.alvinmarcelo.com)

Director, UP Manila – National Telehealth Center
Director for Southeast Asia, International Open Source Network
Associate Professor of Surgery (Trauma), University of the Philippines Manila GPG: 0×77B200CA

Check out PANACeA: http://www.panacea-ehealth.net

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Sun’s Open Network Systems Launch

http://events.sun.com.ph/index.html

Sun’s Open Network Systems Launch

With greater economic pressures on businesses, this is the time for organizations to revisit their data center model, starting with the optimization of IT resources to gain better datacenter efficiencies and scale.

Give your datacenter an efficiency makeover with our latest Open Network Systems – a full range of versatile, flash-ready x64 rackmount servers, workstation and blade modular systems – that set to maximize the economics of computing with breakthrough application performance, scale and cost-efficiency.

 Join us as we unveil the new Sun systems based on Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series. Furthering our leadership in networking and Open Network Systems, Sun is the first vendor to embed low-latency high performance networking and Sun’s SSD/Flash storage technology in these revolutionary systems to deliver speed, simplicity and savings.

Add new touches to your datacenter by redefining your system performance now!

Seats are limited. Register early.

Sincerely,

Sun Microsystems Phils., Inc.

Event Information  
Date: 30 Jun, 2009 (Tuesday) 08:00AM-01:30PM
Venue: Quezon Ballroom ,Makati Shangri-la Hotel
Web: http://events.sun.com.ph
 
Contact Information
Contact Person: Chester
Telephone: +632 723 2742 / +632 723 8813
Fax: +632 8857866
Email: events@sun.com.ph

Agenda
08:00am Registration & Solution Showcase
09:30am Opening Address
09:50am Presentation by Intel
10:05am Next Generation Nehalem Systems
10:45am Break and Solution Showcase
11:20am What’s in the Future of SSD, Flash Technology
12:00pm Closing by Sun
12:10pm Lunch and Solution Showcase
13:00pm Lucky draw
13.30pm End of event

http://events.sun.com.ph/registration.html

Ubuntu Philippine Team Jaunty Release Party

Philippine Team’s Jaunty Release Party

April 25, 2009 at 6:00PM/1800H.
Strata 2000 F. Ortigas Jr. (Emerald) Ave., Ortigas Center, Pasig

 
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1107039

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-ph/2009-April/001776.html

Globe-MSDN Session for March: XAML and Silverlight Deep Dive

God Day!

 

Globe Labs, together with Microsoft, invites developers to attend the March Globe-MSDN Session entitled ‘XAML and Silverlight Deep Dive’.  It will be held on March 27, 2009 at the Microsoft Office, Makati City.

       

Training details are as follows:

 

Venue: Office and Exchange Conference Rooms Microsoft Office 16^th Floor 6750 Ayala Ave., 

Makati City

Time: 6:00PM to 8:00PM

Skills Pre-requisite: Experience with either VB.NET or C#, Flash, ASP.Net, Web Development

 

For registration, please login at the Globe Labs portal (www.globelabs.com.ph) and kindly use the event code ‘994AE’.  Registration is on a first-come, first-serve basis.

 

To know more about MSDN, please visit their site at http://msdn.microsoft.com.

 

Note: Just sharing.

Events and Announcements Old Entry2 at ph.ubuntuforums.org

Events and Announcements Old Entry1 at ph.ubuntuforums.org

#To minimized the space I removed the old entry.
#To all please feel free to post ICT events and announcements that you know. Thanks.

[B]Rails Rumble 2008[/B]
October 18-19, 2008
[url]http://app.railsrumble.com/[/url]

[B]The Graphics and Publishing Seminar[/B]
October 21-24, 2008
AIM ACCEED Conference Center
Benavides cor. Trasierra Sts., Legaspi Village, Makati City
[url]http://www.fmi.com.ph/gps08oct.html[/url]

:KS [B]Intrepid Release Party Manila[/B]
Tentative: October 31,2008 Friday | UP Campus, Ateneo Campus, Internet Cafe
[url]http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=796041[/url]
[url]https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IntrepidReleaseSchedule[/url]

[B]Asia Open Source Conference and Showcase[/B]
October 2008
[url]http://www.oss.ph/summit_info.html[/url]

[B]Sun MySQL Tour – Philippines 2008[/B]
November 6, 2008, Thursday Time:8:00am – 3:00pm
Grand Ballroom,Hotel Intercontinental, Manila
[url]http://ph.sun-promo.com/mysql_tour/ph/[/url]

[B]Google DevFest Manila[/B]
November 7, 2008, Friday 1:00PM-10PM, University of Philippines
[url]http://code.google.com/events/hackathons/devfest/devfest-manila.html[/url]

[B]Plone Conference 2008[/B]
[B]World Plone Day[/B]
November 7th
[url]http://www.openplans.org/projects/plone-marketing/world-plone-day[/url]

[B]Linux Professional Institute (LPI) Levels 1 and 2 Community Examinations[/B]
DEADLINE OF APPLICATION:  15 November 2008
DATE OF EXAMINATIONS:  1 December 2008 (Monday)
CICT, CP Garcia Ave., Quezon City
[URL="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-ph/2008-November/001675.html"]https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-ph/2008-November/001675.html[/URL]

[B]11th Philippine Web Awards[/B] Nominations until Sept. 30
21 November 2008, Friday 07:00 PM Pasay City
[url]http://www.philippinewebawards.com/[/url]

[B]Team Lakbay Open Source presents Drupal (a bring-your-own laptop workshop!)[/B]
Saturday, November 22, 2008. Registration starts at 1pm.
Elk’s Club Philippines, 7th floor Corinthian Plaza, Legaspi Village, Makati City (near Greenbelt1)
Contact Cecille at 0922.9409980 / 0928.5081766 / 0917.6421319 / cecillesoliven at gamepilipinas.com

[B]The Philippine Web International Conference and Exhibition (ICE’08 )[/B]
[I]Conference[/I]
20 – 21 November 2008, Thursday and Friday 09:00 AM to06:00 PM
Function Rooms 1 – 3, SMX Convention Center, Pasay City
[I]Exhibition[/I]
20 – 22 November 2008, Thursday to Saturday 08:00 AM to 05:00 PM
Hall 4, SMX Convention Center, Pasay City
[url]http://www.mediag8way.com.ph/?_s=16[/url]

[B]COMDDAP EXPO Manila 2008[/B]
Computer Manufacturers Distributors & Dealers Association of the Philippines
December 4-7, 2008 SMX Convention Center, Manila
[url]http://www.comddap.org/[/url]

[B]FOSS X’mas Party[/B]
[url]http://www.phpugph.com/talk/index.php/topic,7103.0.html[/url]

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[B]Information Technology JOBS FAIR[/B]
September 30 to October 2, 2008 Philippine Trade Training Center
[url]http://www.itexpo.com.ph/jobfair.php[/url]
[email]itexpo2008@yahoo.com[/email]
[url]http://www.trabaho.com/[/url]

Digital Versatile Card

New Technology Idea:
Name: Digital Versatile Card, Digital Versatile Media Card, Digital Sticker, Digital Notes, Digital Omni Card
Physical Properties: Like a thin sheet of Digital Picture Frame, Can be Flexible/Non-flexible, there is a embedded internal memory like on a mobile sim card, high-end model can have a touch enable technology.

Example Usage: Train Ticket, Business Card, Promotional Card

This is a size of standard business card. Can be use as a platform for information and communication. Can display a news updates, advertisements, announcements and bulletin. Data can be update through mobile technology sms or email.
I think this technology idea will be in use worldwide.
This idea pop-up in my mind during a conference on mobile technology.

Capture websites screenshots using Mozilla Firefox Add-ons

You can use the following Mozilla add-ons to capture a websites screen shots and save it in image file format.

WebShots 0.03
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6168
https://brentf.homeserver.com/blog

FireShot 0.69
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5648
http://screenshot-program.com/fireshot/

Screengrab 0.96
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1146
http://www.screengrab.org/