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Manny Pacquiao, The best pound for pound boxer.

Jingo — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:23:12 +0000

Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines, my brother you are the best. 7 different divisions. Now that’s a history. Nobody has done such in the history of boxing.

Congratulations Manny.

www.espn.com

Snow Leopard DVD on a USB thumbrive

Jingo — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:16:31 +0000

Just want to share how to make a backup of your Snow Leopard Install DVD on a USB thumb drive. This is a cool idea if you want to keep a copy even if your original SL DVD has been destroyed or being scratched and the worst…lost. I see a lot of mac users lost or damaged their copies and had to buy a new one. This one is for my MacBook Pro 15″.
Below are the steps, requirements and some screenshots.

Requirements:
OS X Snow Leopard
USB Thumb Drive at least 8GB capacity

1. Insert Snow Leopard install DVD
2. Go to Disk Utility

3. Select MAC OS X Install DVD from the side bar
4. Go to File>New?Disk Image from “Mac OS X Install DVD”

5. Rename under Save As: rename whatever you want. I kept mine as is. Will probably redo this and rename it with SL and which mac.

6. Press save, this will take at least 10 or more minutes.

When done, a .dmg file of Mac OS X Install DVD will be seen now on your desktop

7. Convert the file from .dmg to .iso. This is done by editing the filename

8. You will be prompted if you are sure to change the extension from .dmg to .iso? press Use .iso.
9. You will see now the .iso file on the sidebar in disk utility program

10. Insert your thumbdrive and wait Disk utility to recognize it, select the drive that says “untitled”. Just ignore my screenshot because i rename my thumb drive before this process. It doesn’t matter anyway.
11. Go to restore tab
12. Now go to the Mac OS X Install dvd .iso file from the sidebar and double click it.
13. A progress window will appear that says “Attach image “Max OS X Install DVD.iso”, you may skip the verification or go ahead and wait for the next step

14. The Mac OS X Install DVD will now mount on your desktop, you can close that one out because the image will now be seen in the Disk Utility program window, go there

15. Right click on the Mac OS X INstall DVD image (this is the lower portion on the side bar) and click “select source”
16. The Mac OS X Install DVD now will be the source under restore tab
17. Select your USB drive the “untitled” on the side bar and drag it to the “destination” field. Once there, you cannot rename it. Its okay coz you do not need to.Under the destination field, check the box that says Erase destination (this is actually checked as a default)
18. Then press restore tab
19. Then press erase, you will be asked with your administrator’s password, go ahead and press okay.
20. The next process is setting up which takes like half an hour or less depending on the mac you’re using.
21. You’re done. You can now eject the DVD, eject the thumb drive.
22. Reinsert the thumb drive and the Mac OS X Install DVD will mount on your desktop.
23. You are finish. You can change the icon if you like by going in to the get info and copy the icon and paste it into the thumbdrive’s get info to the the icon.

You can always do this again as long as you still have the original OS X DVD. But in my opinion, discs are vulnerable to scratches, your kids might play with it without
your knowledge. Lastly, if you wanna transfer this to another thumb drive, you can always do the step and set the sources. This is also applicable to an external hard drive, say partition it and allocate 1 partition to 8GB.

Enjoy your cool Snow Leopard.

Finder

Jingo — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:23:48 +0000

Finder

The Finder is like home base for your Mac. Represented by the blue icon with the smiling face, it’s one of the first things you see when you start working on your Mac.

Here are some keyboard shortcuts when you’re in Finder. By pressing:

1. Cmd+1: Icons view

2. Cmd+2: List view

3. Cmd+3: Column view

4. Cmd+4: Coverflow view

Enjoy….

Black on White – White on Black

Jingo — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:26:48 +0000

This tip was also applicable in OS X Leopard and is still continued for Snow Leopard:

Black on white is just a normal screen:

If you want to invert the color of the screen to White on Black, just go to System Preferences>Universal Access>Display

Or you can do the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Option+Cmd+8 and you will get this.

Cheers!!

My MacBook Pro 15″

Jingo — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 14:56:10 +0000

Love it.

MacBook Pro 2.16 GHz 2GB RAM 120 Gb HD.

My expectations on Macworld 2010

Jingo — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:15:26 +0000

I hope Apple Inc. would not release anything on Macworld 2010. Even on a special event if there’s any late this year is not excluded. I think mac owners like the newly updated MacBook Pros should enjoy these toys the fullest. I have the impression that Apple products tend to outdo each other and might be not a good sign for shifters. I am hoping they should stick to the gap on how to make more people buy mac prize wise.

My Top 10 Sports Icons

Jingo — Thu, 28 May 2009 04:07:19 +0000

When I started playing golf, Jack Niclaus was my inspiration especially his short game. His natural fade is his symbol. The bear won 18majors and Tiger Woods is on a hunt. I’ve been following his techniques since. When I saw Ben Hogan’s swing, its beautiful. When I tried to follow his style and basically the technique, my score was 10 shots better. It was very solid and straight, though not long but its a good start.

I love how he squares the club through impact, head is steady and his feet are silent.

He is a legend and the only player to win all 4 majors in one year.

Tiger Woods, won 80 tournaments already including 14 majors.

The Masters: 4

The U.S. Open: 3

The Open Champiosnhip: 3

The PGA Championship: 4

One of the greatest swings of all time.

My Wallpapers

Jingo — Mon, 11 May 2009 12:41:07 +0000

My wallpapers changing weekly:

April:

Seven

Jingo — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:58:29 +0000

My 7 favorite movies of all time.

1. The Last Of The Mohicans

This is a story about a great friendship between Hawkeye, the White Man, and Chingachook, the chief of the Mohicans. It is mainly about rescuing the Munro sisters (Alice and Cora Munro – daughters of English General, from being caught, and returning them to safety with their father during the war between the French and the English. The English army are having a problem because there are no more reinforcements. Daniel Day Lewis was great here, very natural and skillful. I watched this movie countless times already. It is inspiring and breathtaking. I like it when the Mohicans suddenly appear out of nowhere and do the job. Highly recommended.

2. Shawshank Redemption

This is a very nice movie, it will give hope to the hopeless. It reminds me that as long as we are capable, take advantage of doing what is needed to do in life and that’s work, enjoy the blessing of having a family & your friends. Watch it.

3. Spy Game

When a top-secret, unauthorized mission goes bad, CIA agent Tom Bishop (Pitt) is captured – and is sentenced to die. With just 24 hours to get him out alive, Bishop’s boss Nathan Muir (Redford) must battle enemies abroad and the system inside the CIA to save his friend.

4. Leon The Professional

Leon (Jean Reno) is a precise, calculating hit man–a consummate professional, with no family and no friends. However, he has casually befriended Mathilda (Natalie Portman, in an auspicious debut), a 12 year-old neighbor whose entire family, including her adored 4-year-old brother, is wiped out by some crooked DEA agents. The girl pleads with Leon to teach her how to be a “cleaner” and avenge her little brother’s death. However, once she learns a few skills, Mathilda saunters into the DEA offices with the sole intention of killing the psychotic agent (Gary Oldman) who actually masterminded the executions. But her intended victim turns the tables on her, and Leon must rescue her. Very exciting to see Leon at his best. The discipline and the accuracy. I love it when somebody like him can outdo the authorities and made them fools.

5. Heat

Hunters and their prey–Neil and his professional criminal crew hunt to score big money targets (banks, vaults, armored cars) and are, in turn, hunted by Captain Vincent Hanna and his team of cops in the Robbery/Homicide police division. A botched job puts Hanna onto their trail while they regroup and try to put together one last big ‘retirement’ score. Neil and Vincent are similar in many ways, including their troubled personal lives. At a crucial moment in his life, Neil disobeys the dictum taught to him long ago by his criminal mentor–’Never have anything in your life that you can’t walk out on in thirty seconds flat, if you spot the heat coming around the corner’–as he falls in love. Very nice exchange of bullets, in the middle of the street. Reminiscing of that California shootout way back.

6. Kiss Of The Dragon

KISS OF THE DRAGON. Jet Li stars as Liu Jiuan, a Chinese agent so dedicated to his job that he has no friends, no family, no dreams. He is sent to Paris to help the French police capture a Chinese gangster, but France’s top cop, Jeanne-Pierre Richard (Tcheky Karyo), has set Liu up to take the fall for a brutal killing he himself carried out. On the run in a strange city, Liu keeps a low profile until he unwillingly becomes friends with an American hooker, Jessica (Bridget Fonda)–who just happens to hold the key to his innocence. But Richard is always one step ahead of them–he has Jessica’s daughter. Li and Fonda make a great team; their relationship is at the core of the film, as neither character has ever been able to put his complete trust in another person before. I love Bridget Fonda, she’s natural and adorable. Can’t help but to take care of her.

7. The Bourne Ultimatum

Nobody will argue with me that Jason Bourne is the greatest in close encounters. Jaw dropping moves and kicks from everywhere. Very calm yet capable of immobilizing you in seconds.

The government’s most wanted amnesiac super-spy returns. Having just lost his girlfriend and only companion, his search for answers is now fuelled by much more than his own self-preservation. The film kicks off with Bourne tracking down a British journalist (Paddy Considine) who he believes has valuable information about his past. He quickly discovers that the government conspiracy runs far deeper than he realized, and so begins a riveting, action-packed game of cat and mouse with the CIA. Bourne plows through the bad guys like a mini-tornado, and after some breathtaking fight sequences and several nail-biting car chases, he closes in on the truth in a climactic stand-off on the streets (and rooftops) of New York City. Joan Allen and David Strathairn are excellent as two battling CIA directors, and Julia Styles pops up for a small but important turn as Bourne’s former government contact. Matt Damon continues to give Bourne the perfect mix of tough guy determination and sad-eyed desperation, and despite his physics-defying fists, he never comes off as the invincible super hero.

Mac Dreaming

Jingo — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:31:35 +0000

I’ve been dreaming to own a mac since I got here in Manila. I met a friend who is the boyfriend of my wife’s bestfriend and introduced it to me. Since then I’ve been working on how I can get one without jeopardizing my other responsibilities. Buying a computer entails a lot of guts and justification, and it has to be mac. No matter what I do now and in the future, I have to own one……Once I go mac, I won’t go back.