PDF or Portable Document Format is a very popular format to send digital documents over the net or even for folks to download. It was invented by the Adobe company. The unique thing about it is that they are secure, well most of the time. You can control whether or not a user will be allowed to copy text, save or make any changes etc.

Picture this, instead of sending your boss reports made and saved into MS Words format or Powerpoint, why not save your work as PDF? They look presentable, your work mates in the cc loop will not be able modify it and best of all it looks Professional.

By the way, creating a PDF file using the actual software is not free. That’s why there are other alternative softwares out there that creates PDF files for you from your existing Wrds, Excel etc. It’s cool! I found one called Primo. It creates your PDF files under your ‘Print’ options. Writing an e-book anyone?

Oh, I got an idea, write a short story of your recent luxury vacations and send it as an e-book to your loved ones. They can even print it with your photos and all.

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Well what do you know, after blogging for a while I have come to know a few words and jargons that are used in the blogsphere. Stuff like “Atom” (type of web feed, written in XML, which allows a user to download any updates made to the website or blog using a feed), “Blog Hop” (to move from one blog after another to read the entries or to leave comments), “Meme” (..chain letter where bloggers answer questions or participate in a quiz designed to give a quick overview of the author’s personality.) and even “Link Love” like the one i received from Easywordpress.com from Monika Mundell.

I found a website called bloggosary.com which lists down almost all the jargons used among bloggers. Pretty useful I might say.

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Remember just a few years back when ring tone is just this one melody without the ‘real tone’ that we have today? At the time ring tones started with some built in monophonic melody that you can’t customize. You pretty much have to choose from a few one that has been pre-installed by the phone company. Most of it were classical music that are under public domain. When the technology became a little better, folks were able to ‘customize’ their own ring tone melody by fiddling with the keypad. You know like playing a do-re-mi on a normal keyboard. I used to be really good at that. Making songs that made people go like “Hey, that’s so cool. I want one too!” Soon after I noticed people were putting up websites on how to make this song and that song by giving you the keypad guide.

Another so called breakthrough is when polyphonic ring tone was introduced. it’s like having a whole bunch of musical instruments playing together. For example you have the drums, bass part, the rhythm and melody all at the same time. Depending on the device that plays these tones, you will either get a very ‘real’ sound or perhaps a very ‘fake’ digital sound. Normally the files consist of a MIDI files. Of course it can’t play vocals. Only the melody part.

At this point of time, we have moved to the ‘truetone’ concept or “realtone”, “mastertone”, or “superphonic ringtone” whatever they call it. This is where you actually hear the actual music with the vocals and all. Most phones now supports many file formats like mp3, AAC, WMA even Wave formats. You can even get Free Ring tones or even download it for a fee. The possibility is endless now. You can have genres like Country Ringtones, R&B Ringtones, Jamaican Ringtones, Pop, even Rock Ringtones.

I have noticed that the latest handphones like the ones I bought for my parents for Christmas, (it’s a Sony Ericsson), even has ‘video ringtone’. Meaning I can play any video files as a ringtone whenever someone calls me. For example, if you have a boss that you don’t like, you can add a video of Sponge Bob or something whenever he calls. You can even record your own friends or family video just like what I did. Whenever I call my dad, there will be a video playing with me shouting “Oi dad! It’s me! Pick up the phone lah!” Cool eh? What’s next?

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I recently stumbled upon some NASA website and came across this crater called Galle in Mars. It is also know as the “Happy Face” or “Smiley” crater. Is it coincidence or you think some other folks might have done that on purpose?

Here’s my theory. In a few hundred years from now, time travel is possible. We could have mastered the physics behind it and traveling to Mars may have been some normal thing to do. Perhaps some catastrophe happened and the last thing we humans still have is sense of humor. Thus a group of people decided to add some markings on an existing crater with the hope that folks will stop fighting about who owned the “smiley” character.

Okay, definitely not a good idea for a movie. You don’t even need HDMI switches for this one!

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