Now you can! With the official release of the new Philippines National Keyboard Layout, Filipino all-over the world can now type the characters that before we have to copy-and-paste elsewhere (or memorize ASCII codes).

For example, if I want to type “ñ”, I just click (RAlt)/AltGr+n and I get ñ. Typing Batangueño is now way much faster and easy. Or if you are creating financial reports and your currency is in Philippine Peso, forget about typing PHP/Php, just press (RAlt)/AltGr+p and you get the ₱eso sign.

Font availability is not a problem at all. Months ago I tested the ₱eso sign availability by simply asking it on µblogs and social networks – Linux, Windows, and Mac users can see it! And Ññ of course has been in the ASCII range (0-255) for a looooong time already.

Here’s more, start typing in Baybayin (or Alibata as was wrongly labeled by our Education system) direct from your keyboard! No need to use online typepads or copy pasting, or escaping via HTML codes, just type as you would when typing in Latin.

My name in Baybayin: ᜑᜓᜏᜈ᜔ ᜐᜒᜐᜒ ᜃᜓᜈᜒᜆ (Huwan Sese Kuneta; JC John Sese Cuneta)
Baybayin in Baybayin: ᜊᜌ᜔ᜊᜌᜒᜈ᜔
Mabuhay in Baybayin: ᜋᜊᜓᜑᜌ᜔

But as you can see, you will need a font to display the Baybayin characters. Soon however, newer versions of different operating systems will have a Baybayin font included, we are working on it. For now, as a temporary solution, you can download one of the 30-50 Baybayin fonts available online! Yes, we have that much fonts, Filipinos are creating new fonts left and right.

Can someone read it? Oh yes. Offline and online. If you are in Megapolitan Manila, probably you haven’t seen or met one yet, but outside of Mega Manila, there are lots. Online, you probably encountered us talking in Baybayin via Twitter, Facebook, Plurk, Identi.ca/Status.net, Multiply, even on our blogs and comments, but you don’t have a font.

Fair enough. We included a Baybayin font created by Nordenx, in our downloadable zip files. Simply install it and voila, you will start seeing the beautiful Baybayin writing script of our great Nation.

Ok, enough talk, head on over to these links to install the Philippines National Keyboard Layout (with Baybayin).

The Official Philippines National Keyboard Layout Page
The Philippines National Keyboard Layout for Linux Is Now Out!
Philippines National Keyboard Layout for Windows is Out!

License: GNU/GPLv3

Wrangler celebrates life lived full throttle. Test your nerves. Charge into the wilderness. Find your true self in the great outdoors. Constant action, an adrenaline high. Darkness held back by headlights. Old friends around you. The bluest blue denim jeans. A motorcycle jacket. A vintage Tee and slim-fit shirt. Dusty and worn: wide awake as the sun comes up. This adventure takes you to the edge. This is Vegas Heat, Wrangler’s Spring/Summer 2010 Collection.

Join the Wrangler Expressions Photo Contest by submitting your own personal interpretation of one of Wrangler’s expressions (styles). 1 dude and 1 dudette will have a chance to express their own fashion statement with P3,000 Wrangler GC EACH!

Yes, almost everything can be learned from YouTube nowadays. Even driving, or more specifically, driving a manual or stick-shift car. I myself have just completed ten hours of driving school and will vouch that 90 percent of what the instructor taught me, are taught in the following videos. Read the full post at How to Drive a Manual Car at Pinoy Seminars.

Greetings from AQ Services International!

We would like to invite you to apply for a mystery shopping program. It would require you to mystery visit several petrol stations.

1. For these mystery shops you need a PERSONAL CAR (motorcycles are not allowed). You are required to observe the service and facilities standards of petrol stations.

2. Reimbursement: The shop fee is 450 Pesos per shop. You are required to make petrol and store item purchase. The minimum amount to spend on fuel is 200 Pesos.

3. Deadline: These mystery shops have to be completed within the one week and the surveys must be completed and submitted within 24 hours of mystery shopping, latest by the 14th of November 2009

Please note that these mystery shops are to be executed between 9 am to 3 pm, 7 days a week (Including weekend).

We will inform you from the 19th October onwards if you are selected for one or more mystery shops. Do check your mailbox for updates!

Summary:

Project: Mystery Shopping for an oil & gas company
Task: Evaluating and Research
Time: 9 am to 3 pm, 7 days a week (Including weekend)
Deadline: 14th of November 2009
Fee: 450 Pesos
Location: Philippines

If you are interested in getting some extra money over the weekend please contact my colleague or myself at feisal@aq-services.com or me at alessandro@aq-services.com.

TELL A FRIEND

We are always looking for new mystery shoppers. If you have friends or family who might be interested, please refer them to us. You can redirect them to our website or use the following link (copy paste the link in your browser if it is not active):

http://www.aq-services.com/mystery-shoppers/tell-a-friend-about-mystery-shopping

More on Ngenius!

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Hail to the artist of this new work of art featuring your all time favorite disney heroes in their seductive pose!

Warning: Not for kids!

Find it out here: disney-heroes

Artistic pretensions rock!

WATCH THE VIDEO HERE

Kenny Rankin died of lung cancer

Kenny who? The name just rang a tiny bell in my mind and the first thing that came into my mind was Chicken Roasters and the unit of temperature we get to convert from Kelvin in grade school science class…[Read More]

Which is more pleasing to hear: I Googled Bing… OR …I Binged Google?

Microsoft, in its bid to capture the search engine market, lauched its repackaged search engine, Live Search, which is now called Bing.[Read More]

Philippine Independence Day Google Logo

Google is known to add pizzazz to their already very colorful trademarked logo for every significant event within a year[Read More]

Show how wearing your Converse shoes makes them a “true original” and you might just Win one of 6 Converse Gift Pack worth P3,000. Simply create a photo, video or artwork that answers the theme and upload it on the Converse Multiply Group. Get the most number of votes online to move on to the judges where you will be one step away from winning. And don’t worry if you don’t win the first time around because your entry will still be good for the 2nd batch. Just remember to upload it again.

More details on Win a Converse Gift Pack >>>

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All in all a very well done production by the Provincial Tourism Office, and Mr. Al Tesoro and company; not only did they put up a fine show with outstanding performances by everybody, they raised the level of awareness of Capiznons on the performing arts, and the artists that make us proud to be sons and daughters of Capiz.

Saludo: a fitting tribute to Capiznon National Artists

I love scrapbooking.

When I got into this vice addiction hobby, I never knew that I’d be putting in so much time, effort, money and emotion into it. Before the dawn of digital scrapbooking, I had already amassed a HUUUGE collection of stickers, papers, albums, scissors, and all sorts of embellishments one can put on a layout. I’ve done my share of printing every picture thru Walmart and Target and even Snapfish. To-date I have categorized my paper into colors, my stickers into small, medium, large and extra-large, my embellishments in neat little tiny boxes and my rolls of ribbons in roll boxes. If not for my husband jokingly warning me that he’d be donating all my stuff to Goodwill (which is his way of saying “ENOUGH!”), I would have filled the green room from top to bottom with no place left to go to.

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Check out this poster for WORKSHOPS UNLIMITED (if you’re into HIPHOP/DANCE feel free to join!)

WORKSHOPS UNLIMITED
taking hiphop to your streets

2 HOURS
10 CLASSES
3 LOCATIONS
UNLIMITED DANCE MOVES

starts at January 19 2009

you can CHOOSE your LOCATION:

Danza Flamenca, Makati, 5917 Algier St., Tuesdays & Fridays, 7-9pm
Vibe Studio, 14 Judge Jimenez St. Cubao QC, Wednesdays & Saturdays, 7-9pm
Club Filipino, Greenhills, San Juan, Mondays & Thursdays, 7-9pm

FEE: 2,000 PHP (approx. 45 USD)

My friend Jana Estrevillo has a new campaign – check it out! It’s an experiment on Creative Social Entrepreneurship!

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New year! New opportunities! New chance to a new life!

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(See enlarged photo below)Cebu’s Sinulog Festival is just weeks away and alongside this grandeur colorful festivity are street dancing, street parties and of course, the much awaited parade of local Cebuana beauties, the Miss Cebu 2009.

Cebu locals and foreign tourists are now keyed up to what’s new and hot the province of Cebu could offer. Will the Miss Cebu 2009 pageant bring charm and harmony to all its spectators? Will it showcase the different talent anchors of Cebuanos in the field of fashion, clothing, arts, photography, computer technology, business, entertainment, politics, medicine and journalism?Focusing on Ms. Cebu 2009 itself, judging on the official photos that were released by the Miss Cebu 2009 website, the candidates looks so

See the photo flaw at http://www.obnoxiousqueer.com

You must have perfected the art of digital photography by now. You are adept in operating a digital camera, you can probably punch into the settings and menus with your eyes closed! I know I can (well, maybe half-closed). I am attached to my digital camera in as much as I am to my laptop. I never go out without a camera on my purse. I could leave home without a cellphone but never without a digital camera!

But what happens if you are handed a disposable camera? You remember those. You know, that kind where you wind up the wheel on the upper right corner and peek into this tiny window as you point and snap to take a picture at the same time you are pressing on that flash button on the front of the camera. That kind.

I bet that will be a real challenge! Well, are you up for it?

If you only have one photo to take when a camera is handed to you, what would you take? Are you going to shoot randomly or think hard?

A traveling one-time use camera is sent out to the world and asks people it meets to take ONE PHOTO of any thing, any event, or of any one that triggers interest, inspires, disgusts them at that particular first chanced meeting with the camera.

Learn more about the new website and how you can be part of it at: One Photo Project

Tonight is the night where people around the world will witness a rare formation in the sky.  A Giant Smiley will be seen as Venus, Jupiter, and a Crescent Moon comes close together to give us Hope in this ever Darkening world.

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Sa matagal na panahong pananakop ng mga kastila, sila ay nag-iwan ng mga bakas na hanggang sa ngayon ay marka parin ng ating bayan. Paano tayo naging malayang kung gayong may mga bakas parin ng ating pagkaalipin katulad ng pangalan ng ating bansa na malinaw na nagsasabing tayo ay pag-aari parin ni Haring Felipe II?

Nakakapagtakang nakalaya na tayo’t lahat ay mukhang nakalimutan ng ating mga naunang lider o bayani na palitan ang pangalan ng ating bansa? Hindi naman siguro lingid sa kanilang kaalaman noon na ang pangalang Pilipinas ay ipinagkaloob ni Villalobos sa ating bansa sa ngalang ni haring Felipe.

Nakalimutan nga kaya nilang palitan, sinadyang kalimutan o wala sa isip nilang palitan ang pangalang Pilipinas.