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This is one of the photos that I took when I first bought my Canon 60D.   It was taken using an 18-55mm kit lens.  You can see more of my shots in http://500px.com/paulvargas .

I just spotted this cute lizard in the vicinity of our office.  Who would expect it to pose like a boss!?

Before I found this straight-forward solution, I had been trouble-shooting my Google App Engine for 3 weeks because I cannot point my application site to my naked domain ( http://vargas.im ). You have a naked domain problem when your website cannot work without a www in front. So if you have mydomain.com as your domain, it can only be opened only by entering www.mydomain.com . When someone enters only mydomain.com (notice the missing www in front) the error is shown. Although there are a lot of articles on the web on how to fix this, these guides are not applicable for Google Apps anymore.  Google has restricted this feature and the only way to do it was to put an A record in your DNS settings, which needs an IP address and not an alias. Google cannot give us a specific IP address because they host their apps in different servers and it is difficult to maintain these service by hard-coded IP address. Fortunately, I found an IP address that you can assign to yo

Whenever you publish your email address on your website, it will be vulnerable to email harvesters and spammers.  What they usually do is they use their own software that "crawls" over millions of websites and search and scan the all the texts and look for those words containing the email patterns. A a typical HTML code for an email link would look like this:   <a href= "mailto:myEmail@myDomain.com" > myEmail@myDomain.com </a>     As a good practice, we have to make sure that email addresses that appear on your site are obfuscated or cloaked.  In this way, only people can read it but not by bots and other web-crawlers. Email addresses can be made un-readable to these software by not putting the email address directly as plain text.  We can use the power of JavaScript to compose your email address. I'll show you how we can do this by following these steps: Step 1:    Create an anchor element and assign an ID to it. In this e

Samsung will be unveiling their new product in Germany tomorrow (11 Oct).   Head of Mobile Division JK Shin has confirmed that this new Galaxy S3 Mini will have a 4-inch display.  This is their response to a huge demand of 4-inch screen phone in Europe. Let's look at the difference between the original Galaxy S3 and it's younger brother, the Galaxy S3 Mini. FEATURES GALAXY S3 GALAXY S3 "mini" Display 4.8 Super AMOLED 4.0 Super AMOLED Pixel Resolution 1280 x 720 800 x 480 Processor Exynos 4 quad core 1.4 Ghz STE U8420 dual-core 1.0 Ghz RAM 1 GB 1 GB Camera 8 megapixels 5 megapixels Storage 16, 32, or 64 GB Internal, microSD up to 64 GB 16 GB Internal, microSD up to 32 GB Galaxy S3 Mini id an entry-level smartphone so we should expect the price to be cheaper than the larger S3 . We'll wait and see tomorrow. Hopefully Apple won't sue them for using the word "Mini" :)

I just watched a video on YouTube showing how to physically copy and reproduce a wrench (the tool that is used by plumbers like Super Mario ) by just using a 3D printer.  This paradigm-shifting technology triggered a lot of interest from hobbyist, home makers, and even hackers.  It will enable you to  reproduce anything you want; from bolts and nuts, to chess pieces and toy parts (imagine not having to worry about losing your Lego parts?). In the very near future, this technology, just like our pc, this will be available in each individual's home. This might help speed up our technological innovations and evolution.  Creating prototypes of your inventions can now easily be done at the comfort of your "home lab" a.k.a. garage or basement. While 3D printer in each home looks promising, some people are wary of its effect.  What will happen to our manufacturing industry? Will they still survive if everyone can create their own phone casing or clothes ha