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Two weeks ago, I created a 500px account.  I felt that this website is the next big thing when it comes to photo sharing. I uploaded some of my old photos and to be honest, I was impressed by its take-up and visibility rate when a couple of strangers commented on my sets.  That means those images that I just uploaded were highly visible to the public.  500px' home page highlights those photos that were recently uploaded. So far so good. Yesterday, I went to Singapore Botanic Garden and when I got home I was so excited to upload all my new photos.  Unfortunately, I reached its 10-photos-per-week limit. I was a bit disappointed by the limit they imposed but then, it's a free service, beggars can't be choosers.   The only way to remove this limit is to be an "Awesome" user by paying $49.95 per year. I then compared it's price with Flickr.  It's surprising to know that my old photo-sharing service with lots of subscribers is way cheaper than 500px.  Fl

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

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 attended a Microsoft seminar held at NTUC Centre at Marina Bay. They talked about the new Visual Studio 2012 and a bit of Windows 8. Visual Studio 2012 is not just an IDE. It’s an integrated tool that helps you throughout the Application Lifecycle. You can even create storyboard! One of the most interesting things about this product is the Code Analysis, Unit Testing and Load Testing feature. Take a look of their very cool presentation slide. Opening Remarks Ziriad Saibi, Director Developer and Platform Evangelism Developer Collaboration with Team Foundation Server 2012 Ervin Loh, Visual Studio ALM MVP, K365LABS Sdn Bhd Agile Project Management with Visual Studio 2012 Colin Nah, Co-Founder, Biz Era.Net Pte Ltd From Unit Testing to Load Testing: Visual Studio – Your Complete Testing Tool Ervin Loh, Visual Studio ALM MVP, K365LABS Sdn Bhd Ensure Code Quality in Your Project Sandeep Joshi, Visual Studio ALM MVP Building on Windows 8 using Visual Studio