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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 .

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

Wouldn't you wish that your phone could last for at least a day? In this article, I will show you how I managed to keep my phone up and running for 2 straight days! Just a proof that I'm not bluffing, here is my Galaxy S II phone's screenshot: I did not charge it for as long as 2 days and 15 hours. Now here are the steps on how I did it. 1. Disable all unwanted applications. When you first bought your phone, it came with some "free" apps that you may not necessary need. They are also known as "bloatware". My phone came with pre-installed Weather Apps and some apps that were installed by my Telco.  I disabled all of them by going to Settings > Applications screen. If you're not sure if it's safe to disable the application, you can ask me by sending your comments. Here are some screenshots of the applications that I disabled.  I have disabled Social Hub because I don't need it.  I also disabled

I just downloaded Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate from my MSDN Subscription. After 2 system restarts (yes, the installer will ask you to restart twice), I was surprised to see a very bright purple-grayish IDE. Despite of all the cool features that it offers like Code Analyzer, Performance Diagnostic, integration with Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools, and the faster connection with TFS, I am disappointed that MS guys decided to change the theme just to suit their “Metro” look-and-feel. To be honest, I love the VS 2010 color hues. It’s just so sad that I have to use this flat bright color. But hey, Microsoft is not stupid! They should have allowed the users to change the colors to personalize their IDE!. So I eagerly checked the settings and I know it should be located at TOOLS > OPTIONS menu. Sorry, I’m not shouting. It’s just that the Visual Studio 20120 menus are in CAPITAL letters. I found the option to change the Color Theme under the Environment > G