The Official Trailer of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 Is Out!
Posted on 28 April 2011 | No responses | 912 views
After a decade, Harry Potter fans worldwide will finally see the last installment to the Harry Potter series as the final part of the movie Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows will be released this July 15, 2011.
And I must admit that I am one of those who got hooked with Harry Potter. I have read all of the books and watched all of the film adaptation too. In fact, my friends and I just watched Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part 1 over at my friend’s house the other day. Though I found Part 1 of the Deathly Hollows boring and dragging, it never stopped me from watching it again. Back then, I couldn’t wait to see the final part of the film and after five months of waiting, Harry Potter fans are now given a glimpse of the final saga of the Harry Potter series.
Watching the film gave me goosebumps all over. I can’t wait for July. Please let it be July now!
One thing’s for sure, I’ll finally be able to watch a movie with SM IMAX Cinema here in Cebu and my feet is clapping with glee!!! 
photo credit: imdb.com
Creating a Website Logo Using Photoshop and Photoscape
Posted on 28 April 2011 | 4 responses | 1,020 views
How many hours do you spend creating your site’s logo?
Mine took 6 hours++. LOL. With my tired fickle-minded brain, I’ll just settle for what I have made now and will try to get back to changing it in the near future. So here’s a couple of logos I created with the help of Photoshop and Photoscape. They’re just the same except that I had to think hard if I’d go with a shorter width or the longer one.
I like the 2nd one best.
To know what logo I chose, you can visit TheTravellingFeet.
Update: I can’t get over the logo and thought of changing it again. See how fickle-minded I am?
I actually chose the last logo on top and published it on my site. But after 10 hours, I changed my mind and came up with this…
So in case you visit this site and check on the other site and discover another header banner, that only means one thing… 
P.S. Everything’s still created using Photoshop and Photoscape. Except for that oblong stamp mark which I got from Google, the rest were created by yours truly
Summer Love
Posted on 2 April 2011 | 7 responses | 1,183 views
Now that summer is here, are you ready to go to the beach?
they say that the beach sand is therapeutic
after 37 years, these two still managed to show their unconditional love for each other.
models: my ma and pa
camera: Nokia N82
location: Vaño Beach, Marigondon, Mactan, Cebu
date taken: January 2010, after my mom got out of the hospital due to a mild stroke, her 3rd.
Out With The Old, In With Another Old
Posted on 18 March 2011 | 2 responses | 897 views
Huh?!?!?
Ever since I got a Torque phone, which I won (consolation prize) from the post I wrote about SM Cyberzone’s Summer Festival Experience, I’ve been using it as a spare phone for my other mobile number and when my sister got a new spanking iPhone 4, I countlessly begged her to donate her BB or her E63 phone but to no avail 
And then some time last February, she announced that they’ll be replacing their company provided phones and they can buy back their old phones for just 1k. I was ecstatic! Finally, I’ll own a QWERTY phone. I wasn’t really thrilled with the thought of owning one since I know it would be a pain in the butt to master texting from a QWERTY phone (especially while driving) but nonetheless, I was still thrilled knowing that I’ll be having a new toy.
the calculator phone or the qwerty phone? what’s your prefernce?
So after waiting for 2-3 weeks, my sister finally turned over her used Nokia E63. I got a new OLD phone! Yey! Actually, this phone is useless when text messaging and outgoing calls are concerned since this one doesn’t have any load The only time it does have load (only P5-10 max) in it is when I feel that the sim’s about to expire. Other than that, I use this phone whenever I’m lazy too get out of bed and check my emails from Lenny. One thing’s for sure, I love the E63′s ability to allow me to check my emails via my wireless internet connection. Oh, I love my Nokia N82 too much that I’m not willing to give it up yet as my primary phone despite it’s almost bad shape. hehehe
To my Torque phone, I truly enjoyed using your super cute ala calculator shape. But I know you are in good hands with Dookie. To my new OLD Nokia E63 phone, hello there! Looking forward to more fruitful years with you 
So, out with the Old and in with another old, weeeeeeeeeeeee!
Simple Steps to Import a Backup Copy of Blog Files on a Self-Hosted WordPress Site
Posted on 14 March 2011 | 2 responses | 3,110 views
Disclaimer: I’m not a techie person and I didn’t take this course in college 
This post was prompted due to the forgetfulness of a friend
So I’m deviating from my usual posts and will turn techie on this instance to give you a quick fix on how to import a backup copy of your website files on your self-hosted WordPress site in case you move to a different hosting provider or when something goes wrong with your website.
Before I proceed, let me tell you that it is VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY important to add a plug-in called WordPress Database Backup by Austin Matzko to your WordPress site in order to schedule a backup of your files on your preferred time. You can choose from an hourly, daily, weekly and monthly backups if you want. If this plugin doesn’t work on your site, you probably need to either change your theme, look for another plugin that works or sing “Mary Had a Little Lamb” joke! Honestly, I dunno. Maybe you can try and remove all your plugins and themes and install them one by one to determine who the culprit is.
Your back up file will be sent to your email and you need to secure them or else risk loosing those years of blogging.
Also remember that normally, web hosting providers DO NOT secure a backup copy of your website. They only do this in random and it is your responsibility to back up your files (unless of course you are paying your hosting provider crazy money to backup your files for you).
And when something happens to your website, or you decide to transfer them to a different hosting provider, here are simple steps to follow when importing a copy of your backup files on your website.
***Before anything else, be sure you have a fresh install of WordPress on the domain name you are working on. If you are transferring to a different hosting provider or simply doing a clean install, be sure to install the WordPress Database Backup by Austin Matzko and send a test backup on your email which you will use to determine the name of your database as mentioned on Step #2.
Now, you are ready to begin the transfer/import.
Look for your Back Up email and download the file to your computer
(the files that you’ll be transferring, ok?)
a backup file email looks something like this
Go to your cPanel and find the phpMyAdmin button
Follow the simple steps on the next image
click the image to enlarge
1) Find phpMyAdmin in cPanel
2) Be sure you install the backup file on the correct database
In this example, the back up filename is undersv1_wrd17_wp_20110313_780.sql.gz. You need to look for undersv1_wrd17 since this is the name of your database and select this database on the phpMyAdmin screen. Other hosting providers may have other ways of naming their databases.
3) Click the Import Tab
4) Click the “Choose File” button and find the email file you downloaded in your computer which was mentioned above
Be sure that you select the right format of the file being imported. Select .SQL if the extension filename is sql.gz. Select .XML if the extension filename has .xml
5) Click the “Go” button on the lower right side and wait for the import to be complete
6) When the import is successful, you will see a message on top that the “Import has been successfully finished…”
Alright! That’s It. After this, you’re all set! Go to your WordPress site and check it out!
Wait, something went wrong? You see a blank space staring back at you in your site? Try changing your theme and check your site again. If all’s good, revert back to the original theme you are using. If that won’t still work or if the import in phpMyAdmin wasn’t a success, then I would suggest you contact your hosting provider’s tech support to help you identify the issue. This could be related to a compatibility issue of your old hosting provider’s database and the new one. I’ve experienced that when I transferred this site to Bluehost last year. I was paying for a cheap hosting provider ($1/month and I got my money’s worth. pft!) prior to that and had issues with the transfer since their Database version is older than what BlueHost was using. I’m just glad that the tech support folks from BlueHost immediately helped me out with my problem when I contacted them to seek assistance. Now, I also had issues transferring my other sites and the issues were different and the tech support at Bluehost was still able to help me out. I also made sure I asked them what the problem was and how to fix it so that I can fix them on my own when I encounter more issues since I have quite a few sites to transfer over to Bluehost.
Anyway, the simple steps to import a backup copy of blog files on a self-hosted WordPress site which I just discussed are tried and tested steps that I continue following whenever I need to do an import/transfer and those simple steps never failed to give me the results I needed. So goodluck with your import and happy blogging! 
Did I forget something else here? Do let me know, ok? :-D
Updated: June 6, 2011.
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