Happy 63rd Philippine Independence Day – A Baybayin Typepad gift for every Filipino

For my 63rd Philippine Independence Day post or now known as the Filipino-American Friendship Day – July 4, 1946, I’m releasing my adjusted version of Banyuhay’s Baybayin Typepad hereby called as Baybayin Typepad No.01.

Yes, as the name suggests this is the first. This great tool was developed by Banyuhay (a blog site written completely in Baybayin / ᜊᜌ᜔ᜊᜌᜒᜈ᜔). This is the first typepad for Baybayin I found and it won’t be the last.

Nordenx is also creating his own Baybayin Typepad. I am also writing my own, two jQuery-based Baybayin Typepad, the first jQuery version is already online (if you can find where I am hosting it, congrats) but it is not ready yet.

Simple instructions are inside, no need to download any fonts as long as you are using Firefox 3.5; Safari 4; and the latest Chrome nightly. Enjoy ᜊᜌ᜔ᜊᜌᜒᜈ᜔ and I hope this will encourage you to love and revive this beautiful writing system that we can call our own.

Check it out by clicking here.

Other New Features That Comes With Firefox 3.5

Firefox 3.5 is out and Mozilla once again leading in the race of advancing the web to embrace new technologies.  But let’s find out and see examples of the other new features that were not included in the Press Release.  Just click here to find out more.

There’s the new audio and video elements, webfonts, word-wrap, canvas . . .

Baybayin/Alibata – the Lost Writing Script of the Philippines

For my “111st Philippine Independence from Spain and Colonialism” post, I decided to unearthed the forgotten Filipino writing script our forefathers called as Baybayin.

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The Modern Filipino Alphabet

Today, we are using The Modern Filipino Alphabet or Ang Bagong Alpabetong Filipino. We have 28 characters in total, these are: Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Ññ, N͠g n͠g, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz.

The 16th letter ‘Ng’ is pronunced as endzi (/ŋ/) in itself or as in ping-pong or wing when already used in a word. Also if you noticed, I wrote the letter endzi with a tilde above it. This was the original way of writing endzi.

Continue reading here and know your Pre-Hispanic History!!

A Psycho Wolf Have Appeared!!

With the appearance of the Psycho Wolf, there are now a total of eight wolves roaming the world of WolfTeam, the latest online shooter game from Softnyx (the developers of Gunbound) and Mobiusgames (publisher of Mu Online).

Check out this new game that is rampaging the streets….

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Help needed to download GeoCities files?

Look no further, you have found the write place to learn how you can download your GeoCities files before the end of the year when Yahoo pulls-the-plug which will cause a permanent blackout in GeoCities (ie. offline; dead service).

I finished downloading my files from GeoCities, my decade old files that’s been sitting there I think even before the acquisition of Yahoo! Old site or not, whatever your reason may be for searching a way to get your files off GeoCities, I will show you how in 1-2-3.

Continue reading: Download Your Files from Yahoo GeoCities

The Real Peso Sign, How to type it?

Last night (my local time – Asean Common Time) I searched if there are fonts that were updated to include the Peso currency sign which is located at Unicode point 20B1.

I was planning on creating a Peso font if I can not find a one, this was after the availability of Peso sign was discussed during the Philippine Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope Release Party. My search turned-out positive, there’s not just one but countless of fonts already updated with the Peso sign included.

Continue reading this How-To…

iBlog5: A Summit for New and Old Bloggers Alike

Last Saturday, May 9, 2009, I attended iblog5, the 5th Philippine Blogging Summit – finally! This was the 5th time I signed-up online but only my first time to join the fun.

The summit focused more on explaining what blogging is, the different types of it, to bringing your blogging to the next level. It is about the basics of blogging – good for aspiring and new bloggers, and a reminder to existing bloggers.

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