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Powerpoint Trick: Polaroid Effect on Microsoft Office

Posted in How To, Random Cool Stuff by Chester Militante on September 15, 2009

I just found this article about the making a Polaroid Effect by scratch using Microsoft Office 2007. It is amazing that you don’t need Photoshop.

http://lifehacker.com/5359713/use-powerpoint-as-a-photo-editor-in-a-pinch

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Subaru Impreza WRX STI vs. Mazdaspeed3 vs. BMW 130i

Posted in Mazdaspeed, Random Cool Stuff by Chester Militante on April 20, 2009

I saw this video and I am shocked how much Mazdaspeed 3 can go. I guess if it weren’t for Mazdaspeed 3 starting position, it would have been the winner. The Mazdaspeed 3 has the fastest lap time of 1:10. 2 seconds faster than any car in the track. Yeah!!! Go Mazdaspeed 3!

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Google 411: Faster, Cheaper, and Easier way of doing 411

Posted in Random Cool Stuff by Chester Militante on February 10, 2009

1-800-466-4411

A free 411 service powered by Google. It can look for numbers of businesses, connect you to the correct people, and directions. Moreover, this service also can give you a list of businesses via text message by saying, “text message”.

To see more information about this, go to http://www.google.com/goog411/

*Standard phone rates apply.

2010 Mazdaspeed 3 (MPS) shown in Autoblog

Posted in Mazdaspeed, Random Cool Stuff by Chester Militante on February 4, 2009

This is the Mazda3 MPS (Mazdaspeed 3 equivalent). Autoblog gives us the first look at this car with a teaser video. In my opinion, the styling is great! It has a new hood scoop and lower stance. I only thing I see odd is the overly done smiling of the front bumper. Hopefully when this car gets brought in U.S., it will look a litte bit different front bumper. If not, possibly the subsequent updates will make it more acceptable.

Click on the picture for more gallery hosted in Autoblog.com

For more info about this article, view it at AutoBlog.com

Transform any video file to DVD with DVD Flick!

Posted in How To, Random Cool Stuff by Chester Militante on January 31, 2009

DVD Flick

After collecting all of the videos around the internet, or creating your own personalized videos, you might have thought that, “I wish I can share to this video to a friend that doesn’t have a computer.”

Well, the wishing ends now. DVD Flick for Windows is by far the simplest DVD Authoring tool I have ever used. It is so damn easy, that you’ll just drag and drop video files and burn. It automatically changes the bitrates according to how many video files you are putting in your DVD.

From DVD Flick:

  • Burn near any video file to DVD
  • Support for over 45 file formats
  • Support for over 60 video codecs
  • Support for over 40 audio codecs
  • Easily add a menu
  • Add your own subtitles
  • Easy to use interface
  • Burn your project to disc after encoding

Download DVD Flick