With this feature, a youtube user or viewer can request caption withing a single click of a button while video owners can download the automated captions and improve upon them.

Google engineer Mike Cohen said: “I have been working on speech technology for 25 years. There have been steady improvements and this is the culmination of lots of work over years and years.

“We have had to work on a wide variety of problems like accent variation, background noise, the variation in language, in pronunciation.”

This new feature will surely benefit people with hearing problems.

For Firefox users, download the Facebook Video add-on which you can find here – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9614 . This add-on will allow you to download, convert video, and customize code right at the video page in facebook. Once installed, new links will appear at the bottom of the video. See attached screenshot.

More Features:

• Video Pages

1. Direct link to FLV file so you can download video to your computer
2. Link to convert video to a format of your choice with Zamzar.com before download
3. links appear under video info
4. Embed code so you can embed any videos in sites outside of Facebook
5. Public video link found at bottom of video page

• Walls and Inbox

1. Download and convert links
2. Embed Code
3. links appear directly beneath videos on wall and in messages

• A wizard that lets you customize the embed code. You don’t have to edit both the height and width. This script honors the aspect ratio.

Remember that this only works for Firefox web browser.

Smart Bro SurfTV is a device that connects to a television set through a quick and easy procedure, to provide Internet access using Smart Bro’s nationwide coverage. You just have to plug it into the RCA port of your color TV set and it will let users experience a ready-to-run Internet to surf, chat, and email at home.

“Over the last few years we have been steadily advancing our Internet for All advocacy and investing our energies to make wireless Internet more affordable and widely available – whether via mobile phone, the PC, or laptop – anytime, anywhere, so that Filipinos may benefit from it. Offering Smart Bro SurfTV is a natural progression of that strategy, this is a service that will put the Internet right in the homes of Filipino families,” said Orlando B. Vea, Chief Wireless Advisor of SMART.

Smart Bro SurfTV costs Php4,500.00 for the entire kit which includes a keyboard, a mouse, a remote control, and a Smart Bro USB stick-type modem with a prepaid SIM, pre-loaded with PhP100 worth of load. Surfing time costs Php10.00 per minute.

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Last night, my 6 year old adsense account was disabled and the reason presented to me was click fraud. I know that it’s hard to appeal for a re inclusion but as I really wanted to have my account back, I immediately filed a request. Unfortunately, this is the reply that I got from their team:

Hello,

Thanks for providing us with additional information. However, after thoroughly reviewing your account data and taking your feedback into consideration, we’ve re-confirmed that your account poses a significant risk to our advertisers. For this reason, we’re unable to reinstate your account. Thank you for your understanding.

As a reminder, if you have any questions about your account or the actions we’ve taken, please do not reply to this email. You can find more information by visiting https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=57153 .

I own a network of websites using the adsense program and it’s hard to think that I have to work on another way to monetize them, good thing is there’s a lot of adsense alternatives that all of us can use.

Top Google Adsense Alternatives

1. Adbrite – this advertising program has been around for several years already. It offers contextual advertising like adsense in banner, text, full page and inline form while visitors can also buy advertisement space on your site directly once activated. They send payment thru checks.
2. Bidvertiser – also works like adsense with contextual advertising and customizable banner ad options. I have been using this personally and base on my experience, bidvertiser works best on internet marketing or make money online related blogs.
3. Text Link Ads – Google doesn’t support buying of links to increase website popularity but if you can’t use adsense anymore, give Text Link Ads a nice space in your website. You can either have the links in your sidebar as a blogroll or thru your content.
4. Yahoo Publisher Network – I have no experience using YPN as it is not available in my country but as it is owned by Yahoo and what others say, I’m pretty sure that this one is among the best alternative for Google Adsense.

It was my first time to join a 5km run as I am not really into this type of sport, it’s just that I am one big Gibo fanatic and I am giving my full support for him in the coming election.

And why am I supporting Gibo? Because I believe that he is the most suitable man for the highest position in the country and if everyone will just see and hear what Gibo wants for our country and how he will do it, I am pretty sure that more people will go for this guy.

The event in full was fun. Around 3,000+ supporters came, different ages and groups, from the young ones to the oldies, I had a nice feeling to be with people wearing green, sharing the same advocacy that Gibo carries. I’ve got a Gibo shirt, 7 baller id’s (take note, it’s SEVEN….greenies mainggit kau! LOL), and 5 stickers (ah sorry 4 as the other one is already in my car).

Here’s some pics taken earlier:

Me with Mrs. Nikki Prieto-Teodoro

Our Next President

Gibo w/ 5km runners

Gibo with the Press

"The Bus"

Looking forward sa next GREEN event!!

The new feature was launched last Monday allowing results to be sorted by when they were posted online, which puts more emphasis on new content such as news articles, blog postings and Wikipedia updates.

However, updates coming from social network sites like facebook will only be visible if they make their account publicly viewable. The new feature called “Real Time Search” inked partnerships between facebook and myspace to pull in data real time.

Search Engine giant Google partnered with Imeem, Lala.com, myspace-owned Ilike.com, Pandora internet radio and Rhapsody in providing sample song downloads or purchasing them online.

“The search results will allow you to do a whole song play to verify it is the song you are looking for,” rather than just the 30-second stream typical of most major online music providers google vice president of search Marissa Mayer said before a demonstration of the new service known as OneBox.

“When the user wakes up in the morning, you go to Facebook and you see [the] news feed,” product manager Peter Deng told CNET News. “You see the stuff that you missed, the best of the previous day, to basically catch you up on what your friends have been up to.”

Hitting a “Report as spam” button newly added to the Action section of Twitter pages alerts Twitter’s safety team to check out what, if anything, should be done about a purportedly abusive profile.

“Folks can now help us conquer spam by calling our attention to a profile they find questionable,” Jenna Dawn of Twitter said in a blog post.

“Once you report a profile it will automatically be blocked from following or replying to you. You nailed it!”

Twitter opted not to automate the feature so it can’t be used “to incite an angry mob against an account you don’t like.”

1. Don’t attempt start your car immediately after being soaked in the flood. Remove the battery and check if it’s still safe to use or bring it back to a battery dealer for proper disposal.
2. Empty the break fluid and radiator. Use a blower to dry them or let it stay for a whole night to dry them up.
3. When your transmission is not sealed, remove the transmission oil and let it dry for a whole night.
4. Remove the spark plug and buy a new one.
5. When the engine is already dry, pour in new motor oil and transmission oil.
6. Place a new batter. It’s not advisable to use the old one unless it’s thoroughly checked by a battery expert.
7. Don’t install any spark plug yet. This is a way to remove any water inside the cylinders. Start the engine.
8. When you are sure that there is no more water in the cylinder, stop the engine then change the air filter.
9. Install a new spark plug.
10. Start the engine again and let it running until you are satisfied that everything is now running smoothly.

The steps above are only applicable to cars soaked in fresh-water flood.

If your car has a computer box, buy a new one. There is no way to fix a computer box but having it makes your engine more safe from damage.