Author: Catzie

  • How to tune a guitar manually

    So you have a guitar that’s out of tune but don’t feel like buying a tuner? You have a tuner but it’s not working? It’s not with you? Or simply bored? You can put it to the right tune manually, even without the piano! All you need is a sharp hearing and this simple tutorial. πŸ˜‰ Of course tuning it with a tuner is more accurate. But learning to tune manually will come in handy, isn’t it?

    Let me share to you this tutorial on how to tune a guitar manually.


    The Guitar Strings

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  • Inline Frame that automatically adjusts its height for the source page

    Last year, I was working on our MULPROJ layout, and the type of layout I was making needed an iframe whose height is auto resized according to the source page’s content. This means that there should be no vertical scrollbar in the iframe, it simply adjusts itself vertically.

    I thought that it wasn’t possible to do this but I found a JavaScript code that can do the trick, and I just want to share it with you. πŸ˜‰
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  • Cobol Compilers free download: MFCICS, Microsoft Cobol 2.20, Cobol IDE

    I used to have several Cobol compilers available for free download in my old blog, Poochycat.com. That blog has gone, months ago, I think.

    I’m putting up all those Cobol compilers in this post. πŸ™‚
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  • IE Tester – see how your web pages look in different versions of IE (Windows Internet Explorer)

    (Post taken from my old blog, Poochycat.com)

    Ahh, it seems that I posted this in our MULPROJ days. ^_^

    Yesterday I woke up at 6AM. I wanted to go on with my sleep, but I couldn’t. I suddenly remembered that I haven’t tested in different versions of Internet Explorer the layout design of the website I had to submit for MULPROJ that day. It’s like God woke me up to remind me that I had to test the layout. xD
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  • CCNA Exploration 4.0 Curriculum / Course Material installers, for offline viewing

    CCNA Exploration 4.0 Curriculum / Course Material installers, for offline viewing


    I did not make any of these, and I’m not affiliated with Cisco in any way. They all work on my computer. If they don’t work for you, then I’m not very sure if I can help you. πŸ™‚ I put them up simply to share.

    You may also want to check out my other resource page for CCNA V5 Curriculum Download for Routing & Switching.

    It’s a little hard for people taking up a CCNA Exploration course to have to go online and login to Cisco Networking Academy, every time they have to read the lectures. What if you have an exam tomorrow, but your Internet connection is down?

    Here’s some helpful installers of the curriculum / course materials of CCNA Exploration 1, CCNA Exploration 2, CCNA Exploration 3, and CCNA Exploration 4. Installing them would let you view the course materials even when you are offline.

    All of these are properties of Cisco Networking Academy.
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  • Photos of flood caused by Bagyong Ondoy (Typhoon Ketsena)

    EDIT:// Correct international name is Ketsana, not Ketsena. Sorry for the mistake. πŸ™‚

    bagyong ondoy-typhoon ketsena rain flood
    A shot from our room’s window

    Bagyong Ondoy is the typhoon that hit the Philippines on Saturday, September 26, 2009. It resulted to severe flooding and the death of hundreds of people.

    I’m sharing some of the photos I took when the typhoon was still here.
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  • PDF Download: Head First Java (2nd Edition) – by Katy Sierra and Bert Bates

    PDF Download: Head First Java (2nd Edition) – by Katy Sierra and Bert Bates

    Learning Java? Great, this book will help you.

    I uploaded this Java Programming PDF to share with IT Elective 1 (Object Oriented Programming with Java) classmates. πŸ™‚

    I searched for it in Google, and I’m lucky to find this free e-book of Head First Java – Second Edition. I can’t remember where I got it from though. It’s been days (EDIT: no, it’s been months now! or maybe years), and I got a poor memory. lol.

    And by the way, I used A-PDF Split to split the e-book into separate chapters of the PDF for our convenience. The file I downloaded is only one PDF file which had 690 pages. It lags in slow computers. It’s also better off being separated by chapters for ease of reading, right? So, there. πŸ˜€

    I hope the Java PDF download links on this blog entry (Head First Java – Download) help you guys, and if you do find them helpful, please LIKE my website on Facebook. To find it on Facebook, search for “Catzie.net” πŸ˜€

    Download Link for Head First Java Ebook

    New! The following Head First Java Ebook is of better quality than the scanned one. It’s not split into several PDFs of individual chapters though, because I have no time to do it yet. It’s one big PDF file for now.

    FILE SIZE: 37.53MB


    Download Links for Head First Java Ebook

    The zip file that follows contains Head First Java scanned ebook split into several PDFs of individual chapters.
    FILE SIZE: 31.6MB

    Java Book Chapters

    1. Breaking the Surface: a quick dip
    2. A Trip to Objectville: yes, there will be objects
    3. Know Your Variables: primitives and references
    4. How Objects Behave: object state affects method behavior
    5. Extra-Strength Methods: flow control, operations, and more
    6. Using the Java Library: so you don’t have to write it all yourself
    7. Better Living in Objectville: planning for the future
    8. Serious Polymorphism: exploiting abstract classes and interfaces
    9. Life and Death of an Object: constructors and memory management
    10. Numbers Matter: math, formatting, wrappers, and statics
    11. Risky Behavior: exception handling
    12. A Very Graphic Story: intro to GUI, event handling, and inner classes
    13. Work on Your Swing: layout managers and components
    14. Saving Objects: serialization and I/O
    15. Make a Connection: networking sockets and multithreading
    16. Data Structures: collections and generics
    17. Release Your Code: packaging and deployment
    18. Distributed Computing: RMI with a dash of servlets, EJB, and Jini

    Happy Java programming, y’all. πŸ™‚ Make good use of the learning Java book you downloaded.

    Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems (which is now a subsidiary of Oracle Corporation) and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems’ Java platform.

    The syntax of Java is mostly derived from that of C and C++ programming languages, but with simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities.

  • Opening MS Office 2007 files in MS Office 2003

    For our school work, Microsoft Office is very much used. Students exchange MS Office files with one another for homework and projects. Based on my observation, each time a file in MS Office 2007 format (.docx, .pptx, or .xlsx) is sent to a student who uses MS Office 2003, that receiving student complains, and either makes the sender save it as a 2003 file and resend it, or sulk face in one corner of the room for not knowing how to open the 2007 file.

    Let’s make a list here of few ways to open .docx, .pptx, and .xlsx files in a computer without Microsoft Office 2007. πŸ™‚
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  • PHP: Dynamic inclusion tutorial

    I’m posting this because I thought that it might help some people who want to structurize their website in a way that they can easily edit pages which contain contents and pages which contain the code of the layout, as we separate layout code from contents in dynamic inclusion.

    This is for PHP beginners, but I assume that you have basic knowledge about PHP variables and form submission methods if you would read this tutorial.
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  • CyStats Template Functions / Template Tags

    I used to use the WordPress plugin Counterize II to keep track of my blog’s statistics, but then I felt that I had to switch into something else. I looked for another feature-rich stats plugin but one that is faster and that will take up less database space. After trying different plugins, I chose to stick with CyStats.

    The only thing I needed but didn’t get (right away) from CyStats is the code to insert into my themes in order to call functions to return values like the total number of hits, total number of comments, total number of posts, and such. Maybe there’s a web page lying around in the Internet and I simply did not search thoroughly that I wasn’t able to find it. And since I didn’t find it, I’m making my own list of template tags (template functions) here, hoping that it would help other users.

    By the way, I got all these from the template-functions.php which is inside the /includes folder of the plugin. I’m putting a list here just to make our task easier. πŸ˜€
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