So I’ve started to upload videos to the Internet, just for fun. Since I started, I have uploaded just a few, so I don’t have many yet out there, I was a little surprised to find out that my most popular video was the one with the title: Beautiful Beaches Of Tropical Paradise, it has been viewed almost 800 times, I am very surprised mainly because the video consist of purely pictures, it is effectively a slide show to which I have added some music, its not a bad video but I was thinking that the crocodile video that I uploaded would have been viewed more times because I think its more shocking. So that goes to show that not all shocking is that impressive or interesting. Anyway here is the video for you guys to enjoy:

Beautiful Beaches Of Tropical Paradise - Funny blooper videos are here

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Yes, I had the opportunity to see a wild crocodile in their natural and wild habitat, it was very impressive, I have seen wild crocodile in the their wild environment before but from far away, the crocs that I have seen have have so little contact with humans that they are scare of them and so they shy away and quickly jump in the water and hide an they are usually not very big in size. This one in particular was pretty big and shy but we caught him laying out of the water and we got pretty close to take a nice shot with the camera, unfortunately this one too was pretty shy and quickly went into the water. These days you can only see crocodiles at the zoo or when you actually see one in the “wild” they are so used to interactive with humans that they are not shy to stick around and while there are people present.

Enjoy this awesome video of this big crocodile, is not everyday you see a wild one, we wore probably the only humans this Croc have seen in a while:

Surprised By Big Crocodile - The most amazing home videos are here

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Today I was reading over at MSNBC about the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project, which basically consist of a very inexpensive (about $100) laptop to be used by children around the world specially in developing countries. This sounds like a throw away after 6 months piece of you know what. 

The OLPC trade association is a U.S. based, non profit organization which envisioned the laptop to cost $100, however the price seems to be going up every time I heard it in the news, now they estimate it to cost about $175. The laptop will be set to use flash memory instead of a hard drive, and have low power consumption capabilities, and will be run by Linux, but many people are starting to wonder if it will run windows, and many are skeptical about it even myself after hearing many news about how windows vista will drain your laptop power juice in no time.

There seems to be something really wrong for such a big movement not to come up with a $100 laptop specially if they are going to mass produce it?  I mean we all have seen how cheap these days is flash memory, I myself bough a 2 Gigabyte SD card for $15. All this sounds to me that there are people behind the computer parts/assembly that want to make money with this deal, after all its a crappy laptop for children in developing countries, its not for your average American household.

In order to give an alternative to the One Laptop per Child project, I have come up with the ODPC (one desktop per child) project. I mean why now give the kids a full blown desktop, it could be  just a little more expensive than the $175 but they will be much much flexible and children will be able to fully thinker and learn with the components, and they will be able to run a desktop operating system along with real desktop office suites, like Open office that can run on Linux edubuntu which is a derivative of the open source operating system Linux ubuntu, but this ones comes with lots of educational software ready to be used by the kids.

For my hunting to find a cheap, but capable, desktop alternative to the OLPC laptop, I headed to Newegg.com and put together a desktop that cost $295, the cost does not include the shipping or putting the parts together, but what are non profits for right? here is a breakdown of the parts from newegg:

 Now all we need is an organization that will put this project together and bring One desktop per child to the children in deleoping countries. In case you want here is the ODPC parts list from newegg.

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So the other day my brother and I got a hold of this 4×4 ATV  and we started using it just fun since we’ve never had one of this toys before, it was lots of un, but since it was my first time riding it, I forgot that the ATV does not have power steering so when its very hard to turn when its going very fast, so I manage to drive it into a ditch and eventually it crashed into a tree, I was very fortunate to get out of that incident without a scratch, but it was very scary. In the video you can see where I drove right straight into some down hill with trees and my brother who was filming came into the rescue.. pretty funny.

Funny ATV Ride - The most popular videos are a click away

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I practically just ran in to this video, which show a pretty cool setup, it hides a flat panel TV under the bed, which looks to be totally automated to retract and hide from the under the bed,   This is pretty cool specially for small rooms. All I need now is to make cook the popcorn for me and I’ll be good to go.

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My digital camera is a Nikon Coolpix, and like many other brands out there, it not only can take pictures but also can take video files, which is pretty nice because sometimes an image is not enough to capture the full motion things in life or sometime you want to capture a quick clip, these days capture video from a digital picture camera is very common since the video resolution is very good. If you have windows vista Ultimate edition of Home Premium edition, you can even put your videos into a DVD to share them with your friends and family. My camera records video directly into the popular QuickTime formatted (.MOV)  files, and I am sure many digital cameras out there do the same thing.  This is very inconvenient because it will not work if you wan to edit the video  using windows movie maker or put it in a DVD using windows DVD maker because this files are what I call: not windows friendly for the mentioned seasons.

Fortunately for me I found a free and very easy to use program that works on windows vista that will allow me to convert my QuickTime movies to a more windows friendly format like (.AVI) files. You can convert one file at a time or do a batch conversion to quickly convert a series of videos.

The program is called MP4Cam2AVI Easy Converter, you can search it on Google or use this link: mp4cam2avi 

Now I can easily convert my QuickTime (.MOV) movie files to a format that windows movie maker understand and I am on my way to editing the video from my digital picture camera.

Below I have included the picture of the free program that will convert .MOV files to AVI files

The Original QuickTime (.MOV)

The result file (.AVI) after conversion

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Not even a week after having a clean fresh install of Windows Vista Ultimate Edition in my shiny brand new computer, it happened, windows vista crashed on me, unfortunately the first time it happened I couldn’t see the blue screen because I was away from the computer, so when I came back the system already had restarted and when I logged back in I found an interesting message from the operating system telling me that it has recovered from the famous blue screen of death. The screen hasn’t changed much from windows xp to windows vista. I think the first time that happened was because I was trying to install the software that came with my motherboard which supposedly will allow me to overclock my system with the click of a button.

This is the message the windows gave me; at least it recognize that it is not free of the blue screen blues.

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