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Facebook has taken one giant bite out of Twitter by adding a new @mentions or “tagging” feature to status updates. You will now have the ability to identify and reference people in photos, videos and notes.

How it Works

Once enabled for your account, you’ll be able to tag a friend by simply typing the @ symbol which will automatically reveal a drop down menu with a list of your friends and other connections including groups, events, applications and pages. You’ll soon also being to tag friends in applications too.

Notably, the “@” symbol will not appear on the status update after you’ve pressed to submit it which should help with not over complicating status updates and such.

Friends you tag in your status updates will receive a notification and a Wall post linking them to your post. They also will have the option to remove tags of themselves from your posts.

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Update: This shows up when people tag at you.

(source: www.thenextweb.com)

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Real Life Counterstrike

by Daniel Wong

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Result?

This is what happens when you have no girlfriend hahahahahahahaha. I am selling this gadget for $5 each. I accept Paypal and major credit cards.

Happy weekend everyone!

P/S: sheeesh.. I feel so stupid. I should be doing this 10 years ago.

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Many readers has been asking the same question, “Bing, why your blog photo so nice geh.. your camera must be good”

LOL! seriously. My photos are not that nice ok? I am currently using Canon IXUS 850 IS. But this guide will show you how to make your photos look slightly better than it was disregarding any camera you use. There are many more good blogs out there with amazing photos. (e.g. Otaku god – Dannychoo.com) but we are not trying to compare, cause we are at a different league. His website has 2million hits per month lah, my site merely gets 100 unique visitors per day. Cannot compare at all lah. But, it’s all good :)

Today, I will teach you some tricks to transform your photos to cantik-cantik belaka. All the tricks shown below are applied to every single photos at ahbing.com.

This is the before and after.

You suck if you unable to differenciate before and after. Chuan's head SHINES ok!!

Figure.1 Chuan and me

Pre-requisites: Get yourself Photoshop CS or above (get trial version here) However, if you want to get a genuine copy. Please go torrentz.com lalalalala.

Step 1: Edit the photo histogram

This step corrects the colour taken by your camera. e.g. black is black; white is white, not grey. You get what I mean? This is actually pretty easy. Here’s how to do it. In photoshop, press CTRL+L (or Image > Adjustments > Levels) to bring up the histogram window.

You see the both red circles? Those are the arrows you need to notice. Left arrow represents the dark pixels in your photo, while the right arrow represents the bright pixels. By brightening up the photo, drag the right arrow towards left, you’ll see your photo instantly brighten up. Apply same method with the left arrow. Usually I won’t touch the middle arrow, but it depends. By applying this method, your photos no more grey-grey.

Here’s the settings I applied for the Figure.1.

histogram2Step 2: Crop out the unnecessary part

cropThe reason behind this is to focus on a particular object, and save bandwidth. Some readers complaint ahbing.com loads up slowly due to heavy image usage. This becomes worst when they have lousy internet connection (/finger Streamyx). I started to apply this method to most of my photos. Your readers will appreciate it, too.

Here’s an example:

mole You get what I mean? I only showed my dai lap mak (mole) instead of Chuan and me. If you refer to my other posts, you will notice the different sizes of images. Each and every photos has been cropped to a minimal size to lessen the burden of my bandwidth. Plus, it looks neat:)

Step 3: Edit the final size

I usually stick to maximum 500px width for every photos. I don’t want my site to be messy. But it’s up to your personal preference.

In photoshop, press ALT+CTRL+I (or Image > Image Size) to bring up the resize window.

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There you go. You are done. Rearrange the photos with copy and paste. Easy peasy. Hope I helped. Feel free to leave comment if you have any questions or shoot me a quick mail.

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Recently,Chester turned  23 years old. He invited us over to his place for birthday party. I blog about a it here. This entry covers the rest of the story.

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The birthday party starts off with great food and friends. Everyone keep praising my chicken wings. Of course la, my dad sell chicken wing and supported my oversea studies. Quality assured! 8-) One thing I like about birthday party is the great companions. Besides that, I get the chance to meet up with different friends, especially after you had beer or a few tequila shots. Take a cold beer and offer to any guy, you won’t go wrong. Unfortunately that doesn’t work with girls.

Ahbing tips #1: OMG, so how do I approach the girls?
Neh.. I am not teaching you. Hehehe, just joking :-D  Actually, I don’t have any tips. Usually I just talk whenever I want to. Most people will respond since they have nowhere to hide in the party.

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Haha I like to take silly shots with friends. I bond especially well with person who is able to join my “lameness” and do silly things together. As long I don’t hurt anybody, I’ll do it. On top of that, it is great to bring joy and laughter to friends around. Girls love kukujiaos who have humor :mrgreen:

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Girls also love people who has tough balls. Especially Sarawakians 8-O  But. Girls go crazy for Sabahans who have balls of steel though.. what do you think? :twisted:

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Great people, great friends. I am so grateful to have the chance to meet up these awesome friends during my stay at Brisbane. Eh? Why I talk like I am leaving soon… lol :lol: . I have plans to stay in Brisbane for few years ahead k. Hehehe. I have so many chances to join these sorts of party, and many more to come (I hope :roll: )

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The party ends with lots of silly shots, especially from the birthday boy. I would not post up the photos here, cause IT’S TOO DAMN DISGUSTING. Hahahaha. He woke up with severe memory loss the next day. And he felt like puking when we mention the word “tequila” and “absinthe” :-|

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