Efren Peñaflorida bags CNN Hero of the Year award

Our very own Efren Peñaflorida has been named CNN Hero of the Year at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood during the third-annual “CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute”.

Efren was nominated along with 9 other heroes from different parts of the world for his work with street children. Through his Dynamic Teen Company, he was able teach basic reading and writing to 1,500 slum children. His “pushcart classroom” also serves as an alternative for poor children to stay away from gang membership.

"Our planet is filled with heroes, young and old, rich and poor, man, woman of different colors, shapes and sizes. We are one great tapestry," Peñaflorida said. "Each person has a hidden hero within, you just have to look inside you and search it in your heart, and be the hero to the next one in need.

Peñaflorida will receive $100,000 to further expand his Dynamic Teen Company. I hope the government won’t tax him on this one.

Mr. Peñaflorida, we Filipinos are very proud of you sir! Keep up the good work!

[CNN]

How to convert a web page to PDF

Seen a web site or a web page that you want to save in your local drive but don’t want to save it as html with all those external images? You can save it to a doc file but it would be much cooler to save it into PDF.

Web2PDF is a free online service that does only one thing. It will convert a page off the web into PDF format for you. You don’t have to sign up or anything, just enter the address of the page you want converted and wait for it while it does its thing. Conversion takes about a couple of minutes and you will be given a link where you can download your PDF.

They also have a bookmarklet for Firefox users who doesn’t want to visit the site to do their conversion. Only thing I would like to see is a way to select elements in the screen to convert so I won’t have to see ads and comments but I guess that would defeat its simplistic approach.

Charter’s ULTRA60, sign me up please!

If you’re an internet junkie like me then you’ve got to envy the people at St. Louis especially those who are subscribed to charter ultra fast 60 service which is one of the fastest in the US. That’s 60Mbps speed folks!! I don’t know if you would still be able to get off the PC if you have speeds like that.

With 60Mbps I would be able to:

• Play those online Games OnDemand like Fear2, NBA 2k10 and Crysis without having to go to the store to buy the game itself. Fast downloads and no more lag when playing.
• Watch movie flicks online. Not just any ordinary videos but those high definition shows like from Hulu or Netflix. No more lengthy buffering or stuttering. It’s going to be just like watching it offline.
• Download more stuff! It would be very nice to see your download progress move right in front of your eyes instead of reading a book while waiting for your download to finish.

Fortunately, Charter is bringing their Ultra60 and phatband technology outside St. Louis. It’s now available at Southern California and expect it to reach more cities soon.

If you’re still on DSL connection and unhappy with it, you will be more satisfied with cable internet like the Ultra60 from Charter. Only thing left now is to buy more hard disk space and subscribe to HD video sites.

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Charter. All opinions are 100% mine.

Mafia Wars Money Laundering Collection

Now there’s an incentive to go back in doing New York Jobs. Mafia Wars just introduced the new money laundering collection in New York that once completed will reduce your bank deposit fee by 3%.

So how do you get those pieces? Randomly, by doing jobs in New York you will get a rare chance to launder money. When this happens you must send request to your friends by publishing it to your feed. When your friends help you they will get a a random loot for the money laundering collection.

So actually, you’re helping you friends complete their collection. But when they clicked on your link, they will also have the chance to start their own money laundering that you can help out so you’ll get some of the loot too.

Some people are still experiencing some bugs about not being able to publish the feed or not getting anything from it even if the game says they got something.

If the –3% bank deposit fee is not much for you then continue finishing Cuba or Moscow and forget about the new collection. Hehehe.