Beelzebub

Alternative Name: べるぜバブ; 恶魔奶爸; Đứa Con Của Ma Vương; 魔王的父亲; 벨제부브; Beelze Baby; Beezle Baby; Belze Babu; Belzebub; Beruze Babu; Vua Quỷ (Vietnamese); بيلزبوب (Arabic); בעל זבוב(Hebrew); بلزباب (Persian)

Years of Released: 2009
Status: This series is updated weekly
Author(s): Tamura Ryūhei
Artist(s): Tamura Ryūhei
Related Scanlators: Franky House, APTA
Genre(s): Action, Comedy, Martial Arts, School Life, Shounen, Supernatural
Type: Japanese Manga (Read from right to left.)
Rank: 1st, it has 14,474,632 monthly views.
Rating: Average 4.84 / 5 out of 1656 total votes.

Summary:
The strong delinquent Oga (nicknamed Ogre, Demon, or "it'd be alright if he'd just die" by other delinquents) picks up a baby that turns out to be the son of the Great Demon King! Chosen to raise the baby until he's in age of destroying mankind, together with the demon maid Hilda, they're sure to make mankind die... of laughter!
The story follows his life with the child and at the delinquent school. Oga attempts to "pass on" baby beel to other students at Ishiyama. If Oga can find someone more evil and stronger than him, Baby Beel will attach to that person instead of Oga. After subsequently fighting and defeating all members of the Tōhōshinki and in the process, destroying Ishiyama High itself, Oga and company are transferred to Saint Ishiyama Academy, which appears to be a direct opposite of the delinquent school - and it's there the real story begins.

 

~mangafox



Simple Tweak for Windows 7

Most of you may have tried Windows 7 by now, and if you’re like me, your first impression would have been “WOW!”. Windows 7 is really an impressive operating system and is worth upgrading to whether you’re running Windows XP or Windows Vista.

Even though there are a ton of new features and usability improvements in Windows 7, there is still no harm in fine tuning or enabling a couple of features that Microsoft decided to hide under the mat for one reason or the other. Tweaks are nothing new to Windows. End users have been able to tweak operating systems according to their requirements since the beginning, so you shouldn’t worry about any tweak damaging your system.

Still, I’ll be including a level indicator for an estimated technical level required to execute the tweak, with Level 0 being the easiest. As for the tweaks I’m about to share today, none of them require any tweaker utility to activate. You can access them from within Windows itself.

Classic Taskbar – (Level 0)

The new “Superbar” in Windows 7 is an awesome improvement. You can pin icons directly to the taskbar as shortcuts, plus we have support for Jumplists which give us quick access to common tasks in every program. Still, some of you might be accustomed to the classic taskbar as seen in the previous versions of Windows and prefer to revert back. Lucky for you, Microsoft decided to include the old functionality as well.

To get the classic taskbar back, all you have to do is:

Right-click on an empty area in the taskbar and click on Properties. You would reach the dialog box displayed above. Check the box next to Use small icons and select Combine when taskbar is full from the Taskbar buttons dropdown menu. Hit Apply, and you’re all set.

Explorer Checkboxes – (Level 0)

Remember the tiny little checkboxes in Vista that used to appear on files when you hovered your mouse over them in Windows Explorer. While they only served the purpose of allowing you to select multiple files which you can also do by holding CTRL or SHIFT key, the boxes were useful in situations when you didn’t want to use the keyboard.

To enable the Explorer Checkboxes, just:
Hit the Start button and type Folder Options in the search bar and hit enter.
Click on the view tab and scroll to the bottom of Advanced Settings Listbox.
Check the box next to Use check boxes to select items and click Ok or Apply to commit the changes. Check boxes should now appear when you hover your mouse over items.

Web Search Connectors – (Level 1)

Did you know that you can perform web searches directly from within Windows Explorer? You can search for anything you like (e.g. YouTube videos) and get results displayed in the Windows Explorer interface.

To enable Internet Search, all you have to do is find and download search connectors for your favorite web service.

Enable GodMode – (Level 1)

Wondering why there is a GodMode in Windows 7? Well don’t get excited. It doesn’t make your PC immune to malware. It just shows all the options in the Control Panel as a single page instead of being divided into categories. Useful if you like to use the Windows Search feature to find stuff rather than navigating through different screens.

To enable GodMode, just create a new folder anywhere and name it to GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}.

Quick Launch Toolbar – (Level 2)

The Quick Launch toolbar (the shortcut icons that used to appear right next to the start button) got killed in Windows 7 because of the introduction of the new Superbar. While the new taskbar is a thousand times more useable then Quick Launch, it is interesting to know that you can still enable the functionality by a simple trick to get a fully classic look with the Classic Taskbar.
To enable Quick Launch:

Right-click on an empty area of the taskbar and goto Toolbars > New Toolbar…
Navigate to your user account >> AppData >> Roaming >> Microsoft >> Internet Explorer >> Quick Launch and click Select Folder button to add the toolbar. ({User}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch). You can right click on the title of the new Toolbar to play with its look and feel and adjust it to the way you like.

Change Logon Background – (Level 3)

You might have heard that you can change the Welcome screen background in Windows 7 too like you could in Windows Vista. While Microsoft only intended this functionality to be used by OEMs, there are ways for you to get it done as well.
What you need to do is:

Open up the Registry Editor (Type regedit.exe in the start menu).
Goto HKLM > Software > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Authentication > LogonUI > Background.
Look for a DWORD value named OEMBackground and change it to 1. If the DWORD doesn’t exist then create it.

Now in Windows Explorer, goto %windir%\System32\oobe\info\backgrounds and place the background image of your choice there. Again you’ll have to create the folder if it doesn’t exist already.

Rename the image you just place to backgroundDefault.jpg. You can add multiple images for different resolutions as well following this naming convention: background{resolution}.jpg. For example, if your desktop resolution is 1980×1080 then background1920×1080.jpg.

Oh and the image needs to be under 256kB for it to work properly.

~networld

Windows 7 SP2 release date and features

With Windows XP, service packs were significant upgrades; XP SP2 was practically a new version of Windows.

Even Vista SP1 was a major update, improving power management, network speed, search speed and adding hardware support like Blu-ray burning to bring it up to the same performance as XP SP2 (according to Microsoft).

But although it included significant updates for business users using remote connections to a work server, for most people Windows 7 Service Pack 1 was little more than a rollup of updates and hotfixes. That's what Microsoft has been aiming at for years; service packs that don't add new features and that you already have if you've been accepting automatic updates.

The general popularity of Windows 7 makes that easier to achieve. So what does that mean for Windows 7 SP2 and when will we see it?

Counting up the updates that have already come through, Windows 7 SP2 will include well over 100 security and performance improvements (rumors earlier this year said around 130 for 32-bit systems and 170 for 64-bit, but the exact numbers will depend on how many more fixes are released before SP2 goes into testing, and the update is likely to patch Windows Server 2008 R2 as well as Windows 7).

Windows 7 SP2 release date

Just as new versions of Windows come every two to three years - "we think somewhere between 24 and 36 months between releases is about right," says Windows senior VP Steven Sinofsky - service packs come in between, every 12 to 18 months.

Windows 7 went on sale in late October 2009 and SP1 came out in late February this year (exactly 16 months later). Microsoft also tries to get the latest service pack for the previous version of Windows out before the new operating system (the timing means stability and performance fixes that have been developed and tested as part of the next version can be ported back to the previous code base where possible).

The Windows 8 release date is still unconfirmed, but we're expecting an announcement and public access to a beta version at Microsoft's Professional Developer conference this September and that argues for the code being finished in the middle of 2012 and on sale before Christmas. That makes rumors of a Windows 7 Service Pack 2 release date in the middle of 2012 plausible; June would be another 16 months.

Windows 7 SP2 features

The pieces of SP2 you won't get in advance from automatic updates are what Microsoft calls hotfixes; urgent fixes for bugs that only occur on specific systems with specific combinations of hardware and software that are only tested on those combinations so the Windows team can get them out quickly while they work on a fix for the underlying problem and test that on the full range of PCs.

Hotfixes are often available only directly from Microsoft support if you have the relevant setup and service packs include the updates with the underlying fixes; service packs are the way those underlying fixes are distributed but again this is very much business as usual.

What we want to see in Service Pack 2

There are still some updates we'd like to see in Windows 7 beyond bug fixes. Search performance was something Windows 7 improved but over time results can get slower to appear on the Start menu as you type; better multi-threading support for indexing and search could help keep that fast even as the number of items on your system grows - and we've seen search improvements in service packs before.

Most battery life improvements in Windows 8 concentrate on either better setup by hardware partners or on low-level kernel improvements that are tricky to retrofit. We do expect some extra hardware support, though. Even the non-fibre optic version of Intel's LightPeak that Apple is putting into MacBooks as Thunderbolt is about a year off on PCs so while that could coincide with SP2 it's still too soon to see support going directly into Windows.

But SP2 could include direct support for USB 3.0 and SuperSpeed, so OEMs don't have to install specific drivers (and neither do you if you plug in a USB 3.0 add-on card).

We certainly don't expect any of the major advances planned for Windows 8 to arrive in SP2; virtualisation and fast boot into specialised versions of the operating system will need significant testing and probably depend on updated BIOSes (which means more testing).

Detecting what updates require a reboot will need more work on 'MinWin' (the isolated lowest layer of Windows that Microsoft aims to be able to swap out more completely in each new version of the OS).

Similarly, support for ARM chips is a major rewrite and the work supporting x86 'system on chip' hardware is aimed at new PCs.

Improvements to the touch options and the new 'immersive' phone-like interface in Windows 8 are tied in to a new programming model based on Silverlight and Windows Phone app frameworks. That's likely to be available for Windows 7 along with whatever app store Microsoft comes out with, but not until it's available for Windows 8 (especially as Microsoft is talking down tablets again in favour of natural user interfaces like voice and gesture, which seems less out of touch after the relatively disappointing sales figures for tablets that aren't the iPad).

Natural interfaces means more than Kinect, but support for Kinect on PC that's broader than the current development kit aimed at researchers could well be the most exciting feature that could realistically make it into Windows 7 SP2.

Gesture control for Media Center, games or web browsing would be fairly straightforward and a great introduction to the next-generation natural user interface we expect Microsoft is planning for Windows 8.

~networld

General Luna "Red Heaven"

General Luna is an all-female rock band in the Philippines. The group is composed of Nicole Asensio (lead vocalist), Alex Montemayor (bassist), Bea Lao (drummer), Audry Dionisio (rhythm guitarist) and Caren Mangaran (lead guitarist).

When the group was asked the reason why do they call their band as General Luna? Nicole (the lead vocalist) said, "It has nothing to do with General Antonio Luna." It is just a combination of the two words: General (a masculine), and Luna (a feminine). There's a balance of the 2 concepts. They describe their music as a combination of 2 different concepts. Like their music single, "Red Heaven", - a mixture of loud guitar riffs and catchy melodic verses, that expresses the stomach-churning experience of a nightmare. General Luna's self-title debut album is attributed to the serious hardwork of various top artists and songwriters:

Steve Badiola (Typecast frontman) - contributed for General Luna's first single, "Red Heaven"
Monty Macalino (Mayonnaise vocalist and guitarist) - for the 2nd single, "Nandito"
Ebe Dancel (songwriter from Sugarfree) - he wrote the song, "Maria"
Pakoy Fletchero (Typecast guitarist) - produced "Walang Bintana" and offered very unique drum parts to the masterpiece
Japs Sergio (Rivermaya bassist) - helped produced 2 tracks of the album, "Dala ng Ulan" and "Pagmulat", both have socio-political theme.
Francis Brew Reyes (musician from NU107)
Angee Rozul (multi-awarded recording engineer)

Aligned your eyes

To the shadow of the night

In the quiet you will find

all the world is running wild

So skim the streets

with the blisters on your feet

It’s a far and fast escape

show me where’s your safe retreat

I’ll follow with all my soul

even though my eyes are closed

(reaching out) reaching out on

one long way , nothing’s what it seems

This is just a dream

we wont remember

so, if we never wake

then all the better

Making drunken

dances of the tears

as the daylights disappears

falling sweetly, getting sleepy

this dream is just a dream

Don’t you drift too far

forgetting who you are

I’ll follow with all my soul

even though my eyes are closed

(reaching out) reaching out on

one long way , nothing’s what it seems

This is just a dream

we wont remember

so, if we never wake

then all the better

Notice how the light changed

do you recognize

this aint the same city

that was born before your eyes

Are you falling deeper

hearin, echos of laughter

chasing you down

thinking of going get out, oh

This is just a dream

we wont remember

so, if we never wake

then all the better

~networld

May >>> June >>> out

>>> i survive....