Sunday, November 29, 2009
How to create Windows Vista recovery disk
Recently I had some problem with my Windows Vista system and needed to restore system to rectify it. While searching the internet for solutions I come to realize there are some who has their system comes pre-installed Windows Vista and not provided with a recovery media.
Here's the steps how you could create a Windows Vista recovery media, so that when you have problem booting up your system from hard disk, you could use the media to boot up and select the available recovery options.
Here's the steps how you could create a Windows Vista recovery media, so that when you have problem booting up your system from hard disk, you could use the media to boot up and select the available recovery options.
1) Download the iso image of the Recovery Disk from the following site :
The above link downloads a .torrent file to start the torrent download process. You would need to make use of some kind of BitTorrent client. I used uTorrent.
2) After the download you need to burn this image to a CD/DVD media, so that you could use it later to boot up your system. There are different program for doing this, I have tried with ImgBurn.
It is available for download here:http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=download
3) Screens for using ImgBurn to burn image to media can be referenced here: http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/G/Burning+ISO+Images+with+ImgBurn
When you boot up from the recovery disk, after the first few screens, you will be presented with the recovery options as below:
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Faststone Image Viewer
This is a very versatile small program, which I find very handy and provided many features to edit and enhance image files.
You can also just download the portable version and take the program with you in a pen drive, without installing in the computer you need to use for editing your images.
Under the 'Edit' pull down menu you can find many options to choose for enhacing the images. Although the available options are not as extensive as some other tools but I find that they are quite sufficient for normal use.
There is a 'draw board' feature, which will take you to a screen where many drawing options you can add such as callouts, lines, ellipse, rectangle or even to add watermark image.
This is a freeware program where you can download it from:
http://www.faststone.org/index.htm
You can also just download the portable version and take the program with you in a pen drive, without installing in the computer you need to use for editing your images.
Under the 'Edit' pull down menu you can find many options to choose for enhacing the images. Although the available options are not as extensive as some other tools but I find that they are quite sufficient for normal use.
There is a 'draw board' feature, which will take you to a screen where many drawing options you can add such as callouts, lines, ellipse, rectangle or even to add watermark image.
This is a freeware program where you can download it from:
http://www.faststone.org/index.htm
Sunday, November 08, 2009
Web based Instant Messaging
Rcently tried the following two web based instant messaging:
www.meebo.com
www.ebuddy.com
One of the advantage of using web based tool is that you do away with installing each of the IM clients on your computer, and you can just log on to your IM account anywhere you have access to a computer with Internet access.
You can log on to your IM account sauch as Yahoo Messenger, Windows Luve Messenger, Google Talk, etc by visiting the web site.
And if you register at either site for an account (i.e. Meebo or eBuddy account), you can then make use of the account to log on to multiple of your instant messaging accounts at the same time. So you can have your IM buddies all list in one web based page.
You could chat, conference, video chat etc etc... with your buddies as you like.
www.meebo.com
www.ebuddy.com
One of the advantage of using web based tool is that you do away with installing each of the IM clients on your computer, and you can just log on to your IM account anywhere you have access to a computer with Internet access.
You can log on to your IM account sauch as Yahoo Messenger, Windows Luve Messenger, Google Talk, etc by visiting the web site.
And if you register at either site for an account (i.e. Meebo or eBuddy account), you can then make use of the account to log on to multiple of your instant messaging accounts at the same time. So you can have your IM buddies all list in one web based page.
You could chat, conference, video chat etc etc... with your buddies as you like.
Monday, November 02, 2009
Image editing software - GIMP & paint.NET
I have been looking for and tried out image editing software for my own usage and have spent some time on GIMP 2 & paint.NET as I wanted to learn the 'layer' features.
I have tried on both for a short while, and will definately need to spend more time to learn the power of both as they provided many useful features and effects for editing and enhancing the photgraphs. I really enjoyed very much when I started to be able to make use of layers.
GIMP 2 is open source software and can be download at the following:-
1) Installers for GIMP for Windows: http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/
2) Documentation: http://manual.gimp.org/
3) Tutorial: http://gimp-tutorials.net/
paint.NET is provided free of charge but you are welcome to make a donation at their web site to support their further development.
http://www.getpaint.net/
I have tried on both for a short while, and will definately need to spend more time to learn the power of both as they provided many useful features and effects for editing and enhancing the photgraphs. I really enjoyed very much when I started to be able to make use of layers.
GIMP 2 is open source software and can be download at the following:-
1) Installers for GIMP for Windows: http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/
2) Documentation: http://manual.gimp.org/
3) Tutorial: http://gimp-tutorials.net/
paint.NET is provided free of charge but you are welcome to make a donation at their web site to support their further development.
http://www.getpaint.net/
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Thursday, August 06, 2009
Can't sign in to Yahoo Messenger, error 81003002
Today suddently I have problem signing in to Yahoo Messenger, I get error as below:
The password you entered is incorrect. Click "Try again" to re-enter it, or click "Sign-in Problems?" if you have forgotten your ID or password. (81003002)
I know very well that my id & password are correct, and I have no problem in using them to log in to my Yahoo Mail. I even tried uninstall and reinstall Yahoo Messenger but it didn't help.
After some searches and testing, finally I found where the problem is. The error only happens if I have proxy server setting in IE's or Google Chrome's Internet Options. It seems IE and Google Chrome is sharing the same proxy server settings.
Funny thing is in my Yahoo Messenger, I specify 'Connect directly to the Internet', and not via proxy server, not sure why it still try to get the proxy setting from IE.
Anyway when I taken out the proxy server settings from IE, I was able to sign in to Yahoo Messenger again.
Sunday, August 02, 2009
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
To have succeeded
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sunday, April 19, 2009
XnView - photo viewer, converter, organizer
Recently I tried a program for enhancing the digital photographs called XnView. This program actually comes with many features.
It becomes a program I used frequently now for a few features which I'll mentioned below:
1) It has many filters that I can make used of to further enhance my photos
2) Click on Image pull down menu, and I can have features to Resize, Add Text, Add Watermark. Previously I have been using different program for doing these, and now save me trouble in bringing up more than 1 programs.
For more details and to download the program, please go here:
http://www.xnview.com
This program is provided as Freeware for private non-commercial, educational use and non-profit organization.
It becomes a program I used frequently now for a few features which I'll mentioned below:
1) It has many filters that I can make used of to further enhance my photos
2) Click on Image pull down menu, and I can have features to Resize, Add Text, Add Watermark. Previously I have been using different program for doing these, and now save me trouble in bringing up more than 1 programs.
For more details and to download the program, please go here:
http://www.xnview.com
This program is provided as Freeware for private non-commercial, educational use and non-profit organization.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Fridge Magnets from all over
New Zealand
Australia
Korea
Vietnam
Turkey
Mongolia
USA
2008 Beijing Olympics
1992 Barcelona Olympics
Australia
Korea
Vietnam
Turkey
Mongolia
USA
2008 Beijing Olympics
1992 Barcelona Olympics
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
2009 Chinese New Year red packets
This one is from McDonalds:
From Purple Cane (紫藤）when purchasing chinese tea.
From Astro, for their 小太阳program:
This is given out from Golden Screen Cinema, the packets shows the characters in the Cantonese Chinese New Year movie [All's well Ends Well 2009].
This is from a packet I received：
From Purple Cane (紫藤）when purchasing chinese tea.
From Astro, for their 小太阳program:
This is given out from Golden Screen Cinema, the packets shows the characters in the Cantonese Chinese New Year movie [All's well Ends Well 2009].
This is from a packet I received：
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