This post is dedicated to my colleagues. Here are the photographs for the Karaoke Night! (Click the image below to see the album)

It was a fun night, and you guys managed to get me to sing (sorry for my horrible voice haha)!

During my last trip down to Johor Bahru, I saw this at one of the construction site near the bus terminal:

Someone have too much free time around here, seriously.

p/s: I just noticed the road name is “Jalan Perkosa“. I know there is “Jalan Perkasa” somewhere around here, but this?

Have you ever tried to delete some files in your computer, and this annoying error message shows up?

You have double, triple and even quadruple checked that there are no applications that are using this file. In fact, you might have just closed all your applications and Windows still claims that something - devil? - is using that file. Rebooting your PC often helps solve this matter, but hey, what if after the reboot, and you’re trying to delete yet another file, and it also claimed to be ‘in use’? I don’t think rebooting 30 times to delete 30 empty folders will be pleasant!

Introducing - Unlocker! This nifty app is developed by Cedrick “Nitch” Collomb will solve your woes of deleting files. This free, small download (236kB download footprint) have saved me from loads of headaches thanks to some file caching and lots of bad programming. Installation is swift and fool-proof. (more…)

As our hard drive free space becomes lesser and lesser, we tend to wonder what uses them so much (even though sometimes we do forgot about that 50GB complete series TV shows that we’ve downloaded over the past months). One way is to check your folder sizes one by one (which might take ages and potential RSI due to repetitive clicking).

Even then, you’ll probably see boring statistics like this:

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I’m sure a lot of people are pretty sick of using MS Paint to process basic images - most of us that is using corporate PC’s are restricted in the options to install our own software - especially those that are of questionable origin.

I don’t know about others, but I’m for one, is not a big fan of GiMP. At least not on Windows platform. Let me introduce you to a small, viable, free and powerful image editing application, called *cough* Paint.NET
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Have you ever come to a problem within Windows (assuming you can still boot into Windows), that requires you to boot into Safe Mode? I hate it when I missed slamming the F8 keys and Windows boot normally, causing you to yet try to restart it?

The How-To Geek have a very simple guide on how to do this right within Windows itself, and your next reboot will automagically bring you into the dreaded Safe Mode.

Read more in The How-To Geek

Introduction

Thanks to the technology advancement and the always-going-down price of personal computers, most of us ended up with 2 or more computers at home (like me, for instance, I have a desktop running on Linux - which is pretty much my download slave and a business notebook running Windows which I use in the office and at home).

Sometimes you might need to use these computers simultaneously, and trust me - using more than one set of keyboard and mouse not only troublesome, but at some point you will get frustrated, not to mention that it can get confusing when you’re trying to do too many things at once. Initially, i used VNC to remote into my second PC, but soon I find the speed of which it updates the screen starting to nibble on my short temper. I don’t want to talk about KVM, because firstly, my primary machine is a notebook, and it won’t accept any means of display input - plus always flipping through the switch can be troublesome too.

At last! Found the ultimate solution! - Synergy

After snooping around in various forums and blogs, I found a neat piece of software called “Synergy”. There’s a plenty that I liked about this software:

• It’s FREE (open source, actually)
• It’s lightweight. Only 0.88kB in download footprint
• It’s non-intrusive and not troublesome (can be run as windows/gnome services)
• And the best part - it is cross-platform. So you can technically have a Mac, PC and Linux all together sharing the keyboard and mouse

There are a few more neat things about Synergy:

• Switching between computers is as easy as moving your mouse to the direction of the monitor (Think multiple-display-like experience)
• It doesn’t lag at all
• It also copies your clipboard (yes, copy text from Windows and paste in Ubuntu FTW!

Let’s see how to set it up! (more…)

One of the rare moment where Lily opens her jaw wide (was actually yawning)

You’re welcomed to create any LOLcats based on this. Just make sure to link back here or post it in the comments!