Delete DrWtsn32.log to free up space

Just found a large file while defragmenting my hardrive. The DrWtsn32.log file holds about 400MB. That's a lot!

It is safe to delete this file?

After googling, I found out that the file was generated from Dr. Watson Windows XP application itself. It is a program error debugger that detects and diagnoses program errors and creates User.dmp and DrWtsn32.log files to contain the diagnostic data.

In Windows NT these files are stored in the %systemroot% folder. In Windows 2000, these files are stored in the %systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\DrWatson folder.

For Windows XP, these files are stored in the %systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Dr Watson folder.

The DrWtsn32.log file is appended each time a program error occurs; the User.dmp file is overwritten each time.

To turn off the Dr Watson debugger, apply the following Windows NT / Windows 2000 / Windows XP registry hack:

Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug
Name: Auto
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 0 disable
Value: 1 enable

To re-enable Dr Watson, you can change Auto back to 1 or from the command line type drwtsn -i.

For the conclusion, just delete DrWtsn32.log anyway. It's no harm whatsoever.

Top 8 New Year Resolutions

Bill Vaughan

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

My resolutions :

1. Keep changing cell phone after a few months is really not helping me a better understanding of gadget technology.
2. Want to utilize current gadgets. Really don't need an iPod, iPhone and a palm at the same time.
3. Keeping your photos from digital cameras for over 2 years is bad for hard drive space. Back it up to a DVD is a good idea.
4. Microsoft must have good reasons and purposes for creating Chkdsk, Disk Clean Up, and Defrag in Win XP. Just lost my hard drive because not using it.
5. Play more games. Scientists say they're good for you and improve your visual skills. But you always knew that.
6. Always remember that these are not my computers, these are not my notebooks, this is not my personal internet connection, and I exist only to serve the needs of the company and its employees.
7. Bosses: You can't live with them, and you can't live without them. Career and salary are in their hands. Just try to get a long with them.
8. Try New Things. Spent all of last year bored out of your mind? Take the plunge this year and try something new. Make the most out of your year by resolving to try more new things.

My last resolution came from this dumbspot site. You can try your New Year Resolution from here.

Anonymous

Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits.

Happy New Year 2009!

BeFunky

Want to convert your current image or photo to cartoon?

BeFunky is a FREE online image tool that can transform images to cartoon style.
You don't need to be an expert to use it. The choices are simple and easy. You can adjust your image with different kind of results.

They have:
* Cartoonizer - an online application that allows users to turn images and videos into digital paintings, cartoons and comics.

* Uvatar – a digital visual identity tool that takes the avatar concept to an extraordinary new level by letting users create a more accurate digital representation of themselves.

You can upload your image from desktop, url and even a snapshot via webcam (this is cool!).

After uploaded your photo, they have more tool option:
- Sketch: to create a black and white pencil drawing of the photo
- Color: to make sketches look colorful
- Warp: to push and pull any area of an image
- Goodies: ability to add fames, speech baloons, text, graphics, shapes and more

You can see the sample from Mr James Bond (Daniel Craig) images below.


So, what are you waiting for? Be funky...

Webcam using a camera phone

With the latest cell phones technology, the camera phones are becoming a common device. And it can take quite nice photos also. By using the software from motvik (WWIGO), you can turn your camera phone to act like a webcam!

wwigo (pronounced 'vigo') stands for Webcam Wherever I Go. With wwigo, a camera phone can be used as a webcam with PC or Laptop using bluetooth as the transmission medium.

It consists of two software components:
* Mobile component that resides on phone and streams video to PC.
* PC component that receives video.

Features:
* Use Camera Phone as Wireless Webcam
* Record videos with wwigo PC application.
* Use along with skype, yahoo messenger, windows live messenger to do video chat.
* Live Upload with YouTube, grouper to share video.
* Video Quality better or comparable to off shelf webcam*
* Works with popular Bluetooth Stacks on PC
* Supported devices Nokia Series 60 v2.0 and Series 60 v3.0 phones

* Better or comparable depends on the specific phone used.

System Requirements:
* Desktop/Laptop with Windows 2000 or Windows XP SP2
* Bluetooth enabled with any one of these bluetooth Stack, IVT BlueSoleil Bluetooth Stack, Microsoft Bluetooth Stack, Widcomm Bluetooth Stack, Toshiba Bluetooth Stack
* Mobile Phone: Nokia Series 60 v2.0 or v3.0 phone.

The process only takes a few minutes.
1. Just download the software from here.
2. Install the download file to your PC.
3. Plug in your Bluetooth device and activate your cell phone Bluetooth
4. Launch a sis file (wwigoMobileApp) in the wwigo desktop menu
5. Install the application in the cell phone

That's it. You can now use your cell phone as your webcam. Enjoy!

Image via Motvik

Games in Excel

Remember the old days playing Pac Man, Arkanoid, Dig Dug or Tetris?
Now you can play it again using Excel. Just download the games through this site. There are bunch of arcade classics available, complete with mouse and audio support.

Don't forget to enable macros and run the macro titled "start" or similar.
Or just click the excel game file to start playing. Enjoy!

News via Technobob

PIPL

Ever try visit Pipl.com?

Pipl is a comprehensive place to find facts about a person on the internet. Surprisingly it is very accurate. Just type in the person's name and Pipl.com will display every little information about that person from the web in seconds.

I type Bill Gates for the sample. Besides the one line bios and contact information, it display related profile summaries from flickr, yahoo, etc.


Actually Pipl also collect hundreds of millions of profiles from social networking sites.

And there are 5 facts about Social Networking Sites from pipl :

1. The Women Are Younger, The Men are Older
2. Bebo and Xanga have the Youngest Crowd
3. MySpace is still the largest, by far
4. European, Asians and South American Members are getting Younger
5. More Women on MySpace, More Men on Hi5

Try Pipl search - big surprises there!

Emoticons Review: Onion Head

Onion Tou (Tou means head in Chinese), famously known as Onion-kun, is the creation of Taiwanese Mangaka Ethan (aka E, the Father of Onions). He started drawing back in 2005, when trying some 2D functions in MSN Shell. When his earlier versions was well received online, he drew more onions. After that Onion-kun became an online hit and can be seen all over websites, forums, IM or blogs.

Onion-kun is primarily an emoticon character. There are 93 Onion-themed animated emoticons 70 Onion-themed head shots, and 7 Onion-themed comic strips. Aside from Onion-kun, 3 additional characters appears in the comic strip: Onion-Mei, who is Onion-kun's little sister (Mei means little sister in Chinese, by the way), Delinquent Scallion, who is Onion-kun's arch enemy.

From his Interview with Sohu on September 2007, actually E is a 3 artist. Hobbies: mangas, anime, fantasy novels, and collecting toy models.

His favorite emoticon is the one where Onion-kun runs around in joy: This emoticon took him the longest to create, he really want Onion-fans to smile from their heart when they see it. As for the one that most often represent his feelings, he think it's Onion-kun in rage.

When Onion-kun became popular, people start making all kinds of requests : request for collaboration, request for adaptations, request for specific designs, request for interviews, etc. It's really a bother... He wasn't really prepared. "State of emergency" would probably be a good way to describe his situation.

He is currently working on an Onion-themed Manga --that's his main project for now. He thinks the manga is necessary because you can only get a limited amount of audience empathy with simple emoticons and short dialogues. The internet is pretty much a separate world from the real world. In order to market

Onion-kun in the real world, he need something more sophisticated, hr need to make him a product of culture. He is constantly thinking about what to put in the first Onion-Tou Manga, when the book is published, he hope it would be a milestone for himself.

People uses Onion-kun as an extension of their emotions, their feelings, everyone have different feelings so everyone have a different reason for liking Onion-kun.

By using Onion-kun, people let themselves become Onion-kun, and Onion-kun becomes their spokes- person.

Onion-kun was originally created as a representation of himself on the internet. In the beginning, he drew the emotions based on my personal needs, so a lot of the earlier emoticons really represent feelings that he want to express. Of course, he cannot make exaggerated faces like Onion-kun, but the feels are similar..

He doesn't really mind if people equate himself with Onion-kun, but he would prefer that they separate the two. He has created a separate persona for himself on the net, i.e. Onion-E. If people do not distinguish between the two, then Onion-E would become meaningless. Onion-kun needs his own story and personality. If he has to step to the background, that's fine.

He hopes the fans would focus their attention on his work and on not himself personally. He is, after all, not a stage artist or a stage entertainer. People should expect a cute, lively Onion. He would like to work in the background; it's the kind of working environment that he wishes for, one where he can work without interruptions.

All this post images and news copyrights by The Onion Club

Health Tag

I’ve got tagged by my good friend bdh

1. What is your definition of ‘healthy eating’?

Answer: Consuming a variety of nutrient-dense foods and beverages within and among the basic food groups

2. Do you exercise on a regular basis? What is your favorite form of exercise? Least favorite?

Answer: No, but I have in the past. Jogging is my favorite.

3. Do you take vitamin supplements?

Answer: Only vitamin C.

4. Can you tell that your body is getting older? If so, how?

Answer: Getting fat and having memory loss.

5. Would you call yourself healthy?

Answer: Not that healthy.

Now I’m tagging Katherine, Levian, LeeChien, Eagle, Shireishou

Is Your Keyboard Clean Enough?

Studies have shown that your keyboard and mouse are some of the most germ-ridden devices you own, surpassing even doorknobs and toilet seats. Take this short quiz to see how many germs lovingly call your keyboard home.

This was my result :

1,797,600How Many Germs Live On Your Keyboard?

That's equivalent to the number of germs on 360 toilet seats.

Just click the badge to take the quiz!

Or click here http://www.justsayhi.com/bb/keyboard

Top 10 Most Common Passwords

From the first time we going online to internet until offline, every aspects of security is depending on passwords. Opening your email, using PayPal, shopping on eBay, using the ATM, home security is using passwords to secure it. We surely once in a while receiving news about security theft, fraud and phising sites and yet after some sample of passwords (primarily from the UK), it might be a good time to change your current passwords to a more secure one.

10. 'thomas' (0.99‰)

Using name as password (actually this is the 2nd most popular in 2000 in UK) is no surprise. That means nearly 1 in 1,000 people use this as their password.

9. 'arsenal' (1.11‰)

Soccer teams name are another favorite to choose as a password.

8. 'monkey' (1.33‰)

Still can not understand why these 6-letter words are among the top 10 list. There are lots of animals out there and why this entire people choose this one. Is monkey easier to memorize?

7. 'charlie' (1.39‰)

Another common name in UK and more popular than thomas. Or maybe they were referring to its slang meaning.

6. 'qwerty' (1.41‰)

Maybe the reason why 1 in 700 people choose this 'qwerty' because this is the easiest letter they can find in the keyboard.

5. '123456' (1.63‰)

Of course they type it until 6 only because that is the most common minimum required length of password.

4. 'letmein' (1.76‰)

Still wonder why this 'letmein' can be so popular.

3. 'liverpool' (1.82‰)

On of the most popular soccer team in UK. This means that 1 in 550 people are such big fans of Liverpool.

2. 'password' (3.780‰)

Almost 1 in 250 people choosing the word 'password' for some reason, maybe the easiest way to remember it.

1. '123' (3.784‰)

With nearly 4 people in 1,000 this simple number maybe the first thing they could easily think of.

Source : Top 10 Most Common Passwords by Stuart Brown

Famous People Blog

Feeling tired or bored for reading your friend's blog ?
How about trying something different by visiting some famous people who blog ?

Alec Baldwin - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alec-baldwin/
Anna Kournikova - http://www.kournikova.com/journal/
Donald Trump - http://www.trumpuniversity.com/blog/index.cfm
Jackie Chan - http://www.jackiechan.com/messages
Jeff Bridges - http://www.jeffbridges.com/
Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen - http://www.mary-kateandashley.com/blog/
Victoria Beckham - http://www.dvbstyle.com/blog/

Please add more if you have one ..

Search Engine Optimization Tag

Start tag

This is based on the SEO theory that links to posts inside your blog are more important than links to your home page. I have selected three posts I want to promote along with my site’s name.

You will do the same thing. Keep it simple and spread our good work around to both share and build some ratings! Pick three posts that you feel are your best or those you simply want to promote. Your site name is listed with your 3 selected posts beneath.

Once you have your post up: Add the sites and post links of the folks you tagged onto your post. Try to add the site and post links to anyone involved to maximize the effectiveness. Tag a minimum of 5 people!

Try your best not to double tag people so it will spread better! Please actually read the posts from everyone so you can see some really good work from our beloved blogging friends! Make your title a little different from mine to avoid repetitive titles. Please try maintaining some friendly updates to your post too.

Revellian dot com
SEO Keywords For Beginners
Content: The Kings Illegitimate Stepchild
Tales of Blogger-XIllusion

Mariuca - Wishing On A Falling Star
Love In Disarray
In Love With A Dream The Good Client

Mariuca’s Perfume Gallery
Perfume Shopping Spree Defining Beauty In Full Splendour

First Time Dad
Homer Kidnapped Something Ends Good Night Sweetheart! Hello Basil!

Speedcat Hollydale Page
Rocket Boy in Hawaii - DC9
Speedcat's Death Ride into Terror!
The Boy Inside All Men

LadyJava's Lounge
Are you a Genius?? The secret to a happy marriage I've got a twitch in my eye

Cat Tales
Sunday was BathdaySomeone got locked in! When she's sleeping....

Being Woman - The Joy of Being One
A Handbag Lunatic A Real Deal What makes you fat?

Make Money Online
Share Uploaded Files and Earn
Fight Back against computer-security threats Earn Money 3 Ways with Shareapic Program

Rooms of My Heart
Let's Celebrate with Us Join Tribute to Dads Project 8 things that make who I am now

Moneys online
what is stumble upon?what is service?
How to make trafiic??? What is SEO???

Emila’s Illustrated Blog
Green Fashion Captain

Amel's Realm
In Memoriam On Trust and Relationship Marriage Review

Dutchcorner
The Key Cellphones It's all in the ears

R Playground
Friends101
Shy Blogger Soul Music

Comedy Plus
911 Tribute - Never Forget Hillary Goes To Montana
Anger Management

NAFASG©™
NAFASG Team Recognized As Helium's Top 5% Best Writers
Blogspot Tutorial : How to Change Blogspot Layout With Free Templates
The Couple’s Golden Key To Reconciliation

Janice Ng
The Loving Brothers
I am a Gangster head !! These coke aint for drinking : Part I

The Painted Veil
Women Over forty
When I grew up
An Opal is An Opal By Any Other Name

A Great Pleasure
It's Award-licious
My Sweetheart Chloe
Three Sweet Ladies & Me

I Want to Believe
Are You an Internet Addict?
Getting stupid lately ?
Story of One Eyed Mother

ADD YOURSELF HERE WHEN DONE BY LEAVING A COMMENT
End Tag

I tag the following people
(use site names not people names):

Bali Dream Home
Goresan Ngawur
Levian
Easy Step to Earn Money
Journey of Life

Happy 25th Birthday to Smiley Icon

For those of us who feel pretty cutting-edge because we've been using smileyfaces and other emoticons in our emails and instant messages for the pastfew years, guess what? The smiley emoticon is 25 years old.

One of the first uses of a colon, dash and parenthesis to form a sidewayssmiley face occurred born on Sept. 19, 1982, when Carnegie Mellon University Professor Scott E. Fahlman suggested in an online academic bulletin board—the precursor to chat rooms and instant messaging—that there was a need for symbols to convey emotion, the nuance of which often is oftenmissed by readers.

"I propose the following character for joke markers: :-) Read it sideways," Fahlman wrote. "Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things thatare NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use :-( "

Twenty five years later, emotions for every kind of emotion, mood, and emphasis take the form of colorful, often animated faces. Fahlman's look back on his emoticon history web page is a good read, especially since he answers emoticon-critics ' charges that "good writers should have no need to explicitly label their humorous comments." In part, he says, "If Shakespeare were tossing off a quick note complaining about the lack of employee parking spaces near the Globe Theater, he might have produced the same kind of sloppy prose that the rest of us do. Besides, Shakespeare's work is full of clichés and his spelling was atrocious. :-)"

To celebrate the birth of the little guy who has made a big splash and spawned all kinds of emoticons, Fahlman and his Carnegie Mellon colleagues have started an annual contest for innovation in tech-assisted, person-to-person innovation. Yahoo! is sponsoring The Smiley Award, which comes with a $500 cash prize.

Image via Yahoo! Messenger Blog

Source :
- Happy Birthday, Smiley Face Icon
- The Secret Life of Emoticons
- Smiley : 25 years old and never looked happier
- Digital 'Smiley Face' Turns 25
- Nerd Times : A Brief History Of Smiley's

Under a Tag

Rules :
1. Each blogger must post these rules
2. Each blogger starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves
3. Bloggers that are tagged need to write on their own blog about their eight things and post these rules. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
4. Don't forget to leave them a comment telling them they've been tagged and to read your blog

Facts about me :
1. Outgoing and have a very friendly personality
2. Tend to be original, creative, curious, complex
3. Reliable, well-organized, self-disciplined, careful
4. Sociable, friendly, fun loving, talkative
5. Good natured, sympathetic, forgiving, courteous
6. Generally anxious person and tend to worry about things
7. Introverted, intuitive, feeling, judging
8. Like to blog

Want to to tag :
1. Terune
2. RMY
3. Didiet
4. Dipta
5. Eagle
6. Dwi's Blog
7. FA and Me
8. Ryntoz

Enjoy ..

Mobile Phone Throwing World Championships

Kejuaraan dunia lempar handphone (Mobile Phone Throwing World Championships) kembali berlangsung di kota Savonlinna, Finlandia. Kegiatan tahunan yang digelar untuk ke delapan kalinya ini berlangsung meriah.

Eija Laakso of Finland tosses a mobile phone during the Mobile Phone Throwing World Championships in Savonlinna, Finland, August 25, 2007. Laakso won the women's event.

Para peserta yang berjumlah ratusan orang dari berbagai penjuru dunia ini dapat mengikuti ajang ini dalam 4 kategori perlombaan yang berbeda.

* Original ('Traditional'): melempar dengan jarak yang paling jauh (best of 3)
* Freestyle: peserta memperoleh nilai dari cara memainkan handphone
* Team original: setiap tim terdari dari 3 peserta
* Junior: untuk anak-anak dibawah umur 12 tahun

Beberapa syarat tambahan lainnya antara lain, handphone yang dilempar harus dilengkapi dengan baterai, beratnya antara 220 gram sampai dengan 400 gram. Tentu saja handphone yang akan dilempar disediakan oleh panitia, yang mereka klaim merupakan handphone hasil sumbangan para donatur.

Hasilnya para peserta dari tuan rumah menguasai semua jenis kategori yang dilombakan.

CATEGORY / Winners 2007 / Result
Original - individual men : Tommi Huotari (FIN) 89,62 m
Original - individual women : Eija Laakso (FIN) 44,49 m
Freestyle - individual : Elina Pitkänen and Taco Cohen (FIN) 12 p
Freestyle - team : Tanen Enkelit (FIN) 11 p
Junior : Antti Aikio (FIN) 51,26 m

Ada yang ingin ikut berlomba tahun depan ?


Photo copyright by Seppo Sirkka / EPA

Sumber :
- Mobile Phone Throwing World Championships
- The Mobile Phone Throwing World Championships

The bulletproof backpacks

Kembali ke sekolah atau ke kampus rasanya akan lebih berbeda - minimal terasa lebih aman. Sebuah perusahaan yang bernama MJ Safety Solutions menawarkan tas punggung yang anti peluru. Ya benar, anti peluru. Tas punggung yang diberi nama My Child's Pack ini dijual seharga 175 US$. Tas ini mampu menghentikan beberapa tipe peluru (termasuk hollow-point 9mm). Para penemu ini merasa tas ini akan memberikan solusi yang sederhana kepada para orantua yang kuatir terhadap anak-anaknya dari serangan bersenjata yang kerap terjadi.

Tentu saja aman jika para pelaku kejahatan bersenjata hanya mengarahkannya ke tas punggung ?

Anda dapat melihat video demonstrasinya di sini.


Sumber :
- Ballistic Bookbag
- Back-to-school shopping? Don't forget the bulletproof backpacks

The Piss-Screen

Let your toilet become interactive

Beberapa bar, klub malam maupun kafe di Frankfurt, Jerman, telah dipasang The Piss-Screen di setiap kamar kecil pria. Para pengunjung toilet dapat bermain game balapan seperti Need for Speed selama mereka melakukan kegiatan buang air kecil.

Jika sudah selesai bermain game tersebut akan ada pesan :
"Too pissed to drive?"
"Take a Taxi instead"
"Call: 069-733030"

Tujuan dibuatnya The Piss-Screen ini adalah menganjurkan orang-orang menelpon taxi untuk diantar pulang dari pada menyetir mobil sendiri dalam keadaan mabuk.

Sengaja dipasang di kamar kecil karena kebanyakan orang mabuk selalu mampir terlebih dahulu ke kamar mandi sebelum pulang ke rumah.

Jika masih penasaran dapat mencoba game maupun videonya disini.

Apakah efektif mengurangi jumlah kecelakaan karena mabuk ?

Sumber : The Piss-Screen

62 by the numbers

Cardinal : 62 sixty-two
Ordinal : 62nd sixty-second
Divisors : 1, 2, 31, 62
Roman numeral : LXII
Binary : 111110
Hexadecimal : 3E

In science
* The atomic number of samarium, a lanthanide

In mathematics
* Sixty-two is a composite number with divisors 2 and 31. It is a nontotient.
* 62 is a repdigit in base 5 (222).

In other fields

Sixty-two is:
* The code for international direct dial calls to Indonesia
* The number of the French department Pas-de-Calais
* The home of Wallace and Gromit is located at 62 West Wallaby Street
* The number of counties in New York state
* The amount in British pence that the British Royal Family cost each British citizen in the 2005-2006 financial year.
* The model name of a Maybach car
* The channel George Newman owns in the 1989 movie UHF
* The number of ships in the R class in World War I
* One of two numbers used by Will Ferrell's title character in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, the other being 26
* A Band called Sixty Second had a CD "Sixty Seconds of Chaos"
* 62 was Velvet Brown's winning raffle ticket number in the 1944 film 'National Velvet'

At age 62
* Ed Sullivan, introduced the Beatles to America, 1964
* Louis Pasteur developed the first vaccination against rabies, 1885
* Franklin Roosevelt won a fourth term as President, 1944
* David Ben-Gurion becomes Israel's 1st Prime Minister, 1948
* John Wayne wins an Oscar for Best Actor for True Grit, 1969
* David Niven wrote his autobiography, The Moon's a Balloon, 1971

Source : Wikipedia

Don't Click It

Pernah membayangkan menggunakan mouse tanpa melakukan click ?

Sebuah website buatan Alex Frank yang beralamat www.dontclick.it akan memberikan demonstrasi bagaimana rasanya melakukan interaksi terhadap menu dan pilihan yang ada tanpa melakukan click.

Mula-mula rasanya akan terasa aneh, karena sudah terbiasa melakukan click setiap saat. Coba gerakkan mouse Anda untuk melihat animasi dan interface yang cukup indah dari site ini.

Apakah mouse tanpa click lebih menyenangkan ?

Simpsonize Me!

Dalam rangka mempromosikan film The Simpsons Movie, telah dibuat sebuah site yang membaca hasil upload foto Anda atau orang lain dan merubahnya sesuai dengan karakter Simpson yang tersedia. Dalam bentuk kartun tentunya. Salah satu taktik marketing yang cukup bagus, mengingat film ini akan segera direlease pada tanggal 27 Juli 2007.

Hasilnya dapat dilihat di site ini.

Untuk Anda yang ingin mencoba diharapkan kesabarannya, karena traffic-nya sedang pada beban puncak. Jika sudah ada yang mencobanya segera memberikan komentar ya ...

Jadi, tunggu apa lagi .. Simpsonize me! di http://www.simpsonizeme.com