New blog template for 2008

Here is the sneak preview of my new blog template.

It would be a contrast with this current template.

Enjoy.

Change file extension icon in Windows Vista

Do you remember how easy it is to change the icon of a file (eg: .jpg, .zip) in the previous build of Windows?

This is the option where you can find in Windows XP:


This is the folder option for Windows Vista:


In Windows Vista, the option was gone. Some might not even know that actually we still had the option of changing file type association in Windows Vista. To change the file type association in Windows Vista, just follow the simple steps below :
(Let say we want to change the default program to open a jpg file)

Method 1

1. Simply find a .jpg file, and right click on the .jpg file.

2. Go to Open With > Choose Default Program.. .

3. You would see a windows popup like this.


4. Make sure that the option Always use the selected program to open this kind of file was checked.

5. Just click OK when you are done.


That's it. Quick and Easy. If you don't like this method, and you want to directly change the default program for multiple extension, actually there is a similar interface like what you had in Windows XP.


Method 2

1. Open up the Control Panel by go to Start > Control Panel.

2. Select and open Default Programs.

3. Select Associate a file type or protocol with a specific program.



There you go. A similar interface that you used to had in Windows XP. Now, what's missing from the menu? For those that always want to customize the file type icon like me, you would sure aware that there is no more option for you do it.

Don't worry, Windows Registry Editor holds most of the secret. For those who are familar with Windows, they would know that Regedit always has a way out. Yup cut off the crap, lets get hands dirty.

(I won't use .jpg as example as I doubt you will change the icon of .jpg. This is because Windows Vista has a live preview features for most of the image type. You wouldn't want to lost it right? So lets says we want to change the icon of .zip file this time.)

1. Make sure you have your icon file ready, in this scenario i use (myZip.ico) stored in (D:\MyIcon).

2. Open up Start, type "regedit" in the search field, and of course press Enter.

3. Expand your HKey_Classes_Root hive, and find ".zip" key.

4. Read the value stored in "default". By default it should be "CompressedFolder" and it might be vary if your .zip file is opened using Winzip or Winrar.

5. Move on using my scenario, I should find "CompressedFolder" key in the same path.

6. Expand the key, and you would find "DefaultIcon" subkey.

7. Just change the value of Default to where your icon was stored. In my case, I just change to "D:\MyIcon\myZip.ico". If your icon files has multiple icon, you can also specify the index of the icon. (Eg: "D:\MyIcon\myZip.ico,1").

8. When you done, just close up everything, log off and log in back, you should see .zip icon was updated.


Easy? Complicated? Nah, if you opted for the easy way, there's a "littleway" for you. Stardock was offerring a very powerful tools called "IconPackager" with a little sum you need to pay.

Refuse to pay? Then stick back to your default icon! Hahaha... PowerTools from Creative Element is a freeware that enable you to change the icon easily too. However don't expect that it would be as great as IconPackager. :P They have their own target users.

Have Fun~!!

Update : Opps, indeed PowerTools is not a freeware anymore. Thanks CoolRaoul, for the information.

We Are The Reason

Last year, I've introduced you guys a nice christmas songs titled "Give Love On Christmas Day" which is a songs that sang in most of the churches during christmas day. This year, the song that I introduce to you is sang by Avalon, a great band of christian music artist. This is the songs which came across to me 2 years ago when I attended a christmas party in one of the church.

Hope you guys enjoyed it.

As little children
We would dream of Christmas morn
Of all the gifts and toys
We knew we'd find
But we never realized
A baby born one blessed night
Gave us the greatest gift of our lives

We were the reason
That He gave His life
We were the reason
That He suffered and died
To a world that was lost
He gave all He could give
To show us the reason to live

As the years went by
We learned more about gifts
The giving of ourselves
And what that means
On a dark and cloudy day
A man hung crying in the rain
All because of love, all because of love

I've finally found the reason for living
It's in giving every part of my heart to Him
In all that I do every word that I say
I'll be giving my all just for Him, for Him

He is my reason to live

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My WishList

These are the stuff thats attracts my attention and had ever crossed my mind to own them.



Maybe I would get one of it for myself. *Winks*

O/T : Have my illustration skill improved? :P

3 December 2007

As usual, I am writing this post to thanks all my friends and family for the birthday wishes. You guys and gals has let me know that my world was so lively with all of you here with me always. Alrite here goes my thank you list :

Of course have to start with my cute Nico lo.. for the birthday wish, kisses, and all the way from JB to KL in order to spend my birthday with me.

Ah Hock for the short wishes in friendster comment.

Ah Tan for the birthday wish although long time we didn't meet each other.

Alicia for the sms, and ya.. will always remember you this good sister.

Anne for the sms as well.

Anne (JieJie) for always never fails to remember my birthday for all these years.

Anneliese for being the earliest friend who wished me.

Brother (老哥) for the sms as well.

Cecilia for the wishes in friendster comment too.

Daddy and Mummy for the birthday wish as well.

Emily for the birthday wishes.

Fong Ying for always never forgets to wish me on my birthday as well.

Hon W.J. for the multilang~ual wish in friendster comment. :)

Kian Seng for the birthday friendster comment.

Nico's Mummy for the wishes over SMS.

Nicole for the early birthday friendster comment.

Pei Wen for the birthday wishes over the MSN.

Serene for the sms wishes too.

Sister (阿妹) for the sms wishes.

Su Xing for the birthday wishes over the MSN.

Xiao Qi for the sms and telephone calls on midnite.

Yitian for wishing birthday to maro.

Thanks also to my colleagues, the AppCompat Team, 2 Bosses, and friends that working together with me like Chee Wei, Chin Dy, Chin Leng, Kai Chen, Kah Fei, Kong Siang, Richard, Sarah, Soo Beng, Suet Yi and a group of my seniors/mentors in offices.

I know everytime I would accidentally left out some of you frm the list. Anyway, is not I've forgotten okay.. :P

Anyway thanks..............................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi Everyone in 2007

Basically I am too lazy to change my blog skin. I love my blog skin alot, but too bad, it is for Chinese New Year, and it had been past for so long already. So out of no choice, I put up the original skin at the moment till my skin modification mood back only will up with new design. :P

Storm Codec - stormupd.dll problem with Antivirus

Ok, after my Avast antivirus software updated the virus definition, it appears to have problems with the stormupd.dll file which belongs to Storm Codec. For those who don't know what is Storm Codec, actually it is a codec which can play almost every media in its lite and compact player called Media Player Classic.

As I can't starts the Media Player Classic without get rids to the message, I tried to put the stormupd.dll into the exception list. Yet the irritating message still prompts and it prevent the system to detect the dll file. With no other choices, I starts to google up for the solutions. With few minutes of searching, finally I found a great solutions in one of the chinese forum (http://www.wustx.com/read.php?tid=53182). Well, is all written in chinese, and I don't really able to read those characters up, so I just download the file and patch it. To let all of my precious blog supporter to download the file, I had uploaded the edited dll into rapidshare.

Here is the step by step tutorial for those who don't know how the steps to patch the dll.
1. Download the edited stormupd.dll from here.

2. Right click the rar file (Winrar is required)

3. Select the Extract Here option

4. Right click the extracted stormupd.dll and select copy

5. Go to C:\Program Files\Ringz Studio\Storm Codec and right click then select paste


6. It prompts to update the file, just click yes to overwrite the original stormupd.dll


7. Just open up your media player classic, and thats it, no more problem.

Graduation Nite

Event occured : 12 February 2007

Venue : Berjaya Times Square Hotel (Manhathan Ballroom - 12 Floor)



This is the nite which we all gather together with our coursemates celebrating our graduation nite. After tonight most probabily we won't get to see each other as frequent as we used to be already. Perhaps some of them are still will going back to college for the convocation, but I think there would be quite an amount of my coursemates are leaving Malaysia to Liverpool Jone Moores University to top up for their degree programme. As I am not as rich as them, I had to stay back. :P



As the price compared to the night, to be frank, I dont think that is really worthwhile. We just enjoy taking photos, and walking around chatting, and hanging around with our friends in the ballroom only.



Enough for the not interesting comment, below are some pictures taken on that night by my classmates, Seng Hao and other friends...

At outside before it starts

Classmates... :)

The stage

AIA Coursemates..

Prom King and Queen is out...!

Happy Valentines

Today is the valentines day. This is the day where couples would go out to celebrate together and creates sweet memory between them. For me, I never get a chance to celebrate it actually. Same to this year also.

Me and my cute baobei both at PJ, but our PJ are different with each other. I was at Permas Jaya while she was at Petaling Jaya. Is a distance which more than 300KM... How do we make this day a sweet memory? Aih.... nevermind la... at least we get to celebrate it few days earlier.

K la, before end today's short post, I wish to tell baobei, HAPPY VALENTINES DAY, and stay happy because got me bully you everyday. Perhaps bullied by you is more ba.... XD Anyway, hope that we will be together forever... :S Mushy maro...

Back to HOME

Finally I am back to JB already... I had been living my life without computer for 2 days already because my computer came back before me.

Back here, I had to settle all my stuff which scattered all around my house. LOL... It tooks me few hours to unload my things and arrange it. .. XD So tiring.... Lazy to move place again already la... :(

Well... have to do spring cleaning for chinese new year starts from tommorow already... :S

Packing up

Later I would be moving back my stuff back to JB already, so today spend few hours on packing my stuff up. Actually I don't have many things to move, just that those things that I need to move are simply huge. Those things such as cabinet, and my computer desk are the hardest thing to be moved. Oh ya... I still kept my computer intact, if not I can't typing here already. LOL..

Hey those plastic bags taken from PC Fair indeed useful at this moment.

Hmm.. I would be staying here till 13 February, as I have to attend the graduation night at Berjaya Times Square on Monday. Hmm.. what to wear ler? Any suggestion? LOL... hope that everyone would enjoy that most memorable nights of our lives and friends forever.

Maybe after this, the only chance we all would meet up is during the convocation day already. Hope that I could pass all my paper smoothly la... :P

Documentation Finished

Yeay.. Finally I had finished my Project Documentation which is 100pages thick document. Hehe..

Front cover

See the thickness

Now whats next?

Treasure found

As I going to move back to JB, I start cleaning and packing my stuff just now. Those who seen my drawer before, they would know how messy it was. Everything things I would just dump inside and shuts my drawer. LOL.... When I was checking things inside a box, then suddenly I found these.

These are all the greeting cards and letters that I've received during my diploma. That time I was still at college. Hmm... mostly are from my close friends which we used to share everything, laugh together and encouraging each other. They are simply amazing people because they paint my life with colors in my diploma.

However because of some problem, one of them not so close with me already... Sad sad.. :( No matter what, I wish them "ALL THE BEST!"

Take your hand

You had reached out your hand to me few months ago, Sorry that I didn't take it immediately. I know is pain for you to get through these days. Now I decide to take your hand, and hopefully that I am able to bring the smile on your face back. I know is too sudden for you to believe it, hard to believe me at this moment but still, I want you to know that you are the best. :)



Remember our theme song...

Battle is Over

Yeah... the battle is over, and now I have no more exams to take, no more class to attend, no more school, and everything no more. :S Going to be contributing to the society in few weeks time again. This is how my table looks after exam... XD


What would the first thing I want to do? Of course is Sleeping~!!!!!... LOL... Human must sleep ma... right right? Thats why, I need to sleep. :P So what are the task that I still haven't done? Ya.. My FYP Documentations.. Sigh.. need 100 pages, and now still stucked, coz I've no idea what to write into that document. Any idea? XD

By the way, I still got a stack of college bus tickets, anyone care to take it? I'll be giving it away. Anyone who interested please contact me before I move everything back to JB.. :P

The final battle

Tomorrow would be my final paper for my degree and advance diploma course. Recall back the first day to college, it was almost four years ago (Mid 2003). I have come all the way from there till today, I reach the final milestone of the college life. Of course many things happenned for these past few years as this period is not a short period. Get to know many friends and many weirdos as well.


(!-.-) Sweat... after 10 attempts of uploading image using blogger, at last it fails too... End up using imageshack to upload my images.

As you can see, now my table is totally a mess just to act out the ambience of final battle approaching. LOL.... Anyway, wish you people all the best in next chapter of life where everyone would be leaving college very soon. I'll be moving back to my home, leaving this city very soon also. The things that I would be missing so much is those pretty and cute girls in college of course. XD~~

Ok, enough of the craps, now back to my notes.. Good Luck for me ya.. ;)

Picture of Sexy N70

Here is some of the looks after I got this full black casing. Now 95% looks like Music Edition N70 already.. :)










Enjoy.... :)

Mysterious Updater5 folder

There is a very annoying file folder which keep on appears in My Documents. No matter how I delete it, it still reappears. Hence I do a quick google, and I found out that actually it is done by the latest Adobe Acrobat Reader 8, which the auto update functions is the culprit of this mysterious Updater5 folder.

Naturally, we would open up the acrobat reader and check its settings inside. So I go through the normal preference setting, click on Edit > Preference, and ironically didn't found any things related with the updater.


Then I did another quick search again, then only found out that in order to let the folder dissapear, you need to change the updater folder from My Documents to "Your Desired Location". In Acrobat Reader 8, click on Help > Check Updates.


Then it would check for updates and prompt out a windows like this.


Click on the Preference and it would bring you to this windows.


Click on browse and select some folder which dumps all the temps files. In my case, I choose UserData folder to dump the updater folder. Once you had choosen the folder, just click OK and let the update runs.

Go to My Document and just deletes off the folder there and now it would never reappear again. :)

Final Year Project

After so many weeks of works on this Project, finally tested by our supervisor already. Now we can proceed to the documentation stage although final exam would be started just on this friday. Cool isn't it?

I have really forgotten since when this Ancient War project started. Well, this Ancient War is a Real Time Strategy Game which runs at the Pocket PC, Windows Mobile 5.0 platform. It wont be as great and cool as the Mobile Age of Empire that runs in the same platform.

We are stuck for months on how to implementing the Game API into the projects and our code platform changed from C# to C++. We also take many project as our reference such as the RTS tutorial make by some forumer in a game forum, which I don't really remember now, and also the Tank Battle game.

People might think play game is fun, but actually the process is not fun at all. We have been cracking heads on how to make even a simple things such as walking to be possible. Even possible, there is many things such as the location translation, and where is should stops, which objects would not collide with the unit and so on.

Testing and the coding progress is really extremely frustrating as everytime the emulator runs, my computer resources would be sucked up dry. CPU would be load at constant 100%. Doing other things while emulator are running seems to be nearly impossible. Honestly I really hates to run the emulators.

This is the processing load while Ancient War running in the emulator with my 4 years old computer.

At last, everything is end and we now can proceed to the Documentation for this Ancient War which our supervisor request us to came out with at least 100pages each. Easy? Nah... I bet I need to squeeze everything out from my brain just to write 1 page.

Screenies....

My messy sprites...

Prepare for war...!

From this...

into this...