If you have a new laptop with Vista installed and want to install XP as well, as there are some programs that won’t run with Vista at the moment which you still need to run. I believe there are some people facing this kind of problem quite frequently. Well, it is possible to dual-boot, or even triple-boot, Vista and other Windows operating systems. But, note that you need to install in the oldest operating system first. Thus, you could theoretically install Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista in that order, and all would be well – obviously, each OS would need its own partition.

In this case, with Windows Vista already installed, you can either blow the installation away, install XP, leaving part of the hard disk as free space to be formatted and used by Vista when you install that, or you could try to install XP while Vista is already installed, but I don’t really recommend that since you probably won’t have two partitions.

If you do go ahead anyway, what you’ll discover is that when your system restarts you’ll have lost access to Vista. This is because Vista uses a different Boot Configuration Database (BCD) store. When you install XP, the setup program overwrites the Master Boot Record (MBR), the boot sector and the boot files.

HASTA LA VISTA – BABY!

Interestingly, you can actually recover from this. You need to restore the Vista MBR and transfer control to its boot code. To do that, take a look at this Microsoft Knowledge Base article and follow the steps outlined there. So you are flying solo now at Windows Vista no longer start.

Dated on 18th July 2007, folks at Alexa had released a statusbar that accompanies you as you surf, providing useful information about the sites you visit without interrupting your Web browsing. Note the trendline plotting and the blue bar gives you how exactly is the popularity of the website that you visited at the bottom right. On top of that, Alexa’s famous patented Related Links feature can help you find the similar sites on your browser. The free Firefox plug-in is free for download and no spyware found at all. Clean and easy to use.

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Not content with just photographing the tops of our houses via satellite, Google now wants to snap our front doors. The Street View service, currently being trialled in a selection of major US cities, lets people ‘walk’ down a road, looking at thousands of photographs seamlessly stitched together to represent the real thing.

“We have trucks that are driving around city streets with cameras on top taking these images… it’s essentially taking 360 degrees pictures every so often, and there’s some scanning equipment on the thing too, to figure out exactly, down to the inch, where the truck is and where the camera is pointing,” says Lars Rasmussen, Google’s Senior Engineer on Google Maps.

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TwitterMail allows you to update your Twitter via Windows Live Messenger or MSN Messenger! There are very few simple instruction on how to get it work:

1. Add TwitterMSN as contact
   
2. Get a new TwitterMail Account and you will be given an unique account
   
3. Try to send an IM to TwitterMSN contact and follow by your unique TwitterMail account
   

Why you should use TwitterMSN:

I am glad to my blur-made-up-mind at the juncture to take part in this winter camp and I was really enjoying with bunches and bunches monkeys in 3 days winter camp. We reached at the camp side by 12 noon something and it was a very lovely sea view. The weather was good, sky was cleared, wind was warm, everything was so perfect!


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If you fed up with Wordpress default pagination plug-in tool, I’ve found a really great tools for any site or blog to have a page navigation to sit at the very bottom page or anywhere you wish to insert it that enable readers easier to click and navigate into any page they like. Before I direct you to the recommender’s blog, let me show you an image how does it look like:

Click here for an easier way installation.

This is a bit tricky and may trick on yourself if you are not sure what are you going to do. Sometime I’m going to use it while trying to hide my ‘private’ stuff but yet lazy to make it real tough to open.

1. Create a new folder
   
2. Rename the filename by press [ALT + 0160] (use the numpad for numeric key) to make filename invisible
   

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Thinking back when I was using the old version of Windows, I mean really old which using DOS command before log into Windows 3.11. And there was a time getting myself full of attraction on a learning book went through most of DOS command. So with the trick below is actually for the people not very sure about the shortcut key working with their own Operating System and after creating some ‘click click’ files on the desktop, that might get you a faster work. If you are not very sure what are you doing, please don’t follow, it’s just a piece of sharing.

This trick will show you how to create a shortcut to shutdown the Windows.

• Create a new notepad (.txt) file and type in the as following
  shutdown.exe -f
  
• Save as any filename you like with a .bat extension
  

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Google earth gives me a better map with a better idea than a large piece of paper map with some ‘dead’ road location. Compare to this, google earth leads me the real world to an ‘unknown’ place on a trip. Typing in any name from/to the location, hover the mouse to the right top to zoom into the real angle and presents me really good idea on how exactly the place look likes. After having fun with any angle over the world from Australia -> New Zealand -> Europe -> USA -> Asia and back to my home, Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. But heck, guess what! I can’t locate the building of my own home in Kuala Lumpur! It should be somewhere near KLCC! The building name “Menara City One” opposites Wilayah Complex and behind SOGO just disappeared on the map! I thought Google earth is a updated map? Or was there an earthquake in Malaysia??? Can you please find for me? LOL.

Screenshot shows from a far view at Wrest Point Casino at my area, Hobart

It was really fun after all. By now, Google skipped right past the third dimension and landed directly in the fourth (time) by offering historical maps on Google Earth. Read the rest of this entry »

Seven Days System has been taken down by hacker today, 10th July 2007. There’s nothing much information provided but SDS has forced to close down the SDS website as the hackers are trying to hack into other accounts to profit the credits. They are still able to pay for June accounts and the website will be up to live until it’s been fully recovered.