Let's go picnik-ing!

At picnik.com that is. Picnik is an online photo editor which I have been using for quite some time. I was looking for a good photo editor back then and to be honest I can't be bothered with Photoshop. I just wanted a beginner-just-one-click-will-do-the-job editor.

These are the details about the website:

Membership:

-FREE (You do know I won't subscribe or use it unless its free!) but for some reason I'm so tempted to join the Premium *sigh*

OR

-Upgrade to Premium

Features:

Taken from their website

"What can I do with Picnik? Pretty much everything! We've got amazing Edit tools that can fix just about anything that could possibly go wrong with a photograph. Lacking photo-editing prowess? A bunch of our editing tools are one-click fixes, including auto- fix, exposure, colors, and red-eye. And the others, like rotate, crop, resize, and sharpening, can be controlled with easy-to-use sliders. Move over to the Create tab and you'll see our custom-made Effects (most of which have the ability to be painted into just the areas of your image where you want them), an awesome text tool with dozens of fonts, dozens of shapes, including seasonal shapes for holidays and events, and some super customizable frames. Not to mention the touch up tools and new Advanced Editing tools."

Below are just some samples I did using the site:

So, if you're like me, why not?

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Burn!!

I haven't had time to blog lately. I was too caught up with playing Star Wars TFU on the Wii. But after 12hours of playing it(not in one sitting and without using cheat codes), I've am pretty much done with the game. Unless, of course, I have someone to play it with in combat mode.

And now, the fun part. I downloaded the game from Torrent. LoL. Although I disapprove of doing this illegal act *cough* *liar* *cough*, please buy original games kids! During this process I came about and downloaded a burner software called ImgBurn. The software is free and it works great. I was having a bit of a problem burning my image to DVD especially since my image was close to 4.5GB. I have Roxio as my Burner software(which sucks BIG time!) and kept doing errors while burning the dvd. I read a couple of the forums and it suggested that I try this software(ImgBurn) and using a Verbatim dvd.

I tried the software and used a blank Sony dvd-R( yes, i never learn) and the software worked but the disc didn't read too well. It kept jamming my dvd-rom. So I went out and got some Verbatim blank dvds and this solved the problem I was having.

So, if you're sick and tired of using Nero or like me, Roxio, have a go at this software.

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Data Recovery

I saw this website that claims they do data recovery from faulty storage devices. For those of you, who just went 'huh?', its very simple. You have a hard disk, that hard disk conks out. You need the files in that hard disk.

While there are other methods of retrieving files from a dying hard disk, providing you can read the dying hard disk at all. Softwares like Quetek's File Scavenger could be one solution but then again there are times(oh yes, trust me) when the damn thing just won't boot.

Stuff like this is due to hardware malfunction and the only solution are professionals who will take apart the hard disk and try to recover the data in a Class 100 lab.

A Class 100 lab is a clean lab in a controlled environment where the amount of particles in the air is being controlled. That means dust, skin flakes, mould, things which you cannot see unless you have a microscope.

Now, a class 100 clean lab would mean that no more than 100 of these particles should be present in a cubic foot of air. That’s not a whole lot.If you stand still, you are emitting 100,000 particles. Imagine how much more you emit once you start to move.

See how I got sidetracked there. Hmm...moving on. This whole story reminded me of a conversation I had with my buddies back in school(9 years ago). We were looking into a hard disk failure and had tried everything we could. So my friend said "Wouldn't it be nice if Brunei had its own data recovery centre?"

So, back to the topic at hand. This website or this company in Brunei is called Drevivo Technology. So, if you have that faulty hard disk lying around cos it had your 'precious' secrets (to which I mean porn adult oriented materials LoL) and you've tried everything including chucking your hard disk in the freezer(sometimes this works). I suggest you give the people at Drevivo Technology a call. Btw, they won't charge you if they can't get anything out of your hard disk.

Click below to go to their website:

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Skype users beware...

I got wind of this a few days ago. Apparently some Skype users have had their Skype accounts 'hijacked' and are locked out. But their contacts will see their status as online. What is scary is that Skype users can configure their accounts to direct debit from their Paypal accounts. I only bring this up because I know a lot of Bruneians uses Skype, although the percentage that actually uses it's skype to landline/mobile feature is a few (why? Because it's not free lol).

Anyway the full story is here.

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