How to upgrade Windows XP to Windows Vista

This video will demonstrate to you who to upgrade your Operating System.

How to clean install Windows XP

In this video, you will learn how to clean install Windows XP.

I want to…

There are things that I want to do in life.

  • I want to finish my studies
  • I want to finish my assignments on time
  • I want to have awards
  • I want to meet new friends
  • I want to experience a new environment
  • I want to experience a life with someone
  • I want to be the ruler of the world
  • I want to help the less fortunate kids
  • I want to open a new business
  • I want to open my heart to the Lord
  • I want to achieve my goals in life
  • I want to have a girlfriend
  • I want to get married
  • I want to be an Animator
  • I want to have a child
  • I want to have world peace
  • I want to become a motion graphics designer
  • I want to have a brand new cellphone
  • I want to have sex (hehehe)
  • I want to have a happy family

But the most importantly, I want to be with GOD.

I know it’s a bit impossible but if you believe, then you’ll be achieved.

Twister

Sometimes my wife would be easier to me if there is easy access, easy to workout with your workspace, and easy to sit back and have nothing to worry about.

I was thinking of a gimmick that can enhance a different kinds of software in one package. I was also thinking that can a single software run in a portable drive like USB Flash Drives, PDA, Cellphones, or PSP. They I come to realize that there is a way that all things can pack in one software or Portable Operating System build in Flash.

That’s why I’m already develop a program that can be taken anywhere. Twister TM

I develop a software called Twister. Twister is a portable software that has the same features in Microsoft Windows® but a slight different.

This product is build in Flash and Actionscript source code. Currently, I’m still develop this product and it’s already in Build 61 Milestone 2. Hopefully, I will release it in Beta by 2009.

Here are some screenshot from my development.

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Main Window

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The Go! Twister menu

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The Twister Note.

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The About Twister

By the way, I’m really professional of doing this but I will try my best to provide the audience a good software.

How to improve RAM performance in Windows XP

For how many years, Windows Vista introduced a feature that can make your USB as RAM. That featured is called Windows ReadyBoost. In my last blog entry, I wrote about how to improve boost performance in Windows Vista.

But wait. Maybe you will ask me is it possible that Windows XP can improved boost performance? Is there a ReadyBoost feature on it?

Well, my answer is Yes and No. Yes, I can improve boost performance in XP and No, there is no Windows ReadyBoost feature. It only features in Windows Vista and above. BUT, there is a software that CAN improve boost performance.

I introduced to you, eBoostr.
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What is this?
eBoost is similar to Windows ReadyBoost but only a slight difference. It speeds up your PC and improves application responsiveness by using flash memory and free RAM as an extra layer of performance-boosting cache for your PC. Use up to four inexpensive flash devices to speed up your system. Add more speed to your PC without any hardware upgrade!

What does it feature?
There are lot of features similar to Windows ReadyBoost

  • Launch Your Favorite Applications Faster
    The more often you use a particular application, the faster it’ll perform. eBoostr gathers statistics on what applications you use and how often, optimizing their performance by pre-caching their files and data and allowing faster access speed and reduced delays.

  • Boot and Work Faster
    eBoostr makes Windows load faster, significantly reducing the time your computer needs to boot.

  • No Hardware Upgrades
    No need to disassemble your PC in order to upgrade its performance. eBoostr gives your PC a noticeable performance boost without costly hardware upgrades. Just plug one or more flash memory drives, install eBoostr and say “Yes” to speed up your computer.

and a lot more!

Wow! Where can I download this?
You can download it for this site. http://www.eboostr.com/

The only disadvantage is you need to have money to buy that product, or you can just download a trial version or the beta version. You can download the beta version for free but it sets to expire on January 2009.

Wait, I have one last question. Is it compatible with Windows Vista?
Yes, it is but it’s still on beta.

Why Friendster, WHY?

Friendster_logoI’ve  been using friendster since 2004. I have great experience using this website. It gives social through out the world. Friendster is my friend, my buddy, my bestfriend. It always there when I want to know the people around the world. And also Friendster is also you date finder, You just see his/her profile, send some private messages and started to get a long and the next of that you’re already dating. hehehe. It’s fun hearing that story.

I never knew Friendster would be amazing of find the identity of the person. Well some investigation team looks for clues in Friendster.. Hehehe… But true. Friendster also be your own website about yourself, how is your life doing, and what is your status. :D

Friendster is amazing but until this day. I can’t believe they can do this for me. My friends from 300+ became only 4 friends!! What the heck happen? Is the sever of FS infested with a virus? It this a joke or they really mean it? Oh my, I’ve using this for almost 5 years now and this would happen? How pity I am using this website. I can’t imagine that they can do this for me and for everybody else there! My efforts for finding friends is ruined because of this. I hate this site. I don’t know if I want to go back to this so called “Social Site”. But if it is just a glitch, it’s ok. But if it is really gone, well Goodbye FS! and Hello to Facebook and Plurk!

How to update your Custom Firmware in your PSP

psp white-256 Hello, in this blog you will learn how to update your custom firmware in your PSP.

Custom Firmware (also know as “Open Edition) is a special program that can run unsigned code such as homebrew applications and UMD backups.

First, download the Custom M33 Firmware on to this site. http://www.dark-alex.org/

Next, download the Official Firmware on to this site. http://pspslimhacks.com/psp-firmware/official-firmware-updates/

If you’re download the latest CF (Custom M33 Firmware), then your OF (Official Firmware) must have the same version. Example, the latest CF is 5.00 M33-3, then OF must also be 5.00.

Put them in the same folder so that you won’t be confused.image

Then, rename the EBOOT.PBP to the version that you want to update. Example, 5.00 is your latest version then rename your EBOOT.PBP to 500.PBP.

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Next, Extract the Custom Firmware. After this, connect your PSP into your computer via USB.

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Then open it. If the AutoPlay didn’t pop-up. Go to Computer (My Computer in Windows XP), then to your PSP Memory Stick.

After it’s open, Go back to your Custom Firmware then copy the UPDATE folder to /PSP/GAME/.

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Then, copy the 500.PBP in to same folder.

image Then go to your PSP. Go to Game > Memory Stick > “PSP Update ver X.XX” (X.XX, the firmware version). Then run it.

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Follow the instructions (Note. Your battery life must have at least 78% to update your firmware). And there you go! Your PSP is up to date!

Windows Vista 101: How to improve performance using Windows ReadyBoost

readyboosticonI’ve been using Windows Vista for about 3 months now and Indeed it’s better than Windows XP. But sometimes Windows Vista slows down my PC but I didn’t crash just what the others said that isn’t true.

For many generations now, Windows operating system has develop an instance of series to increase performance and to conform the PC experience. But in the other hand, the newer version of Windows, the more system requirement needs especially the RAM.

Adding system memory (typically referred to as RAM) is often the best way to improve a PC's performance, since more memory means more applications are ready to run without accessing the hard drive. However, upgrading memory can be difficult and costly, and some machines have limited memory expansion capabilities, making it impossible to add RAM.

Now, Microsoft introduced a new feature in Windows Vista called Windows ReadyBoost.

What is Windows ReadyBoost?

Windows ReadyBoost is a new concept in adding memory to a system. You can use non-volatile flash memory, such as that on a universal serial bus (USB) flash drive, to improve performance without having to add additional memory "under the hood."

The flash memory device serves as an additional memory cache—that is, memory that the computer can access much more quickly than it can access data on the hard drive. Windows ReadyBoost relies on the intelligent memory management of Windows SuperFetch and can significantly improve system responsiveness.

How to use Windows ReadyBoost?

nozomi_4gb_largeIt's easy to use Windows ReadyBoost. When a removable memory device such as a USB flash drive or a secure digital (SD) memory card is first inserted into a port, Windows ReadyBoost - AutoPlay

Windows Vista checks to see if its performance is fast enough to work with Windows ReadyBoost. If so, you are asked if you want to use this device to speed up system performance.

Windows ReadyBoost - Properties 2

You can choose to allocate part of a USB drive's memory to speed up performance and use the remainder to store files.

And there you go! Your performance increase.

Source: Wikipedia and Windows Vista

Adding and Dropping Day

There are something that i want to discover but not that discover. Its a very special day that everyone once to change. But actually changing is not my type. (giggle).

Adding and dropping is a day where people gets to add, drop or change the section. I myself are into this mess not because I don't friends there or avoid someone but its because of my time schedule. Even though I'm such a loser! Hahaha. But because of something that I want to "finished my business". If you what I mean.

I don't know, well. . . I want to have a job. That's why I want to change my schedule on Monday, Wednesday because I want to earn some money for my purposes and help our family income

I never knew that I would harder than I though. Oh yeah, It's a bit hard. . . Too much harder. . . Well you know what I mean. . . . Now I’ve finished change my section and I finally add my Digital Art Class

What is Cast and Crew?

You know what is the best important in a production, the cast and crew. Without them, then we don't have any entertainment or a production. In this blog, I will discuss about the importance of having cast and crews in a production. In my previous blog I have said about the concept of the production and the meaning.

Let's begin with Cast. How important it is of having a production with cast members. They are the ones who are entertain people on TV, on stage, or anywhere. What is the meaning of it? Well in the dictionary I found, specifically in Encarta Dictionary. The cast are the select participants for performance: to choose somebody for a particular role in a drama, dance, or other performance, or choose people for all the roles in a production. What are their roles? That is an easy question (NOT!). Actually, the role of the cast are the ones who participate of a certain roles like in drama, host, dance, or other performance. I'm not repeating what the dictionary said.
The cast are the actors who perform in the motion picture. A cast member is someone who performs in a motion picture. (Wikipedia.org) I'm keeping source all the time to prevent mistakes.

Now the Crew. Crew have 2 different meaning. One is, Stage crew. A stage crew or stagehand is a person who works backstage or behind the scenes in theatres, film, television, or location performance. Their duties include setting up the scenery, lights, sound, props, rigging, and special effects for a production. And the other one is, Film Crew. I think this is the most reliable meaning since we focus on production. A film crew is a group of people hired by a film company for the purpose of producing a film or motion picture. Crew are distinguished from cast, the actors who appear in front of the camera or provide voices for characters in the film. Crew are also separate from producers, those who own a portion of either the film company or the film's intellectual property rights. A film crew is divided into different departments, each of which specializes in a specific aspect of the production. (Wikipedia.org)

In casting and crewing, there are lot of "jobs"... Ok I'll make it clearer. There are lot of different roles. I found this article in Wikipedia. Lets start of with the production crew in filmmaking.
We have:

* A film producer, who creates the conditions for making movies.
* A production manager, who supervises the physical aspects of the production (not the creative aspects) including personnel, technology, budget, and scheduling.
* A unit manager, who fulfills the same role as the production manager but for secondary "unit" shooting. In some functional structures, the unit manager subsumes the role of the Transport Coordinator.
* A Production Coordinator, who is the information nexus of the production, responsible for organizing all the logistics from hiring crew, renting equipment, and booking talent. The PC is an integral part of film production.
* A Post-production supervisor.
* A director, who is responsible for overseeing the creative aspects of a film, including controlling the content and flow of the film's plot, directing the performances of actors, organizing and selecting the locations in which the film will be shot, and managing technical details such as the positioning of cameras, the use of lighting, and the timing and content of the film's soundtrack.
* A first assistant director (1st AD), who assists the production manager and director.
* A second assistant director (2nd AD), who is the chief assistant of the 1st AD and helps carry out those tasks delegated to the 1st AD.
* A production assistant, who assists the first assistant director with set operations. Production assistants, almost always referred to as PAs, also assist in the production office with general tasks.
* A Script Supervisor, who is also known as the "continuity person", the script supervisor keeps track of what parts of the script have been filmed and makes notes of any deviations between what was actually filmed and what appeared in the script.
* A production accountant, who assists the production manager and line producer in keeping track of the film's budget. The production accountant, together with his or her various assistants, are often considered to be a separate department.
* A location manager, who researches, locates, secures and coordinates the filming locations. He/she creates a location breakdown, identifying the precise locations needed and works hand-in-hand with the director and the production designer.
* A publicist, who handles the publicity of a film. He promotes the film by issuing press releases and overseeing advertisements.
* And a Casting Director.

Now lets go to the Art Department. Have you watch StarWars, or a music video like Clumsy by Fergie? Do you who made it? No? Well, the answer are the Art Department. The Art Department in a major feature film can often number hundreds of people. Usually it is considered to include several sub-departments: the art department proper, with its art director, set designers and draughtsmen; sets, under the set decorator; props, under the propsmaster; construction, headed by the construction coordinator; scenic, headed by the key scenic artist; and special effects.
So we have:

* A production designer, who is responsible for creating the physical, visual appearance of the film - settings, costumes, properties, character makeup, all taken as a unit. The production designer works closely with the director and the cinematographer to achieve the 'look' of the film.
* A art director, who reports to the production designer, and more directly oversees artists and craftspeople, such as the set designer and set decorator, who carry out the production design.
* A set designer, who is the draftsman, often an architect, who realizes the structures or interior spaces called for by the production designer.
* An Assistant Art Director, who carry out the instructions of the art director.
* A set decorator, who is in charge of the decorating of a film set, which includes the furnishings and all the other objects that will be seen in the film.
* A buyer is the number two person in the set department below the set decorator.
* A lead man, who is the foreman of the sets crew, often referred to as the “swing gang.”
* A set dressers apply and remove the "dressing," i.e., furniture, drapery, carpets—everything one would find in a location, even doorknobs and wall sockets.
* A property master, more commonly known as the props master, is in charge of finding and managing all the props that appear in the film.
* A props builder, as the name implies, builds the props that are used for the film. Props builders are often technicians skilled in construction, plastics casting, machining, and electronics.
* A armourer, who is a specialized props technician who deals with firearms. In most jurisdictions this requires specials training and licenses.
* A construction coordinator who oversees the construction of all the sets.
* A head carpenter, who is the foreman of a "gang" of carpenters and laborers.
* A key scenic artist, who is responsible for the surface treatments of the sets.
* And a greensman, who is a specialised set dresser dealing with the artistic arrangement or landscape design of plant material, sometimes real and sometimes artificial.

I'm going to ignore the wardrobe and hair and make-up, so lets go to the Camera.
We have:

* A DOP or director of photography, who is the chief of the camera and lighting crew of the film.
* A cinematographer, who has been a point of contention for some time now. It is usually synonymous with "director of photography," though some professionals insist that it only applies when the director of photography and camera operator are the same person.
* A camera operator, who uses the camera at the direction of the cinematographer, director of photography, or the film director to capture the scenes on film. Generally, a cinematographer or director of photography does not operate the camera, but sometimes these jobs may be combined.
* A first assistant camera (1st AC) who is responsible for keeping the camera in focus as it is shooting.
* A second assistant camera (2nd AC), who operates the clapperboard at the beginning of each take and loads the raw film stock into the camera magazines between takes, if there is no additional specifically desiginated film loader.
* A loader, who is the designated film loader.
* A Camera Production Assistant (camera intern). Usually a volunteer or trainee in the camera department, the camera PA assists the crew with menial details while learning the trade of the camera assistant, operator or cinematographer.
* A Digital Imaging Technician ("DIT"). On digital photography productions the digital imaging technician is responsible for the coordination of the internal workings of the digital camera.
* A Steadicam operator, who is someone who is skilled at operating a Steadicam rig (the genericized trademark for a camera stabilization rig).
* And A Motion Control Technician/Operator. This technician operates a motion control rig, which is essentially a 'camera robot' that is able to consistently repeat camera moves for special effects use. Motion control rigs are typically rented with an experienced operator.

And a lot more like:

* The film editor is the person who assembles the various shots into a coherent film, with the help of the director.
* The production sound mixer is head of the sound department on set, responsible for recording all sound during filming. This involves the choice and deployment of microphones, operation of a sound recording device, and sometimes the mixing of audio signals in real time.
* The visual effects supervisor is in charge of the visual effects department. Visual effects refer to post-production alterations to the film's images. They are not to be confused with special effects, which are done during production (on set).
* A compositor is a visual effects artist responsible for compositing images from different sources such as video, film, computer generated 3-D imagery, 2-D animations, matte paintings, photographs, and text.
* Sound Editor is responsible for assembling and editing all the sound effects in the soundtrack.
* The music supervisor, or "music director", works with composer, mixers and editors to create and integrate the film's music. In Hollywood, a music supervisor's primary responsibility is to act as liaison between the film production and the recording industry, negotiating the use rights for all source music used in a film.
* The composer is responsible for writing the musical score for a film.
* The sound designer, or "supervising sound editor", is in charge of the post-production sound of a movie. Sometimes this may involve great creative license, and other times it may simply mean working with the director and editor to balance the sound to their liking.
* Dialogue Editor is responsible for assembling and editing all the dialog in the soundtrack.

Wow, There a lot of list of cast and crew. It's so unbelievable. I don't have much to say anymore.

The Creative Blog

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For how many months that I haven’t blog. This time I will make my blog as my habit. I never knew blogging could be more fun that before.

That is why I update my blog to Creative because this blog deals with the creativity of the people around me what’s to share their talents trough out the world.

And also I updated my blog template because I want it to have simple when I blog and people can easily to read it without hurting their eyes. If you see the above logo, that is the official logo of DictioDiary made it myself.

DictioDiary is not about creativity of myself but also a blog that shares the creativity of the people. DictioDiary was a former requirement  for our major subject to share our creativity to the world. I am continuing blogging of my thoughts, my experience and my discoveries even its not anymore a requirement.

Now I have 2 blogs. One is this, DictioDiary: The Creative Blog and the other is PersoBlog, a personal blog which is under construction by now.

Hope you will have a good time reading here!

Christmas Decoration

I can feel the breeze of Christmas is coming. I never knew that Christmas is coming fast! I'm so excited for the another season of giving! That is why this year, my mother decorated the house in a whole new level! I can't imagine how amazed my mother is!

Here are some pictures of our home Christmas decoration :D

Goodbye IT but Passion remains

It's been a week that I have decide. It's hard but I have to face it even my fears had came true. Yes, in deed. I'm not anymore an IT student but even thought I'm not anymore an IT, I have still opportunities waiting for me after I graduate like my teacher who will open a business plus, I can my Computer Animation even I'm not anymore an IT student.

Opportunities comes when people believes your talent. Like mine, I didn't let my talent down. I kept going and going until I reach my dreams and I did! I didn't bother myself "why did I change course?". I didn't ask myself because I knew it would happen and it does.

Somebody asked me especially the lower years, "Why did I take IT?". I answered them to become an Animator, a Digital Artist, an Illustrator, an Art Designer, a Motion Graphics Designer, a Cinematographer, and a Photographer. A simple dreams comes with a simple destiny. Those dreams are my passion, a passion that what I was looking for.

But in every dream, there's a nightmare. Programming is my nightmare. It lets my passion down. I respect because it's part of the program but no matter how I tried, it's no my passion. It's not my dream, it's not my destiny. I've been taking that subject for 3 times now, lucky for my basic programming because I pass but for the advance, I don't think so. That's is why I was force to shift to another course because it's my 3rd time to took that subject.

Things has change when I shift to another course, it's different but my passion remains in my heart. I'm thankful because they still gave my passion back and I will never let my passion down even I'm already an ACoN student.