4DOF Motion Car simulator

There's just this question of what happens if the car flips, lol

costs around USD 25K which is around SGD 30K. Ouch... but nice... but still ouch...

Turn OFF auto correct!

damnyouautocorrect.com is a awesome site that shows you how hard you can fail with autocorrect. I literally laugh out loud and cried. These are merely the top 4 for this month. Definitely added to my to-trawl list.

Source: damnyouautocorrect.com

I haven't gotten a true smartphone yet though I'm planning on it. DEFINITELY turning autocorrect OFF! The disasters that have happened are just too ridiculous, lol!

Frogger in Real Life

Frogger in 3D


Frogger in Real Life


According to the poster, it's in Vietnam and according to some comments, its specifically in Ho Chi Minh City.

If you've never heard of Frogger, you should try out the game for yourself. Its a classic game.

We're Moving! (Later)

Or rather I'm moving. My sister has been inactive for months. But it wont be for another 3 months due to school. I have been searching to host my own blog mainly so that I can do the following:

1. Combine my old blog with this one.
   As a publishing platform, Wordpress and Blogger have differences. I wanted Wordpress because they have backtracks instead of backlinks. A matter of preference. They also have better site statistics and better interface or organization of tags (known as labels in Blogger) and categories (no such thing. Use the damn labels). After using Wordpress, Blogger has been painful. I'm not the only one that feels this way.
2. Be able to freely design
   My old blog was at Blogsome and although it uses Wordpress as a publishing platform and allows flexibility in design, it is actually somewhat limited because it uses the Smarty templating system which is just as restrictive in site design like Blogger. Others such as Wordpress.com required a $30 monthly fee for the restriction to be lifted.

I found the hosting your own site can be pretty traumatizing from what I read. Sometimes the host just fails too frequently in terms of your site's speed and uptime. Sometimes the support is just horrible when performance or security problems occur, even if its "only" once in a white moon. Other times they undercut the promised refund amount should they fail to deliver. Or it takes you 3 to 6 months of continual chasing to get the money. Maybe they're hoping you'll give up and go away. They're a lot more but these few are enough to make me give up. I trawled though review sites for 3 whole days and still I can't find a reliable host.

Then I found tumblr. It looked promising. It gives me nice stats, tags and categories and allows me to use my own domain if I so choose. Zemata supports it as well. I looked at the documentation regarding site design and from what I see, it looks pretty liberating. I already parked a site address that's empty right now. In 6 months time, after I'm free of school work and assignments, I'll move everything over and give it a new look. Or I might just move before the 6 months is up but use their templates first.

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Sharp AQUOS Hybrid 007SH - The world's first clamshell Andriod phone

I went to stare at photos of my (for now) dream phone again. Sharp hasn’t made any move in Singapore. Not that I expect it to in the near future. Our population (and therefore market power) is kind of pathetic. Not to mention, we have an overwhelming large number of iPhone fanatics that would go to the extent of splurging on a iPhone 4 just because it's white when iPhone 5 is near release.

For now, I will make myself happy by surfing the net for news for the world’s first (yeah first, it’s ridiculous) clamshell phone.

The reason why I haven’t owned a smartphone myself is because firstly I can do without one even though it is inconvenient and annoying at times (GPS ftw).

Secondly, I am particular about a phone’s form factor. It must be either clamshell or slider type.

Thirdly, I must have buttons and additionally, it must have buttons arranged in the candybar form since I cannot stand qwerty phones.

A fourth strong but admittedly non-essential factor is the quality of a phone’s camera. Sharp phones are also known for their camera technology which is incorporated into this phone.

This phone is the phone for me.

Not to mention, it’s such a beauty -sigh-

How to whiten your sneakers’ welt

5I have a pair of sneakers for 5 years and through these years, no matter how much I scrub, I can’t get the stains off the welts. I recalled a strange remedy I read off the internet some years back that uses nail polish remover and tried it myself yesterday.

Honestly I didn’t expect it to work so I didn’t take before and after pictures. There is however a YouTube video I found that uses 30-50% alcohol and demonstrates the effect with before and after pictures.

The video owner reportedly claims that it will work on leather, vinyl and poly materials. I supposed nail polish works the same since it also contains alcohol (mine does). I didn’t use toothbrush to scrub it like he did.

What I did was to use a normal scrub to remove most of the dirt and stains as much as I can first. Then a rag dipped in the nail polish remover is used to heavily polish it. I see a huge difference between using and not using the remover and I have to say I’m really pleased at the effectiveness of this simple remedy.

Bear in mind that it is not a miracle solution. The shoe does not turn completely white back to it’s pristine form. It does lighten A LOT of the very tough stains that I have been helpless against for years and this is enough for me. From far, these slightly darker pigmentation are completely insignificant. No one is going to get down on their belly and scrutinize your shoes while you’re wearing it anyway.

Now all that’s left is to find out how to remove stains from the cloth part of the shoe. Oh yeah and the smell too, heh.

Solution to "Disk in the destination drive is full" error - when there is actually enough space

When copying files to your thumbdrive or portable hard disk, you see the following, wondering how much space did you actually use so far.

You've double checked to make sure that you do have free space. Yet this error shows. More often than not, there is really nothing wrong with your disk. This happens often on thumbdrives or portable hard disks because of the default filesystem that they use - FAT32. Intrinsically, FAT and FAT32 is unable to handle files of large sizes (max. limit of 4GB) and a misleading error message is shown. What you need to do is to convert it to a more modern file system such as NTFS. Should you really throw away FAT32 in favour of NTFS? There are other sites that document and discuss the two file systems such as this but if you're too lazy to read, the bottom line is, FAT32 is too outdated but required for backward compatibility on -really- old systems and to other systems most regular users wouldn't use

1. Run Command Prompt

   Click Start -> Run -> Type cmd in the box -> Press enter.

2. One of the steps in the actual conversion requires you to type in the volume label name of the target drive. So we'll need to find that out and note that down first.
   

   VOL [drive letter]:
   
   e.g. VOL F:
   where F is the name of the target drive
   
   You should see the following:
   
   In my case, the volume label name is "FREECOM-FYO". Note down on a piece of paper or notepad what yours says. You'll need to retype it exactly later.
   If it says "has no label" then you'll need to go through this guide first to set a label name.

3. Now it's time to run the actual conversion
   
   convert [drive letter]: /fs:ntfs
   
   e.g. convert F: /fs:ntfs
   where F is the name of the drive you want to convert
   

4. Enter the volume label that was noted down previously in step 2.
   

5. When you see the screen below, you can go grab yourself a cup of coffee and come back. It shouldn't take long and there shouldn't be any problems.

6. When you see the following screen after your coffee break, it's done. NTFS requires a certain amount of free space to do the conversion so if it doesn't work, just free up enough space on the disk to satisfy the reported space it needs and repeat from step 3 again.
   

Congratulations, you are now free to use the disk to store huge files and the misleading error message of having full disks is no more!

Auto img resize

When posting images, having to calculate the appropriate width and height according to the width of the area of blog entries on the site is annoying. What's worse if you decide to redesign your blog and the new width is so radically different, the images "overflowed". A better solution is to let the browser handle the size of the photos automatically, resizing it according the available your design have allocated at the time of rendering.

The concept is pretty simple: specify the width at 100%, specify the height to "auto".

Using stylesheets

On the webpage itself...
<img src="http://www.blogger.com/photo.jpg" id="photo" />

On the stylesheet...

#photo {
width: 100%;
height: auto;

}

Using inline styles

<img src="http://www.blogger.com/whatever.jpg" style="width: 100%; height: auto;" />

That's all there is to it. Which one should you use?
If you have control over the stylesheets of your blog, it's best you to use them to ensure uniformity across your site. Else, using inline styles would suffice but every image your intend to post would require you to retype the styling specifications and it can get pretty irritating, especially when you forget to add it in and have to go back and repost.