The Little Bit of This and That

LilBit Moved - New Home New Beginning

2008-08-05T17:50:00.000-07:00

LilBit Blog Moved - New Home New BeginningThanks for supporting this blog I'm moving to a new blog called IGS or Is Good Stuff, where I focus more on blog resources, gadgets and flash games. I'm migrating post there as well. See ya there. - Moved Here -

Hardware: RM Media HDD Player

2008-05-25T17:08:00.000-07:00

Ever wonder would it be nice to just have rmvb, avi, mp4, and other format video files to be played in one device and it's connected to TV? No, it's not a lappy it's the new RM Media HDD Player.For some reason, these RM Media HDD Player is rare and only exist in countries like China, Taiwan and Japan. Recently, I been to Taiwan and decided to take a cab to their tech and gadget hub called, Ba De

Hah!...Blogger finally supports Scheduled Posting! It's about time

2008-05-15T06:05:00.000-07:00

Ahh...this is one of my experimental scheduled posting just to test blogger's new feature. By the time you are reading this, I'm already on the way to Taiwan for a vacation trip :)This feature basically is useful, when you are away doing chores, work or vacation and have no time to attend to your blog. Just plan out your content and use the Post Options right below to edit your publish timing.

My Actionscript 3.0 Preloader Scripts

2008-05-13T17:52:00.000-07:00

For those whom are looking for lightweight action script 3 based preloader and preloader wrapper (a small preloader swf that loads the bigger ones). I’ve written a sample of those two in my new developer based blog in http://www.isgoodstuff.com. You may download the script from there to use for your projects, portfolios and even commercial use but do leave some comments as where you using it when

Windows Vista SP1 and XP SP3, more screw ups

2008-05-11T17:47:00.000-07:00

Just last few weeks, my system in office have an autodistributed update for Vista SP1. Little did I know of there's some driver conflict after the patch. It resulted in crcdisk.sys and the system just hangs there. Worst part is it takes forever to load the O/S now. I have to format another disk and flash the bios just in case to get system going again. Knowing that, Microsoft have pulled back all

Community Message:Commenting in Blogs

2008-05-01T17:30:00.000-07:00

Just last week, I learned the true and ultimate purpose of comment in other blogs. Reason why I write this post is because, there are a lot of blogs out there which have different opinion about comments. Here are some of the opinions: -Commenting will drive you traffic to your blog...huzzahSeriously, I think this way of comment is super lame. Yes, you do get traffic from commenting that because,

Games: My First ActionScript 3 Game

2008-04-14T16:53:00.000-07:00

Been refurbishing my Flash actionscript skill again. After staying dormant some time I must say my skill gets little rusty but, nevertheless actionscript 3 is godsend. At first I hated the fact, I can't even control buttons and movieclips like I did in Actionscript 2 days but, once I've get used to it the resources from Actionscript classes become more and more useful to me. The best of all my

I Got My Command and Conquer 3 - Kane's Wrath

2008-03-27T01:24:00.000-07:00

Today is the DAY!!! KANE LIVES!!! Muahahaha... My ordered box of Command and Conquer 3 : Kane’s Wrath is here and I’m installing as I blog this post. Let’s see... opening up the package...and I GOT BETA KEY for Upcoming Red Alert 3 Woot! ^_^. Got a tiny user manual located inside the plastic DVD Rom. So, what’s the fuzz inside this expansion pack you say? Here’s a list...Sub-factionsThe

My New Wordpress New-Img Plugin

2008-03-21T19:13:00.000-07:00

Over the weekends, I’ve scripted a tiny wordpress plugin that create flashy new icon suitable for telling visitor which of these articles, products is new and worth reading. With this plugin, you can use a special remark code called <!–new–>; anywhere in your post or page (under code view). It will be replaced with a flashy icon. You may customize it to your needs by modifying the new-img.php

Community Message: Paypal Scam Phishing Email

2008-03-16T17:14:00.000-07:00

Ever received some Paypal email from update@paypal.com with the title "Paypal Account Review Department" ?Well in case you haven’t, here’s how it look like.This is a phishing or a scam email. As system owner, administrators can just login on your behalf to check the account in the backend. System administrator will not prompt user to login and reset password just because there’s unauthorized

Games : Acclaim's Latest BOTS

2008-03-09T17:43:00.000-07:00

Recently, the Acclaim have been actively promoting their new MMOG called BOTS. Yeah, a specialize mecha theme, death match arena styled online game. You can customize and upgrade your bots to your liking and pit with other players in a death match.You jump around, attacks, super-transformation (BOTS can charge up their energy and temporarily transform into bigger, stronger and faster BOTS.) and

Gadgets: Remote Controlled Bird?

2008-03-06T15:57:00.000-08:00

I’ve read and played mini remote control cars, robots, plane, helicopters to even ufo but, never have I seen a remote control bird? o_O. Check out this youtube video below and believe me this thing can really fly by flapping it’s wings. However, some they position this remote control thingy as a Cat Toy? Claimed to be durable too...whoa...I guess anything is possible nowadays

Software: Microsoft WordWide Telescope

2008-03-04T16:05:00.000-08:00

Ever wonder what is like to peep on the skies with a observatory’s telescope. Well, I didn’t really get the chance to do it in real life back in my days, i only get a mini cheap telescope to view lunar eclipse. Recently, Microsoft is making a lot of buzz on astronomical stuff, well I wasn’t really serious in reading their article but, then I came across this Youtube video.It seems Microsoft will

Iron Lore Entertainment shuts down?

2008-03-02T16:27:00.000-08:00

Sad news indeed today, I came across news that the makers of Titan Quest, Iron Lore Entertainment announced that they will close down due to lack of funding for their upcoming project.Brief cap on Iron Lore, Released Titan Quest in 2006,Released Titan Quest : Immortal Throne Expansion Pack 2007Assist in development of Dawn of War : Soulstorm (expansion pack for Dawn of War RTS)Here’s a public

Games : Phun - Another Great Free 2D Physics Game

2008-02-28T16:57:00.000-08:00

Imagine yourself able to manipulate objects as soon as it was drawn by a mouse, manifest it into water, drag and throw it around and study how items react to gravity. Phun is a great physic sandbox game where, users can draw items and manipulate it to great extend. Users can study how physical solid objects of various shapes react when they interact with other matter such as water and etc. This

Technology: Nokia and University of Cambridge - Morph Phone

2008-02-26T17:02:00.000-08:00

Morph - is a joint nanotechnology concept, developed by NRC (Nokia Research Center) and University of Cambridge. This concept was launched together with the "Design and the Elastic Mind" exhibition happening at February 24 - May 12, 2008 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.This concept demonstrate how future mobile devices might be stretchable and flexible, allowing the user to transform their

Tips and Tricks : Why Shup.exe kept Crashing in Vista

2008-02-26T16:40:00.000-08:00

If you encounter this problem lately then, you probably using Windows Vista with Kapersky installed. For those whom are new to Shup, it’s a software which allows you to easily upload and share your photos to various image sharing sites such as photobucket, imageshare sharebox, flickr and etc. All you need to do is to install Shup and then, an extra menu for image upload will appear in your

Technology: Brainwave 3D Control Device

2008-02-24T02:52:00.000-08:00

Recently I came to know about a headset gadget that can read brainwave and translate it into control signals in PC. The company behind this gadget is called Emotiv.com showcased on how this gadget can control avatars in 3D games and application. The picture below shows the headset in action. This particular head set is capable of picking up various signal such as emotion state, movement signal,

Hardware : Geforce 8 to run PhysX soon

2008-02-17T16:31:00.000-08:00

Good news for all NVIDIA fans, looks like your GeForce 8 GFX cards will be able to run PhysX due to recent NVIDIA acquisition on AGEIA. Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang revealed that Nvidia is currently working on porting PhysX to CUDA. CUDA, short for Compute Unified Device Architecture, is an application programming interface created by Nvidia to let programmers write general-purpose applications

Technology: Nanobots on Humans by 2029?

2008-02-15T16:16:00.000-08:00

A leading US inventor has predicted that with the advancement of nanotechnology, tiny nano-bots will be introduced into our body to help human increase their intelligence and improve health.Humanity is on the brink of advances that will see tiny robots implanted in people’s brains to make them more intelligent, said Ray Kurzweil. Mr Kurzweil is one of 18 influential thinkers chosen to identify

Windows Vista: Solving Windows Vista Problems For Novices

2008-02-08T08:20:00.000-08:00

Solving Windows Vista Problems For NovicesThis article covers two common problems that new Windows Vista users face and the methods to deal with them. MCI32 ErrorsMedia Control Interface (MCI) was shipped with older Windows operating systems to enable programs installed on your computer to control multimedia devices, such as CD and DVD drives. This task was done with the help of the MCI32.ocx

Technology: NVIDIA and AGEIA

2008-02-06T18:29:00.000-08:00

na NVIDIA today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire AGEIA Technologies (the company behind the Physics Card Technology PSU). According to both CEO of NVIDIA quotes:"The AGEIA team is world class, and is passionate about the same thing we are - creating the most amazing and captivating game experiences," stated Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO of NVIDIA. "By combining

Windows Vista : Installing Vista and XP (cause errors?)

2008-01-27T16:34:00.000-08:00

If you already installed your Windows Vista using Vista’s own partition system and then later decided to dual boot with Windows XP by installing it on one of the partition created during Windows Vista, you may encounter a disk error. Yes...yes, this is normal...please do not panic. It can be fixed easily by inserting the Windows Vista DVD and select repair target drive option. What causes the

Tips and Tricks: How to Perform System Restore with Windows Vista

2008-01-22T18:27:00.000-08:00

What is System Restore?System Restore is a computer recovery utility shipped with the Windows Vista computers that you can use to roll back your malfunctioning system to a last known working condition without losing your data and enables you to fix pc problems. When do you need to Perform System Restore?The following are some of the common reasons that may require you to perform a Windows Vista

Cool Website : FreeRice.com site for Learning English with Humanitarian Effort

2008-01-17T21:57:00.000-08:00

I stumbled upon an interesting site today while surfing during breakfast. FreeRice.com, a greenish webby field environmental theme also noticed that it’s one of the United Nation’s humanitarian site to collect funding to provide free rice to the poor. This is no ordinary site requesting for donation or what so ever, it also provide a free service in a form of an English vocabulary word game. Not