Simple Computer Tips

How to print booklet from Acrobat Reader?

2013-05-28T11:00:00.000+07:00

You know that Acrobat Reader is a pdf file viewer. It's a product of Adobe which is very well-known. This program is easy to use that most people use it to view such files. But do you know that you can also print a pdf file into a booklet according to your need? Well, I provide this link for you that you can learn step-by-step how to print a booklet from a pdf file. If you haven't got Acrobat Reader, you can download it here.

How to delete files with question marks as filename?

2013-04-27T11:39:00.000+07:00

Have you ever encountered problem when deleting certain files with special characters or files containing question marks in the name? I had such problem before when I tried deleting those files. I didn't remember clearly how I got those files. But, I guessed that they were files with chinese characters as their names originally.

Usually files that can't be deleted using usual Windows delete command, can be deleted using third-party delete programs. Such programs can be found easily from search on google. I tried some such deleter to remove the question marks named files, but they all failed to delete those files. So, what can we do if those so-called deleter cannot delete those files? Do we have to move all movable files to another partition and then remove them by whole partition delete? Not really, there's another way which could probably solve this problem.

Try using a Linux Live CD and boot from it. Then Mount the drive with the files you want to delete. After that, right click on the files and select "Delete". Usually this will solve the problem. I have tried many times using Puppy Linux Live CD. It's a very light-weight linux distro. Try using Puppy Linux to delete those files with weird characters.

Your Name on Cappuccino Photo Effect

2013-04-25T19:43:00.000+07:00

Cappuccino has become so popular that everybody knows it. You probably have ever seen a cup of cappuccino with a word or a name written on it. It does takes time and skill to make this effect on real cappuccino. But, if you just want to put this "name on cappuccino" photo effect, you can do it easily by just using online image effect generator such as: ImageChef.

Yes, ImageChef has lots of photo effects which you can use and customize according to your need. Just click here and then type your name or any words you want to appear on the cappuccino. Then you can save the image or share it on Facebook or other social networkings. Try this Cappuccino photo effect now.

How to make your Facebook video run faster?

2013-02-26T11:39:00.001+07:00

Have your encountered a problem when you play your Facebook video? Well, if you have a slow internet connection, then you may try to think of ways to speed up the video. Video Buffering has always be the problem for slow internet connection.

There's a simple way to speed up your view during playing Facebook video. It's really simple. Just locate the HD button on your Play toolbar on below the Facebook video you are playing. It's above Share button (sometimes it hides itself when you move away your mouse from the video). Then, click the HD button and your video buffering will run faster and you can watch Facebook video normally. Activating "HD" can let you watch the video in High Definition quality, but without HD you can watch the video with faster speed buffering.

How to leave a Facebook group?

2013-02-24T11:54:00.001+07:00

It's sometimes annoyed when somebody adds you to a Facebook group. You probably think that the group notification and everything else about it seem unrelated to you. You might also think that you don't need to be in the group and then you feel like you want to leave the group. But perhaps you don't know how to leave these Facebook group.

Facebook group can be created by any Facebook members and then they can invite other Facebook members to join the group or add them to the group. Many people like sharing their thoughts through status post and photos on Facebook. Some even like to add their friends to the group thinking of growing the people inside the group. But, this could be something irritating to those who just don't like the topic of the group.

If you are one of those who just don't want to be in a group after someone added you in the group, you can actually leave the group easily. Locate the Cover photo of the Group at the upper side of the screen. You can see clearly. Then, at the right bottom corner of the photo, there is a "Notifications" button. Click the ✿ next to "Notifications" and then select "Leave Group". That's how to leave a group you don't want to join in Facebook.

Free Angry Birds Theme Download for Windows 7

2013-02-21T21:59:00.002+07:00

Almost every computer user knows angry birds, especially those who have tablet gadget like iPad or Android Tablet. Angry Birds is a popular game for those gadget. It's not only the game, there are also many products which are Angry Birds related ones.

If you are also someone who like Angry Birds very much, you probably also want to have the theme for your Windows system, so that you can enjoy the wallpaper, icons and sounds while you are using your computer. Well, if you do, you can download Angry Birds desktop theme from here. That's just a bit disappointment which is that the screen saver is not included in this theme.

How to fix a laptop with blank screen when turned on?

2013-02-13T15:41:00.001+07:00

You probably have ever had a laptop which can be powered on, but shown blank screen. This could be a problem with the video of the laptop if the problem is not on the LCD. Whether it's LCD problem or not, you can try connecting it to external LCD. If you can see something on external LCD, then the problem is on the laptop LCD. If you can't see anything on the external LCD, then this could be the problem of your laptop video chipset.

If you go searching on the internet for solution, like youtube, you probably will find suggestion like BGA rework or reflow the motherboard with an oven. In here tin foil is used to protect other parts of the mainboard, so that the process is focused on the video chipset only. I'm not an expert on laptop. But, this post is created as my tips on repairing laptops only. Just for my own laptop repairing tip only. Hope that the following video will help those who are looking for solution on such laptop video repair.

Google Doodle for Snake Year 2013

2013-02-09T17:35:00.001+07:00

It's time for posting Chinese New Year Google Doodle. This coming year is Snake Year. It's the year where your luck may glide fast like the snake. Google has also created the Doodle for this Chinese New Year. If you visit Google website today, you'll find that the logo has become like the Nibbles game in the past. Indeed, nibbles is a simple snake game at the time when Microsoft introduced MS-DOS together with QBasic. Have you remembered it? Well, let's go to Google.com now and start enjoying the game.

Happy Lunar New Year 2013 and good luck to you all.

A short video introducing the Raspberry Pi

2012-11-29T01:55:00.000+07:00

You probably have ever heard the Raspberry Pi, which is a very cheap computer, but with quite good performance especially for internet. Well, at first I also wondered what kind of thing this Raspberry Pi was. I tried searching on Youtube to get the overview and demo telling us what it is and how to use this low-cost computer. And I found this video of overview and demo on Raspberry Pi. Hope you will get to know more about this new computer which runs on Linux operating system.

How to clear your Youtube Video Viewing History?

2012-11-25T22:28:00.000+07:00

When you have sign up for a Youtube account and you have become a Youtube user, everytime you open a video and watch it even for a second, it's already entered Youtube Video Viewing History. It's like History in internet browser. You can reopen it on any computer with your user name signing in. You can watch your previously watched video.

But, sometimes you may want to remove Youtube video viewing history. In fact, it's easy to remove or clear the viewing history in Youtube. Here are steps to clear the history.

1. Sign in with your account name and password.

2. Click History link next to your User Profile Photo

3. Click Watch History (in the middle column of Youtube site)

4. You'll see your viewing history

5. Click the button called "Clear all viewing history"

You can also remove the history one by one, by ticking the video that you want to clear from history and then click Remove.

ToolWiz Care - a freeware to optimize your computer speed

2012-11-20T12:55:00.000+07:00

ToolWiz Care is a complete all-in-one freeware which you can rely on to make your system work faster because it can detect system errors and then correct them. It optimizes and speeds up your system in just a click. It has simple interface which even beginner users know how to use it.

If you are an intermediate computer user, you will find that it's very suitable for computer maintenance and repair. You can do quite lots of optimization and correct most common computer problems with the tools on this program.

If you have a slow computer and you want to make it run faster, then this tiny program is a need for such computer. Click here to download ToolWiz Care and make your PC run faster now.

Make your own unique USB Floppy Disk (DIY video)

2012-11-20T12:10:00.000+07:00

What is actually a USB Floppy Disk? You probably may think that it's a floppy disk connected using USB slot or it may also be a USB Flash disk with the shape of an old floppy disk. Yes, it's a creative DIY stuff that I found from Youtube.com which you are guided to make your own floppy disk USB flash disk. With a little modification on old USB Flash disk and a floppy disk, you can make a unique USB storage.

This is cool USB stuff since everyone will think that you are using floppy disk. But, when you slide out the USB connector and connect it to a USB port, it will then work as a normal USB drive. Some people may wonder why a floppy disk is inserted into a USB port instead of inserting it into a Floppy disk drive. This idea may seem a bit silly cause you choose something bigger rather than the small flash disk. But, you won't lose it easily either since it's bigger in size. Practical or not it depends on how you think about this USB Floppy disk.

So, are you curious on how to make a USB Floppy disk? Watch the following video.

How to turn a pdf file or e-book into jpg files?

2012-11-13T20:39:00.000+07:00

PDF files are usually used as e-books which people who love reading will collect in their laptops or tablets. But, there are times when you need to have the printed version from the digital one. For example, when you want to bring it anywhere you go without having worried about electricity power of your gadget, or probably you want to make any notes on the printed version. So, you need to print them.

I have ever experienced the need of having a printed version instead of the digital one. In fact, this job is easy that you just need to use File - Print menu on your PDF reader program. But, when you come up with customization such as booklet style printing using Publisher as example, you may probably need to separate them into many separate single pages in order to put them into desktop publishing program like Microsoft Publisher. Then you can print them as book fold.

One of the easiest way to do this is to use PDF to JPG converter which converts all pages of PDF into many single files of JPG image. Then put them into Microsoft Publisher to be printed as folded book. You may need some basic knowledge about Publisher book fold printing. Another way is to use Screen Capture Utility to get the area of the page of PDF you want one-by-one.

So, you want to know where to download the PDF to JPG for free? Click here to download this program for free. And start printing and customizing your printed version of e-book.

After downloading, make sure you select higher dpi you need to get the best result for printing, then select the destination folder. Finally, click Convert to start the PDF to JPG conversion.

Japanese magician performing magic with iPad

2012-11-03T14:16:00.002+07:00

iPad is the currently hot tech gadget which most people use everyday. Even magician uses it for performing magic. A few months ago, I' watched a magic competition on Taiwan TV show. One of the contestants used iPad as part of his magic performance.

You can also watch similar magic performance using iPad on Youtube. Below is one example magic performance by a Japanese magician which is done on the street. In fact, using iPad in magic performance is actually combining common magic trick along with iPad application so that it creates an illusion as if something is coming out from iPad or happening inside iPad while doing it outside the iPad.

Let's watch this Japanese iPad magic performance.

How to disassemble and assemble an iPad?

2012-11-03T14:05:00.000+07:00

You probably wonder what's inside an iPad and also curious to know how an iPad is disassembled and assembled again. Then, you might want to search for a tutorial video showing you how to do that on iPad. After watching the video, you will find out that there aren't much things inside the iPad. But, you still need to be careful when you want to do it yourself. The tutorial video is made using stop motion animation technique, perhaps you can do your own tutorial, too. Let's watch this DIY video on assembling iPad.

Bajaj Transformer Robot Animation

2012-11-03T10:13:00.000+07:00

Bajaj is a kind of tricycle transportation which is very common in Indonesia, especially the capital city, Jakarta. It's also so popular that it's also used in Indonesia animation movie. Although it's not an official movie shown in cinema as 3D animation movie like others, I still find that it's quite a great works of 3D Indonesian animation.

The following Youtube video is about Bajajs which can transform themselves as into Transformers Robots like just like the 3D movie, The Transformers. Not only the animation of bajaj, but also motorcycles and mini bus transformers are used here.

The scene takes place in the market which you can see an old man orders a bowl of noodles and getting ready to eat. You can see the spoons starting to shake, just like the scene of dinosaurs coming in Jurassic Park. Then, a big flying saucer (UFO) appearing in the sky. After that, lightning strikes from the UFO to the transportation around and they start to transform themselves, starting from the Bajaj Transforming.

VOB Blanker - Turn some parts of your VOB DVD file into blanks

2012-11-02T11:50:00.000+07:00

Have you ever thought of removing some scenes of a video on a DVD? Perhaps, you want to remove some commercials of a video on a DVD VOB file. Doing this means you want to edit the video of the DVD. But, if you are a novice or beginner computer user, editing video probably makes you feel hard to do it.

In fact, there's a simple program that merely turn your the parts of a VOB file into a blank, so that the undesired part or scene won't be seen. Short commercial can be removed by using this program. Here's the link to download it. It's called VOB Blanker. You need to locate the part where you want to remove, for example the commercial. Then, you can click Blank button to have it blanked (it turns into a black screen). Remember to save your VOB files. And then you're ready to burn it into a disc with any burner program.

Fly on Desktop - funny and annoying desktop prank

2012-11-02T11:22:00.001+07:00

Fly on Desktop is a tiny program that disturbs you by showing lots of flies flying on your desktop. You probably will feel irritating. But it may make your desktop look funnier than others. It brings no harm to your computer, though. To install this program, click here and then run the shortcut. You can adjust the number of the flies on your desktop. To remove it from desktop, you just need to remove it from system tray or at task manager.

DVD2One - the best and simplest DVD copier and compression software

2012-10-28T16:19:00.000+07:00

You probably want to compress a disc which is a DVD9 movie and burn it into a DVD5 disc. A DVD 8.5 GB blank disc is always more expensive than a 4.7 GB blank disc. This will make you think of how to compress the contents of such large size disc into smaller one, so that you can burn it into a smaller sized DVD-R. This can be done by DVD compression and burner.

One of such programs and perhaps the best one is DVD2One. It's a program with very simple interface but very user-friendly. Novice / beginner computer user will be able to use it. You just need to select the source file/folder of DVD movie and then set the size to 4.7 GB. Then you select whether to burn directly to a DVD-R, or create the image DVD file or just create the folder of containing the DVD movie which has been compressed.

You don't have to worry about the lost of any parts of the movie. The program will certainly compress the whole movie or otherwise it will quit itself if it encounters DVD movie which it can't compress according to my experience in using it.

You can remaster the DVD or have many DVD movies joined into one. You can also batch-process up to 50 disc, so that you can save your time. It provides both Windows and Mac version of DVD2One. Click here to visit the website.

Download Intel 82815 Graphic Controller driver here

2012-10-26T23:56:00.000+07:00

I was helping my friend installing an old Pentium 3 PC. And the graphic driver needs Intel 82815 Graphic controller which is an onboard graphic driver. I found many broken links on the internet for such driver. At last I found it after few minutes of searching. It can be downloaded here.

Beautiful Sun Flower Clock Widget for Blogs

2012-10-13T23:38:00.004+07:00

So, you want to have a clock widget for your blog like Blogger? Well, I have a good recommendation for you. It's "Sun Flower Clock Widget". This clock widget is so beautiful that makes visitor to your blog or website will find it great to see. Time is precious, so you need clock widget on your website, don't you? It's also an easy to read analog clock widget. With orange and yellow sunflower picture as the background, this clock widget will decorate your blog or website to make it more beautiful.

Click here to get the code that you need to paste to your blog as an element. Just copy and paste it on your blog or website design page. And your blog will have an orange clock like this.

Dillo, a tiny and lightning fast browser for Linux user

2012-09-18T23:57:00.002+07:00

Light web browser also means fast browser. Every computer user wants fast browsing especially when they have those low speed computer, such as old Pentium 2 or Pentium 3. Don't you agree? Well, when Linux is developed day by day, its browsers are also made better, too. This also makes Linux besides a free open source operating system more useful with faster and lighter browser.

By the way, if you want such fast browser for Linux, you may consider using Dillo which is made purposely to meet the requirement of fast browser running even on computer with low specifications. Dillo is such a simple designed Linux web-browser which you can use to speed-up your browsing experience. When you have slow internet connection, Dillo will perform well and bring up satisfaction of browsing. If you have high speed internet connection, using Dillo will make you say "wow".

Of course, lightning-fast browser also means that it doesn't really complete like Google Chrome and Firefox which have better and more extensions. But, anyway it's worth trying if you want something fast and light in browsing. Click here to download Dillo Linux web browser from its homepage.

How to download Tube Mate onto your Android device

2012-09-18T22:06:00.001+07:00

Have you ever thought of downloading your favorite Youtube videos using your Android phone or tablet? If you think that it's difficult to download videos from Youtube, you may try using download Tubemate to help you download any videos from Youtube. The following video shows you how to download Tubemate to help you in video downloading task. Happy Youtube downloading!

Facebook becomes one column plain view in Firefox

2012-09-18T22:00:00.000+07:00

Have you ever encountered Facebook such problem that your Facebook view suddenly becomes plain white and also one column only? All the color theme seems to be disappeared in Facebook. This has ever happened to my friend when she logs in to her Facebook after someone else used her laptop. She uses Firefox to browse internet. Logging on to Facebook using Google Chrome seems ok and nothing strange happens.

Well, if this also happens to you and you don't know what to do, I suggest you try these following steps. First, uninstall your version of Firefox. When your browser is old enough, it may not view all elements on a site properly. So, you need to upgrade your Firefox. After uninstalling the currently used Firefox, you may then download the latest version of Firefox and install it.

That's what I did to help her. Simple indeed right? Now you know how to solve this Facebook view problem.

How to create a logo that looks like LEGO logo?

2012-09-18T01:05:00.000+07:00

You probably think that LEGO logo is quite nice and you want to create your own LEGO styled logo. Or perhaps you wonder where to download such font like LEGO one. Well, it may be done manually using Photoshop or CorelDraw. using other similar font and edit them to look like LEGO style.

But don't you know that you can just easily download a font named legothick.ttf and directly use it on your Windows application? It's so easy which means you don't have to use Photoshop or any other vector programs to create it. All you need to do is to download it and customize the color using CorelDraw and just make the outline if you want the outline just like LEGO logo. No need to draw every character you need from scratch. That's it. Click here to download this lego style font.