article About 3D Mas Selamt bin Kastari Photo - (all-vga-corner)

It has been over a month since Mas Selamat had escaped from detention. We have seen his photos 5 hours after his escape but he is still at large.

Suddenly, an idea pops up.

Why not create a 3D photo so we can visualize his face better? Using freeware Faceworx, I came out with his 3D photo within few minutes.





















These pictures are illustrations and further fine tuning is possible for better effects. Finally, I felt I have done my part in this island wide effort. Next time you come across someone similar to pictures above, call police immediately.

Meanwhile, just take 2 photos of someone and test the software. I did it in few min and so can you.

Have fun!!!

article About Using a FREE Registry Cleaner - (all-vga-corner)

I treat Windows Registry as the check-in counter in the hotel. If database of occupants are messed up, there is no way to locate which room the customer is staying and the hotel ceases to function.

As more and more guests check in, this database becomes messy and the registry may grow bigger. Complication appears when guests are checked out but details of the guests are still not fully deleted. Therefore, cleaning the windows registry is necessary as if performing housekeeping at home or defragmenting the harddisk.

BE WARNED: Editing the registry can be dangerous and may lead to complete failure in your computer. Therefore, it is best to backup your registry in a different drive from windows before attempts are made to clean it.

Some cleaners work better than the rest but the task becomes complicated when there are fake registry cleaners luring in the dark waiting for users to install them. The consequence is viruses or spywares can be installed, resulting in a worst situation.

Here, I have highlighted a few CLEAN registry cleaners for your consideration. They are:

1) Argene - Registry Cleaner V1.1.0.0;
2) Advanced WindowsCare V2 Personal;
3) EasyCleaner 2.0;
4) Glarysoft Registry Repair 2.7; and
5) Registry Cleaner 4.3 (no longer free for commercial).

Starting from the same point, I use all cleaners to scan the current registry and find out how many errors in the registry. Later, I allow all cleaners to fix the registry based on their capabilities. Next, I allow all to re-scan and surprisingly, every cleaners reported some errors. I allowed all cleaners to fix again and scan the 3rd time. All cleaners reported errors despite 2 fixes.

1. Argene - Registry Cleaner V1.1.0.0


2. Advanced WindowsCare V2 Personal



3. EasyCleaner 2.0


4. Glarysoft Registry Repair 2.7


5. Registry Cleaner 4.3

Below is the results of the errors found:

Cleaner: 1st scan -> 2nd scan -> last scan
1) Argene: 122 -> 11 -> 12
2) Advanced WindowsCare V2 Personal: 73 -> 6 -> 6
3) EasyCleaner 2.0: 54 -> 7 -> 2
4) Glarysoft Registry Repair 2.7: 36 -> 2 -> 2
5) Registry Cleaner 4.3: 33 -> 14 -> 4

Illustrations: The first scan using Argene found 122 errors. All cleaner fixes are run and 2nd scan found 11 errors. All cleaner fixes are run again and 3nd scan produces 12 errors.

From the above results, we recognised that Argene is a very aggressive scanner with the highest errors found. However, it depends on what errors the scanner are looking for in the registry. Despite running all the 5 cleaners, there are still errors found in the registry and it cannot be fixed completely. Note that all these cleaners are free and perhaps commercial cleaners may clean completely.

I hope these findings are useful to you and if you have other recommendations, please email me at sglongfeng@gmail.com.

article About Avira AntiVir Personal Edition - (all-vga-corner)

What is computer virus? It is just a software program that produces undesirable effect (copy, infect or damage) to the computer without the knowledge of the owner.

They are always around with us since the invention of PC. In the beginning, they are purely destructive with the intention to wipe out or steal data. Together with the web popularity and software technology advances, worm, spyware, malware, scumware, trojan, expensive dialer, adware, phishing, spam and rootkit appear, thereby adding more colours to the so-called "undesirable software" to our computers.

Anti-virus programs are born to tackle more than viruses depending on the package. Today, I share with you one of the best (and free!) AV program in the market - Avira AntiVir Personal Edition (see below).



Avira AV Details:
http://www.free-av.com
Author: Avira
Download File size: 20.3MB
License: Freeware
Operating systems supported: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista
64 Bit Capable: yes
















It protects users against worm, trojan, expensive dialer and rootkit. For premium edition, it handles spyware, malware, scumware, email virus and adware. The top notch security suite further protects against phishing and spam with a built-in firewall.

However, if you consider viruses alone, it is one of the best in the market that I have tried out so far. You can also consider below programs:

1) AVG Anti Virus Free Edition 7.5
Website: http://free.grisoft.com/
Author: Grisoft
License: Freeware
Operating systems supported: Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista
64 Bit Capable: no
Comments: Only protect against viruses.


2) Avast Home Edition 4.1
Website: http://www.avast.com
Author: Alwil Software
License: Freeware
Operating systems supported: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista
64 Bit Capable: yes
Comments: Complete with email scanning.

Conclusion: Free Anti Virus programs offer limited protection as there are upgrade options for commercial products. However, combing a browser protection program, surfing the web can offer an equivalent protection with commercial software. This will be introduced in the next session.

For now, the only disadvantage is the slow online update. To fix this, just manually set the priority of the CPU to normal as the default is low. I did this with AnVir Task Manager. Do not be confused. This is not an anti-virus manager but a task manager to view and control the loaded applications.