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Recently, I came across a really sweet flash which I love to make it as my laptop's screensaver. So I try googling the web to search for any software converter that can convert the flash file into a windows screensaver, and luckily I found one, well it is not a software but a free web service, called Creamshavers.

Creamshavers is a totally free web service to create windows screensavers from Shockwave Flash files. Just upload your swf flash file and Creamshavers will produce a windows installer .exe with a totally nag-free fullscreen windows screensaver.

How to Convert Flash to Screensaver?


1. The procedure is rather easy. First, log into Creamshavers dot com, scroll down until you see the similar form as shown below. Then, browse for the flash file that you want to convert and fills in other required info.


2. Then hit the "Create Screensaver" button and your screensaver installation package will be ready to be downloaded any time.


3. Download the installation package into your computer. Once completed, double click the installer and install it.


4. Done! You can try to preview the screensaver now. :-)


Last but not least, this is the flash that I have converted into the screensaver, called the Screen Cleaner. If you like it, you can download it here [Flash Version] and convert it yourself. Happy trying! :-)



The Screen Cleaner

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Are you a Sudoku maniac, who seem can't live any longer without solving Sudoku puzzles everyday? If so, I may have the right stuff for you, which people called it "Sudoku Loo Roll!". It's just like the ordinary toilet paper at your home but with Sudoku puzzles printed on it. Sound cool for the true Sudoku fans out there, right?

So what are you waiting for? Go grab this Sudoku toilet paper, roll it and solve the puzzles. And don't forget a pencil and an eraser. :-)

P.S. : Playing Sudoku is a lot of fun even in the toilet, but never get your mum yelling at you and say, "What take you so long inside the toilet? Are you done with your project (you know what I mean)?". :-)

Credit : CutieGadget

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This is one-of-it-kind gadget that is able to test your kissing skill with your partner. ( Sound interesting? ) Valentine's day is approaching and you might want to surprise your partner with this gadget and get her/him into this fun love test. I am sure that this year's Valentine will be different and enjoyable with this "Kissing Love Tester" by your side. :-) Wow, this will be a lot of fun!

This is how this gadget works :

1. Hold the heart with a partner

2. Pucker up and kiss, making sure only your lips touch

3. If love is in the air the heart will glow and play music to let you you are made for each other!

4. If love isn't in the air the heart will be sure to let you know by sounding a buzzer. (When this happen, you are in trouble!)

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I am sure that everyone knows about Google Holiday Logos, which temporarily replace Google's official logo on a particular day purposely to remember a special holiday or event.











Supposed to be celebrating: Children’s Day 2003.
Reason for rejection: Too childish.










Supposed to be celebrating: 150 Years of Cigarettes.
Reason for rejection: Too politically incorrect.










Supposed to be celebrating: 50th Anniversary of Product Placement.
Reason for rejection: Starbucks didn’t pay enough.










Supposed to be celebrating: 5 Years of Google motto “Don’t be evil.”
Reason for rejection: Too self-obsessed.










Supposed to be celebrating: 130th Birthday of Mondrian.
Reason for rejection: Too abstract.










Supposed to be celebrating: 90th Anniversary of the Copyright Act.
Reason for rejection: Potential trademark infringement for using the © symbol.










Supposed to be celebrating: 20th Anniversary of the Nintendo Entertainment System.
Reason for rejection: Severe complaints by the Pet Duck Association.










Supposed to be celebrating: The 65th Birthday of Googol, a 1 with 100 zeroes.
Reason for rejection: Too geeky.

















Supposed to be celebrating: This was one of two drafts to honor M.C. Escher.
Reason for rejection: Too creepy.

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Try it and you know what I mean. :-) Enjoy it!

Highly Recommended to those who feel really bored and looking for something unusual to kill the time.

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Forget the classic designed speakers and check this out, the adorable USB powered speakers. They are simply cute and would be another perfect gifts for girls on special days. Trust me, the girls will extremely LOVE it! Some of the speakers may lack in sound quality but they are enough to win the heart of your loves one and even kids love them. Agree? Okay, let meet our adorable USB powered speakers.



1. Winnie The Pooh

Everyone favorite.

2. Lilo and Stitch



3. Lovely Puppy

4. Cute Bears




5. Hello Kitty




6. Sleeping Pigs

7. Lovely Piglets


8. Mad Dogs

Don't get your cat too near to the mad dogs. They bite!


9. Dolphin

P.S. : There are so many to pick, so which speaker do you like the most?

Links : ChipChick, Gadget-a-Day , Akihabara

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Swiss Army Knife is one of the must-have gadgets for men but how about for girls? You can't be really expecting girls to carry along those made-for-men multi-tools in their hand bag, right? So, do girls really need these tool?

You might say NO at first, but what about if I say there is actually a Swiss Army Knife specially made for girls? It has everything (at least most of it) that a girl could possibly need just in one gadget and it do save some spaces in your hand bag. :-) Now, do I hear a YES from you?

The Miss Army Knife is the all-in-one pocket tool for the girl-on-the-go. Pink, chic and looking like something Penelope Pitstop might keep in her pocket, Miss Army Kit contains everything you need to solve everyday emergencies. It features flashlight, keychain, needle & thread, safety pin, corkscrew, mirror, pen, tweezers, perfume bottle, bottle opener, screwdriver, scissors, knife, ruler, nail file, and pill box.

P.S. : In case you don't have any Valentine gift idea yet for your girlfriend/wife , how about a $19.95 Miss Swiss Army Knife? :-)

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If you are a die hard fan of the Swiss Army Knife, then these cool gadgets should suit your taste. Technology changes, so do these gadgets.

1. Swiss Army Knife USB Pen Drive

Everyone can't move around without a pen drive in their pocket. Agree?

The Swiss Memory USB is the perfect marriage of technology, practicality, materials, and quality design. It perfectly pulls together four important tools that no geek should ever be without (USB flash drive, LED light, Swiss Army knife, ballpoint pen).

2. Swiss Army Knife MP3 Player

Same case with pen drive, everyone are listening to MP3 Player.

The knife has a blade, nail file and scissors and looks rather dreamy, and the MP3 player will play MP3, WAV and WMA files, has an FM radio, a voice recorder, a rather neat remote control dongle, and a sexy jogging arm-band so you can listen to your tunes when you're - well, jogging presumably. Gorgeously well made of course, and ideal for all sport nuts.

3. Giant Swiss Army Knife


Any tool that you want? Just ask the king of all gadgets.

This unique special edition knife contains all 85 tools currently produced by Wenger (Maker of the Genuine Swiss Army Knife). These 85 tools can be used in over 100 functions and it's the World's Largest Swiss Army Knife.

So, what to you think the next tool/item that should be added into the Swiss Army Knife? Perhaps Swiss Army Knife the handphone version?

Source : ThinkGeek

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After a long time serving the CPC-based (cost-per-click) Nuffnang ads since the first day I integrate this ad on my blog , finally my blog can have a taste of the CPM-based (cost per thousand impressions) blog advertising for the next whole week. Thanks you, Nuffnang for the ad you bring to this blog.

Hi, Yu Kok Hui,

Congratulations!
An advertiser has chosen to advertise on My Story.
The advertisement details are as follows:

Campaign:
Youth \'08 Ad Skyscraper

Week(s):
1. 13 Jan 2008 to 19 Jan 2008

Ad Unit:
Skyscraper (Top)

Please do not remove the Ad Unit from your blog during the period(s) of time above or you will not be paid the full amount for the ad.

If you have a Skyscraper Ad Unit, please ensure that it is placed high up in the sidebar or the advertiser may choose to withdraw the ad.

Thank you.

The Nuffnang Team

P.S. : I don't earn a single cent during the CPC campaign, so I have a reason to smile with the incoming CPM-based advertising.

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Just an off-topic on my blog today because I have no fresh idea on what to blog ( the light bulb inside my head just won't light up ). After a near to two months break since November last year (thanks to the Writers' Strike in US), finally Prison Break (that's my favourite show!) is going to hit the TV screen on 14 January (in US), which is just 5 days ahead from us.

Wow, I just can't waited to be entertained with the rest of the episodes, episode 9 till 13 (finale) in Season 3. Prison Break will wraps up its season on 18 February. So after the season's finale, it's will be again a long wait before Season 4 hits the screen.

So do I have any Prison Break's fan here?

Here is the upcoming episodes titles and dates of airing

Episode 3.9 - Boxed In
Airs : January 14, 2008

Episode 3.10 - Dirt Nap
Airs : January 21, 2008

Episode 3.11 - Under and Out
Airs: January 28, 2008

Episode 3.12 - Hell or High Water
Airs: February 4, 2008

Episode 3.13 - The Art of the Deal
Airs: February 18, 2008


P.S. : Since I am living in Malaysia, so I going to count on you, uTorrent.

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Most of the blogs that I visited recently have the so-called EntreCard on their blog and that didn't hold me for long before I signed up too for EntreCard network yesterday. The reason for joining is simple, because EntreCard is HOT!!!

Free Blog Advertising Using Credits
After reading through the help page , here is what I can summarized about EntreCard, EntreCard is a platform for bloggers to run free blog advertising on other blogs. There is no money involved, but you need credits to advertise on other blogs. To get credits, you can either earn it by dropping your card on other blogs (including my blog), have someone drops his/her card on your blog and also earns credits when someone advertises on your blog.

The most important thing that EntreCard can gives us is TRAFFICS! Each time blogger drops you their card, you get traffics and you get traffics too when you advertise on other blogs. The quality of the traffics may be low, but hopefully some of the traffics will be converted to quality traffics.

Here is my 125x125 EntreCard which I designed it within couple of minutes. Look simple but will redesign it when I have idea time. :-)


Drop me your card
Since you are here on my blog, please drop me your EntreCard on the sidebar there. In return, I will drop mine too on your blog. :-)

P.S. : Anyone to advertise their blog on my EntreCard's widget??

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There are dozens of Free URL shortening (and redirecting) services available on the internet. Obviously, we would go for this service purposely to make the looooooooooooong web address into a much shorten one and the second reason is to hide our affiliate links.

To cut long story short, let looks at my shortlisted URL shortening services with their features.

1. TinyURL [*TinyURL!] - The least preferred URL shortening service on the list. Why? Because TinyURL will automatically generate a random URL for you, something similar to this http://tinyurl.com/32xqr9. You don't like it? Me either. On the plus side, you get to preview the actual web address redirect by the shorten URL before proceed to the actual site, but first you must have the preview feature enabled.

2. urlTea [*urlTea!] - Slightly different from TinyURL, at which you can describe the generated random URL into meaningful text by adding ?any-text-you-like after the URL. Here's an example, http://urltea.com/2h5r and http://urltea.com/2h5r?usb-thumb-drive-for-lunch , they mean the same. Both links will lead you to the same site.

3. MooURL [*MooURL!] - Similar to TinyURL, you get a random web address, something like this, http://moourl.com/uhqeu but you have a choice to personalize your URL (up to 20 characters) into something more meaningful like http://moourl.com/thumb_drive_4_lunch .

4. Shorl [*Shorl!] -You get random generated URL but no worry because when a user clicks the shorten URL, the user will be shown the actual web address for a few seconds before arrive to the actual site, so user knows where is he/she heading for. This is similar to the preview feature of TinyURL. Another advantage is that you get to track how many hits you get for the URL.


5. Snipr [*Snipr!] - The best of all. You can sign up for an account, personalize your URL, assign private key to your shorten URL, track the number of hits for each URL and multisnip - meaning convert multiple URLs at once. Cool huh? What more can you ask for?

* Drag your preferred URL shortening service's bookmarklet into your browser's bookmark tool and create short URLs with just a click.

So which one are you going to pick?

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I have a score of choices for you, so which one suits your appetite?

Please place your order, sir/madam. :-)

1. Shrimp Tempura



















2. Shuumai (Dim Sum)


























4. Takoyaki (Japanese Food)
















5. EbiFry (fried shrimp), Kani No Hasami Age (crab), Hamburg and Purin (caramel blank)


















6. Fast Food (Burger, Pizza, Hotdog)















7. Mince Cake
















or would you like to order our Today Special??

















I know this food thumb drives look yummy. But hold on a minute, it do look nice to your eyes but a big NO NO to your stomach. :p

P.S. : I am starving ... give me something to eat (but not the thumb drives above)

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Well, the yesterday 3-hours long class was a slightly boring class with the lecturer doing most of talking part and we students sitting quietly and listened to what he have to say. Boringggg... If this kind of situation happens every week, it will not takes long to get me into sleep. So suddenly I came out with an idea, "hey, why don't I put myself into sleep during the class but without getting caught?" For me, to sleep during the class is not a big deal, but not to get caught by the lecturer is the hardest part of it. The price for getting caught sleeping in the class is very HIGH!!

So I start searching the whole web looking for useful tips on secret to sleep in class without getting caught. There a score of web sites which I found it useful, they are this site, this site and this site. These sites listed a near-to-complete guides on how to sleep in the class without getting caught.

Here is the quick steps that you (and I) may want to practice to experience an uninterrupted sleep in the class. (hopefully)

1. Sit in the back of the room

2. Have something on your desk, be it a book ( make sure the book is open) , a pencil box etc

3. Leaning on one arm and point your face down at the desk ( yes, you are studying your book or notes with your eyes close. )

4. No Snoring zzzzzz

Next time, if you want to sleep in the class, remember this steps and remember to get the copy of homeworks or notes from your friend after the class.

I guess you don't take me seriously when I said I am going to sleep in the class right? On the second thought, bringing my favourite stock investing books to read will bring more benefit to me than falls into sleep in the class.

P.S. : Be careful while you sleep in the class especially when the teacher is not around, because your classmates may up to something no good. Watch the video and you know what I mean! You may experience the pain, oouchh!!!!! That's hurt!

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Since I have some free time before attending my only class of the day at 4 pm (yes, still have plenty of time), so I figure out why not I make some enhancements to my blog. One thing that currently on my mind is to embed the Twitter widget in my blog. I have the Blogrush widget joining my blog recently and I am curious to see how this blog traffic generator tool can generates traffic to my blog.

So back to the Twitter thing. I guess some may heard of it while some may not. For those who are new to Twitter, Twitter is a useful tool to keep the world updated with your recent activities or telling the world "What you are doing?". Simply type your message via the Internet or on mobile and your message will get displayed shortly after in your Twitter page and also in the widget as well.

I am not an expert in explaining the whole concept and function of Twitter to you, so you might want to read this Newbie's guide to Twitter.

Here is how my Twitter widget looks like on the right sidebar on my blog.
















Interested in getting one for your blog?

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