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I encountered this " Failed to start the virtual machine Palm Emulator (sdk62) " error message while going through the Building Your First Pam WebOS App on Windows. Everytime I tried to start up the emulator, I could not because of this error. After a while, I figured out that the previous emulator session did not shutdown properly and was still holding on to the VBox.log file. So, to resolve this error, simply do the following: Open up the Windows Task Manager as shown below. Then click the Processes tab. Select the VirtualBox.exe process. Click End Process . The VirtualBox.exe process is killed . Restart the Palm WebOS Emulator by selecting Start > All Programs > Palm > SDK > Palm Emulator . The emulator is displayed . Related books

Anybody can take their own photos from any digital cameras for use as passport photos. The example image below is a sample passport size photo taken by yours truly. With digital cameras so common nowadays, you don't really need to go to your friendly neighborhood photo studio and get somebody there to take your photo; you can take it yourself and save your hard earned money for something else. However, you may need to do some touching up of the image to clean up the photo like removing shadows and other unnecessary background details. For this purpose, you can use any image processing software like Photoshop or the free open source GIMP software. After taking the photo, the background may have unwanted details like shadows or the wrong color as shown below. I will describe the steps using Photoshop below to remove the background and to cut the photo to the right ratio and pixel size. Run Photoshop and open up the photo. In the Layers palette, click the menu icon and choose Dupl