31
2008
Kill or End Process Without Getting ‘This System Is Shutting Down’
Have you ever kill a process or end a task from your task manager and then you get 30 seconds of countdown before it restarts or shutdowns by itself? When trying to manually remove a virus, the first thing to do is to end the process first before removing it from registry. That’s because some [...]
31
2008
Download Windows Search 4.0 Preview
Windows Search 4.0 (WS4) is the next version of desktop search for system running Windows operating system. Windows Search 4.0 which replaces Windows Desktop Search (WDS) and automatically upgrades WDS version 2.6 and later (older versions must be uninstalled first), can perform instant search on user’s computer to find and preview documents, e-mail messages, music [...]
31
2008
How to Create a Shortcut to Eject CD or DVD Drive
Windows provides a contextual right click menu item of ‘Eject’, which will be shown when users right click on CD-ROM, DVD-ROM or CD/DVD burner/writer optical drive, and when selected will eject or open the CD/DVD disc tray. For some reason, it may be useful to create an Eject shortcut or icon that will auto eject [...]
4
2008
Reset Forgotten MySQL Root Password
Have you ever forgotten the root password on one of your MySQL servers? This is a quick howto on resetting your MySQL root password. It does require root access on your server.
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Reset Forgotten MySQL Root Password
14
2008
Fill in PDF forms online with PDFescape
Ever need to fill out the fill-in forms on a PDF document while using a computer without Adobe Reader installed? PDFescape is an online PDF viewer and editor that has almost all the features you could ever need. And that includes the ability to fill in forms, something which you won’t find in most other [...]
14
2008
Copy Tables in Firefox to the Clipboard
I sometimes want to copy html tables found on websites into a program that is able to display them properly on my computer so that I can save the data and use it as a reference. Whenever I copy a table in Firefox and paste it into Microsoft Excel, or Open Office, the table structure [...]
12
2008
How to add recent comments to your Blogspot blog
If your blog client of choice is Google’s Blogger, odds are you’ve banged your head against a wall at least a few times wondering why Blogger can’t be a bit more like WordPress or TypePad. While Blogger is incredibly easy to use, it’s a bit more difficult to customize. But with a bit of work, [...]
8
2008
Access All Shared Folders In One Single Window With ‘fsmgmt.msc’
Microsoft has some hidden snap-ins which are many times very useful to accomplish some tasks very quick. Like, to manage all your shared folders in one window you can use one of the Microsoft’s snap-ins.
Click on Start > Run and type fsmgmt.msc and hit enter. This shows to you all the shared folders of the [...]
7
2008
iGoogleBar Firefox add-on supercharges Google apps bar
When you’re using a Google service like Gmail or Google Docs & Spreadsheets, you’ll notice a little menu bar at the top of your screen with links to other Google services. This is kind of handy if you can’t remember the URLs for each service, but otherwise it’s not particularly useful.
iGoogleBar is a Firefox add-on [...]
5
2008
Wordpress 2.3.3 Security Release
A new version of Wordpress has been released just a few hours ago by the Wordpress team. The update is considered critical and fixes a security vulnerability and some minor bugs. The security flaw was found in the implementation of the XML-RPC which would allow any registered user to edit comments of other users using [...]
