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As we research computer problems, we find interesting articles about security, useful applications, website design and solving computer problems. We hope you find these tidbits useful.

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Learn how to add streaming media to your website

This seems like a really good deal more than 150 individual videos. A Staggering 22+ Hours Of Quality Training at a very resonable cost. Find out more here.
MSI Jukebox is a simple piece of software that allows you to add two or more mp3 audio files to the Jukebox player. This is so easy that anyone can do it. The software will link the files for you to upload and will then stream those files either automatically or on request. You choose the quality and type of MP3 files you want to stream.
I needed this once for a client who was selling his own music from his site.
You will find many uses for it too.
Thanks for taking a look!

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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

New Free Tool - Jing!

Jing is a great new tool that allows you to capture screens and videos of your computers and immediately upload them and share them with a friend, just go to http://www.jingproject.com/

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Sunday, October 21, 2007

Mobile Zmanim!

Mobile Zmanim!SM
  1. Call 516-7-ZMANIM (516-796-2646)*.
  2. Enter your ZIP code.
  3. Receive an SMS Zmanim Text-Message.
*Currently available to US Cell phones only. MyZmanim.com is devoted to providing Yiddin around the world with the zmanim times needed to properly serve Hashem. MyZmanim.com is now providing zmanim via mobile phone as SMS text messages. Lookup zmanim on the go, for anywhere in the world, using nothing more than a cell phone. Just call 516-7-ZMANIM using your cell phone and enter your ZIP code or Worldwide MyZmanim Location ID. (Your Location ID appears in the orange Location Bar on the daily zmanim page.) Our Mobile ZmanimSM system knows the current time in your location, so all the zmanim you receive will be relevant to the future.

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Dadnab transit at your fingertips

This is a great service that you can actuall use from your cell phone. To use Dadnab™, send your query as a text message from your mobile phone to region@dadnab.com. Here is an example.
Try Dadnab now.

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How to defend your Computer From Hacker

How to defend your Computer From Hacker
  1. Stop using Internet Explorer and make the switch to Firefox, it's more secure, plain and simple.
  2. Get Spybot Search and Destroy and immediately update it.
  3. Get Adaware SE and immediately update it.
  4. (Use both as a 1-2 punch on infected client computers and between the two there's not much they won't kill)
  5. Update your antivirus
  6. Boot into safe mode and run all three scans
  7. While the scans are going check your registry (Click start --> Run and type regedit to get intot he registry) and look in HKEY_CurrentUser/software/microsoft/windows/currentversion/run & HKEY_Local_Machine/software/microsoft/windows/currentversion/run. Verify that all programs listed are legitimate and wanted.
  8. If or when your antivirus scan comes across anything, search for that file name in your registry and delete it.
  9. Use explorer to go to the windows/system32 folder and sort by date. If you haven't already done so, make sure you can see the entire file names. click Tools --> Folder Options and unclick the box labeled "Hide extensions for known file types" and under Hidden files and folders click "Show hidden files and folders." However, make sure you choose "Hide protected operating system files" so you don't accidentally remove anything that would cripple your computer.. You are looking for recent files with names ending with .exe and .dll that look suspicious. Major culprits will have gibberish names such as alkjdlkjfa.exe.
  10. Once you can get clean scans in safe mode, reboot in normal mode and scan all over again. If you can't get a clean scan in regular mode then you have something more persistant that could take more research.
  11. Make sure your firewall doesn't have strange exceptions.
  12. If you suspect anything that is going wrong with your computer is the action of a stalker, on a more secure system change all your passwords.
  13. If your system has been specifically targeted and hacked you can never be 100% sure that your system is no longer compromised so start with, make backups of personal files on the infected system and format and re-install Windows. Good luck!
Posted by SABI at 10:32 AM

Saturday, October 20, 2007

Resources for making money from home

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Wednesday, October 17, 2007

How to open your Microsoft office box

A client gave me a copy of Office 2007 to install. I needed to google to find out how to open the box! Here is the information from

http://www.hive.net/Member/blogs/the_wow/archive/2007/02/28/How-to-open-your-Windows-Vista-Box.aspx

Windows vista has the same packaging.

Believe it or not, quite a few people have asked how do you open the nifty Windows Vista Box or packaging after purchasing Windows Vista at the store. So I figured I'd do a step-by-step process on how to open your nice new copy of Windows Vista without smashing or destroying its cool packaging.

Step 1: Understand how the Box is sealed.

Windows Vista's box is sealed when you get it so nothing falls out, like the DVD's and Quick Start Guide.

Step 2: Remove the seal.

You've got to remove the seal first on the side of the box to proceed to actually getting the box open.

Step 3: Pull the pulley.

There is a red pulley on the top of the Windows Vista box. After the seal has been removed, pull the pulley out away from the box. Don't squeeze the box when doing this. You don't need to squeeze. The box should just open up.

Step 4: Enjoy Windows Vista!

I've done this on quite a few Windows Vista boxes and never ran into any problems with the packaging being unable to open. However, that is not to say some packaging may be a bit harder to open than others. But you should be able to use the steps above to open the packaging none-the-less without damaging the packaging itself.

Published Wednesday, February 28, 2007 6:02 PM by Sidebar Geek

Please backup your hard drive now… twice! at goodCRIMETHINK

Please backup your hard drive now… twice! at goodCRIMETHINK here is the beginning of an article of someone who did not backup their data: There is a tightness in my chest, and I am crying right now. I have just suffered a catastrophic data loss for the second time in my life. Fool me once, shame on, shame on, fool me can’t get fooled again, or something like that. In college, a freak transformer explosion and subsequent power surge killed my hard drive. From that point on, I swore to always back up my data, and mostly I did just that. As of mid this summer, I had a ridiculous mirrored RAID drive setup with external SATA drives and all sorts of doohickies. I had about 1 terabyte of data backed up locally and had started to upload it offsite to a service called Mozy. But then I started selling off my desktop in preparation for my move from Boston to NYC. I purchased a LaCie 1TB Big Disk and put all my media files and documents from my “Atlas” drive on it. That drive literally held my world on its shoulders. I reasoned that after the move, I would re-establish my redundant data setup. I was not given the time. Two days after moving in, the drive started clicking. I knew that sound from my college crash, and raced to B&H Photo Video in Midtown. I purchased a Drobo storage device (a redundant storage array), hoping to save my Atlas drive. I was too late. I took the drive to Tekserve on 23rd St. It would cost $2,000, but can you put a price tag on your memories and thousands of hours of media production? They couldn’t recover it. They sent it on to DriveSavers who said it may cost up to $6,000.

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Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Speed Up Firefox

I never realized how fast firefox could be. I came across http://www.ubuntugeek.com/speed-up-firefox-web-browser.html and followed the tips there and my browser is so much faster. Try it and let me know what your experience is

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Saturday, October 06, 2007

SystemRescueCd a free bootable CD-ROM for repairing your system

SystemRescueCd is a Linux system on a bootable CD-ROM for repairing your system and recovering your data after a crash. It aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the partitions of the hard disk. It contains a lot of system utilities (parted, partimage, fstools, ...) and basic tools (editors, midnight commander, network tools). It is very easy to use: just boot the CDROM. The kernel supports most of the important file systems (ext2/ext3, reiserfs, reiser4, xfs, jfs, vfat, ntfs, iso9660), as well as network filesystems (samba and nfs).

Monday, October 01, 2007

VirtualBox - Run Windows on Your Linux Box

nnotek VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software.

Some of the features of VirtualBox are:

  • Modularity. VirtualBox has an extremely modular design with well-defined internal programming interfaces and a client/server design. This makes it easy to control it from several interfaces at once: for example, you can start a virtual machine in a typical virtual machine GUI and then control that machine from the command line, or possibly remotely. VirtualBox also comes with a full Software Development Kit: even though it is Open Source Software, you don't have to hack the source to write a new interface for VirtualBox.
  • Virtual machine descriptions in XML. The configuration settings of virtual machines are stored entirely in XML and are independent of the local machines. Virtual machine definitions can therefore easily be ported to other computers.
  • Guest Additions for Windows and Linux. VirtualBox has special software that can be installed inside Windows and Linux virtual machines to improve performance and make integration much more seamless. Among the features provided by these Guest Additions are mouse pointer integration and arbitrary screen solutions (e.g. by resizing the guest window).
  • Shared folders. Like many other virtualization solutions, for easy data exchange between hosts and guests, VirtualBox allows for declaring certain host directories as "shared folders", which can then be accessed from within virtual machines.

A number of extra features are available with the full VirtualBox release only (see the "Editions" page for details):

  • Virtual USB Controllers. VirtualBox implements a virtual USB controller and allows you to connect arbitrary USB devices to your virtual machines without having to install device specific drivers on the host.
  • Remote Desktop Protocol. Unlike any other virtualization software, VirtualBox fully supports the standard Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). A virtual machine can act as an RDP server, allowing you to "run" the virtual machine remotely on some thin client that merely displays the RDP data.
  • USB over RDP. With this unique feature, a virtual machine that acts as an RDP server can still access arbitrary USB devices that are connected on the RDP client. This way, a powerful server machine can virtualize a lot of thin clients that merely need to display RDP data and have USB devices plugged in.