Archive for the 'Tips & Tricks' Category

Follow New TechNet and MSDN Downloads on Twitter

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

TechNet and MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network) subscribers have access massive collection of full version software products from Microsoft with no time or feature limit, where paid subscription entitles subscribers to not only free downloads and product keys for the software, but also exclusive early access to new software releases, service packs, patches, and beta software before they’re available publicly.

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How To Restore and Enable Visual Voicemail (VVM) and MMS That Not Working After iPhone Tethering Hack

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

After hacking the iPhone to enable Internet tethering without paying your mobile service provider, chance are the MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) and/or VVM (Virtual Voicemail) functions on the iPhone, be it 1st Gen iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G or iPhone 3G S, may not working anymore.

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How to Send an Email (Mail Message) from Linux Command Line Shell

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

Occasionally system administrator may need to send a test email, or emergency mail message right from the shell or command line interpreter when using a Linux flavor or distribution of operating system, be Red Hat Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Open SUSE, FreeBSD and others. In this case, the mail command will come in handy.

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Link Up Facebook With Google, Yahoo or MySpace Account For Auto-Login

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

Having many login IDs and passwords is encouraged in terms of security but it might not be a good approach for absent minded people. Nowadays, users have accounts in Youtube, Facebook, Yahoo, Google, etc. and this can translate into a huge hassle if users were to check each account every day. Having to log in to the account with the right user name, and remembering the corresponding password can lead to mishaps especially if users are not using their own laptops or desktops with pre-saved names and passwords. For easy and quick login, the social networking website, Facebook, now allows users to link their account with Google, Yahoo or MySpace. In other words, when users sign in to their Google account, e.g Gmail, they will be able to automatically login to their Facebook account without having to type in their login ID and password again.

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Remove or Restore New Briefcase At Right Click Menu of Windows 7 and Vista

Saturday, June 13th, 2009

Briefcase is an ancient feature in Windows operating system, existed since Windows 95. Briefcase works as a special folder that supports two-way file synchronization with another folder on local disk or external USB/FireWire drive and network drive. However, with the advance of computing technology, the basic sync feature of Briefcase no longer sufficient for modern files safeguarding need.

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Windows Live (MSN) Messenger Friends’ Messege Spam Phishing URL (Clean ‘Virus’)

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

Windows Live Messenger (previously and still famously known as MSN Messenger) users have increasingly received annoying spam instant messaging from friends and buddies. When sending these spam IM, the contacts will sign in online and log out almost immediately, making those who want to chat with the pal disappointed. One characteristic of the spam IM sent in WLM is that they are almost arrived together at the same time, some received as offline message, and there is always a URL (link location) for you to click, with or without additional messages.

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Hack to Enable Two Fingers Scroll Gesture to Replace Virtualing on Synaptics TouchPad

Monday, June 1st, 2009

Most Synaptics TouchPad can support multi-touch gesture capabilities, which normally depends on software driver support. However, default official driver for Synaptics TouchPad device on most notebook and laptop does not enable these Synaptics Gestures features, instead locking them, probably due to marketing purpose.

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Take and Grant Full Control Permissions and Ownership in Windows 7 or Vista Right Click Menu

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

In order to ensure greater security and reliability of Windows operating systems such as Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, a lot of system files have been assigned and granted ownership and full control permissions to TrustedInstaller and has special restricted permissions to all other users, including administrators. While the design makes accidental deletion or change to system files, it makes job of technical users harder though.

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