tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305538692012-02-13T13:31:30.879+08:00Technical News, Guides, Tutorials, Tricks, Tips and ReviewsFryan Valdezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11462513000267425614noreply@blogger.comBlogger11271100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30553869.post-50682050116929611012012-02-07T10:28:00.002+08:002012-02-07T10:30:06.055+08:00

We had this problem for almost a week now with one of our SQL 2008 servers. The SA password on it keeps on changing and ti'll now we don't know why and how. We already performed virus removal and etc but still no luck. The problem becomes worst because 3 of our major web applications relies on this username to connect to their respective database so once the password changes, all 3 of them

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I've been disconnected from the Tech news since Saturday and when I logged in today to check for baseband 4.11.08 updates, I have found the next big thing: Jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2. With the use of Absinthe iOS 5.0/5.01, you may now untethered jailbreak your A5 devices. What are you waiting for, download the app from the link after the jump. Don't forget to backup your data first

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Because of busy schedule on my day job, my last post was 10 day ago. To make up for it, I'll discuss an ASP.NET coding technique today. My topic is How to use paging in GridView control. First you have to set AllowPaging property to true as shown below. And on the event "gridViewSample_PageIndexChanging" where gridViewSample is the name of your gridview, enter the following code after the jump

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Dropbox is one of the most popular cloud service out there. It is a great tool to make your documents available anytime you need it. Dropbox is commonly used to store documents, photos and videos from your desktop computer and mobile device. With the use of a tool called Videodropper, you may also save YouTube videos directly to your Dropbox so you can watch it at later time. To get you started,

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One cool thing that IOS and Android Device has is the simple drag & drop of one app over another to create folder. If you want similar function in your Windows PC, you can have so by installing Smart Folders from Addictivetips.com. Here is a demo video that showcase this cool app for Windows. During first time use, you have to register the file extensions that you want to associate with the

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One time while traveling, my tethered iPhone's battery got drained. Unfortunately i didn't brought with me my laptop where I boot my iPhone. Such scenario could also happen to you if you still have a tethered iPhone. Your device could turn to a useless thing when its battery bailed out. Thanks to iPhone Dev Team, our iOS devices can now enjoy freedom. They have updated their redsn0w and Pwnage

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Before I begin writing my first post after Christmas day, Let me greet everyone a Merry Christmas!. Okay back to regular program. Last week, I tried a cool application called iDisplay. Although it is not free, it is worth sharing. iDisplay is an app for iOS and Android that turns your iPad/iPhone/Android Device into convenient extension of your Mac or Windows desktop monitor. I personally find it

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Do you hate how Apple restrict you from accessing your iOS device file structure? Although you can sync files from your computer to your iPhone, iPad or iTouch, there is no way to browse the file structures like what you can do with Windows explorer. Fortunately with iExplorer, you can do so now. This wonderful app lets you use an iPhone or iPad in disk mode, like a flash drive. iExplorer runs on

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We have setup a file server at the office for our employees. All their important documents should be regularly backup on this server. One day, an employee complained that some of his files were deleted and his not the one who deleted them. Since we can't pinpoint who and what deleted the files, we have no answer for him that time. To prevent such situation from happening again, we have installed

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Need to shed off those extra pounds? there is an app for that. Fitness One is a fitness app that helps you create your custom day-by-day workout plan for up to six months. Once you have installed Fitness One, tap the Routine Builder to start generating your workout plan as per your requirement. First, you'll be asked for your goal. You can select Muscle Gain, Fat Loss, or just Conditioning of

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At present, I use MobileNoter app to sync my notes on Microsoft OneNote and iPad. But since they are two different softwares, there are some issue on the formatting which in my opinion are not so much a problem. With the recent release of OneNote in iPad, definitely it is worth to try. Now you can have notes in MS OneNote software on your PC and iPad. The iPad version has a great looking

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Although I can do pretty much everything in my iPad, its primary use is to read e-books. I have both Kindle and iBooks installed on it but I prefer reading Kindle titles. It is a habit of mine to read books before I go to sleep so when I forgot my iPad at the office one time, I really missed my pre-sleep routine. This morning I stumbled upon a Kindle version for PC. Yes, you can now read Kindle

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Apple has released a new version of iBook which has a new feature called Night theme that provides easy-on-the-eyes night mode when reading electronic books. Wish you can get the same feature on your Kindle app? or any other ebook reader? no problem, you can achieve the same with this little trick. On your iOS device, tap the Settings icon and choose General –> Accessibility –> Triple-click Home

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Although you can gather feedback for your next presentation slides by sending the file to your colleagues and friends, organizing these feedback through emails is not an ideal method to do it. A better way to present your ideas is via Reel. It is a web application that allows you to upload your document or presentation so your friends can give their feedback online. Once you have uploaded your

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Do you use Google Mail Address book to manage your contacts in the cloud? Then probably you wanted to sync it with your Microsoft Outlook. The easiest way is to use sync program such as GO Contact Sync Mod. It is an opensource program that synchronizes your Microsoft Outlook contacts with your Google Mail address book, including pictures, categories and notes. To sync your contacts, enter your

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If you still don't know, merely deleting files doesn't mean they are deleted forever. So if your about to sell or give your PC to another person, deleting your documents is not a smart way to cleanup computer. Of-course full format will surely shred these files forever but it would be time consuming since you'll have to re-install the operating system. The better way to erase hard drive documents

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Prolong computer use can cause your eye sight harm. It may cause you Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) in the long run. But sometimes even we intend to have breaks, we forgot to do so because we're too busy. To help you to be reminded when it is time to have a break is a website called ProtectYourVision. It is a web service that automatically alerts with desktop notifications when it's time for you

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In my opinion, although iPhone is not the best smartphone in terms of features, it certainly the most beautiful one. If your one of the many that can't decide which smartphone to buy, then there is a web service that might help you with that. Geekaphone is a smartphone comparison system that lets you screen different smartphones based on your specific requirements. You can start with the price

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Remote Desktop Connection is a built-in tool in later Windows version that allow administrators to access remote computers. When we would like to share local drives on the remote computer, typically we share it from the host computer using Windows sharing method. But such method would open the shared drive to other users as well. A better method is to forward these drives to be shared from the

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Take a look at the code below. The code tries to add 100000 items on a listbox. For i As Integer = 1 To 100000 ListBox1.Items.Add("This is item no. " & i) Next When you run the code above, you'll notice that your form freezes and all you can see is a blank listbox. What we really wanted to see is the items being added in real-time. How can we do that? simple. Copy the code after the jump.

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Huge flat screen monitor are pretty common nowadays. Big screen makes working nicer but sometimes when you want to focus on one task at a time but would like the other applications to stay in background, some people including myself prefers having multiple monitors. If you feel the same way, it doesn't mean you should put your wide screen in to waste. Why don't you split it so it would look like

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Some Android apps let you restrict access by password or PIN and some don't have that kind of feature. To give you lock options up to 7 different alternative techniques is the Ultimate App Guard. It is an app that protect apps from un-authorized access using 7 lock types, time bounded lock/unlock, unlock all apps at the same time and etc. When installed and launch for the first time, it scans for

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Do you love to travel? How do you prepare for a travel? Its always a good practice to list down everything you need to prepare during the next trip. To help you organize your travel from your mobile device is Trip Organizer. It is an all-in-one application to help you plan your next trip abroad. With this application, you can prepare for packing lists and personal information, mandatory and

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Before when you accidentally deleted a file, you can start banging your head in your computer. Today with the availability of recovery tools, accidental deletion is the end of the world no more. The first thing you have to remember when you deleted a file is do nothing and stop using your computer until the recovery tool comes to the rescue. Deleted files are still retrievable since only the

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One drawback of having a Jailbroken Apple device is that you can't upgrade as soon as a new iOS becomes available because you may loose your jailbreak. Like with the recent iOS 5.01 update, most of jailbreak users are reluctant to get the update right away and their holding until a jailbreak announcement has made by hackers that it is safe to upgrade. Now there is already available jailbreak for

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When I need to share a code to this blog readers, I upload the file into the cloud and I solely use mediafire service. But overtime there are lot of comments from the readers that the shared link is not accessible from their end. Now to resolve such issue, I tried uploading files from more than file hosting server but doing it manually for each server is a tedious task. Fortunately with the use

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When you try to delete file that is locked by Windows OS, you'll receive an access denied message. This is how Windows protect running files from being deleted. If you want to forcibly delete files, you can use Free File Unlocker to release the locked file or folder and allows you to get rid of it once and for all. It also quiet helpful terminating malware, viruses and trojans that are difficult

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It is a breeze to transfer files from one computer to another on a network when the computers are under the same operating system. With different platforms, it is a bit challenging. To help you easily solve such obstacle, you can use Transfer-On-Lan. It is a file transfer tool that can run on any OS as long as java is installed. To use it, you need to install Transfer On LAN on all the machines

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I already covered how to read emails via POP3 protocol from my previous blog. If you prefer using IMAP then this article is for you. I'll be sharing the whole project files after the jump. First you need to download the ImapX Library from here. Although this library is already included on the shared link after the jump. Extract the library then add reference to it on your project. Next is to add

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If you haven't heard or played Angry Birds yet then your missing the opportunity to play the most fun game ever developed on this decade. Although this game was designed for mobile devices such as iPad, Android and others, it has version that can be played with a computer. Now if your one of the avid users of such fun game, then you may try to play it with a little twist. With this bookmarklet,

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Love both Windows and iPad interfaces? your not alone me too that is why I have both. But what if you want to combine the two interface to create a iWindowsdian interface? You can with iPadian, a iPad Simulator for Windows. With iPadian installed in your Windows PC, you'll get pre-installed iPad apps in full screen mode such as access to resources which provide free music and videos, Webkit

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I was trying to cleanup my desktop on my office computer yesterday. I moved and consolidate some files from different folders into single folder. Doing it manually was a tedious task, I should have used FolderMerge. It is a portable application that makes merging the contents of two folders simple and easy. To merge files from two folders, you can start by choosing the comparison option. Just

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Aside from reading electronic books, reading fresh news is the next thing i love about my iPad. Currently I use FlipBoard to read news but with the new Yahoo Livestand I have thought of switching. Once you downloaded and install this app, you have to sign in with your Yahoo or Facebook account before you can use it. The app supports multiple user accounts for people who are sharing the same iPad

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One frustrating missing feature with iPhone is the lack of ability to add custom ringtones. Although the newly release iOS 5 has more additional tones than the previous release, still it does not give your phone enough individuality. To add more free ringtones, just download SMS Tones Free app from the apple store. Once you installed the app, you'll have 40 additional SMS tones instantly.

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For web designers and webmasters, Font is one of the considerations in designing their website. You can shop for an idea of which font to use by browsing other websites. If you stumble upon a font that you would like to copy then you can identify the font face by using Fount. It is a free tool that can tell you which web font on a web page you are actually seeing. It’ll also tell you the font

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Are you sharing your iPad with other member of the family? If so then you may hate logging in and out from your email and social media such as twitter and Facebook whenever you lend it to other family members. To setup your iPad to support multiple users, install and use Our Pad. With Our Pad, you and other members of your family can set up separate accounts for signing into email and social

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Digital Technology today makes everything easier and that also includes stealing private data so it is very important to do every possible ways to secure your confidential files. One technique is hiding your confidential files under a photo. This is possible through a software like Free File Camouflage. With Free File Camouflage, you can hide your files inside a jpeg image. Its usage is simple.

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Are you using a single PST file to archive all your emails and it gets bigger and bigger everyday? Why not split this file by year or size? You can divide this file by year with MailScavator. With this tool, you can convert any PST archive into multiple files sorted according to year. Once installed, first step is to select the outlook profile to scan. Second step is select the PST files to

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There are plenty of good reasons you want to monitor background processes. If a process is so critical, some companies even assigned a dedicated personnel just to watch the process and restart it if it goes down. Fortunately there are tools that you can use to free yourself from that tedious task. ReStartMe is a free app that does one thing that is to restart process when it exits for whatever

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Most remote hosting for websites have built-in explorer-like file manager to browse, download and upload files. In case your remote server don't have it, you can install one with AjaXplorer. It is a web-based file explorer for remotely managing files on a web server. To install, simply copy the downloaded AjaXplorer files into your website's public folder. You can access the file explorer by

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Since digital photos are so easy to capture, some people just took pictures and leave them anywhere in their computers cluttered. When the time comes that they feel to organize the photos, they are overwhelm with the tedious work to do. Fortunately, there are software that can help in organizing cluttered photos. AmoK Exif Sorter is a cross-platform app that allows you to rename, copy or move

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When I'm on a meeting, I make sure that I take notes so I can grab any verbal agreements and afterwards send them to all attendees through minutes of meeting. But the problem with relying on writing notes is you may miss some topics during the meeting and this is when voice recorder becomes handy. If your already an iPhone or iPad user and don't want to shed out extract bucks for a voice recorder

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Perfect color combination are important for designers and graphic artists. When formulating design, designers may look for ideas from sample website or graphics. They could copy the color combination and tweak it to personalize. One tool that could be helpful for such professionals is ColorUtility. It is a free comprehensive color chooser and combiner. It is equip of a simple on-screen color

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Are you an Android user who want to join the Apple bandwagon but don't have extra bucks yet? Or are you planning to switch to new phone but wanted to try what it feels like to have an iPhone first before buying one? OK read on because I'll teach you the magic trick. You can turn your Android Phone into iPhone with a free software called Espier Launcher. Ofcourse I'm exaggerating. It does not turn

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Here is my problem. I have internet through ADSL modem at home and I wanted to share the connection with my other devices such as iPad and mobile phone. The solution? I can turn my PC into a WiFi hotspot by using Virtual Wi-Fi Router software. It is a portable application allows you to create WiFi hotspot for WiFi Reverse Tethering for WiFi supported devices to share internet. First before you

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Although the invention of Internet gave us so many good things, it also opened windows to not so good ones. For example, our kids nowadays can get access to information that before only parents can provide. Information that needs parental guidance is reaching our children without us even knowing. Let's accept the fact that we can't always be on their side at all times. They can even sneak out

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There are times you want to download images from the website your browsing. Of course you can do this with your browser alone by right clicking the images and choosing "Save Image As". But to download multiple images, you have to do the same procedure for every image you want to download. If you need a better way to download all images in a web page at once then all you need is Image Picker

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Free Remote Control or screen sharing software is pretty abundant nowadays so how does Quick Screen Share different from the rest? There is no installation needed. From the the computer you wanted to share, head over to Quick Screen Share website and choose Your Screen from the two choices. Specify your name and click Start. You’ll be asked for permission to run the application on your computer.

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One of the advantage of Android OS over other mobile operating system is the abundance of free apps. Almost any app you can think of can be downloaded from Android Market. If you have a favorite Android app that you wish you can play in a larger screen like your Windows desktop, then Bluestacks is your best friend. BlueStacks is an Android app player for Windows that allows you to run any type of

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I was running a computer shop business before. If only Android exists during that time, with this cool app called PCAutoWaker, I would be able to switch ON all my 20 computers at the same time with a single tap on my Android device. PCAutoWaker is an app for Android that allows you to wake up multiple computers via WiFi. Once your done installing this app on your mobile device, the next thing you

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When Steve Jobs, the former CEO and founder of Apple died last week, both Apple and non-Apple users grieved and sent their sympathy through Apple website and social networking sites. If your one of the non-Apple product users, and never experienced iMac or iOS before then you may wondering how does it feels to have an Apple desktop. If you cant afford to buy your own iMac or iPad, you can still

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Yesterday I was so excited waiting for 2 hours for the iOS 5 upgrade process to be completed on my iPad. As soon as the upgrade was completed, I immediately composed a short blog announcing the flight of iOS 5. I have tested the new features that Apple is bragging about and I was impressed by them. When I got home from work, I open my iPad to check my emails via 3G but to my despair, my 3G

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I was excited to go to work today not because I wanna work but rather I need to update my iPad to iOS 5. Unfortunately I came late because I had a minor car accident. Nevertheless I never forgot about iOS 5. Now I'm writing this blog on my iPad running on iOS 5 and I'm loving it. You can also experience the same satisfaction if you upgrade your iOS today. Take note that some users are

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Email data is one of the valued information by computer users so it is practical to backup it regularly. Offline mails, attachments, tasks, notes and calendar are stored by Microsoft Outlook in PST files . I have mentioned a backup software for MS Outlook before which you can read from here. Another worth mentioning is "Backup my mail" software. It is a simple to use backup utility for PST files

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The most anticipated Apple iOS 5 operating system is set to be release tomorrow, October 12, 2011. To get more from the new features of iOS 5, Apple release today iTune 10.5 which brings support for features like iCloud and Wi-Fi Sync. Now it the time to update your iTunes so you can enjoy iOS5 in the next 14 hours. Download iTunes 10.5 To stay up-to-date on iOS, subscribe now.

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There are plenty of remote control softwares available that you can download to remotely access any computer connected in a network or internet. Another similar remote service which released by Google that will allow you remotely access any computer with Chrome browser installed and Google App or Gmail ID is the Chrome Remote Desktop. This app uses one-time authentication code which is given only

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Typically developers include references as needed by their project. Sometimes when the project is done, there will be unused references left in the program code. With Reference Assistant installed, you don't have to manually find each unused references and delete them. This Visual Studio 2010 extension automatically locates all the references in the current project and shows the list. From the

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Sometimes when replying to email with more than one recipients, unintentionally we click Reply instead of Reply All. This is OK if your intention is to reply only to the original sender of the email. To help you be reminded to respond to all subsequent recipients, an add-in can do just that. CodeTwo Outlook Reply All Reminder is a lightweight add-in for Outlook that reminds you about using Reply

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There is an old saying that, "you work to spend" but it does not mean you should spend every dime you earn. Discipline person knows when to stop spending and start saving some. So How do you track your expenses? Do you use software or Paper? You want it track from your smartphone? if your answer to the last question is Yes, then try Lemon. It is a personal finance tracking tool for iOS and

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The internet despite of its tons of benefits can also affect productivity in a negative way. People get addicted to internet can be less productive because too much time are wasted on surfing. To control the such situation, SurfControl could be helpful. SurfControl is Firefox add-on that can track your internet usage, and block particular sites so you can focus on work. It includes colorful

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USB Guard is a free software that monitors your computer for connected USB devices. There are two useful implementation of USB Guard that I can think of. One is to prevent accidental shutdown and another one is to remind you not to forget about your USB device. Once installed, you can launch the app to run in background. It monitors all connected USB devices and automatically interrupts the

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Although I'm not really an Apple die hard fan, I admit that the sudden death of Steve Jobs the co-founder and a long time respected leader of Apple struck me. His vision who drives Apple to where the company stands now is greatly appreciated by million of peoples including Apple and non-Apple users. To honor a genius who contributed a lot in reinventing Technology that we are enjoying now, I

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When a computer is being shared by several users then there is good chance that it can accumulate waste files on each user's recycle bin. Unless every user has an initiative to empty their own recycle bin, then you may have a significant wasted free space sitting on the said computer. If your an administrator and would like to empty recycle bin for every user then here is quick tip you can try.

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The beauty of storing documents in the cloud is you can have them virtually anywhere you may be. Google Docs is probably the most popular free cloud service today and its integration with other Google apps makes it more appealing to cloud users. When you receive an attachment on your GMail account, you have the option to download it or view it via Google Docs. Can you see what's missing? Yes it

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As a technical blogger, when I blogged about a cool software, I test it myself on my machine. This leaves me a lot of unwanted startup items. If you want to prevent any installer from adding startup registry key of the app trying to install, use StartupEye to deter them. StartupEye is a lightweight utility that runs in background and notifies you when any program try to register itself to run at

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If you'll ask me about my favorite news reader for iPad, without any second thought I would answer Flipboard. After trying Evri, my answer is still the same but if I exclude Flipboard from the choices since it is more a social magazine than a news reader then Evri is worth mentioning. Evri is relatively new in the app store, it is a free newsreader designed for iPad. Evri has a pretty clean

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In software development projects, a project does not ends with programming phase. One phase that is equally important is documentation. Included on this phase are the user manuals and technical references. A software becomes garbage if no one understand how it works and how to deploy it. With it comes to user manuals, most people preferred a HOW TO guide format compared to a multiple page manual

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Are you doing the same repetitive computer tasks regularly? unless you love doing it then I suggest stop reading this article now. Since your still reading, I'll assume that you want to get rid of these repetitive tasks. If the said tasks are relevant to your job and can't delegate it to anyone, then you can at least automate it and let WinParrot do it for you. WinParrot is a free software that

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By default, when you print a web page, everything will be printed including the unwanted sections. This is a waste of paper and ink. To print only selected sections of a page, you can install and use Print Plus for Chrome. This extension only prints what matters to you. It lets you select which sections on a web page to be printed and exclude others. Once installed, the extension adds a printer

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One software I am thankful I have on my iPad is MindJet, a mind mapping software that allows me to create mind maps while on the go. But this article is not about Mindjet, Sorry. But I'll talk about a similar tool for your desktop computer or laptop. Mind On Track is a cross platform mind mapping tool that not only allows you to make mind maps but also generate tasks from the mind maps

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Here is another Metro UI tweak tool but a little different. Yesterday, I blogged about Metro UI Tweaker for Windows 8, it is a powerful tool that allows you to toggle Metro UI and customize other settings. But its main weakness is you have to restart your machine before changes reflects. If you don't want that then try this different tool, Windows8 StartMenu. It is a Windows 8 gadget that allows

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I have mentioned before a tool to disable Metro UI to bring back the Windows 7 start menu. This is for people who are not yet comfortable with the new Windows 8 Metro UI. Here is a similar tool but far more powerful than the former. Metro UI Tweaker for Windows 8 is a free utility that allows you to tweak few settings that are not natively available to Windows user. To apply tweaks, just run the

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In my opinion, MS OneNote is a great addition to Microsoft Office Suite. It is great note taking software to have with my notebook when I'm on official business meetings. Since I had my iPad, I started looking for iOS apps that can sync with OneNote but unfortunately I haven't found one yet until MobileNoter. It is an iOS and Android app that can open and edit OneNote notebooks. Although you can

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As system administrator, one of the usual task probably you perform in daily basis is running and monitoring processes. A good example is, when your running a backup process, you'll have to wait until it is finish before you can shutdown your workstation or server. if your monitoring more than then it can be tedious for you. To help you with that is When Then software. When Then is a free

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If your an Apple product user then you may be familiar with how you could protect your iphone, ipad, ipod and other apple devices, by PIN code. This also applies to each application because some iOS app developers now incorporates PIN code to secure the access to an app. If your prefer PIN code over username and password in Windows then Windows 8 has good news for you. You may now replace the

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Want to hide parts of your computer screen from prying eyes? whether your working something confidential or simply just wanna look funny, TunnelVision could be useful for you. It is a free software that creates a tunnel like vision which hides parts of the screen where your mouse cursor is not. This can increase privacy and but for others may simply see you as paranoid fellow. Once installed,

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There are a lot of To do programs in the internet that can help you manage your day to day tasks. If your using MS Outlook then you don't have to look far because it has already a built-in to do feature. But if your an internet junkie and browser is your favorite software to use then you may like Todo-inator. It is a to do list manager for Chrome. You don't have to be online to use this app since

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Have you tried Windows 8 developer preview? if you did then you are either happy or not with its new desktop look, the Metro Start Screen. If your one of maybe few that still prefer the classic Windows 7 menu then no worries because you can still have it by doing some registry trick or by using Windows 8 Start Menu Toggle tool. This app allows you to toggle between the Metro Start screen and the

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iOS is a control freak software. In a way this is a good thing because it makes iOS devices more secure than other open platforms. But for people who wants to have more control over their iOS devices, jailbreaking is a clear choice. One thing you'll have if you jailbreak your iOS device is you'll be able to play various video formats with the use of VLC app. But what if your not comfortable

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Arguably, YouTube is the most popular online video site. You can find almost any kind of video to watch on YouTube. Since it is a free service, it relies in ads to earn. Unfortunately for viewers, too many ads are annoying and distracting. To get rid of these clutter and have a cleaner YouTube interface, you can install and use a browser extension called Cleaner YouTube. Once installed, it

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iPad as a digital book reader is a great alternative to an actual book. Although you have the book in digital form, the flipping effect is still there that looks and feel almost the same with a real book. To have the flipping effect, you should use iBook to read ePub (Electronic Publication) format. Unfortunately, most of ePub format files are not free but PDFs are. Although the latest version of

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One unforgivable shortcoming of iOS devices such as iPhone and iPad is the inability to render Flash contents. According to some, this was done intentionally by Apple and Steve Jobs to promote HTML5. Fortunately the developers of Skyfire browser comes with a iOS browser that supports flash contents. With a price tag of $4.99, I can consider it as a good buy. But even with this kind of app,

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For those who can wait until the official arrival of Windows 8 in the software market, here is how you can get hands with Windows 8 today. You can head to Windows Dev Center where you can download the developer preview version of Windows 8. The Windows Developer Preview is a pre-beta version of Windows 8 for developers. Take note that since it still a pre-beta, it may contains a lot of bugs so I

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Multitasking is pretty normal to effective people. Workers that requires to multitask like IT personnel are most often have several computers on their desk which they use to perform different types of jobs. If your one of them then probably you also have different sets of mouse and keyboard for each computer as well. With software download from The Garage, you can eliminate the need of extra

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I know this already an old tip but for the benefit of the readers of this blog I'll post it anyway. If your like me who thought that you can rename your iPad device name from iPad itself as simple as that then we are both wrong. To rename your iPad's device name, you need iTunes on your computer. Just connect your device using its cable to your computer and open iTunes. On the iTunes left pane,

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Since I'm having fun with my new iPad, I want to share a followup trick from my first one. Today's iPad tweak is How to customize your iPad folder icons. Of course your device should be jailbroken to use this tweak. FolderIcons is free and available at the Big Boss repository of Cydia. Once installed, FolderIcons will be included in the Settings menu of your iPad. When you go the menu you will

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I admit that I'm not an Apple fan but since i got my iPad already it seems I have no choice but to share some tips & tricks about iPad. One thing that I hate with iPad is the inability to move multiple icons. If you need to rearrange your app icons, you need to do it one at a time. Fortunately for me my iPad is jailbroken so i can use tweaks from installers such as Cydia. If you want to tweak

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Gone the old days that cell phones almost have the same ring tones. With the advancement of mobile technology, every users may now use their own custom ringtone. But if your still one of those who uses the pre-loaded ring tones of your mobile, then this is your wake up call to pimp it. To help you with that, Free Ringtone Maker was designed for this purpose. It is a straightforward free software

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Are you visiting websites that previously allowed in your company's internet firewall and all of a sudden blocked by the administrator? This could be frustrating specially if you just reading articles from the blocked website. Fortunately there is an existing workaround for such situation. You can either use Google's cache of that page or use Text Mirror to extract the text from the page. Once

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Games are generally stress reliever for some. Ofcourse moderation should always be observed to avoid addiction on it. If you experienced game lag, freeze, and slowness when playing games then your computer may benefit with additional resources that may free up when you close unnecessary running processes. To help you boost your machine for gaming, you should try using Game Booster 3.0 before you

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I was impressed today by a cool css and script trick that creates a magnifying glass over a web page. The script provides magnifying lens effect using a background image and background position animation. The lens follows the mouse pointer position with a slight delay. Here a snippet from the whole code. It creates the magnifier effect: function makeMagnifier() { var src = settings.src ||

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With the abundance of mobile devices nowadays, one way or another you'll have to use wireless network to hook your mobile device to the internet. It is also a pretty obvious choice over cable specially when your always on the move. Because your here and reading this, I bet that you have your own Wi-Fi connection setup at home or at the office which has a problem right now. Here is an easy to

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Multi-Tab browsing is one of the best feature of browser that has been invented since Chrome was first released. It make your browsing more organize and better than opening multiple windows. Sometimes we open the same URL in multiple tabs which can happen accidentally or unintentionally. This can be prevented using an extension called Prevent Duplicate Tabs. This extension lives by its name, it

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PDF format is now widely used in sharing confidential documents over other formats because it is by default read only document. Although you can convert them with PDF Converter like Docdroid and Boxoft PDF to Word, still you can't modify it as straight forward as a Word format. A PDF document can also be protected by the author to hinder conversion tool from converting it completely. If your the

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If you now preferred reading eBook over an actual hard bound book but missing the flipping of pages then you can try Codebox or Flipping PDF Reader. With Flipping PDF Reader, you'll have a nice alternative to Adobe Reader with the nice flip book. It allows you to read PDF documents in user friendly interface with flipping book effect like in a real book. It provides option to switch to a two page

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If you have a habit of bookmarking any site you came across just to view it later but never read it, then you may have a messy bookmarks. Your bookmarks folder may contain duplicate links, old links with old story and as well as unsorted links. To help you clean your bookmarks in Chrome, install SuperSorter. It is an extension that allows you to sort bookmarks in ascending or descending order,

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With today's Windows, you need to install a third party app to mount an ISO or VHD image before you can manage its content. Having it available as native feature in Windows 8 is another good news to Windows users population. With Windows 8, you won't need to install a separate tool but instead, mounting ISO and VHD files will be readily available upon Windows installation. To mount an image, just

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When we are in rush to code a project, sometimes our least priority is to keep our codes clean. We tend to leave behind unused Using directives and unsorted functions and etc. Considering to take care of this unnecessary code at the later stage of the development is not a good idea because it may not happen at all. Going through the code line by line is tiring so some of us just ignore doing it.

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One way to block particular websites from being accessed in Windows is through Hosts file. You don't need to install any software to edit it, just find the hosts and change the entries on it using notepad or any text editor. But everytime you change the hosts file, you need to restart your PC to load the modified hosts file which is time consuming. To avoid such hassle and switch from one hosts

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Most of windows applications when installed adds a context menu entry for quicker user access. Some installer lets you choose to install such feature or not but some installer don't provide an option like this. If you don't want to clutter your context menu with various links that you feel you wont ever use then you can easily remove them with Context Menu Editor. When you install this app, you

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