If you are running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 and are repeatedly encountering Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD) error, then you can download an update and fix the issue.

Problem Description

Microsoft states that a computer running Windows 7 or Windows Server R2 can occassionally crash after some time of usage. You get an error like this

STOP: 0×0000000A (parameter1, parameter2, parameter3, parameter4) IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

The fourth parameter might vary depending on the configuration of the computer. It may be some hibernation error, endless rebooting, WMP12 video flickering or normal BSOD which happened when there was no change in system configuration which possibly might have caused it to occur.

Cause of the problem

The issue occurs because Power Manager opens an Advanced local procedure call (ALPC) port. However, Power Manager closes another port instead of closing the ALPC port. Every time that a power request is made, a memory leak occurs. When the leaked memory usage accumulates to a certain level, the computer crashes.

Download the Fix (Update)

Method #1

You can download the fix from Microsoft site. They will email you the download link and the password to extract them out of the zip file and then install the update. Alternatively you can use the next step. Go to Microsoft Support website

Method #2

If the method #1 is too much or you don’t prefer giving away your email id to microsoft, then you can download directly from site as I have uploaded a copy of them on my server too. And if you don’t trust me, then go back to method #1.

Download Links

Update KB979444

• Platform x86 (1.93 MB)
• Platform x64 (4.13 MB)
• Platform ia64 (5.97 MB)

If you are not sure of your platform, don’t download and install the wrong update. It may cause damage to your system. After installing the update, it will ask for rebooting the system. Reboot and your problem is solved now. If you are unable to find the platform of your PC then leave a comment here and I will point it out.

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I have written earlier about using SFTP instead of FTP where I highlighted about the advantages of using SFTP and avoiding FTP. I also wrote about how you can obtain the SFTP login details from your cpanel.

I recently gave some hosting space to a friend’s site and when he asked about FTP details, I told him about the benefits of using SFTP over FTP, and this post is for how one can login using a client which supports SFTP. I will be using my favorite client, Filezilla.

On the left side, there is a button to access Site Manager, click the button to open the Site manager.

In Site manager, Click New Site and then enter a name for the site. Then enter the details on the right side and click ok to save it.

Now whenever you want to access the site or want to connect via SFTP to your site, then press the small arrow along with the site manager button and it will display a list of saved sites.

Select the one you want and it will connect depending on the logontype i.e. Either it will connect automatically if you saved the password too or will ask if you have set it too ask at login time.

Enjoy safe computing! Always prefer to use SFTP over FTP.

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I have seen numerous discussions and queries on subjects which varies from simple plugins to fully complex scripts, all being blamed by people that they didn’t work but they are unable to receive an expected email.

And most of the time it has to do with the webhost. Several webhosts disable the mail sending capabilities on their shared hosting account so as to avoid spam being send from their server.

But before you ran into your webhost blaming for the cause, I would say how about we check whether the issue is really the webhost?

Just create a simple php file with the following content and upload it to the root of your hosting account and access it in browser as example.com/testfile.php

<?php

// Your email address
$email = "xyz@gmail.com";

// The subject
$subject = "testing mail sending capabilities";

// The message
$message = "test";

if ( mail($email, $subject, $message, "From: $email") )
	echo "The email has been sent!";
else
	echo "Error sending email!";

?>

Replace the email address with your own email address on line 4.

This code snippet tries to send a mail to the email address specified on line 4 and if the mail was successfully sent, you will see the message “The email has been sent!” else you will see the message “Error sending email!”.

If you are using WordPress, I would suggest using this snippet which checks for both PHP’s mail() function and WordPress’s wp_mail() function as wp_mail function is pluggable and may be some plugin has plugged it and only may be that is failing and nothing is wrong at the web host side. But make sure that you place the file in WordPress root and not domain root as it will load the WordPress environment and then try to send mail by wp_mail().

<?php

// Your email address
$email = "xyz@gmail.com";

// The subject
$subject = "testing mail sending capabilities";

// The message
$message = "test";

// load WP now
require('wp-load.php');
get_header();
wp_mail($email,$subject,$message);

echo "The email has been sent using wp_mail() function successfully (hopefully).";

if ( mail($email, $subject, $message, "From: $email") )
	echo "The email has been sent using the PHP's mail() function.";

?>

If you need any help, then feel free to leave a comment here and I will try to help.

Alternatively, you can also hire me.

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Everyone know we need to download the whole file from torrents before we can view it. Some torrents do have sample videos with them and user can download them first and see if this quality will suffice to their needs of watching the video but most of the times, the torrent doesn’t have any sample video files which means one need to download the full length video and then view it, may be only to find out that the video’s quality is not even watchable or its something that is not worth watching at this quality.

Watch video before downloading the whole video

RARBG Player is the solution to this problem. It will let you view the video file without the need of downloading them completely. Just download the torrent file, and then RARBG player will start downloading the file and playback can begin right at that moment as if the video was being streamed. Hence, the player is a very quick method of finding out the quality of video torrents which don’t have any sample video in them.

How does it work?

It actually works like a torrent client, start connecting with other peers and download from them and playbacks it as if it was streamed. Pretty simple!

The video is in fact downloaded, like when we watch YouTube videos but it doesn’t require us to download the entire video file to play it.

The player is pretty basic and it can only be used for trying out videos and not to be made something as a standalone media player. However the makers do claim it to play all the files but it can’t play them from local storage (hard disk) and only from torrents.

Give it a try and let me know how you find it.

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We all must have used Torrents at least once. Torrents, as we know work on P2P network. If you are new to torrents and P2P, I would suggest you read the post where I explained the basics of using torrents to download a file.

GigaTribe lets you transfer files among other users with ease. Its like have a private torrent network and that too with 256 bit encryption. There is no limit on the file size or transfer limits.

Its really a good alternative of sending files larger than 10 MB or 20 MB, the usual attachment limit. You can send whole movies, your entire songs collection. It works by setting up folders that you want to share. Connect with a friend on the client. Browse their shared files and download. Pretty simple!

Download and Install GigaTribe

You will be prompted for login. Create a new user account. You will get a confirmation email. Click on the activation link within the email and your account is ready.

Login into the client now.

Now click on Folders tab and add folders to share.

Make sure you take care to select subfolders so that all the contents of that folder can be shared. Just check the Enable recursive sharing option.

Ask your friend to do the same steps till this point.

Now click on Add to add your friend in your list.

Select the first option – Sending an invitation to a friend who already uses GigaTribe.

Accept the invitation by selecting the user from left sidebar and then clicking on Accept invitation.

Now select the user and open it. You would be able to view the files.

If you look under the Folders tab, then you can see the list of folders shared by that user.

Right click on the file and download it. It will be placed in your GigaTribe Downloads folder under My Documents.

Under the My Transfers you can see the transfers going on.

A friend needed to get some file and I crawled him to try out this application. As far as the application is concerned, I am pretty much satisfied with the application and the best thing is that interrupted sessions are resumed flawlessly.

Say Goodbye to traditional ways of transferring files to other users, GigaTribe is here.

Have your say in the comments.

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Many people keep asking me how can I download movies from internet and when I reply that movies are available and can be downloaded from torrents, their next question is what is a torrent? And I believe that if someone is new to torrent, it would be difficult to understand the basic working of things. So, this post is for all the people who have never used torrents before.

Regular Download Method

The user (client) requests the file to download from a website (server) and the server accepts the connection and downloading starts.

Here the speed of downloading is dependent on how much bandwidth server is providing to the user which is most probably a cap on your high speed broadband. I would recommend reading the download manager myth to learn when you actually get advantage of using them.

Torrent Download Method

We have a completely different method here. We don’t download the file, we download the torrent which contains meta information on how the file can be downloaded.

Torrent is basically just a file with .torrent extension which contains the information required to connect with the tracker and which file to download.

You can always get to see some numbers associated with the files such as in this screenshot of torrentz.com

This shows the number of peers who are seeders and leechers. Seeders are the peers which have a full copy of the file being downloaded (599) and Leechers are the peers which are currently downloading the file (56). A good ratio of seeders to leechers is considered good.

To download the file from a torrent we need a torrent client such as uTorrent. The reason I recommend uTorrent is that it is very lightweight and has enough features.

When you are ready with your Torrent client, open the downloaded torrent file within your client. Just Drag & Drop it onto the client and then the actual download of the desired file can start after you specify the download location of the file.

Here there is no server, a peer (user) can download the file from both Seeders & Leechers, hence utilizing full bandwidth of the user as there is no cap on data transfer, the user can connect to as many users so as to use the full bandwidth.

Downloading and uploading copyrighted content is considered as illegal. So make sure you use it for best and not for the worst. Rest is up to you.

Have any questions about torrents, feel free to ask via comments below.

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Download Managers or Download Accelerator claims to download your file up to 350% faster or even more. Do they really work? Always? How do they work? This post is for busting the myth that download managers always help to improve your speed and you won’t get full speed if you don’t use it.

This thing needs a big clarification here. Download managers or accelerators do help but not always. The biggest advantage you get by using a download manager depends on the connecting server and your broadband speed itself. I will try to explain with an example.

Like, If a server can provide a file for downloading at the speed of 256 Kbps (32 KBps), and the user’s broadband speed is only 128 Kbps, then the download limit will be limited by the user’s bandwidth here. No download manager can help increase your speed here.

The only scenario where they can be of real help is where the user can support a higher speed transfer as compared to what the server offer to a single client. They then connect with the server as multiple clients and download the respective parts of file.

For example: Consider a scenario in which the user has a download speed of 512 Kbps (64KBps) and the server offer only a speed of 128 Kbps (16 KBps).

If the user is not using any download manager then the file will be downloaded only at the speed of 16KBps will not be able to download the file and the speed will be capped. This is where the download managers ( and accelerators) come into play. They connect as multiple clients and let the user download at the maximum speed of their connection. The server will treat them as 4 clients are downloading the file.

I hope you are now clear with what download managers can actually help. They are a good piece of code as they help in resuming interrupted download sessions but they are now already built in browsers like Firefox, Opera etc.

What’s your broadband speed? I work on 256 Kbps and don’t use any download manager. Do you use any?

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I am writing about another myth after a long time. I get the urge of killing a myth when I really get inspired to so in my offline world. This myth buster is inspired by another one which will follow up.

This post is for the people who tends to get in the catch of Internet providers who offers them insane speed but they don’t get the offered speed, not because the providers are cheating on the users but because of the fact that they exploit a technical aspect here.

It happened with my friend in way back 2006, when he get himself an internet connection of 256 Kbps and calculated that he would be able to download a 1 MB file in just 4 seconds as 1 MB = 1024 KB & 1024 KB / 256 Kbps = 4 seconds but we all know that it certainly takes more time.

However, this is incorrect. There is a difference between Kbps and KBps.

1Kbps is 1 Kilobits per sec whereas 1KBps is 1 Kilobytes per sec

1 Byte = 8 Bits

So 1 KBps is 8 times faster than 1 Kbps

And by convention we use bps to represent network transfer speed so Internet providers use this to market their internet speed. When they say they 256 Kbps, they mean Kbps and not KBps. I have seen providers marketing their speed as KBps too but that’s just a fault of their part or a marketing gimmick.

So doing our maths again,

256 Kbps = 32 KBps (256/8=32)

1MB = 1024 KB

1024 KB / 32 KBps = 32 seconds

I hope I made the point clear. Have you seen people miscalculating this too? Leave your response in the comments.

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The first client that I worked for this morning didn’t knew how to pay a paypal invoice through its Credit card, so I had to give him a link to the tutorial which explain the steps involved with screenshots. While I was creating the invoice, I thought that there may be many people who will be looking for help with creating an invoice too. So this post is to help those freelancers who have never sent a paypal invoice and needs help in creating a PayPal invoice.

Creating an Invoice

• Login into your PayPal account.
• Click on the Request money tab.
• Click on Create an Invoice sub-tab and click on Continue.
• Enter the Recipient’s email address.
• Fill in the details of the invoice like Item ID, description, price, shipping and tax if its taxable and click on Continue.



• You will get to see a preview of the invoice. Check everything to make sure everything is correct. If you need to edit, click on Edit else click on Send Invoice to send the paypal invoice to your client on the recipient’s email address specified earlier.

You will get a confirmation email in your inbox that you have sent a paypal invoice to the client. And when the client has made payment, then you will get a email stating that “You have got funds!”. Then you can login into your account to see the updated balance.

Let me know if you need any clarification on paypal invoice creation. I would be happy to help you out.

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As many of you might have heard from the official post that WordPress application is now available for several mobile platforms. The power that these mobile applications offer let us enjoy mobile administration and maintenance of our WordPress blog just like we do it in a browser. Obviously we can use the browser interface too and administrate and manage everything on our blog but it is not a very effective method of doing so. WordPress applications for mobile interface gives us an optimized smartphone user interface.

Best thing is that it is 100% free and Open Source and you as a developer can get involved. Download links and

WordPress for iPhone & iPod touch

WordPress app is already available for iPhone and iPod touch for long. If are a iPhone or iPod touch owner, I would suggest that you try out its WordPress application.

Its the only app that lets you write posts, upload photos, edit pages, and manage comments on your blog from your iPhone or iPod touch. With support for both WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress (2.7 or higher), users of all experience levels can get going in seconds.

I agree with that because I read some comments of its users who were quite satisfied by the app.

Download or Get Involved in development

WordPress for Blackberry

It was recently made available for Blackberry phones too.

The all new WordPress for BlackBerry app allows you to write posts, upload photos and videos, edit pages, and manage comments. Both WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress (2.7 or higher) sites are supported. It supports VideoPress too.

Download or get Involved in development

WordPress for Android

It is available for Android phones too.

WordPress for Android application empowers you to write new posts, edit content, and manage comments with built-in notifications.

Although 3rd part applications are available too such as wpToGo but having an official app is always better in my opinion because the app will go as per the main platform for sure.

Download or get Involved in development

WordPress for Nokia

After checking out the development for these three platforms I wanted to have something for my Nokia N86 too which runs on Symbian OS. I google out some apps but they were not full fledged and I was left wanting something official for my platform too.

And then once I landed on something which made me fill with joy, it was the development of WordPress app for Nokia.

Its in its early versions. I will soon write a tutorial of installing it and then write a small review. In the meantime, you can have a look at its development blog.

Do you use any mobile application for WordPress? Or would you like to say something about the apps mentioned here then leave a comment here. I would love to hear from your side.

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There are various web services which will offer you the facility of converting a webpage into a pdf file but there results were not quite satisfactory. The layout will break on many sites but yesterday I found out a service that I would like to share with you guys which gives quite good results, at least the best I have seen so far among free services and that too instantly. I don’t need to give my email address & then wait for the download link to arrive.

PDFMYURL.COM is a service which just gives you the pdf file to download without any hassles of waiting or sending you the links to your email address. Just type in the URL and the pdf file will start downloading the next moment. I would surely recommend it to anybody who wants to save a pdf version of web pages.

Embed Download as PDF Link in WordPress blog

You can easily embed the option of downloading the posts as pdf links in your WordPress theme. Just place the following PHP code in your theme file where you want the link to appear.

Place it inside the WordPress loop and you will get the functionality to download posts as pdf without any plugin or additional load on your server.

Above is a screenshot of how it looks on my blog.

If you need any kind of help, then feel free to leave a comment & I will help you out.

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Finally the WordPress new default theme has been added to the trunk which everyone will get with WordPress 3.0 as the default theme named TwenyTen. It’s based on the Kirby Theme by Ian Stewart released earlier this year as a proposal for a Default WordPress theme. The theme added to the core is

TwentyTen Theme features

• Drop Down Page Menus

  The theme features drop down page menus.

• 6 Widget Areas

  It offers two widgetized areas, 2 in Sidebar and 4 footer widgets.

• Gallery Posts Styling

Gallery posts are styled too. It is important as WordPress is now largely used as a CMS.

• Better SEO

  Archives, Category and Search Pages show now only excerpts instead of full posts improving the SEO. It has been observed that search’s broken as of now.

• HTML 5 Validation

  The theme generates Valid HTML 5 code and some things which doesn’t do it already and being fixed up and the final version of this theme will definitely produce completely validated HTML 5 code.

• Author Template plus Author Styling beneath each post


Author Archives will show up the author information and then the posts made by them.



Every post will display the author information section at the end of the post.

• Sticky Posts Styling

Sticky posts are styled by default.

• Much Improved and descriptive Page Titles for various Pages

  Page titles are improved with descriptive page titles.

• Improved Read More Text

  Continue Reading has replaced Read more text to take the user the post page while reading its excerpt or teaser.

• Control Excerpt’s Length via Functions.php

  Custom code can be used to control the excerpt length via Functions.php file.

• Next and Previous Image Links when a gallery image is posted

  Image links in the gallery too have browsing links for the next and previous image links.

• Header Image

  It uses a custom field for every post which means it can be set per post basis.

You can see the live demo of WordPress 3.0 theme on http://2010dev.wordpress.com/ or at http://wordpress.ashfame.com/ where I run the trunk version of WordPress.

You must have heard of WordPress Foundation too. It also runs the new WordPress 3.0 default theme – TwentyTen.

Do you like the new theme? I certainly did. Have your say!

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I am a big fan of WordPress.tv. It saves me a lot of time by just watching the video and learning things instead of reading things. Like said Text < Image < Video.

One problem that users almost complain every time about their player is that it is not well supported at low bandwidth connections. They say that you tube player works fine but the default player at WordPress.tv will trouble them several times and ruin all the fun. Moreover the tutorial if needed again, would require the user to again stream it live from the servers and give no option of downloading the video for a later or repetitive watch.

Download Videos and save directly to your computer

One way by which you can download WordPress.tv videos is that you don’t view them online in a browser.

• Instead get Miro, which is a popular, free, and open internet TV application. It brings video channels from thousands of sources and has more free HD than any other platform.
• Subscribe to WordPress.tv channel on Miro.
• The list of videos in the feed will be visible from inside Miro.
• Click on the Download and it will be downloaded.
• It will remain on your computer before its expiry date.

You either have the option to download & watch the video in Miro itself or obtain a direct link to the file.

Direct link to WordPress.tv Videos

When you click on Show More link, Miro displays a direct download link to the video file.

WordPress.tv videos are available in OGG format (.OGV file).

Miro Preferences to set the expiry time of downloaded content

• Go to File menu > Options.
• Under the Disk space tab, you can select the default expiry time of the downloaded content.

You can also set it to auto-download content from your subscriptions or switch this feature off. Its available under the Feeds tab in the Preferences.

If you like to keep a particular video, then at the right bottom of the video player, click on Keep button as shown.

Downloaded Videos Location

The downloads reside in the Miro folder under Videos folder of your account. (Eg: C:\Users\Ashfame\Videos\Miro )

You can change that under the Folders tab in the Preferences.

I hope you will love Miro and enjoy watching your WordPress.tv videos offline in it. Have your say in the comments.

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Do you know that you can import your activity from various social sites to Facebook? You can import your activities from Flickr, Digg, Picasa, Delicious, Yelp, Google Reader, YouTube, Last.fm, Pandora, Photobucket, hulu, Blog/RSS, Kiva and more likely to be available at a later date.

I have already explained about adding your blog feed to Facebook notes.

So you can import activities from the listed web services by adding them under your profile.

How to Import / Add activity

• Go to your profile page on Facebook
• Under the Share tab, Click on Options.
• Now click on Settings.
• Add the services which you want to add by clicking on the tiny icons.
• You will be prompted to enter the username at the respective service and there you go.

Add all the services where you are active and wants to show it on Facebook. This tightens your online world even more. Have a happy online life and please don’t forget that offline life is sweeter than online life. Its the real world and in case you know it but is an addict, then commit online suicide and live happily ever after.

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You can add your blog feeds to your Facebook notes and your blog posts will appear as notes under your profile. It gives more exposure to your blog posts and you got nothing to lose as it doesn’t hurt. Try on.

Add Blog feeds

• Go to your profile page on Facebook
• Under the Share tab, Click on Options.
• Now click on Settings.
• Now look for Blog/RSS option to add your blog feed.
• Add the feed url here and click on Import.
• From now on all your blog posts will appear as Notes under your profile.

Now your blog posts will have a better chance of getting exposure. Remember don’t let your content go down deep in the archives, get it out, spread the word. Have your say in the comments.

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