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Create a new folder (can be located anywhere, like on the Desktop), with the following name: SuperFolder.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

Once you hit enter, it will look like this:

Opening this folder, you will see all the Admin goodness – 277 administrative tasks, all in one place!

This has been a much needed feature for Windows.  My only wish is that it was easier to create the super folder – for instance if I were to work on someone else’s machine, I’m not going to remember what that long string of numbers and letters are – would be nice to remember a word, or sentence to call the folder… oh well, at least we got it! 

One more tip, I added this SuperFolder to my Favorites, so it’s accessible from any open explorer window! (Just drag the folder onto the Favorites star, and it will add it to the favorite list!)

OK folks… I’ve harped on this before, and I’ll probably harp on it again, but here’s the deal:  Your hard drive in your computer WILL fail one day, and when it does, you can kiss all  those precious pictures of your family goodbye.  I’ve mentioned a couple of ways to backup your stuff, but today I want to share a great way to backup your pictures (usually the largest amount of data (short of music) that people wish to backup).

Google.  Picasa.  Picasa Web Albums.  Yup, I’ve mentioned these before too…   Well, combine all three of those, throw in a FREE Eye-Fi card, and you are not only backing up your pictures, you won’t even have to plug in your camera to transfer the pictures to your computer!

Google has been offering more disk space for Picasa Web Albums for a while now, but if it wasn’t a great deal already, they are now throwing in a free 4GB Eye-Fi card when you order 200GB or more space.  This is starting at $50 / year for the 200GB, but if you don’t use that much, after the first year, you can downgrade to what you actually need. 

Backing up your pictures from Picasa to Picasa Web Albums is as easy as clicking the “Sync to Web” button in each folder.

Next, select the size – I recommend the original size, and set your visibility (security) as you choose.  Press Sync, and your photo’s are being backed up to Picasa Web Albums!

You can also select to automatically upload anything that you import: 

More about the Eye-Fi card:

To sum it up, this is a FANTASTIC deal.  The Eye-Fi card runs about $80 – ish.  If anything, this is a great deal to get the card at a discount, plus if you’re not already taking measures to backup your data, you should be.  I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it till the day I die…

ALL HARD DRIVES FAIL…

[ Eye-Fi ]

[ Google Picasa Web Albums Eye-Fi Promo ]

I LOVE free software!  WinX just came out with a new product called HD Video Converter, and they’re giving it away for free until December 15th. It’s regular price is $39.95, so I’d go grab it now while you can!

WinX HD Video Converter is a professional video converter specially designed for HD video conversion. The friendly interface can assist you to easily convert HD videos with no loss of image & sound quality, like MTS, M2TS, TS, HD MP4, MKV, HD WMV, and HD MOV, etc. Besides, it also lets you convert between HD videos and regular AVI, MP4, MOV, WMV, etc.

To get the full version for free, please download the program and register with the following Information.

Reg Name: HDgiveaway
Reg Code: WINXHVC-5230-1898-1278

http://www.winxdvd.com/giveaway/

Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) offers you use of their DNS servers, but is often not the best DNS servers available – both in speed, reliability and security.  I’ve told you in the past about OpenDNS, and while Google DNS service does not come with the content filtering that OpenDNS has, it is extremely fast, secure, and very reliable – MUCH more than your ISP’s (especially if you have Charter Communications).

Google’s DNS servers IP address are:

• 8.8.8.8
• 8.8.4.4

For instructions how to configure your computer to use Google’s DNS servers, visit Google’s Help website:  http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using.html.  They provide excellent instructions for Windows, Mac, Linux, and even your router and mobile device.

To sum up, I like the idea of Google having public DNS servers.  Providing you are not using the content filtering aspect of OpenDNS, or not using OpenDNS at all, Google’s DNS is a no-brainer.  Start using it today, and you will probably see a difference in your browsing speed!

November 27, 2009

First, click the settings button on the home screen, select Mail, Contacts, Calendars:

Select Add Account, then Other,

Now select Add CalDev Account:

Enter the following information:

• Server:  www.google.com
• User Name:  Your Google account email address (can be your Google Apps email address)
• Password:  Ummm… your Google account password…
• Description:  Google Calendar (or whatever you want to put here)

Tap the Next button in the top right, and that’s it!  I did a quick test, and added an items from both Exchange and Google Calendar, and within 1-2 minutes, it was on synced to my iPhone!

For Windows 7 / Server 2008 R2 only – Medo has created a great little utility that will attach (mount) or detach a VHD Hard drive image file.  This is a wonderful time saver for those that use VHD’s on a regular basis!

[ VHD Attach ]

People who demand large message size limits rarely understand the limitations of the email transmission.  Because of the MIME encoding used when sending binary attachments, your files expand 33% when sent via email.

In other words, a 15MB attachment requires 20MB plus the message text, plus message headers.
When you carbon copy 20 of your friends & coworkers, a separate message is sent to each. 20MB x 20 = 400MB. That’s half a freaking CD.

If 5 of those friends are on the same small company email server, downloading those messages saturates the entire bandwidth of their T1 data line for nearly 9 minutes. Because each message has separate headers, it isn’t easily cached and gets completely downloaded by each recipient.

Compare this to uploading the same attachment to a web server, FTP server, file transmission service like YouSendIt, or video streaming site like YouTube. One copy is uploaded. The download is typically 8-bit so minimal expansion factor. The small business’ network can cache the content, so it’s only downloaded once then fetched locally from the web caching server.

Bottom line, sending a large attachment via email is relocating using the U.S. Postal Service as your moving company. It is painful, limited, and expensive.

As an email administrator, I couldn’t agree more…

Normally, if you install with an upgrade disk, you cannot activate windows.  The work around is to perform a clean install, ensure that there are no pending Windows Updates waiting to install (orange shield on restart icon), and make the following registry change:

HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Setup/OOBE/

Change MediaBootInstall from "1" to "0".

Open Regedit (Start, Type in Regedit and press enter)

Click “Yes” on the User Access Control

Navigate Regedit to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Setup/OOBE/

Right click on the MediaBootInstall key and choose Modify.  Change the “1” to a “0”

Restart the computer, and you should be able to activate your “Clean” install of Windows 7!

Select the ISO file for Windows 7

Choose USB or DVD

That’s it!

It doesn’t get much easier than this!  I will say, that I have first knowledge that installing Windows 7 with a USB device is MUCH faster than with DVD.  From start to finish, USB only took about 20 minutes… DVD took close to 30-40 minutes.

[ Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool ]

With the biggest and best launch to date, Microsoft has launched, in my opinion, the best operating system to come out from Redmond Washington.  Windows 7 is what Vista should have been.  Get your credit card out, and download it today!

Order your Windows 7 today
Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade
Windows 7 Professional Upgrade
Windows 7 Ultimate Upgrade

WinX DVD Author is powerful DVD movie creator and DVD burning software to make DVD from various video formats, like AVI, MOV, MPEG, WMV, FLV, etc. With this DVD authoring software, it is easy and fast to create your stylish DVD by making DVD menu, clipping video segment, adding subtitles. Download WinX DVD Author for free and convert your favorite videos to DVD.

WinX DVD Ripper Platinum is a professional DVD ripping software tool which could backup your DVD video to your personal PC or put into your portable devices. It offers fast ripping speed, stable ripping process and best video/audio quality. Integrated all DVD ripping functions together, WinX DVD Ripper Platinum should be a great choice for you to backup DVDs.

Together, they will run you about $55.00 to purchase, so even if you don’t plan on installing right away, go ahead and download them.  No registration key will be required to install either title, and can be installed on as many computers as you like.

[ WinX DVD Author ]

[ WinX DVD Ripper ]

Today, Microsoft released Security Essentials, a 100% free anti virus, anti spyware, and anti malware software.  There are no subscriptions, no trials, just 100% free!  Finally, people can protect their computers without forking over any money!

Download, and install the small software package, only takes a few minutes.  Once installed, you don’t have to do anything else!  Security Essentials is “set it and forget it” protection!  It runs in the system tray, and will alert you if there are any security issues.

[ Download Microsoft Security Essentials ]

Read:  How to backup your pictures using Picasa

From the Picasa Blog, here’s a video going over the new features of Picasa 3.5:

Download Picasa 3.5 at [ picasa.google.com ]

Read more over at the official [ Google Mobile Blog ]

The following step-by-step guide will help you enable MMS functionality on iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS running firmware 3.1 on AT&T network:

Step 1: Download and install the latest version of iTunes if you haven’t already.

Step 2: Make sure iTunes is closed before following the steps below:

Windows 7 & Windows Vista:

• Click on “Start” and type “Command Prompt” in search and then press enter.
• Goto \Program Files\iTunes\ directory by typing “cd C:\Program Files\iTunes\” in Command prompt and press enter. For those of you who are on x64 version of Windows should type this instead: "cd C:\Program Files (x86)\iTunes\”
• Now type “iTunes.exe /setPrefInt carrier-testing 1” in the Command Prompt and press enter.

Mac OS X:

• Start the “Terminal” app by navigation to Applications –> Utilities. Or just type “Terminal” in spotlight search and hit enter.
• Now type this command and press enter: “defaults write com.apple.iTunes carrier-testing -bool TRUE”

Step 3: Download the modified .IPCC file (ATT_US.ipcc). Download link given below.

Step 4: Now connect your iPhone with your computer and start iTunes.

Step 5: Now press and hold left “alt” button (“Shift” button on Windows) on the keyboard and then click on “Check for Update” in iTunes and then release the “Shift” button.

Step 6: Select the .IPCC file which you downloaded in Step 3 and update your iPhone.

Step 7: Once the update is done, reboot your iPhone.

You should now have fully working MMS on your iPhone 3G and 3GS with visual voicemail.

Disclaimer: This guide is for testing & educational purposes only. EverydayNerd.com nor it’s authors are responsible for any loss of important data or malfunctioning of your iPhone.

[ Download .IPCC file to enable MMS ]

Download Disable AutoPlay for Windows

• Update for Windows XP
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• Update for Windows Vista x64