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Microsoft Windows 8 BUILD 2011 Keynote # 1

2011-11-24T12:11:00.001+05:00

BUILD is a new event that shows modern hardware and software developers how to take advantage of the future of Windows. Learn how to work with the all new touch-centric user experience to create fast, fluid, and dynamic applications that leverage the power and flexibility of the core of Windows, used by more than a billion people around the world.

Hear how the UI was designed to work seamlessly with a diversity of devices and form factors. Go behind the scenes and learn all about the new app model that allows you to create powerful new apps. All while retaining the ability to use your existing apps. Web-connected and web-powered apps built using HTML5 and JavaScript have access to the power of the PC. Touch-optimized browsing, with the full power of hardware-accelerated Internet Explorer 10 transforms your experiences with the web. BUILD is the first place to dive deep into the future of Windows.

Microsoft Windows 8 BUILD2011 Keynote # 2

2011-11-24T12:04:00.004+05:00

SMSCaster 3.6 works on xp,vista,7

2010-07-01T20:49:00.002+05:00

SMSCaster E-Marketer is easy-to-use yet powerful SMS message broadcasting software for e-marketing. It allows you to send marketing & advertising SMS and receive response SMS from the computer.

If differs from other desktop texting software which relies on an Internet SMS gateway. Instead, use your existing mobile phone, GSM modem or cellular terminal and connect it to the computer. The connection can be done via a USB data cable, serial data cable or Bluetooth COM port.

Designed with bulk broadcasting in mind, SMSCaster helps you manage your marketing campaigns and send customized messages to your target groups. Since SMS is fast and cost effectiveness, messages like promotion, reminder, alert, special notice or statement are well suited to be delivered by using SMSCaster E-Marketer.

Key Features:

* Convenient: Send & receive SMS right from your computer. Do not relies on an Internet SMS gateway.
* Low cost: No registration, no pre-pay and no need to buy SMS credit before start. Utilize your existing mobile phone.
* Phone book: Manage your contact list for different marketing campaigns into project files, with grouping support. Import existing data from a wide varieties of comma separated value and text file with the “Import Wizard”.
* Send personalized SMS: Send personalized SMS content to each recipient by inserting data from the phone book automatically.
* Unlimited SMS: You can send and receive unlimited number of sms during license period.
* Send in different languages: Support GSM 7-bit and UCS2 Unicode encoding with Auto Encoding Selection. Compose your SMS in many different languages: German, French, Dutch, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Cyrillic, etc.
* Responder: Auto reply to incoming SMS for pre-defined keywords and reply messages. (Enterprise Edition Only)

Internet Download Manager v5.19

2010-07-01T20:40:00.005+05:00

Internet Download Manager v5.19 - The best way to handle your downloads and increase download speeds. Added full support for Windows Vista, WOW! YouTube, Google Video, MySpaceTV, IE7 and Firefox

Nature Illusion Studio Pro 3.41.3.86

2010-07-01T20:32:00.006+05:00

"Transform your real-world photo into an animated nature scene by adding a wide array of water, weather and sound effects to your own photos and images"

Make photo live
A photo restricts your excitement from holidays spent at the seaside or near a waterfall to flat, two-dimensional images. Nature Illusion Studio lets you go beyond these physical restrictions and make a self-made animated scene, which can bring the original spirit and excitement of the holiday back to life.

Realistic natural effects
All visual effects have been recreated with accurate physics, so ripples on the water or subtle movements of the air look and behave just like they might in the physical life.

Share to others
The best thing is that you can share your excitement with others. You can create a screensaver and present it as a gift to your beloved or friend, publish it on your website and let your guests or customers download it for free.

An important benefit of Nature Illusion Studio is the option to share the exciting and happy moment in the more realistic manner as opposed to the traditional two dimensional photos

Superb result
The end result is a superbly lifelike and atmospheric presentation that can be saved as a screensaver, a standalone executable, an AVI or animated GIF file and distributed to other people, who can admire your creation.

Features:

* Apply up to 6 types of water effects to a single image.
* Add Animated Objects to image. Supports animated GIF. ** NEW **
* Add snow or rain.
* Add sound effects up to 8 channels.
* A library of water presets for various effects, including Waterfall, Lake, River, Fire, Fog, etc.
* Auto View mode provides you with instant feedback on your changes in real time.
* Save your creation as a screensaver, executable file, GIF or AVI file.
* Created nature scenes can be used in Water Illusion Screensaver, or Ace Pro Screensaver Creator
* Works with Windows Vista, XP, 2000, ME, NT, 98, 95

PHP with MySQL Essential Training

2010-07-01T20:20:00.006+05:00

Table of contents
Introduction
Introduction 2:43 1.8 MB
Using the exercise files 2:46 4 MB

1. PHP Overview
What is PHP? 2:56 2 MB
History 3:16 2.7 MB
Why choose PHP? 4:46 7.1 MB
Installation overview 4:42 3.2 MB

2. Mac Installation
Installing 12:12 20.2 MB
Configuring 13:40 17.8 MB
The text editor 3:50 5.5 MB
phpMyAdmin 2:34 3.9 MB

3. Windows Installation
Installing 6:31 7.7 MB
Configuring 8:22 12.6 MB
The text editor 4:21 6.3 MB

4. First Steps
Viewing PHP configuration information 8:09 10.5 MB
Embedding PHP 6:55 5.8 MB
''Hello, World!'' 5:20 4.9 MB
The operational trail 1:36 1.2 MB
Inserting comments 3:51 4 MB

5. Exploring Data Types
Variables 9:05 9 MB
Strings 5:43 5.8 MB
String functions 7:37 7.7 MB
Numbers pt. 1: Integers 5:14 5.5 MB
Numbers pt. 2: Floating points 5:07 4.6 MB
Arrays 12:18 11.4 MB
Array functions 5:40 6 MB
Booleans and NULL 8:25 9.6 MB
Type switching and casting 7:35 7.7 MB
Constants 4:03 3.9 MB

6. Control Structures Pt. 1: Logical Expressions
If statements 6:10 5.2 MB
Else and elseif statements 2:34 2.4 MB
Logical operators 5:58 6.7 MB
Switch statements 4:18 4.1 MB

7. Control Structures Pt. 2: Loops
While loops 7:04 6.8 MB
For loops 4:01 4.1 MB
Foreach loops 6:39 6.7 MB
Continue 3:02 3.8 MB
Break 3:13 3.2 MB
Understanding array pointers 5:18 6 MB

8. User-Defined Functions
Defining functions 11:28 10.5 MB
Using functions 6:28 7.9 MB
Returning values from a function 7:46 8.8 MB
Setting global variables 6:40 7.4 MB
Setting default values 6:30 7.7 MB

9. Debugging
Debugging and troubleshooting 7:09 6 MB

10. Building Web Pages
Links and URLs 3:49 4.7 MB
Using GET values 5:50 5.9 MB
Encoding GET values 7:39 7.2 MB
Encoding for HTML 8:51 10.1 MB
Building forms 5:28 7.2 MB
Setting cookies 9:55 11.8 MB
Establishing sessions 8:49 8.9 MB
Headers and page redirection 12:19 13 MB
Including and requiring pages 7:22 8 MB

11. MySQL Basics
MySQL introduction 4:46 3.2 MB
Creating a database in MySQL 6:20 5.5 MB
Populating a MySQL database 7:12 8.3 MB
phpMyAdmin 9:54 16 MB
Connecting to MySQL with PHP 6:12 6.5 MB
Accessing data in MySQL with PHP 6:22 8 MB

12. Building a Content Management System
Blueprinting your application 8:46 7.4 MB
Building the CMS database 8:17 10.5 MB
Understanding relational databases 5:26 5.9 MB
Establishing your work area 4:51 6 MB
Creating your first page 7:05 12.6 MB
Making page assets reusable 9:01 13.4 MB
Connecting your site to a database 11:28 15.4 MB
Building dynamic navigation 9:16 13.5 MB
Refactoring the navigation 10:25 16.1 MB
Adding links to your navigation 4:53 6.8 MB
Determining which page is selected 4:49 6.7 MB
Displaying HTML based on the selection 4:16 6.1 MB

13. Application CRUD
Finding a subject in the database 12:07 16.5 MB
Finding a page in the database 5:24 7.7 MB
Creating a page for a new subject 11:48 23.9 MB
Creating a subject entry form 7:13 8.8 MB
Adding subjects 9:15 11 MB
Escaping values for MySQL 9:26 13.8 MB
Form validation 7:18 9.6 MB
Additional form validation 3:21 4 MB
Editing a subject 4:59 8.2 MB
Using single-page submission 5:41 9.7 MB
Updating a subject in the database 8:17 12.4 MB
Sending form results as messages 5:36 9.9 MB
Deleting a subject 8:39 15.3 MB
CRUD review and assignment 7:16 8.8 MB
CRUD assignment results 9:18 17.5 MB

14. Building the Public Area
The public appearance 3:39 3.6 MB
Navigation in the public context 6:57 10.9 MB
Functions in the public context 5:30 9.8 MB
Creating a default subject behavior 5:19 9.8 MB
Text encoding and transforming 8:06 8.9 MB

15. Regulating Page Access
User access overview 2:30 2 MB
Encryption 7:57 11.5 MB
Creating a login system 5:04 6.9 MB
Checking authorization 6:00 10 MB
Using sessions to maintain login status 6:42 8.3 MB
Creating a logout page 8:27 11.6 MB
Conclusion
Goodbye 2:45 2.2 MB

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Expert PHP and MySQL

2010-04-07T21:23:00.005+05:00

Best practices and expert techniques for today's most demanding apps.
As the world's most popular, general purpose, open source scripting language, PHP is frequently used with MySQL to create high-traffic, mission-critical applications. This indispensable book shares proven, author-tested best practices and expert techniques that can be applied to even the most demanding MySQL-driven PHP apps. You'll explore ways to extend MySQL with user-defined functions, write PHP extensions, and solve problems when PHP and MySQL alone are not enough and other techniques or third-party tools are necessary.

Expert PHP and MySQL:
Reviews essential techniques, such as design patterns, complex queries, and advanced regular expression
Addresses advanced PHP concepts, such as iterators and closures
Demonstrates using Gearman for multitasking in your web applications
Discusses caching using memcached with MySQL and your PHP web applications
Discusses ways to create PHP Extensions and MySQL User Defined Functions
Shows how to use Sphinx for search functionality in your PHP web applications
Wrox Expert books present the wisdom accumulated by an experienced author team who is recognized as experts by the programming community. These experts challenge professional developers to examine their current practices in pursuit of better results.

About the Author
Andrew Curioso is a senior software engineer at MyVBO (Virtual Business Office) creating an innovative and scalable infrastructure for Rich Internet Applications using PHP and MySQL.
Ronald Bradford is a technology strategist and advisor specializing in MySQL, Drizzle and related web technologies. With a primary focus on architecture, design, performance analysis and scalability of web applications, his consulting portfolio ranges from Internet startups to Fortune 500 companies.
Patrick Galbraith is a principal software engineer at Lycos, adding new PHP and MySQL offerings for Tripod Users, switching remaining apps using Oracle to MySQL as well as other interesting projects.

Learn Programming with Flash MX

2010-04-07T21:13:00.004+05:00

Learn Programming with Flash MX, a book for absolute beginners, covers the fundamental programming principles and skills that every programmer needs to master in order to create well-structured and efficient code that lives up to professional standards.

This book employs a truly unique classroom-based approach to learning, with the goal of establishing core, practical programming skills. Each chapter presents a lesson covering a distinct topic of programming with ActionScript. In each "class", theory and practice are smoothly blended together with plenty of practical examples. The class project that runs through the book reinforces the learning in an integrated, real-world context, using Flash MX as the illustrative vehicle

iShootTurkey Pro v1.0 (iPhone)

2009-12-28T15:50:00.004+05:00

DESCRIPTION
Turkey Swarm is coming!

Look at all turkeys flying around the screen, and how exciting it will be to shoot all of them down to the ground! On the basis of common version that the turkey fly to left and right, many new gameplay elements are added on the professional version, such as the oncoming turkey, the balloons that will distract your concentration and the punishment of score decrease etc.

Following are gameplay skills:
- You must beat down the oncoming turkey, or your scores will decrease if it bumps the screen.
- For all the coming turkey, there will be sounds to hint you.
- Don't beat the ballon, or you will lose scores.
- Try your best to doublekill and even triplekill all at once, in which way you'll get extra bonus as encouragement.

LANGUAGE
- English

REQUIREMENTS
- Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch (2nd generation)
- Requires iPhone OS 2.2 or later

Ten Squared (iPhone)

2009-12-28T15:45:00.005+05:00

Fill up the square's boxes without getting stuck!

Ten squared is a logic game, a great brain teaser for your iPhone and iPod touch!
The goal of the game is to fill the squared grid complying with a rule. You can choose between two different rules, knight or bridge: starting from any box of the grid, you must find the path that enables you to fill all boxes. When you complete the starting 5x5 grid you unlock the 6x6 one, and so on up to the 10x10.

You won't be able to stop playing!

FEATURES
- two different game modes: 'bridge move' mode and 'knight move' mode
- six progressive game levels (from 5x5 to 10x10), up to 12 schemes to solve
- autosave, not to lose a single move
- game soundtrack
- choice of the tracks from iPod library to listen music while playing
- preference pane
- rubber to delete moves and change path
- hint function for next move
- easy mode with partially solved squares
- top ten with best results
- shake to restart the game
- OpenFeint enabled

Good reasons to play Ten Squared found by touchArcade forum members:
* "makes your brain hurt so good" (mezdup)
* "if you don't have it your iPhone might as well be an expensive paperweight" (Broski)
* "it is the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything" (djflippy)
New in this version - Soundtrack and sound effects are now enabled by default

LANGUAGE
- English

REQUIREMENTS
- Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch
- Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later

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ANDROID APPS and GAMES

2009-12-28T15:38:00.005+05:00

Paid & Free Android Games and Applications!

Just like some apps will not run on Vista that runs on XP.
Droid apps are the same way.

If you have a MyTouch 3G most all of these will run on it.

Most should run on G1 and Droid...;-)

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PC World - January 2010

2009-12-28T15:24:00.006+05:00

PC WORLD is the best-selling monthly computer magazine in America with over 6.2 million readers devoted to personal computing and related technology. Our award-winning editors deliver the Top 100 PC and product rankings and reviews from our state-of-the-art Test Center. Each issue is loaded with in-depth special reports and authoritative news stories, how-to's and tips, new PC trends, technologies, the Internet, and more. PC WORLD is an essential tool for any computer user.

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iPhone Tips and Tricks

2009-12-26T12:04:00.006+05:00

Many of us may think that iPhone is very beautiful and powerful. However, how many of us have actually used its full potential? Do you know all of the tips and tricks of your iPhone? If you don’t, I am sure the following Ultimate List of iPhone Tips and Tricks will help you a lot.

1) Get URL Hints
In Safari, you can press and hold any links in order to see the URL and site name of the link.

2) Dismiss Keyboard Suggested Word
To dismiss the keyboard suggested spelling of a word, you can tap on anywhere of the screen. You do not have to press “x” button at the end of the word.

3) Scroll to the Top of the Page
When you are using iPhone applications, you can automatically scroll to the top of the page by tapping on the “top bar”, which has the time, service bars and the battery information. In Safari, this will also brings up the URL address bar as well.

4) Different Domain Suffix
Hold down the “.com” button, you can see a popup comes up with “.net, .edu and .org” buttons. Slide your finger from them and then release your finger to choose.

5) Domain Resolution
When typing a URL in Safari, you don’t have to type the “www” or the “.com”. For exmaple, you can type “iPhoneToolbox” in the URL box in order to view “iPhoneToolbox.com”.

6) Take Screenshots Anytime
You can take any screenshots at anytime easily on your iPhone. First of all, press and hold the “Home” button and then click the “Sleep” button once. The screen will flash white and the screenshot will be stored in your camera roll immediately.

7) Save Images in Safari
When you are browsing any web pages on Safari. You simply touch the image and hold your finger until a menu show up, select Save Image.The downloaded image is located under your Photo / Camera Roll.

8 ) Inserting a Period
When you are typing on you iPhone, simply double tapping the “Space Bar” button at the end of a sentence, it will automatically insert a period followed by a space. It saves you a lot of time instead of pressing “124″ to get the numbers and symbols page where the period located in.

9) Alternative Way to Navigate Screens
You can tab the bottom right or left corner to switch between different screens instead of swiping your finger across the screen.

10) Alternate Characters
Hold down a letter on the keyboard, you can see popup comes up with various versions of the character.

11) Move Dock Icons
Just press and hold any icons on the screen, then drag them while they are shaking. You can put any 4 icons on your dock (grey bar at the bottom of your iPhone).

12) Fit-to-page Column, word and Picture
When browsing web pages on Safari, you can double tap on a column, word or picture to fit it’s width to your iPhone’s screen.

13) Select Icon for Bookmarked Webpage
When you are browsing a web page on Safari and add its icon to your home screen by pressing the “+” button and select “Add to Home Screen”. The icon is a screenshot of the page you were on. You can have a different icon by zooming in a particular item on the page. It can be the website’s logo or any picture.

14) Scrolling with Two Fingers
Some web pages contains separate text boxes with their own scroll bars. If you are trying to move around in one, you can scroll it with two fingers instead of one. That will let you scroll just inside the box and not affect the position of the entire page.

15) Maximize Battery Life
There is a separate sensor situated right above the earpiece, that detects ambient light. The iPhone uses this sensor only once per session, just as you unlock the handset. But if you cover the sensor as you unlock the phone, you will trikc the handset into thinking it’s in a dark room, and it will power down the screen brightness. You can Also turn off Bluetooth and WiFi if you don’t expect to use them for a while. You can also set email fetch time to “Hourly” or “Manually”, and turn the “Push” off in order to save energy.

16) Reset Your iPhone
Press and hold the “Home” Button and the “Sleep” Button to Reset your iPhone. A white light will flash, the screen will shut off and then turn back on. Please keep holding both buttons until the screen turns back on.

17) Insert Punctuation Quickly
To enter any punctuations while using iPhone keyboard, you can press and hold the “123″ button and slide your finger over to any punctuation button. And then the punctuation will be inserted after you have released the button.

18) Get a Bigger Keyboard
When you are using the on-screen keyboard on Safari, you can rotate the iPhone horizontally before tapping on the address bar, the Safari window will switch to horizontal mode. Now you can have a much larger keyboard, making data entry a little easier.

19) Changing iPod Icons
By the default, the buttons at the bottom of the iPod scren are “Playlists”, “Artists”, “Songs”, “Videos”, and “More”. You can change them by pressing the “More” button, and then tap on the “Edit” button in the upper left corner. A Configure screen will appear with icons for “Albums”, “Podcasts”, “Audiobooks”, “Genres”, “Composers”, “Compilations”, “Playlists”, “Artists”, “Songs”, and “Videos”. To substitute one of these icons for one that appears at the bottom of the iPod screen, just tap and hold on the icon you prefer and drag it over the icon you want to replace. Tap on Done when you’re finished.

20) Make a Call from Safari
If you find any phone numbers in Safari you would like to call, you do not need to jump to the phone component. Just tap on the number, and the iPhone will dial it for you immediately.

Beginners Guide: Install PHP 5, MySQL 5 on Apache 2.2 on Windows with screenshots!

2009-12-25T14:59:00.012+05:00

This guide is intended for beginners who wanted to install PHP 5 and MySQL Community version 5 and make it work with Apache 2.2 . Installation will be done locally, so that you can test web application such as Wordpress before going live. This is quite a long guide so prepare yourselves for a ride!

Install PHP 5 on Windows
1- Download the latest Windows PHP Binaries (MSI file) from this page. I choose the eZNetworking mirror because it is the closest one to Malaysia. Choose a mirror that is nearer to your country for a faster file download. The latest PHP version that I downloaded is 5.2.4. Save the file to your Desktop.

2- Right click on the file and click “Install“.

3- Click “Next ” once the Welcome page is displayed.

4- Select “I accept the license agreement” and click “Next “.

5- Change your PHP installation path OR just accept the default path - C:\Program Files\PHP\ and click “Next “.

6- On the Web Server Setup screen, select the Apache 2.2.x Module and click “Next “.

7-On the Apache Configuration Directory screen, browse for the Apache configuration directory (conf) OR just enter C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\conf\ and click “Next ” to proceed with the installation.

8- For now, accept the default selection and click “Next”.

9-Click “Install ” to install PHP 5 on Windows.

10- Click “Finish ” once completed. PHP 5 is successfully installed.

11- Start your Apache 2.2 server using the “Monitor Apache Servers” console (Start -> Apache HTTP Servers 2.2.4 -> Monitor Apache Servers ). You can see that PHP was successfully installed by checking the Apache status at the bottom of the console.

Test your PHP 5 Installation
1- Open up your Windows Notepad. Type in “” inside the file. Save this file as “info.php” inside your Apache root directory, C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs .

2- Open up your web browser. In the address bar, type in your web server domain name plus info.php as the file name. Example: http://www.syahid.com/info.php . You should get a PHP configuration page just like the one below.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed and test PHP 5 on Windows!

Tell Apache 2.2.x to Support PHP Index File
What happens if you change your index.html (default web server homepage) to index.php and try to access your homepage? Apache will not recognize it and you won’t see anything displayed on the page. To make sure Apache recognizes index.php as a default homepage too, follow the instructions below.

1- Rename your index.html to index1.html and info.php to index.php (for testing purposes only!).

2- Edit your Apache configuration file, C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\conf\httpd.conf by opening it with Windows Notepad.
3- Find a line that starts with “DirectoryIndex index.html…“. Add index.php at the end of the line . Save the file and restart your Apache Server from the “Monitor Apache Servers” console.

4- Load your Internet browser again. Type in your web server address e.g http://www.syahid.com. You should get a page similar to the info.php page above. Index.php now is recognized as a default Apache homepage, just like your normal index.html page.

Install MySQL 5.0 Community Edition on Windows
1- Download MySQL 5.0 Community Edition to your Desktop from here. If you want to download from a different mirror, click here. Make sure you always download the “Complete package “. Current version during this post was written is 5.0.45.

2- Unzip mysql-5.0.45-win32.zip (the downloaded mysql file) to get Setup.exe. Double click Setup.exe to start installing MySQL. Click “Next ” when you are prompted as below.

3- Select “Typical” for Setup Type and click “Next ” again.

4- Click “Install ” to proceed with the installation process.

5- The setup activity will show you some advertisement. Read it if you wish and click “Next “.

6- Tick “Configure the MySQL Server now” and click “Next ” two times.

7- Click “Standard Configuration” to ease installation process and click “Next ” again.

8- Tick “Install As Windows Service” to make MySQL auto-startup with Windows and “Include Bin Directory in Windows PATH ” to make MySQL system files automatically available for other application.

9- Tick “Modify Security Settings” and enter a root (Administrator) password to secure your MySQL installation. Don’t skip this step! Click “Next ” again.

10- Click “Execute” to start the MySQL Configuration process. Once finished, click “Finish ” to end configuration

11- Make sure MySQL runs automatically after installation. You can check the status from Administrative Tools Services snap in (Start -> Programs -> Administrative Tools -> Services ), also available via Control Panel.

12- (OPTIONAL) Open your DOS command prompt (Run -> cud). Type in “net stat -na“. Check out ports opened by MySQL (3306) and Apache (80) . That means the services are up and running.

13- (OPTIONAL) Run some of MySQL commands to further ensure that the installation is a success. Check out and follow the commands as pictured below. User account is root and password depends on what you have entered previously during your MySQL configuration.

14- IMPORTANT: Reboot your machine! This is to ensure all MySQL system files are rss-read by Windows as environment variables.

Configure PHP 5 to Work with MySQL with MySQL PHP Extension
Previously, we have installed PHP with minimal modules / extension. To add MySQL support to PHP, you need to change your PHP installation - by adding the MySQL extension on top of your PHP installation. Please make sure that your original PHP 5 MSI installer still remains at its original place .

1- Open the Add / Remove Programs console via Windows Control Panel. Find the PHP 5.x.x entry and click “Change “.

2- Click “Next ” once you are prompted the Welcome page.

3- Click the “Change ” button to proceed.

4- Select Apache 2.2.x as shown in the picture below. Click “Next ” once again.

5- Select your Apache configuration directory (conf) - the directory where your httpd.conf resides. Click “Next ” once done.

6- On the “Choose items to install” screen, click on the plus (+) icon next to Extensions to expand the list.

7- Select on the “X” next to “MySQL” and select “Entire feature will be installed on local hard drive”. Click “Next” again.

8- Click the “Change” button to save all the PHP configuration changes.

9- Finally, restart your Apache 2.2 web server! You can check out that the MySQL extension support for PHP was successfully installed by checking out the info.php / index.php page that was created before.

Congratulations! Give yourself a pat on the back to finally manage it here. Now you can run almost many web applications that depends on Apache 2.2, PHP 5 with MySQL 5 database support. If any of those app complain about any missing extensions, remember that you can always reconfigure PHP by following the steps above.

Whew! This is quite a long guide but I really hope that someone out there will benefit from it!

how to create @msn.com??

2009-12-25T14:47:00.005+05:00

you can make MSN.com ID on this link

Reader GT provided this link: click here MSN which does, indeed, appear to allow anyone to create an @msn.com address.

IE Automatically Opens Porn Site

2009-12-25T14:42:00.002+05:00

The problem was reported by one of our readers that the Internet Explorer he worked upon automatically opens a porn site like fucketa.com. This is very embarrassing for him and also unsafe for the crucial data he has.

The problem is not only this as the browser opens up every 30 seconds. This is clearly a case of malware infection and the problem has been solved as follows.

Steps:

1. What you all need is a good antimalware, I would recommend Mbam.

2. Just download this free and good Antimalware and scan the computer either in the safe mode or the normal mode.

3. This will remove all the infections that you have in your PC.

4. Restart may be required.

This has been found to solve the problem. Drop a comment below if it didn’t solve for you.

Free Tool: XP Quick Fix Plus

2009-11-27T11:38:00.006+05:00

Does your Windows XP experience some problems or errors such as disable to run Task Manager, Registry Editor, Folder Options, etc due to something e.g. virus attack and more? Maybe this free Tool can help you, the XP Quick Fix Plus. With XP Quick Fix Plus, you can re-enable the commands of Windows XP that cannot work. To do that is very easy. You just need to click the buttons provided.

To view the details and complete explanations of each button, just point your mouse to the button and then you can see the explanation in the underside panel automatically.

XP Quick Fix Plus is quite practical because the size of its file is not big, less than 600 KB and you also do not need to install it. Just open and run the file directly.

If you are interested in trying XP Quick Fix Plus, please download directly from the provider blog :

Solution to No Preview Available for jpg Image

2009-11-27T01:25:00.002+05:00

It can happen sometimes that you have some image that you downloaded from internet and which on opening with Windows Picture and Fax Viewer displays an error message “No Preview Available” or “File format is not supported”. The problem happened to one of our readers and here is the solution for it.

Solution:

• According to the MS article, the problem occurs if the graphic file is compressed.

• However to solve this just make sure that you have turned this option off in the web browser.

• Open the Internet Explorer and go to Internet Properties.
• Click the Web Graphics tab, click Never compress graphics, and then click Apply.

• Click the General tab.

• Under Temporary Internet files, click Delete Files.

• Click OK if you are prompted to confirm the deletion.

• Click OK.

The problem should have gone.

Steps to Remove Win32:Rootkit-gen[Rtk] Virus

2009-11-27T01:15:00.004+05:00

Win32:Rootkit-gen[Rtk], another Virus, another addition in the list and another solution to remove it. Faced by some of our readers, this was an irritating problem that their PC was infected by this virus.

Symptoms of the problem:

• Win32:Rootkit-gen[Rtk] virus infection notice.
• Resides in ur0.com file which happens to be a virus itself.
• Also resides in System Volume Information folder.
• May also prevent double click opening of a drive.
Solution:

Steps to remove ur0.com virus

• Run Task Manager, delete the ur0.com process, if any.
• Run msconfig in the Run box and remove the virus file from startup list, if any.
• Reboot into safe mode, search the ur0.com file, and remember to include hidden files option as well.

• Permanently delete the files found.

Steps to remove Win32:Rootkit-gen[Rtk] Virus

• The only reason why this virus infects the PC again is that, it has been saved in the System Restore files.
• So turn off the System Restore now (Right click on My Computer-> Properties-> System Restore tab-> click on Turn off System Restore on all drives).
• Reboot the PC to let the restore files to get deleted.
• Now just turn on the system restore.

The virus has been removed!!

Steps to send exe and other files through Email

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There are occasions when we wish to send to our friend some cool software or any application via email but the email scanners don’t allow us to do that.

This is right on one part to disallow anyone to send virus which are exe files through email but it is of no use to people who have no intention of sending the viruses through the mail.

So here are the steps if you wish to send the executable files through the email like Gmail.

Steps:

1. The best way to do that use online file storage like Rapidshare or MegaUpload and send the link to the friend.

2. Or you can try just renaming the file extension from exe to some other like jpg, doc or txt and ask your friend on other side to rename it back to the exe. This will fool the email scanner and the file can be sent.

To rename just go to the folder options -> view tab -> uncheck the option of Hide extensions, this will display the file extensions so that you can easily rename the files.

3. You can also compress the exe files into a zip or rar archive and rename the archive from zip or rar to some other (Note: Gmail scanner can scan the zip archive as well, so renaming zip to other extension is necessary).

P.S.: sending exe files even while renaming violates the mail policies.

Send Huge Files over Internet

2009-11-27T01:01:00.004+05:00

It feels very bad when we want our friend to send us some song or a movie clip through email over internet because the emails like Gmail or Yahoo have some restrictions on the size of the data that we can send.

So what are you going to do if you are required to send some important data of about 500 MB in size? Well there are few ways to achieve that.

Either you can use online storages like Rapidshare and Windows Skydrive or just email the files using some other mail clients like YouSendIt.
Solution:

1. Online storage that provides huge storages like Skydrive, MegaUpload etc are great way to share files.

2. But if you wish to send file physically then use the mail services like YouSendIt and Pando.

Pando is a free personal peer-to-peer software that allows sending, receiving and publishing large files. It works with both Macintosh and Windows operating systems. The free versions of these services allow us to send files of around 1 or 2 GBs.

There are many other ways to send files which you can share with us.

Steps to Protect exe Files from Viruses

2009-11-27T00:53:00.005+05:00

Anti Virus is a great protection tool to safeguard our computer and files against the virus but these are not 100% efficient in use and also they require periodic updating of the virus definitions.

Here is a free, simple yet powerful tool that can protect your files and folders especially the executable exe files against the viruses. The tool is called PE Guard and keeps running in the background in the system tray without consuming much of the memory space.

The tool can be chosen to run in wither normal Guard mode or the Power Guard mode. As the name suggests, Power Guard mode is more powerful and protects the computer and files better. It can detect and thus protect when the virus is trying to replicate itself in the system and when it is trying to infect the system exe or sys files.

The tool is free and what’s more it do not require any update of the definitions like the Anti Virus software.

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Disable Autorun.inf Creation in USB Pen Drives

2009-11-27T00:48:00.004+05:00

Autorun.inf is the popular file created by the viruses in the USB Flash drives which is used by them to spread across different storage media.

It is the first file that gets created in the pen drives as soon as the drive is inserted in the system having viruses. Thus it is for sure that if you prevent the creation of this file in the USB drives then the virus will not spread on its own.

Now to achieve this task here is a tool developed by OPS called Autorun Spreading Breaker. This tool helps to protect our external drives from the autorun file and thereby prevents computer to computer spread of the viruses.

The tool is free and is easy to use.

Convert PDF to JPG or TIFF Image Formats

2009-11-27T00:39:00.005+05:00

Ever wanted to convert Adobe PDF files into Image formats like JPG, BMP or TIFF? Well if it is yes, then here is a tool for you that can do that for you easily.

The tool is called Adolix PDF Converter and what it does is it will add a virtual printer to the system from where you can create a PDF file too by sending the print to this virtual printer from the applications like MS Word, Powerpoint etc.

Moreover you will be able to convert the PDF files to the image formats of either of all the pages or just the selected page. You can choose to transform the whole PDF file to image or only a selection of pages, defining a conversion pattern similar to how printing is done in MS Word.

Features:

• Create PDF from applications that support printing.

• Open encrypted PDF files.

• Modify, rotate or zoom into the PDF images.

Microsoft. NET Remoting

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Scott McLean,James Naftel,Kim Williams,"Microsoft. NET Remoting"

Publisher: Microsoft Press ISBN-10: 0735617783 edition October 25, 2002 CHM 300

pages 1.2 mb

This title shows developers how to build Internet-based, distributed applications using Microsoft .NET Remoting, which enables powerful remote interaction among objects. A fundamental understanding of .NET Remoting is crucial as developers shift to developing distributed, Internet-based applications. Until recently, DCOM was the preferred method for developing distributed applications on Microsoft platforms. But as this book demonstrates, the .NET Remoting architecture is much easier to use and extend than DCOM. The book covers all aspects of .NET Remoting, including in-depth coverage of the .NET Remoting architecture plus concrete examples, best practices, and performance tips to show how to extend and customize the framework.