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Cheap and Simple Way to Turn your Webcam into Digital Surveillance System via HomeCamera Web Service

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Home security system is important for any household. However, it may not always be affordable especially the Digital Surveillance system involves huge maintenance and installation cost. Not to worry now, you have the option to turn your conventional webcam in your house to a low cost yet free maintenance internet based home surveillance system. By signing up and accessing to HomeCamera website, user will be able to connect to the server to view and monitor the condition at the other ends remotely, through a conventional web camera.

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Defrag Particular Files and Folders With Defraggler

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

Using the built-in Windows’s Disc Defragmenter tool to manage and reorganize your computer system is a difficult and time-consuming task. Like other defragmentation tools, Windows Disc Defragmenter defrags your whole hard drive and it takes a lot of time. To avoid this tedious process, Piriform has developed its latest freeware program, Defraggler v1.01.073 BETA which allows users to select particular files and folders to defragment.

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Download MediaInfo to Display Technical Details of Media Files Running on PC

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

PC systems have become the center of multimedia entertainment system whereby you can store, play and stream media contents freely in digital home. Sometimes you may wonder what kind of format of media files that are actually running on your PC. You may able to find out some high level information by looking into the file properties, but most of the time, it won’t contain very useful information such as what profile if the media files are encoded with. Now with Mediainfo, it lets you figuring out more technical details besides the basic format and codec type of the files you are playing.

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Windows Mobile Device Cannot Connect (or Quickly Disconnect or Drop) and Not Sync with Vista WMDC (ActiveSync)

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

Whenever user connect a Windows Mobile device to Windows Vista Windows Mobile Device Center (WMDC) via a USB cable, WMDC fails to connect to the Pocket PC (PPC) Phone device, causing synchronization not start or fail. Sometimes, WMDC may tries to connect to mobile device with “Connecting” message for a while, but eventually fails with “Disconnected” message. In some worse case, Windows Vista doesn’t detect any Windows Mobile device been connected, and no response or connect attempt action in WMDC.

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Download Free Ad-Aware 2008 To Remove Spyware

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

Security solution provider, Lavasoft, now offering a free version anti-spyware program, Ad-Aware 2008, to professional home users for downloading. The Ad-Aware 2008 is an absolutely free security utility which is quite popular and powerful. It helps users to protect their private information against various cyber threats such as identity thieves, password stealers, spyware, keyloggers, etc.

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Upload Feature Inhibited Error When Adding Files or Images in ModX

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

When trying to upload files, images or photos using the built-in file uploading utility in ModX Manage Files page, tinyMCE or FCKeditor (FCK) Resource Browser, the following error message may appear and uploading fails.

Upload feature inhibited - make sure uploads are supported and the directory is writable for PHP.

or,

Failed to upload file, internal error.

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Flash Upgrade Eten Glofiish Windows Mobile Device ROM Firmware OS from SD Memory Card (Fix RAPIcopyfile or Update Error in Vista)

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Windows Vista, Windows Mobile Device Center and WM based Pocket PC Phone are all products from or related to Microsoft, but unfortunately integration between them is not with ease and there are plenty of compatibility error between them. When user run the Eten Glofiish ROM image update software which contains the ROM Update Utility and ROM image to flash update the firmware OS software via Windows Mobile Devicve Center (WMDC) on USB connection in Windows Vista, the ROM upgrade flashing process fails and simply doesn’t work.

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HP Smart Web Printing Free Download to Print Multiple Selected Parts of Different Webpages

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

HP Smart Web Printing application is an printer helper add-on or plug-in for Internet Explorer and Firefox web browser that allows user to select, collect, store, combine and print the selected text and graphical contents or areas discarding the unwanted sections from different web pages from multiple websites. Think it as SnagIt screen capture utility when set to directly print the captured area, but with more customizable twist and turn features added.

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Instant Messages Without Installation for AIM Users Via AIM Express Service 7.0 Beta

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Instant Messaging is a pretty great and popular utility which allows users to have real-time or instantaneous communication with friends using internet facilities. It helps to maintain friendships and relationships all over the world in a very economical way. Despite its useful features to enhance and enrich effective and efficient communication, the main drawback of most of the instant messenger tools is it needs to be installed and tied to a specific computer. You probably can’t use the communication facility in other computers if it is not installed with the software. For instance, if your office software policy restricts you from installing any software application, then you can’t enjoy real time communication based on typed text. To overcome the difficulty and to allow users to continue enjoying the fun of instant messaging, AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) has unveiled its next generation and improved Instant Messenger for the web, namely AIM Express.

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How to Enable, Use and Support 4GB or More Physical RAM Memory in 32-bit Windows Vista

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Theoretically, x86 and x86-64 processors can support more than 4 GB (gigabytes) of physical memory (RAM) in 32-bit systems, such as in the case of 32-bit Windows Vista operating system. With increasingly affordable and cheap RAM memory module, PC with 4GB or even 8GB of RAM memory sticks. However, to many disappointment, 32-bit (x86) edition of Windows Vista can only ’see’ and support a maximum of 4GB RAM memory.

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