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MSN Video/Soapbox Vista Sidebar Gadget for Windows Vista

Monday, May 26th, 2008

MSN Video has officially released the MSN Video/Soapbox Vista Sidebar Gadget for Windows Vista users. This tiny gadget from MSN allows users to receive all the latest MSN videos with links to MSN Video destination site right on the desktop. It supports more than 30 languages and features search function.

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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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