Journal of Useful Tips

I found a handy website for those of you who run your own website using Apache webserver. http://www.htaccesstools.com/ simplify your job to create password protected directories, prevent hotlinking, block IPs, redirection by languange and creating custom Error Document.
I think you should try and check the service out, because it’s handy for me, it must [...]

Mobile phones have become a required accessories nowadays. You can see people use mobile phones everywhere in varying shapes and sizes. But do you know who invented the mobile phone?
Let’s take a quiz here
Tags: mobile, mobile phones, phones, camera phone, motorola, nokia

Driver Magician Lite is a free application that lets you backup your Windows driver such as when you lose your original device driver CD. This is because most of devices nowadays came with their own drivers cd that makes it easy to misplaced any one of those CD.

Driver Magician also allows you to easily create [...]

You may already encountered websites that provide link to a PDF file, usually if you installed Adobe Reader you will be able to automatically view the PDF files right inside your browser.
The trouble with this method is, your browser may freeze or crash while waiting for the PDF files to download to your computer. Furthermore, [...]

You’ve seen him in action, now here’s the chance to be the legend yourself. Headbutt as many people you can to earn Red Cards, a funny game that you shouldn’t miss
http://addictinggames.com/zidaneheadbuttgame.html

p/s: I couldn’t stop laughing while playing this game, very funny indeed
Tags: zidane, worldcup, zinadine zidane, france, headbutt, funny, games, [...]

What’s Web 2.0 ? According to wikipedia,
The term Web 2.0 refers to a second generation of services available on the World Wide Web that lets people collaborate and share information online
Now let me list elements used by Web 2.0 websites, based on general observation :

Rounded Corners
Big Text (Verdana or Georgia)
Gradients on top- like technorati, Wordpress
Bright [...]

I know that World Cup was ages ago, but it seems that people have different perspective on what happened during the game, particularly during the finals where Zinadine Zidane headbutted an Italian player, here’s how things happened according to its respective viewers :
By Germans

By French

By Italians

By the Press

Lol, it’s amazing how things got blown up  [...]

Sometimes it is annoying discover that the your domain still points to an old location instead of a new one, after you’ve changed it’s NS record.
This happens because Windows XP tries to speed things up by placing the DNS information about that site, into a DNS cache on your PC.
The easiest way to fix this, [...]

Here’s a partial list of Mozilla Thunderbird shortcuts. For the uninitiated, Mozilla Thunderbird is a cross-platform desktop based email client developed by Mozilla foundation and it is available for free download from the project’s website
KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS

Caret Browsing
F7

Get New Messages for Current Account
Ctrl + T

Print
Ctrl + P

Reply to Sender of Message
Ctrl + R

Send and Receive All [...]

I don’t know if any of you had this kind of problem, it surely annoy the hell out of me.
Symptom :

Everytime you use your DVD/CD the CPU usage shoot up close to 90.
Your CD/DVD burning session is longer than it should be.
The CD/DVD drive lights keep flashing like morse code signal

Usually this is caused by [...]