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Get updates for website that does not publish RSS feed
I’m frustrated at some websites (particularly news website) that do not publish RSS feed, because this makes my life harder when I have to surf their website almost everyday for latest updates.
It is a time consuming work, especially when they do not update their website regularly as anticipated, and when they do update, you are usually the last person to know about the updates.
Page2RSS and Feedity might provide the answer for those who shared my feelings about those websites. These service generates RSS feeds for websites that do not publish RSS feeds.
With these service, all you need to do is subscribe the RSS feed provided by both service, and wait for updates. It will make your life easier by performing the checkup on your behalf, and inform you if there’s any updates on your RSS feed.
I’ve tried both services, although by far it is not perfect, It does save my time from having to surf my favorite websites for updates.
[tags] rss, feed, syndication,blogs,scraping,seo[/tags]
How to fix broken pins on IDE hard disk
Ever had a broken pin on IDE hard drive? It’s frustrating when that’s happen, especially when the hard drive holds your valueable stuffs.
I found a nice website that explains a step-by-step guide to fix your broken IDE pins using ordinary tin foil and a sewing needle.
Visit this website for more information : http://arem.us/stuff/hdd/
Tags: hardware, cdrom, ide, hard disk, diy, computers, hdd, howto, windows, tutorials
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How to Convert Flash Video FLV files to WMV
Hi there,
One of my friend has posted nice well-written tutorial about how to convert Flash Video files (FLV) to Windows Media Video (WMV) using a freely available software from VideoLAN
What is Flash Video files (FLV) ?
Flash Video file is a file format used in various video sharing website such as Youtube and Google Videos. These files are tuned for web sharing and broadcasting applications. You can download these FLV files from Youtube and Google Video by using a free web service VideoDL.org
Although FLV files is light enough, Windows Media Video (WMV) file format are more flexible and are better supported by multimedia applications.
In fact, it is the main (perhaps the only) reason to convert FLV to WMV is because WMV files are widely supported by various multimedia and hardware player.
Please read the how to article at his website : Converting .flv (flash video) To WMV to find out how to perform the conversion.
Tags: video, flv, flash video, windows media player, windows, multimedia, dvd ripping, vlc, converter
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Akismet, Spam Karma 2, Captcha, etc which works best for you?
Currently I use Spam Karma 2 from Dr Dave, and it works well for me, but I’m still curious about your experience in using other anti-spam solution for your blog.
For starters, I’ve tried Akismet before, and for some reason it did not work well for me. I dont know why, but I keep getting a lot of comment under my moderation list, and that isn’t practical to me at all, because I’ve to check a lot of comments in the moderation list (up to 1000++ in once case).
I’ve also came across blog which uses Captcha to deter comments spammers or even take drastic measure to their blog comments functionality all together.
Whatever your actions are, I would like to hear it from you about what kind of actions you’ve taken to reduce the annoying comment spams.
Tags: spams, akismet, spam karma, spam, blogspam, trackback, blog, blogging
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How to make Movie Screenshot from Windows Media Player
Ever wonder how to take screenshots of your favorite movies using Media Player? I bet some of you have tried it and what you got is just a another blue-screen when your pasted it on a graphic editor program.
The trick is to change few settings in your Windows Media Player before you press the Print Screen key. First, you should go to Tools menu, then Options, click on Performance tab, click Advance, uncheck “use Overlays”, then click OK.
You should be able to take screenshot of your favorite movie from media player after that, but don’t forget to check “use Overlays” back after you’ve finish with the screenshot, or your movie might slow to a crawl.
Tags: media player, windows, wmp, screenshot, movies, windows media player
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How to play DOS games with DOSBox in Windows XP
Maybe some of you wonders how to play classic DOS games in Windows XP, since newer operating system can’t play old DOS games anymore.
Now, here’s a howto that teaches you how to play your old DOS games back in your Windows XP machine. This tutorial assume that you have a DOS game ready in hand named M1 Tank Platoon.
Download DOSBox
Download DOSBox from DOSBox website.
Start DOSBox
Start DOSBox and mount C drive
Install DOSBox
Install DOSBox, of course.
Prepare your DOS games
Copy your DOS game folder at C: drive for easy access.
Start DOSBox
Start DOSBox and mount C drive
Start the DOS game
Change directory to the DOS game dir.
Execute the DOS game binary
Congratulations!
And watch the DOS game flies in your computer, you can change it to full screen by pressing ALT+ key.
Tags: windows xp, dos, dosbox, abandonware, dos games, games, old games, freeware, windows, winxp
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List of TMNet Streamyx Broadband DNS
Always experience the dreadful downtime of Streamyx default DNS? Here is the list of TMNet Streamyx Backup DNS server. It might be useful if the usual DNS server ‘mysteriously’ stopped working :
202.188.0.132
202.188.0.133
202.188.0.147
202.188.0.161
202.188.0.181
202.188.0.182
202.188.1.4
202.188.1.5
202.188.1.23
202.188.1.25
Remember, copy and put it in a safe place in case if you need it afterwards, it might be handy.
p/s: DNS or domain names system is a system that responsible in translating domain name (like google.com and tipvista.com) to IP address of the corresponding computer server like (72.232.16.43 or 69.76.54.121).
Without DNS, we won’t be able to surf the internet without memorizing those IP address and surfing the internet will be much more difficult than we used too.
Tags: domain, domain name, dns, streamyx broadband, internet, isp
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Backup WordPress automatically with WP-Cron and WP-DB-Backup
A short post, but today I would like to share you two WordPress plugins that could save your blog’s (and possibly your) life.
WP-Cron and WP-DB-Backup helps you to backup your WordPress files periodically to your email. You probably already have WP-DB-Backup If you’re using WordPress 2.x, I hope that you would have already utilised this plugin as it can be handy to backup your WordPress installations.
WP-Cron takes the backup process further by automating WP-DB-Backup job to send daily wordpress backup to your emails. Although this seems redundant most of the time, rest assured it will be worth it when your Web Hosting fs*ck on you.
For this to work, I suggest that you send your wordpress backup to a gmail account since gmail account is able to store gigabytes of data, so your wordpress backup will be save there should you need it.
You can download WP-DB-Backup and WP-Cron from http://www.skippy.net/blog/plugins/
Tags: tips, wordpress, blog, blogs, hosting, web hosting, backup, cron
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My web hosting messed up my blog
Hey guys, I’ve a bad news for you, my web hosting (which previously hosted this domain) really got messed up. It seems that they have problem with late paying bills of their reseller account.
So now my account accidently suspended and so are theirs, I don’t know how much days it will take for them to clear things up, but I wont put my hopes much, I think i rather start this blog from scratch rather than wait for them to recover (if that the case!).
Why did I have to start from scratch? Well to make the story short, It seems I’ve deleted all my backup about this blog from my pc, so here I am, back to square one. But I promised to keep this blog updated with new posts and tips.
So my advise is, please choose your web hosting company and domain carefully, they might fscked with you if you’re not careful enough.
p/s: no prize will be given for those who are able to guess which is my web hosting company :p
Tags: web hosting, hosting, tips, internet
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