Journal of Useful Tips

I’m not sure if this is a credible source for tech news, but I read this from news earlier today : Vista activation cracked by brute force from The Inquirer.
The said crack utilise brute-force attack which defeats the so-called unhackable Windows Vista Activation Code.
Although it might take several hours in order to get the correct [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Sometimes it annoys me not to have “Always On Top” option on every windows because we need a post-it style windows to appear on top of our active application. This is particularly useful when you are typing something in your wordprocessor while talking to somebody through a webcam.
I searched the internet and I found a [...]

I found a cool app (PPTMinimizer) that lets you optimise your Microsoft Powerpoint slide to a smaller size. This is achieve by compacting the Powerpoint slide by removing unused information contained within it.
Additionally, PPTMinimizer has a strong compression setting that dramatically reduces Powerpoint slides size to 30-80% making it load faster in the process.
Smaller size [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]