Windows Vista Cracked?

Posted on March 2, 2007 by Jon Moffet

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 through brute-force, the crack is said to work and can be downloaded from Keznews forum website .

Details about how to use the keygen can be obtained here : http://keznews.com/2431_Vista_Brute_Force_Keygen

It is important to note that, I haven’t personally this crack myself as all of my personal computers barely meet up with Windows Vista high system requirements.

So use it at your own risk! Otherwise, enjoy!

[tags]windows, windows vista, crack, keygen, computers[/tags]

How to make Movie Screenshot from Windows Media Player

Posted on January 10, 2007 by Jon Moffet

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

Posted on January 7, 2007 by Jon Moffet

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.

dosbox installation

Prepare your DOS games

Copy your DOS game folder at C: drive for easy access.
find dos games

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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How to keep your windows always on top, PushPin

Posted on September 14, 2006 by Jon Moffet

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 nice little application that called PushPin. Upon running it, it let you select the “Always on Top” option from the Windows.

PushPin can be easily removed by right-clicking on the PushPin icon in the system tray and selecting the remove menu item.The best thing about this application that its small (25KB), resource friendly, and best of all free of charge! You can download PushPin from its website, and try it on your self!

http://rosafamily.org/software/pushpin/[tags]windows,freeware,utilities,desktop,software,free download,downloads[/tags]

Optimise and Compress your MS Powerpoint slide

Posted on September 3, 2006 by Jon Moffet

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 makes the slide easier to be mail through the internet (especially over 10MB in size), thus saving your waiting time and makes it easier for your recepient to download the attachments.

Here’s some screenshot of PPTMinimiser in action,

You can download PPTMinimizer at Tucows

[tags]slide,powerpoint, ppt, microsoft, windows, microsoft office,office[/tags]

Simplify your .htaccess task

Posted on July 28, 2006 by Jon Moffet

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 be handy for you too!
[tags]apache,htaccess,htpasswd,linux,windows,hotlink,mod_rewrite[/tags]

Backup your Windows Drivers with Driver Magician

Posted on July 21, 2006 by Jon Moffet

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 a dedicated Drivers CD custom made for your PC and/or laptops, since its convenient to have all your drivers packed in only a single CD.

Backup your Drivers now with Drivers Magician Lite

[tags]drivers,hardware,windows,downloads, device driver, backup,devices[/tags]

How to disable PDF viewing in Firefox

Posted on July 16, 2006 by Jon Moffet

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, some people view this feature as a drawback because Web browser should not takeover PDF reader job.

The Solution

Fear not because somebody has published a quick fix that disable firefox capability to display PDF files on the fly.

Please proceed to Disabling PDF Display in Firefox

How to flush Windows XP DNS Cache

Posted on July 7, 2006 by Jon Moffet

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, is to go to Start Menu->Run, and type in “ipconfig /flushdns” without the quote, and the problem should be solved soon after that.

[tags]windows xp, winxp, tips, guides, dns[/tags]

Mozilla Thunderbird Keyboard Shortcuts

Posted on July 5, 2006 by Jon Moffet

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 Messages	Ctrl + T
Send Message Now	Ctrl + Enter
Toggle Message Pane	F8

MESSAGE KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS

Edit as New	Ctrl + E
Label: None	0
Label: Work	2
Label: ToDo	4
Mark All Read	Ctrl + Shift + C
Mark as Junk	J
Mark Message as Read/Unread	M
New Message	Ctrl + N

For more information about Mozilla Thunderbird keyboard shortcuts, please refer to Mozilla Thunderbird Cheatsheet article by Leslie Franke.

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