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Make your Hotel Reservations easier and cheaper 2007-09-18 10:38:04 Do you like traveling? Are you planning on vacation soon? Then you must be thinking about booking rooms, flights or renting cars. I have found a great resource one-stop website service that could fulfill all your needs. Check out HotelReservations
.It's a great site that'll provide all you need to plan your vacation. The site also offers great rates for not just hotels, motels, but full vacation packages, cruises, rentals, flights, and even cars. They have really some great hotels for some very affordable prices. Why should you take the pain to browse and search all the hotels websites while you can get all hotels in the one complete website with even cheaper prices. They cover world wide destinations in their offer.Their website interface are extremely simple, easy to use and informative. I'm sure you can find the feature you want with one click away. They also offer you in many different languages such as Spanish, French, German and Italian if you're not a native English speaker.
Windows Control Panel applets 2007-09-18 09:12:24 Windows ControlPanel
is great way of accessing windows administrative features. Some of those features are not available in traditional interface. Those features are hidden from normal GUI. The only way to access is from command line only. For example, control userpasswords2 is the only way to access from Run command.To access these lists, go to Start Menu -->> Run and type the commands you want. Control Panel applets Applet name Type at the Run command Add Hardware control hdwwiz.cpl Add or Remove Programs control appwiz.cpl Administrative Tools control admintools Appearance Settings control color Audio Devices and Sound Themes control mmsys.cpl Date and Time control timedate.cpl or control date/time Display Settings contro Read more:Windows
Save money with Coupon Chief 2007-09-17 22:38:21 We always try to find the best deals possible whenever we go out for shopping. We all love to save our money, don’t we? If you're planning to do online shopping, I would like to give you great tip. You should check out Coupon
chief first to get the best possible coupons to get discount for your shopping.If you are planning to buy or upgrade your computer, you should check their dell store. They have got a lot of coupon for you, ranging from $10 off to $450 or more. I strongly recommend their Best Buy coupons. You will see a lot of coupons for all the modern gadgets you can imagine. What's more? Their alphabetical store list is a really long list and that would definitely satisfy you no matter what types of coupons you are looking for. I find it to be a great resource website with very user-friendly convenient interface and it would help you to save not only your hard-earn money but also your precious time. Read more:Chief
Show Start Menu Faster 2007-09-17 22:08:20 This is just minor and very easy tweak. If you think your start menu don't show up fast enough when you click, you can remove any delay from menus sliding out.To do this, you can simply edit registry value.First Go to Start
menu -->> RunThen type regedit, press enterBrowse to HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelDesktop You will see the key, called MenuShowDelay, with the value 400.Double click and change the value to 0.Just like any other registry change to take effect, you need to restart your computer. That's it! Your start menu will show faster.
Anglian, for your home improvements 2007-09-17 21:49:03 We all know the word “Home Sweet Home”, don’t we? What does Home exactly mean? According to wiki, “A home is a place where a person, family, or group of people live or spend much of their time, or where a person feels safe or comfortable.” Yeah, that’s right. Having the whole day tired of work, when you go back to your home, what do you expect? You want to relax and your home should be exactly as you can imagine. If you own a house, Home improvements never seem to end. You should choose the right people to do it for you. After looking on-line at Anglian Home Improvements, I’m sure you will come up with great ideas what your dream home looks like. The products available are windows, doors, conservatories, kitchens, garage doors, driveways, and many more . After I have looked at Anglian's products, they are very gorgeous and I feel like I’ve found my dream home. They have been in service for over 36 years and they have great reputation for excellent quality. If you
How to keep NumLock on for every boot 2007-09-16 19:25:34 Every time you boot your computer, you observe that NumLock is off. But from your office or another computer, it boot with always NumLock is on. So you may want to make your computer to boot up with NumLock on too. How to make it?Go to Registry Editor byClick Start Menu-->> Run -->> Type regeditAnd then go to this registry key.HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelKeyboard-Double click on InitialKeyboardIndicators -Type 2After that you restart your computer and you will see the NumLock as the way you want it.Source : Microsoft Read more:every
How to create Desktop icon shortcut 2007-09-15 18:13:51 Some of you may accidentally delete Desktop
icon shortcut
from Quick Launch. Don't sweat it! You can easily recreate
it. Follow these steps.1. Open your Notepad.2. Type the following :[Shell]Command=2IconFile=explorer.exe,3[Taskbar]Command=ToggleDesktop3. Save the file as Show Desktop.scf on the desktop.4. After that, just drag and drop to the Quicklaunch bar.That's it! It's easy.Source : Microsoft
How to delete undeletable files 2007-09-14 16:01:47 How many times have we been annoyed by that messages? Oh yeah, there are many alternatives of above such as :Cannot delete
file: Access is deniedThere has been a sharing violation.The source or destination file may be in use.The file is in use by another program or user.Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use.I've got two ways to solve this problem.First way : If you're not tech buddy, you should go to second way.Go to Start menu -->> Run -->> type cmd and press enter (this will open command prompt)After that press Ctrl+Alt+Del to bring up task managerGo to Process tab, find explorer.exe, then click End Process.Your Taskbar will disappear.Go back to the Command prompt you just left opened.Browse folder or file you want to delete. Delete file with del command and remove directory with rmdir command.After that, in the task manager, choose File -->> New Task (Run..)Then type explorer.exe.Your taskbar will appear again.Second way : I re Read more:undeletable
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Microsoft Windows 95 commercial 2007-09-14 09:00:28 After I've enjoyed Pirates of the Silicon Valley, I was looking for Windows
95 commercial. I thought that commercial would be quite interesting as what I've seen Apple commercial for Mac is too self-arrogant and frankly, I feel funny.Besides the facts that all those data in that movie is accurate or not, I've enjoyed the movie and I liked this commercial too.Sometimes, we should know the history. History made us who we are today. Read more:Microsoft
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Hide your Windows from Network Neighborhood 2007-09-13 19:45:50 Using computer in public places is unsafe anyway. If your Windows
show up in Network Neighborhood
or My Network Places, other users in your office LAN or public LAN can access your share files. So, how I can you share your files without showing up in Network Neighborhood? It's very simple. Just follow these steps.Go to Start menu -->> Run Type cmd, then press EnterIn command prompt, type net config server If you see "Server hidden" is "No", that means other users can see your share files in My Network Places. You can change it by typing the following command.net config server /hidden:yesSo from now on, the only way the other users can access your share files is via your ip address. In DHCP environment, other users wouldn't know it unless you gave them.
Find related artists in visual 2007-09-13 09:24:42 We all have our favorite musicians. But sometimes, our favorite singer release new album once in three years or more. We want to listen music quite similar. We have to look for related
artists from online store such as Amazon. I have found this very interesting website, Music Map, that let us search similar artist to your favorite one. They will return the search in the draft map. The closer the artist name to your favorite (which is in center), the higher probability that you'll like that artist too. See the following screenshot that I search for Eminem alike.Obviously, for my instinct, I know that 50 cent, DMX, D12, Nelly, Dr. Dre and 2Pac are rapper, I don't think there's any reason Celine Dion should be related to Eminem. I mean I've never heard of her rapping. Okay, nothing is perfect.Even though, it's not sure bullet proof, it's enjoyable.
Internet Search 2007-09-11 16:14:59 I know internet search become one of daily routines in our life. All people use major four search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN (Windows Live) and Ask. Actually, most people search internet in that order. First they try Google, after that Yahoo, after that MSN (Windows Live) and then Ask. We all know that Google is the king of the king in search engines market. But wouldn't it be nice your search terms to search simultaneously on all four major search engines.You should try Dogpile. It will search your keywords in all four and then return you with results and even where that result come from.For examples, my search for bridge to nova returns at No. 9 and only from Google (Yeah, that's why I said they are the king).You should try it too. It's really fun to see which one return what. By the way, if you wanna know more about Google search, don't forget to check out my Google search tips article. Read more:Internet
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Microsoft BlueScreen Screen Saver 2007-09-10 13:09:27 Microsoft has been famous and criticized for their BlueScreen of Death(BSOD). Most people of Windows 95, 98 era scariest nightmare is they saw BSOD. But since Windows XP, Microsoft has greatly improved their OS and at Vista, I have been using for six months, I have never seen BSOD again.As BSOD become a thing in the past, now Microsoft even made fun of it by releasing BlueScreen Screensaver. First time I know Microsoft has a sense of humor. What's this screensaver?Bluescreen cycles between different Blue Screens and simulated boots every 15 seconds or so. Virtually all the information shown on Bluescreen's BSOD and system start screen is obtained from your system configuration - its accuracy will fool even advanced NT developers. For example, the NT build number, processor revision, loaded drivers and addresses, disk drive characteristics, and memory size are all taken from the system Bluescreen is running on.Use Bluescreen to amaze your friends and scare your enemies! Read more:Microsoft
Smorty : Another blog income source 2007-09-10 06:01:28 If you have no idea what Smorty is, let me give you a brief introduction. Smorty is a blog advertising service connecting advertisers with bloggers. Advertisers can pay bloggers to write opinion posts with links back to the advertisers' site. In other words, Smorty is another pay-per-post, get paid to blog service.As I've already got paid from Smorty, I'll share you all the experience I have with them. They are very quick in reviewing my blog (only 1.5 days). For posts approval, as in their FAQ stated, it won't take more than 5 business days (cool, huh?). For payments? This is the best part of it. They pay weekly via paypal and they are very quick to pay. It would take only 4-7 days to get paid after your post have approved. Even though they are a small, new company, if they keep their good work, I'm sure they will be one of the major income sources for bloggers.Of course, there is some area to improve too. The thing that confused me is their Smorty scoring system. I've got 500
My favourite PS3 games 2007-10-02 01:24:00 Sony Playstation has always been my favourite console. Since PS1, I have been sticked with them. Most of my favourite games are story-based, action games.Nowadays, we are in the PS3 era. If you are looking for PS3 games, shopping.com PS3 store have got large collections for almost every game you can imagine. Let me compare what is different between PS3 and PC. For examples, my favourite Need for Speed Carbon, I have been playing that game in PC for quite a long time. But after I've tried on PS3, it's really a WOW experience. Graphics are what really impressed me. For Call of Duty 3, the story line made me feel much more dramatic than Call of Duty 2 that I've played on my PC.After all, I've realized that game console is played great part in our gaming experience, not just game itself. I can't wait to see when game console could create real human image or even clone coming out of it.
Reopen closed tabs in Firefox 2007-10-01 14:17:00 Last month I share with you guys about the Firefox
shortcuts that I frequently use. But right now, I found out this new, very nice shortcut again. I used to accidentally close tab in Firefox, sometimes in my favourite website or sometimes in totally first time new interesting site. To reopen, I have to dig down in my history list.I don't have to do that anymore. I can press Ctrl+Shift+T to reopen the tab I have just closed. More interestingly, you can press Ctrl+Shift+T as many times as you want to reopen many closed tabs. It's quite handy for me indeed.
Store things in your Garage 2007-10-01 08:01:00 What do we store in our garage? The answer usually is car. Well, if you do a little bit tweak with the help of CarGuyGarage
.com, you can have garage storage. You can keep all the tools, equipments, anything handy in your garage, so that hopefully you don't have to go searching around the next time you need a certain tool. They have got many different colors and styles you can choose to make your garage neat and stylish. After you've installed garage storage you want, you can show off your garage to your friends and relatives proudly and brag how stylist and handy your garage storage system is.This post is a paid review. Read more:Store
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How to enable Run As command 2007-10-01 02:53:00 For Windows Vista, this Run As command
is available in all versions. If you're not yet running Vista, you can still stick to XP. Yeah, this Run As is not enough to convince you to make a switch obviously.To enable Run As in Windows XP or Windows 2000, you need to run related service.For Windows XP,Go to Control Panel -->> Administrative TemplatesDouble Click ServicesIn the right panel, find Secondary Logon and double click. For startup type, choose Automatic and click Start.After that click OK.Now secondary logon service is running. So that you can start using Run As command by right click on the program you want to run and choose Run As.For Windows 2000, you do the same procedure, but look for the service named "RunAs".That's it! Enjoy your favorite Windows!Source : Microsoft
ProWorkflow - To help you manage projects, tasks and time 2007-09-30 08:46:00 I've done many projects for my careers. Most of the time, I've been using my laptop to keep track all my projects. Sometimes, I forgot my laptop, that's really a nightmare. After I've been shopping around internet for a while, I have found out ProWorkflow is very great Web based project management and time tracking solution software that well-suited my needs. So that I gladly accept to review about them via sponsored reviews. If you haven't heard of ProWorkflow, it's web based Project management, task and time tracking solution which is meant to streamline the indvidual's accountability and increase business efficency for small and medium companies, offering a full range of features. Let me highlight some of the key features such asBrowser-based online access, for remote Web-based management and project status Intuitive, modular organization with the Project Manager, Dependent Tasks module, Task Manager, Time Tracker, Contact Manger, Timeline View module, Notes Manger and Report
Workarounds if your XP can't remember folder settings 2007-09-28 08:15:00 Some folder you want to view as thumbnails, for some you want to view as Tiles and for some you may want List, Icons, or Details. Your Windows used to remember all those settings for you and suddenly, your computer looks like it got brain washed. What is happening? Firstly, make sure you select Remember each folder's view settings in Control Panel -->> Folder Options as in the following diagram.Even after that, if your XP still dumbs, the answer is that by default, Windows XP is limited to 200 local folders and 200 network folders, for a total of 400 folders. So that after it remembers for 400 folders, that's it. It's full.How you can solve this?First MethodThis effect only to before Windows XP SP2. So the quick fix would be to download and install Windows XP Service Pack 2. What if you don't want to install Service Pack 2 for some reasons? Read the second way.Second Method,You need to edit registry. As always dealing with registry, use it with great caution and use at your own ris
Hackatonish - Mac in a pc 2007-10-12 19:41:00 I have been trying to run Mac on my PC. I have been reading about Mac good news here and there. Many people suggest that Mac is very superior to Windows, blah, blah, blah. So I thought I should give it a try. But I don't want to invest that much money for Mac hardware. That's why now I'm into Hackatonish, which kernel has been patched to run Mac on non-Apple hardware. As of now, I have installed Jas MacOSX 10.4.8 in VMware. I have found out that Mac is quite suck though. No, I'm not talking about performance, I know VMware is slow for every OS. But when I try to download Google Talk, with Mac version, I can't talk, I can only type. What's the point of having Google talk without having ability to talk? After that, I have downloaded attachment from my friend email and then when I tried to download Winrar, there's no GUI support for Mac version. Geez!!I pray it won't end up like my linux experience.Stay tuned for my updated Mac experience. I may install it on real pc soon.
Sorry for no update 2007-10-12 03:01:00 If you are my regular reader, you may notice that I didn't post for last three days. I was a bit busy with my personal life. And I haven't got the mood to blog lately. But from now on, I'll try my best not to have that gap again.
Amazing Diamond Plate Cabinets 2007-10-07 23:51:00 Are you feeling sick of your old cabinet? Isn't it time to get rid of the old cabinets? I would recommend you CarGuyGarage's diamond plate cabinets, if you're looking for a new way for your garage to have a new diamond touch. Diamond plate cabinets are indeed a great help for you as it will organize your personal things neat and tidy. As they are made of aluminum, they will never rust or corrode. These cabinets look so great that you don't have to limit yourself to putting them in the garage only, you could even place inside your house if you have many things left unorganized. You can order online for these cabinets, so what are you waiting for? Read more:Amazing
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Browser war not over yet? 2007-10-07 23:36:00 Those who think browser war has already gone, think again! Remember, this June, Apple had to make their safari available for Windows. We all know Safari sucks on Windows. Yeah, that's right! Apple has been forced to make because if they want to get more marketshare, Windows is the only platform that could do.With Mozilla's firefox community growing and some people got turn on by the speed of Opera, Microsoft have to make their IE7 available without WGA validation too. Of course IE7 is very superior than IE6 based on performance, functionality and security. But with WGA validation (you know most of Windows user are pirated), their reach is quite limited. So now, Microsoft don't attach any bound anymore. Here we go, enjoy the war!Source : Channel Insider and IEBlog
Portable DVD player : wherever you go 2007-10-05 10:11:00 A great movie can make a long trip go by very easily, whether you are driving or flying. When you are flying, the movie you watch on the small screen at the front of your cabin is often interrupted by announcements from the crew about dinner. Have you ever considered taking a portable DVD player
with you? Check out digitalframez portable DVD player.They have offered you portable 10 inch DVD player for just $239 and they will ship worldwide. This small gadgets support popular divx format. It includes TV tuner also. So that no matter you want to watch your favourite movie or tune in to TV channels, this tiny gadget will take care. What's more? It also includes battery charger which you can plug to cigarette lighter in your car. Anti-shock suspension will give you maximum experience of watching dvd on the go without disturbances. So that if you're planning to drive a long trip with your kids, this portable DVD player is a must have in your car. Read more:Portable
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How to fix Google Sitemap error for blogger feed redirects to feedburner 2007-10-05 02:52:00 After I have used feedburner for my feeds, I have setup feed redirect in the Settings -->> Site feed as follow.After two or three days, when I login to my Google
Webmaster account, I have got the following warnings in my sitemap error
.When I click to view the warnings in details, I saw this:Line: 2 Invalid XML: too many tags - Too many tags describing this tag.Line: 2 Incorrect namespace - Your Sitemap
or Sitemap index file doesn't properly declare the namespace.It made me very frustrated. Feedburner isn't compatible with Google's Blogger services? After talking with my geek friends and emailing to Google, I have got the following solution.1. I have to delete the old sitemap.2. After that, I add new sitemap with ?redirect=falseThat's it! Since then, I can see my sitemap with errors or warnings free as below.
Online Gambling at Bet365 2007-10-04 03:37:00 Recently online gambling has become really popular again. Maybe, due to all major football leagues are starting to kick in to their dramatic climate. Online gambling have been making waves over the internet since the early 2000. There are thousands of online sites but choosing the best site, the safest site is very important. Therefore I recommend online gambling at bet365.com instead of some random site where you probably will get scammed too. Bet365.com offers a lot of instant play games such as BlackJack, European Roulette, FootBall Rules, Gold Rally and even a dedicated online poker section. This site is available in 13 different languages, so language barrier should not be problem too. You can also check out the latest odds for sporting events and place your bets online with a well managed wallet system for your funds. At Bet365, you are rest assured of a secured online environment. Bet365 is licensed and regulated by the Gambling
Commission and they has a Thawte SSL Web Server Ce Read more:Online Gambling
Don't panic if you click your own Adsense 2007-10-03 11:41:00 Well, I don't use adsense here. So I don't have to scare of one day getting email about I'm getting banned due to fraudulent click. But for one of my friend, who depends on Google adsense, it's life and death situation.One day, he accidentally click one of adsense and send email to customer support informing about the accident. (Yeah! he's that honest) After two days of nightmare, he got the following reply from Google.Thanks for letting us know about the clicks on your ads. We appreciate your honesty and your efforts to keep your account in good standing. Although publishers are not permitted to click on their own ads for any reason, we do understand that accidental clicks may occur, so we don't require that you contact us every time you click on your ads. If you were clicking your ads out of interest or to see who was advertising on your site, we suggest the AdSense preview tool as an alternative. This tool will allow you to check the destination of ads on your page without Read more:Adsense
What type of loans are you looking for? 2007-10-17 22:21:00 When it comes to loans, there are many options. Now, what I am talking about is not say a car loan and a mortgage specifically, rather the major types of loans most people get.What about homeowner loan type? If you are a homeowner and need to raise finance for one of a range of purposes then you could find that secured loans provide the perfect solution. Basically the way it works is you take a second mortgage on your home and the amount available is based on the equity you have in your home. Most people take out this type of loan to renovate their house or do some home improvements. Another type of loan is personal loans. Personal loan has various advantages. if you are longing for a luxurious holiday and you are lacking in adequate finance then you can take a personal loan to materialize your dream. Personal loan can be used for debt consolidation also. If you have taken a number of loans and built up a huge debt then you can take a personal loan. It will help you to consolidate yo
Paint can create ico files 2007-10-16 05:14:00 I'm a big fan of MS Paint
for its simplicity. And Paint is available in all Windows after all. But I didn't realize that Paint can create
ico files
too. Whenever I tried to save a file in paint, I drop down file types available and I've never seen .ico, so I thought I can't save it. But you know, if you give file name with .ico, Paint create icon files for you. You can use those icon files for your folders or even for favico. It's cool!!
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