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My Hard Drive Is Click click clicking! Help what is wrong? 2007-08-21 12:02:00 Our faithful reader Michael writes in from New Jersey:HELP!My hard drive (my largest storage drive h:) just started to make these light intermittent clicking noises. Sometimes the drive does not show up in bios nor in My Computer. Then it magically reappears after a few restarts - but its getting louder and now there is another click. So its like click - click - LOUD CLICK - whirllllll. What should I do Backup? Ghost? Raid? I have somewhat of a budget and im home sick today! HELP! Did I Say HELP!Normally a clicking sound coming from your machine is a Very Bad thing. It is probably a precursor to full out drive failure, so my immediate advice is "BACKUP WHAT EVER DATA IS ON THAT DRIVE!" ASAP! Any way you can, as quick as you can! Copy the contents to another drive burn dvd's, cd's, zip disks whatever it takes. (See here how The SlothMan created a simple image for backup) Realize that after another restart the drive COULD never spin up again! If the drive really fails, you're out of
I Bring You The Top Ten... Um Er... Top Nine Technology Feeds - The BEST of the BEST! 2007-08-21 08:23:00 I spend around two hours a day on my daily commute into Manhattan Most of my trip is below ground and as such I don't get a signal. No gprs no edge no nothing.So i read my downloaded feeds in egress on my wm6 dash. AtA gets the question of where can I get a list of really good tech related feeds. I usually shoot them off my public opml file with 30 or so feeds. But I thought to myself I am limiting the scope of this by just giving you MY collection. Hows about you guys add yours as well? Don't see your site listed? Did we miss one of your favorites that you can live without. Leave a testimonial. Like i looooove http://www.asktheadmin.com/ site because he fixed my dying hard drive with faulty MBR (that's next) or i love http://www.hackaday.com/ 's tech DIY projects. Hit your favorites up in the comments and i will add them to the post after validating them!Here you are in no order what so ever my top NINE feeds out of my list... AtA's best of the best... Best of show... Oh whateve Read more:Technology
Micro$oft Update Alternatives + Top Ten Reasons NOT to use Windows Update! 2007-08-20 12:01:00 How many of you out there are not fond of the Microsoft Update
site? I am sure there are many of you. How many of you are fed up with the Genuine Advantage nonsense every time you want to make sure you are up to date? Not to mention if you have a "legally questionable" Windows
or Office installation. Don't fret, there are other methods for getting your updates so you can stay patched up. I will talk about two of my favorites.The first one I like is called Autopatcher. Every few months they create a core distribution, almost like a service pack, which contains all previous patches. Then every month they come out with a big update that you install to keep your system patched up. Autopatcher is really nice if you don't like to reboot. How many times have you built a new machine and installed Windows from scratch, then tried to patch it up? You have to reboot about 3 or 4 times before everything is patched up! With Autopatcher, everything patches at once, and you only have to reboot onc Read more:Alternatives
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Ask The Admin Participates in Blog Action Day 2007-08-20 11:29:00 We are all about helping out good causes and on October 15th of this year Ask The Admin
will participate in "Blog Action
Day"! This is where all participating blog authors write articles about a common topic. This year it is the environment. So get you environment related questions in before them and suggestions on articles related to oh say Solar Power, Biodegradable Circuit Boards, Helping use less energy and less natural resources. Hit us up in the comments or check the links below to participate!On October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind - the environment. Every blogger will post about the environment in their own way and relating to their own topic. Our aim is to get everyone talking towards a better future.Blog Action Day is about MASS participation. That means we need you! Here are 3 ways to participate:Post on your blogrelating to the environment on Blog Action DayDonate your day’s earnings to an environmental char
Hp's revolutionary print anywhere service - Not revolutionary nor can it print everywhere. Discuss amongst yourselves. 2007-08-20 08:35:00 Is printing documents from your mobile device somewhat of an adventure? You have to get to a meeting and your doc is sitting on your handheld. The copies weren't printed and sent over by your Secretary - What do you do? There are plenty of work-a-rounds and hacks but nothing definitive to allow you Mr. Mobile to print directly from your mobile device to ANY printer ANYWHERE. Well I guess not any printer... OH and I guess its not Anywhere either.Hmm so what is so revolutionary about it? It seems HP hosts your documents and will send you a SMS code that allows them to be printed to "Local Printers"? Does that seem strange? Will that be Kinkos and Staples or Misses Johnson down the hall with the neat-o color printer? HP is claiming Web 2.0 but this seems like an idea that would have wowed them 5 years ago.We have a bluetooth printer in the car and wait here is a shocker - My windows Mobile device has BLUETOOTH also! And whats that... The sound of a document printing from my phone to the Read more:everywhere
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Check your web design in TONS of different browsers, totally free and deliciously open source, multi-platform, fully-configurable screenshots. 2007-08-20 00:41:00 Alot of web design
ers have probably heard of Browsercam's pay service that allows you to test your web design in a multitude of differentbrowsers
and platforms using a distributed screen-shot service. But I, personally have not subscribed to browser cam simply because I have the ability to preview in the browser variants that I need myself. The primary browsers I'm to code for are firefox 1.5 and above and IE 6 and above. I usually manage to accomplish this using remote desktop and the such. But now, as I totally
predicted, there has emerged a challenger, that has managed to distribute the process amongst many different (donated) platforms. This emergence can be found at https://vo4.browsershots.org/, where an ingenious developer named Johann C. Rocholl has taken on the brave competition with Browser cam. The system is not totally complete yet, however it is functional for the purposes it was created for, and is totally usable towards those ends. The main drawback is the 30 minute d Read more:Check
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AtA gets reviewed + A Word From The Admin 2007-08-19 08:20:00 Good Morning Boys and Girls. I wanted to share with you this glowing review we got from the guys over @ TechWag here.A good system administrator is worth their weight in gold, anyone that can run around the networked systems and fix the bizarre arcane things that happen on a daily basis, regardless of operating system, is one of those folks that end up becoming a key person in an organization. If you do not love them and cherish them, then the company is going to loose probably one of the most valuable assets they can own, a decent system administrator.We were told about a site called “Ask the Admin
” that is right over here, a while back, and as we started looking at it, the advice is good, and really realistic in terms of dealing with a number of issues that seem to crop up daily. If you need or want a generalized question answered, you can ask them. If you want to find the answer to a question that your boss is asking, like should we use full or partial RSS feeds, then you can fi
Restore Your Newer Dell Machine to Factory Default Settings Is As Easy As Control F11! 2007-08-18 09:38:00 Happy Saturday Faithful AtA Readers! No you are not having Deja-Vu, we pushed this back up to the top for two readers - Joe in Massapequa and Arman out in Saudi Arabia. We received a number of emails regarding Dell and their no recovery cd policy by default. Yes you need to request the CDs now for an additional modest fee. At first we were all like... Whaaat the fu..... And then we realized before we could finish our profanity that there was a piece of paper that looked like a recovery cd that shipped with the laptop talking about a recovery partition.This turned out to be the easiest return to factory default on 10 Inspiron 630m's. These machines are in the field and don't get anything other then antivirus from us. So a custom image for them was on my mind but it wasn't really necessary. I set all the machines up to restore and then created a batch script on my server to push the antivirus and change a few settings.So the magic key combination if you missed it in the title of th Read more:Restore
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How can I move My Pictures folder from my documents to an external drive? 2007-08-18 08:20:00 Our Reader RJ writes to us:ATA,Would you know how to change the default path of the "My Pictures
" short cut in XP Pro.Default points to "My Pictures" in "My Documents". I would like to change it to point to pictures on an external NAS drive
. (Something like Y:Pictures)I did try changing the registry settings in Shell folders and then rebooted, but on reboot, it reverts to default and not the changed path.Hope You Can HelpWe sure can, and this one is easy. I don't know why Microsoft hides this functionality away. Lots of my end users will benefit from this one. It is as simple as this:Open My ComputerBrowse to the My Documents FolderHighlight the My Picture DirectoryOpen a second My Computer window.Browse to the directory where you want to put the My Pictures directory intoDrag the My Pictures directory to then NAS Drive in the other window.Windows does the dirty work of updating links and shortcutsVOILA! Glad it worked out for you RJ! Did anyone out there already know this?Check out
Deal of the Day: DSL On The Cheap! 2007-08-18 08:00:00 This expires tonight at midnight so if you have been holding out on geting some high speed intermanet action this is a great deal for your web browsing and email sending needs on the cheap. Mind you, your not going to be downloading full length movies in 10 minutes like Optonline but it will do for Mom and Pops...From GotApex:Expires TONIGHT! Verizon - Verizon High Speed Internet for Only $14.99/Month with First 30 Days FREE and FREE Modem! Now With FREE $25 Target Gift Card!...They've finally put an expiration date on this offer and it's in a couple of weeks. Only available online, this is their newest offer and it's finally one worth mentioning. Before they had a $9.99 offer that was good for 3 months, at which point, the price would go up to $19.99,... which wasn't bad, but with this one, you get the first 30 days FREE to check it out, and it's only $14.99 for the year thereafter! Expires 8/18/07! VERIZON HIGH SPEED INTERNET DEALUpdate: If you don't already know, Verizon is al Read more:Cheap
Flying Phones: Dash crippled and revived by the same insanity. 2007-08-17 15:07:00 So, some of you read this post a while back about my dash refusing to read my memory cards. That got me so pissed off, I wanted to go back to the good old beeper days... What you probably didn't know was that same day I was speaking to someone and got pretty agitated and when I get agitated I talk with my hands. Long story short My poor little AT&T Dash went flying out of my hand like a Frisbee. It had a few scratches here and there but, it was working and I didn't think anything of it.I also didn't want to associate that with the memory card not working. But today I was even more worked up then normal and my phone again went flying out of my hand causing my partner to duck as it slammed into the wall behind him.I laughed... He didn't. He said "You could have taken my damn head off! Take it down a notch man!" I looked at it and said "I bet you my memory card works again..." He said "I bet that whole damned thing is all foxed up." Guess who was right??If you guess that you wouldn' Read more:Flying
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Student’s Guide to Buying A Laptop - Summer 2007 2007-08-17 14:43:00 I was recently helping my brother decipher what to look for when buying a new laptop, and put together the following guide. The way I see it, there are probably more people out there who could potentially benefit from some of the information provided, so I’m including it here for reference. It’s geared towards students since the majority of laptop buyers around this time of year are in fact students, so I tended to shy away from the really expensive ultra-high performance notebooks. Let's get down to it. So in light of the fact that all the big retailers are offering great “back to school” sales, I think your best bet is definitely to buy from a local store such as Best Buy, Circuit City, or CompUSA. If you can find a better deal for the same laptop online, by all means buy it there instead, but make sure it comes with the same warranty, accessories, etc…1) Pretty much all new laptops come with at least 1 year of factory warranty which should cover anything but self-induced Read more:Student
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Would you take a free dvr plus free pro tivo like services with the inabililty to fast foward through commercials? 2007-08-17 08:51:00 Apparently Cable companies are trying to step up and save their commercial business. How you might ask? Give the users a Free DVR that will not be able to fast forward. Very interesting idea except that we HATE DVRs that do not store your programs locally for one main reason - they do not store your programs locally! Read on..I pay my fourteen or so buckaroos a month for my Tivo noises. No really those addicting noises really was what was keeping me from going with a DVR(Digital Video Recorder) option from my cable company or building my own MythTv box. But my modified 300 hour series 2 is, which is going on 5 years old now, still alive and kicking so why junk the box if its working great?Then it started to die on me. Messing some audio up here and the video got scrambled there , occasionally just up rebooting... Poor little guy. As you can see I have grown attached to my TiVo.I fixed her up and reformatted the drives and she is working again. I set Tivo aside with the intention
When the cats away the mice will play! See whats going on when your away from your pc using a simple search. 2007-08-16 08:05:00 Ever get the feeling someone has been messing with your machine while you were away?Your trusted Anti-virus isn't telling you there is something wrong but you know deep down in your gut something is off- and chances are it is! After all a unprotected windows machine can be infected on the Internet in under 10 seconds now-a-days so if you are missing some patches or have an easy password... Whoa Boy! This is what The Admin does when he gets that I have been hacked feeling.So now you have that not so secure feeling? You can follow these easy steps with no software other than windows search needed.I open task manager with Control Shift Escape and sort my processes by CPU usage from high to low - I kill what i don't know ( I do know a lot of process names and such but even I don't know every process in the world - if you are unsure Google it! - FYI - Windows will not let you kill system processes.)Next I open a search box and look for modified files within the last 24 HRS (or however Read more:will play
Best of the best 10 must have windows mobile apps 2007-08-16 08:04:00 Are you running on the windows mobile platform? Then this list is for you! Some of these might not apply to all versions like Vito Copy Paste and Note Pad are only useful for non-touch screen WM5 and 6 phones like the Dash. Let us know if we missed any of your favorites! Check here to see if we have the Application Unlock your Mobile Phone.Metro - Metro finds your way in public transport systems in more than 350 cities around the world (Paris, New York, London, Tokyo, any city with a subway & many more!). FREE, FAST & ACCURATE. Many more features to discover: - Directions and information! FREE!Egress - Egress is an advanced yet easy to use application which displays your favorite RSS/ATOM feeds directly on your PocketPC. Now supports Podcasting! Free 30 days $12 to ownCeletask - The best Task/Process Manager on Windows Mobile Smartphone and Pocket PC! Allows for reboots and full access to kill tasks. I only installed this after I could not kill certain process via Task Manager. Fre
Upgrading FROM Vista to XP 2007-08-16 02:10:00 Like any geek, I am not one to judge a piece of software until it lands on my desk and I have a chance to play with it. Windows Vista
was no exception, and since it came pre-loaded on my new laptop, I couldn't say no to what I would call a "test drive." Let me say now that I have already crashed!Flashback a few months ago, to me picking up the box which held my new laptop from Staples. An HP with a 17 inch widescreen, the dv9250us model. It has a gig of ram, 120 gigs of storage, great graphics, and a dual-core 64 bit processor. I was excited indeed. When I got home, I booted up, and was greeted with Vista Home Premium (32 Bit on a 64 bit laptop...how cheap of HP). After getting the annoying out-of-the box experience thing out of the way, I went to doing my normal fresh install procedures (install Firefox, run XP-Antispy, among other things). As I proceeded to install software, I was already irritated by the UAC - User Access Control - asking me every 5 seconds if I was sure about what
Ubuntu Servers hacked Windows Fan Boys snicker loudly. 2007-08-15 20:14:00 Linux users always smirk and snicker about other OS's when it comes to security. But this article coming in from Zdnet shows Ubuntu
's own servers were compromised and used to attack other machines over the net. How did this happen you ask?? Simple - human intervention is needed to up date these servers and they were largely unpatched and vulnerable. Servers are only as secure as their administrators that administer them! Remember that the next time when people are arguing what operating system is the most secure...More than half of Ubuntu’s production servers had to be pulled offline after a security breach caused those servers to actively attack other machines.According to a notice in the Ubuntu weekly newsletter, 5 of the 8 servers that are loco hosted had to be shut down after an investigation showed a variety of security problems. The servers were found to be missing security patches, using insecure protocols (FTP without SSL) to access the machines and without upgrades past br Read more:Windows
I got a brand new Dell why can't I play my AVI files on it?? What Gives?!!? 2007-08-15 14:42:00 Calm down killer.... Don't get your panties all ruffled! You can watch your precious AVI's but you need a codec to play them. Just like you need a codec to watch a DVD - Except that comes built in with your DVD software. A codec is simply software that allows your application to render the media file. Even if you don't understand that you can fix yourself up by grabbing the K-Lite Codec Pack. The download is small and the install painless..Hit this link to get the all in one K-Lite Codec Pack 3.3.0 Full.This will give you support for almost all the major files
mainly DIVX and XVID. They release updated packs all the time - So this is where The Admin goes when he downloads a little something something and then realizes he can't watch it.What are you waiting for go update and try and play all those old downloaded files of ummm yeah national geographic specials..._theAdmin_Check out our RSS feed.
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Antivirus Fight Club 2007-08-15 09:51:00 Found this interesting article on ClamAV's website.Antivirus Fight ClubHere's the interesting tidbit:The “winners” in last night’s contest were ClamAV, Kaspersky and Symantec. All three tools caught 100 percent of the viruses they encountered. F-Prot and Sophos caught 94 percent; McAfee caught 89 percent; and GlobalHauri, Fortinet, and SonicWall caught 61 percent.I am not shocked to see Symantec where it is, because let's face it...it is still best of breed.But McAfee which is considered to be one of the big dogs to be so low is awful.But a free, open source product in this test coming in @ 100% accuracy is VERY nice and applies some pressure.So what are you using for antivirus??? Might want to think twice about it now. EDIT: Rule Number One Of Anti Virus Fight Club - Never TALK about Anti-virus Fight Club!!!Check out our RSS feed.
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I Just Bought a Vista Machine Can I Legally Downgrade to XP Pro?? 2007-08-15 08:40:00 HELL YEAH YOU CAN! Don't think for a second our favorite monopoly would ever let the competition hone in on unhappy upgraders!We have heard this question many times in one form or another since Vista
's birth - and it usually involves people mentioning torrents and key gens. STOP right there and don't go that route. Seriously dude don't do it to yourself. You don't want to inject malicious software into your OS before you even use it. We know all systems manufacturers and integrators are ONLY shipping Vista now and lot of IT shops have not yet adopted this new OS for one reason or another. You will be happy to know that Microsoft does have a policy regarding this and it keeps it buried pretty well. Well wouldn't you if you could sell more licenses because of it? Microsoft has something called downgrade rights as you can see from the screenshot below and via this link here to the PDF. So they tell you to install the Windows XP media with WHATEVER VALID key you have and then when ac Read more:Machine
Full RSS Feeds VS. Partial Feeds. Are there benifits? 2007-08-14 09:16:00 During our Tuesday morning commute I read this article from TechDirt speaking about RSS feeds. A lot of sites offer partial feeds and usually just the headline to try and persuade you to read the article on the site exposing you to their advertising. Sites like CNET do this and it pisses me off and seeming I read these articles in a RSS Reader on my mobile phone while I am on the train I can not just click through. So only the BEST of the BEST articles get read by me - You know just the ones that stick out in me head later in the day.TechDirt as well as AtA use full RSS feeds because one we don't have ADs on our site as we are not about making $$$ and Two We are here to help our readers. These quotes from the above mentioned articles made us go YEAH! You go get em!...Techdirt, of course, offers full feeds and always has. This means that plenty of people who read this site absolutely never visit the site. We're fine with that for a variety of reasons (one of which being that our busin Read more:Partial
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I need to open a port on my router or firewall. How do i do that? What is that? Should I Be Scared?? 2007-08-14 08:21:00 Our reader Diego has an application on his computer that he needs to get access to while he is away. Diego is trying to get VNC going on his iPhone. This tutorial is for you no matter what router you are on but, it uses the WRT54G as an example. You should be able to use the knowledge to work with most modern routers. To begin there are a few things you need to do. First as a prerequisite you need to know the difference between external and internal ip addresses.Now you see that you can't get to your internal addresses also referred to as your NAT IP from outside without some work. You are in a protected kingdom. (Pardon the corny references but they work well!) The inside of your network is like the inside of your virtual castle. The only way in is by opening a port sort of like building a virtual draw bridge. To open this draw bridge to your computer over the internet you need your computer to have a static IP address.Now we need to see if you are using a static IP or a dyn Read more:Scared
Google says Go To Hell Microsoft we are giving away free versions of Office Alternatives! 2007-08-13 10:05:00 This one is BIG! I don't know how long it's been out there for but Google
has a little know program that lives on lots and lots of computers worldwide. It is their update system called Google Updates that updates and/or installs Google components. Now there is also something called Google Pack that is accessible and downloadable from Googles update servers.So big deal - woo hoo! another updater app. Who Cares?How about Microsoft
for one? As they wipe the spittle out of their eyes they have to have noticed that you can now download and update all of StarOffice components! That's right for the low low price of ABSOLUTELY free. For those of you that don't know StarOffice is SUNS answer to Microsoft Office. But it is open source and normally costs 70 buckaroos to download directly from SUN.Now lets think about this. You buy a new DELL desktop with a crappy trial version of office on it that expires after a month or so and you also have this fancy smancy google update program that can g Read more:Alternatives
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Can I make a program run on my Windows XP / Vista Computer at a specific time? ... Is It Hard To Use? 2007-08-13 08:07:00 James's question is a good one and can help you do a bunch of stuff with the set it and forget it mentality. A lot of you know about this but do you actually use it to your benefit? Keep reading...I believe James is speaking of the Windows
task scheduler. A easy versatile scheduler for any application - any anything actually. If it can be run you can schedule it! Like we showed you how to Make Outlook Your Bitch and be the master of your PC via outlook rules triggered by keywords.MS Task Scheduler will allow you to do the same but depending on time as your trigger. Are you still with me? Say you want to run a program at a specific time like a defrag script in the early morning or how about play a audio file to wake your ass up? Launch a app that runs a script that controls a serial arm that gets you a beer at 5pm and throws it to you. Yeah the last one was a little weird but its early Monday morning and all.You get the idea - You can run anything at anytime on any schedule. The functi Read more:Vista
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Can I save my searches to reuse them in Vista? 2007-08-12 23:02:00 So are you wondering why you would want to save your searches?Think about it - How would you like the ability to dynamically find the items you need with a saved search? So the boss called and said - I need all the purchase orders less than a months old and tagged Smith?How about Power Point Presentations created by your partner in the past two weeks? All of those with the letter z in the title? Just the ones with the word NEW in the filename? We see your creating crazy searches and we know you hate to have to recreate em' each time. Do you want to make it a little easier on your self?? Save them searches!No problemo senor! Just follow these simple steps:Browse as normal to Start Search. Type any characters in the search box (a star works great because, as a wildcard, it won't restrict the search once you save it)then click Advanced Search. Modify the fields however you want and when you are satisified, click Save Search.And you now have a custom search saved for you! You can set up Read more:Vista
4 Methods of Unlocking the iPhone 8/25/07 : Verdict Wait until Its FREE! 2007-08-25 11:23:00 The Time has come...It's Sat morning 8/25/07 and there are officially - 4 yes you read that right 4 unlocking methods that all cost money, duckets, green, them dead presidents...What have you. If you have held out this long - Wait a little longer dudes and dudettes there WILL be a free method. The free version and information related to it can be found @ the dedicated wiki when it is released here. And if you have the means to support the team with money or time check the links at the bottom of this post. Here is the goods from the Gizmodo:To summarize, there are now four methods to 100% unlock the iPhone
: The Forged SIM MethodDescription: 100% unlocks the iPhone by forging a new SIM card. It only works if you have a V1-type SIM card in your current phone. Full functionality. Doesn't void the warranty.Released: MON AUG 6 2007Cost: $96 + shipping.The Turbo SIM MethodDescription: 100% unlocks the iPhone with a small card called TurboSIM. Works with any SIM card and carrier. Full funct Read more:Methods
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Saturday Morning - Week In Review 2007-08-25 09:37:00 Here are some Great links from AtA That You might Have Missed...And To our Loyal Readers - Show your support - Set random machines (stores, friends, computer labs) homepages to AskTheAdmin.com Share The Geeky Goodness With Strangers!Quick Wipe Hard Drive's Using Lysol - Freeware 5 Second Hard Drive Blow AwayHow can I Remove Backgrounds From A Picture - Change the background of any PicHow to Use Gmail on your Windows Mobile device - Gmail as your SMTP or POP serverstudents-guide-to-buying-laptop-summer.html - Self Explanatory!The GeekTest - I just wasted 20 minutes - How big of a geek are you?How to Roll Out Desktops Using Disk Imaging. - What is disk imaging and how can I do it?Pain Free Backup: Using WordPress - Backup and migration from Blogger to WordpressAre There Any Good Blogger Hacks? -Top 10 Blogger Hacks Can I add a Recent Comment Widget to a Blogger - Similar to the wordpress widgetGoogle apologizes for outage - Google says that Blogger was down for 1hr - we beg to differGr Read more:Saturday
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IPHONE HAS BEEN FULLY UNLOCKED - NO LONGER STUCK TO ATT. Software Based Sim Unlocker!!! 2007-08-24 15:58:00 Engadget gets Props for breaking the Software
Based Iphone Sim Unlocker Story a little while ago (Plus Information RoundUp)... When the free version will be released information will be here.Do you hear that? Yes that there... That is the sound of freedom and rejoicing at the overthrown ATT over lords. Alright maybe we are taking it a little too far but...As we were about to leave for the day - IT is 5pm and all Friday... We glanced at a monitor and saw that pigs were flying.... I mean a Tmobile iPhone Is what we saw... Thaaaaaat's right kiddies it has been done. It sounds like it was a group of local New Yorkers and they will be on Fox 5 News in a few minutes. Correction New Jersey. We will scour the net for you this weekend and bring you your SIM cracking goodness. Are you ready? Wait for it.... Wait for it... From CNN:George Hotz, 17, confirmed Friday that he had unlocked an iPhone and was using it on T-Mobile's network, the only major U.S. carrier apart from San Antonio-based AT
Quick Wipe Hard Drive's Using Lysol 2007-08-24 13:59:00 Have you ever needed to quickly blank a hard drive? Now I'm not talking about for security purposes, for that I like using DBAN. No I'm just talking about one quick wipe down to erase the drive? I do, especially when I really want to test a disk image. I want no previous instances of anything on the drive, to really be sure my image is perfect.Well, at my school they have a really old, yet effective program, called Lysol. I tried Googling it, and I couldn't find any place to download it. I did find some forums where people mentioned it, but no place for download. Well, it's time to rectify that! I obtained a CD ISO of the program, and I am making it available for everyone here!Lysol is pretty friggin' awesome. It will wipe a drive in about 5 seconds! That's right, only 5 seconds! (like I said, this is not good for security wipes). The iso itself is less than 3MB in size. It is small, but very effective. Now if you or your friends are looking for a quick disk wiper, then send them Read more:Quick
How can I Remove Backgrounds From A Picture Quickly in Photoshop? 2007-08-24 12:00:00 This answer is pulled in its entirety by permission from ThemBid.comThis tutorial was created using Adobe Photoshop
CS2. When I first started with Photoshop, many years ago, I remember removing backgrounds manually using the eraser tool. Very tedious, but you can sometimes get good results. Here I will show you how to do remove backgrounds very quickly with good results using Photoshop’s extract feature.Click here for the GIMP version.1. Load up your photo. I grabbed the photo for this tutorial from Stock.Xchng.Here is the original test photo that I will use2. Filter->Extract… or Alt+Ctrl+X3. Using the highlighter tool trace the edges of what you want to crop. Use a smaller brush size (around 5) for well defined areas and a larger brush size (around 20) for areas that are less defined like the hair. Use the zoom tool at least once to get a better view. If you have a shaky hand, you may want to use the Smart Highlighting feature. 4. Use the fill tool to specify what areas of the pho Read more:Backgrounds
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