Zero Hour Sleep

What everybody does right after finishing their Wordpress installation upon setting up their blog, beside posting, is to install some plugins to add more functionalities to their blog, and there are actually thousands of them out there that fit everyone’s needs.

In addition, we tend to try plugins that other recommend, no? But, our life gets harder as we have to upload each plugin and update it whenever necessary.

So there’s one plugin out there that will make our life MUCH easier whenever dealing with plugins, and we really mean it! Check it out.

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We believe that having a local webserver is a must for every web developer, as it can help them easily test their code on their computers, and since uploading upload a files every time it is changed on remote webserver doesn’t really make sense because it is time costly especially is the file is of a large size.

Moreover, some developers like to try out some web applications such as Drupal, PunBB, Wordpress, MediaWiki, Mambo, and others, but they sometime refrain from installing them because these applications require other software that might seem hard to install.

Well, that’s wrong, we have actually found a VERY EASY way to install a local webserver with Apache, SQL, PHP and other applications in Windows environment!

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So Windows downloaded an installed a new set of updates on your computer! Everything worked perfectly and right after everything is done, Windows prompted your to restart the computer and you chose to restart later probably because you have tons of opened windows and you prefer to restart later.

Few minutes later you received that prompt again, and you kept on receiving it every few minutes… It’s annoying we know! But guess what, we’ll provide you with a way to disable it and continue working normally on your computer.

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Have you tried to install 4GB RAM on a Windows Vista 32-bit computer? I have tried it today, and to my surprise the computer reported only 3.GB RAM when I checked the system information.

I first thought it might be an addressing issue, I thought that a 32-bit operating system cannot address more than 3.2GB RAM, so I did some calculation and noticed I was wrong. A 32-bit operating system can address 2^32 Bytes of memory, that is 4294967296 Bytes, OR 4194304 KB RAM, OR 4096MB RAM, OR 4GB RAM.

So I was curious to know the reason for not detecting more than 3.2GB RAM although the chips were alright, I did some research and here’s the cause of that “problem” although practically speaking no memory is wasted.

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Quicktime media files are quite popular on the net, and that’s nothing new, so we usually have no option but to install it in order to play our favorite files. But hey, we also hate the add-ons that come with Quicktime! and we hate to have processes running in the background and slowing down our computers.

So we were thinkinking today if we can get a lite version of Quicktime to just fit our basic need of playing media files, and we started searching until we stumbled upon a very nice alternative! (You thought there was no alternatives huh?)

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If you’re a fan of The Matrix movie then you’ll definitely like this post!

One of the things that we remember the most is the stream of characters pouring down the screens in the movie. And guess what, we lately have stumbled upon a cool desktop enhancement tool called “ZMatrix”, that imitates the same effect by creating streaming characters on the desktop, very similar to the above screenshot.

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Due to the large amount of e-mails we receive everyday on our Gmail, sometimes we feel like drowning in e-mails!

We have already made use of the filtering functionality in Gmail, so most of the emails we receive usually go under some certain label, according to the rules we have set, while the rest simply goes to the inbox. However, keeping track of what we have not read yet became quite irritating lately due to the fact that Gmail doesn’t sort emails according to the reading status, so we end up hunting the unread emails…

BUT, we have finally found a simple trick that will display to you all your unread emails from your inbox or any other label.

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Ok We’re fans of Windows here at Zero Hour Sleep, but we find this funny!!

Via cerebrosuslens.blogspot.com

What do you think?!

Lot of people keep on searching for cool images to set them as their background, at least we do, since we like to have something nice on our background whenever we get nothing to do and all our windows are either closed or minimized. *In very rare cases!*. We get most of our nice backgrounds from Interface Lift by the way.

But how about spicing up the background a little bit? You can do that by setting some cool video as you background, it’s pretty easy to do, here you go.

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