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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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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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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4images is one of the most powerful web galleries for management, administration and presentation of images on the internet. It is built using PHP and MySQL database, and offers tons of features such as an administration panel, unlimited categories, rating function, RSS feed, protection against hotlinking and many more.
We have recently chosen 4images to install on one of our websites. The installation was very smooth and the gallery was up and ready in few minutes, everything seemed fine for us. However just as we wanted to start uploading images we encountered the following error:
Error uploading image file: 1.jpg
1.jpg: Copy error. Please check the directory permissions.
No database entry!
Usually such errors are due to some folder being not writable, but that was not the case with us since we double checked our folders permissions. So we kept on searching until we solved the problem, and here how we did it.
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The only problem that Firefox lovers might complain of is memory leakage, which cause Firefox not to release memory that it is no longer using. This issue used to be “more serious” with older versions and Mozilla has worked on reducing the memory leaks as it was updating version, but the problem was never completely omitted.
So in our post today we will list what can be done in order to minimize Firefox memory consumption and free up some space for other applications!
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Isn’t cool to be able to open the Add/Remove programs in just a couple of clicks? And how about being able to do the same to launch Disk Cleanup and Device Manager?
Sometimes we work so fast that we need some tools, like the Event Viewer or Services, to be a click away and spare us some valuable time. For that, we have found a collection of some nice registry tweaks all gathered in one single batch file that will add various tools and consoles to the right-click menu of “My Computer”.
We’re pretty sure these tweaks will be quite useful especially for power users, they will actually make your righ-click menu look similar to this one:
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You are probably used to backup files that are smaller than 100MB in size, and it’s almost always an easy task to do. But if you backup files that are bigger than 1GB then you definitely know how much time it takes for such files to be transferred to the backup device/server.
Normally you might write a small batch file maybe to transfer the files you’re concerned about to your backup device. We actually do that to a database file that is more than 50GB! And guess what, it takes more than 2 hours for the backup process to complete!
This is where incremental copy becomes very handy.
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You’re probably used to reading posts about controlling your computer remotely, but today we’re going to talk about how to remotely turn on a computer even if it is in a shut down state. And yes it is possible.
Wake-on-LAN (also known as WOL) is an Ethernet computer networking standard that allows a computer to be turned on or woken up remotely by a network message. And most new motherboards with embedded Ethernet support WOL, however you can if your motherboard is not you can enable it via the Power Management section of the motherboard’s BIOS.
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If you have a password set on your Windows user, you will be of course required to enter it each time you logon to Windows.
But there’s a trick you can do to automate that process and allow you to logon without having to type a password. Then every time you turn on your machine it will automatically logs on a user that you specify.
Let’s see how to do it.
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A lot of us use P2P programs such as LimeWire and BitTorrent to download our favorite MP3s. But do you know what has lately became a GREAT tool to download music and video files? It’s Google! Yes, the monster that has an answer for every question can also help you find multimedia files!
Jimmy Ruska made a couple of videos a while ago, which got quite popular on youtube, to share with us great tips on how we can use Google, through the usage of special keywords, to find music and video files. And we have to admit it, result were impressive, Google did prove to be as good as P2P programs if not better in finding the targeted files.
Enoug talking, let’s move to these videos.
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