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Check File Integrity With MD5, SHA1, CRC32 File Hash Numbers

October 22nd, 2009 Jo Comments off

You ever need to check the integrity of a downloaded file?
I found a very nice program that lets you check the hash numbers. The program is called HashTab and supports MD5, SHA1, SHA2, RipeMD, HAVAL and Whirlpool. It also integrates into the Windows Shell so you can use it with the right click.
How to use [...]

Check Network Performance

October 10th, 2009 Jo Comments off

Router:
You always wanted to know how your router is measuring up or you experiencing some problems. You can do some test to see how your router is performing:
Microsoft has an Internet Connectivity Evaluation Tool that lets you find out what specific technologies your router supports. Use this tool if you are running a router on [...]

Mouse Hightligts Everything Problem

October 6th, 2009 Jo Comments off

A few days ago I had a really strange problem on one of my computers. Whenever I wanted to select a file it not only highlighted that one file but also a bunch of more files. Just like if you would press Shift and then mouse-click. But the shift key was not stuck nor could [...]

How To Block A Spammer Once And For All

September 20th, 2009 Jo Comments off

I guess that happens to everybody – some leaves hundreds of spam messages in your comments section. I already discussed one method – to block that IP, username, email address in wordpress settings (under discussion). But sadly that doesn’t stop all of them. The last resort is to block their IP address through the .htaccess [...]

phpMyAdmin # 1045 access denied for user …

September 20th, 2009 Jo Comments off

I tried for a few hours to log into my phpMyAdmin Manger. But each time I put in my username and password I got an error message: “# 1045 access denied for user …. password Yes…” You can save yourself some time – you probably put in the wrong user name and password. I myself [...]

Local Hosts Path in Vista

September 19th, 2009 Jo Comments off

Path to Local Host in Windows Vista:
C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts
Open hosts with Notepad or Wordpad.

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Backup Outlook Express Mail

September 18th, 2009 Jo Comments off

It is very easy to backup Outlook Express Mail:

Open up Outlook Express
Tools – Options – Maintenance – Store Folder
Now copy the store location folder
Close – Close
Start – Run – Paste
Select All – Copy – Paste to a backup folder

Problem Transfering Files Bigger Than 4 Gb To External Harddisk

September 17th, 2009 max Comments off

If your external harddisk if formated in FAT32 it cannot handle files larger than 4 Gb. Well here is the solution to your problem:
You have to format the external Harddisk in NTFS:  In Windows XP – If you are in My Computer, right click on your external Harddisk, choose Format, select NTFS & Quick Format. [...]

How To Know If Your Blog Got Hacked

September 15th, 2009 max Comments off

There are several ways you can get hacked but I want to tell you about a simple way to check if someone took control of your source code:
If you have Firefox installed just go: Tools – Page Info – Links There you see all the outgoing links from your website. If you don’t see the [...]

Beware If Software Is Too Cheap

September 14th, 2009 user Comments off

As I know it from myself – you are looking around the net for the best bargain on software. And then you come across something that sounds too good to be true. Well, the truth is – in most cases it is. Like for example Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 – prize @ Adobe is $400 but [...]