Tips and tricks
How to burn files larger than 2GB using Nero
To burn a data DVD with a file that is 2 GB in size or larger you must use the DVD (UDF) format and not the default DVD (ISO) which is regularly used for creating a data DVD in Nero Burning ROM. You will receive a message telling you that you have to use a [...]
How to clear the Google search history
I have been trying for a couple of times to get cleared the Google Search History using the following path: Tools and after Clear Private Data. Unfortunately my web searches hasn’t been deleted. Finally I’ve got the solution, which is solution is actually a easy one: go to Google Toolbar search box and click on [...]
Spam protection using cPanel. Forget about Captcha!
After I’ve tried, with no success unfortunately, to use Captcha plugins to protect against spam on my WordPress blogs, I’ve decided finally to take a look into the cPanel features for spam protection. And indeed there are some nice solutions. I’ve choose BoxTrapper, a cPanel AddOn which protects your inbox from spam by forcing all [...]
How to make a print screen from a movie playing in Windows Media Player
It seems that is not easy to grab a screen shot from a playing movie on a PC, when you’re using Windows Media Player. In BSPlayer is very simple: press Shift + P or simple P and you will get saved all your movie print screens into the BSPlayer directory, usually here C:\Program Files\ACE Mega [...]
Unreadable text – Blur Tool in Photoshop
There are situations where you want to make unreadable a car number, a signature, an email address or just an ordinary text, before you upload a picture which contain it, over the Internet. To do this you have to apply an effect over that text. What I am using with a great success is the [...]
Samsung Rant – How to setup the Keypad lock
If you are a lazy mate, at least as I am, you didn’t read the Samsung Rant manual, or you didn’t read it entirely. I see no problem with this anyway. A couple of days ago I was riding my bike and in one of the break times I got my phone running crazy on [...]
Banner / Links / Menu over the Thickbox image
ISSUE: These days I have been experimenting a big problem – on another blog of mine when I clicked on the pictures from the the first rows of the photo gallery, (I use Thickbox to display images) the categories links appears above the Thickbox image. This problem comes up in Internet Explorer and Firefox. SOLUTION: [...]
How to make a computer virus in just 3 minutes
Take it easy, it’s just a prank! In fact it’s about modifying a shutdown icon into a …”virus”. To do this is necessarily to locate a shortcut which you believe the computer user is using it frequently. Let’s say Internet Explorer icon. Right click on the shortcut, properties, into the Target field paste this: shutdown [...]
How to Steal FavIcons from Websites
Do you see a little face near my blog URL (in front of http)? That is a favicon. You can create a favicon like this entering in Google search bar terms like: create a favicon, favicon generator, favicon from pics, jpeg to favicon, etc. It will return thousands of results, most of them are online [...]
How to remember a password
Instead of remember a password you need to remember, actually, a website URL, or better save it in your precious bookmarks ;) Due to the lame world where we’re living today, we need stronger passwords, too complex passwords to be remembered. But for every tech issue it is at least one reasonable solution. Personally I [...]
Fast Shutdown and Fast Restart buttons
There are some situations when we wanted the computer to shutdown or to restart in a fast manner. This can be done by using some special arguments that are forcing all processes to close and the windows to shut down. In order to execute this commands, we’ll create two sets of instructions written in shortcuts, [...]
“Invalid BOOT.INI file” error
Sometimes, after a sleepless night you are about to drop your coffee cup all over you. And this is because of an error message: “Invalid BOOT.INI file”, suddenly appearing after you boot up your computer. “Invalid Boot.ini” or “Windows could not start” are windows boot.ini related errors. Windows could not start because Windows\System32\Hal.dll file is [...]
