The easy method which everyone should be able to do it in no more than 5 seconds is to delete a file from your blog ftp directory. You will find it regularly in public_html. The name of this file is wp-trackback.php.

1. open your ftp and go to public_html
2. locate wp-trackback.php and delete it.

This should disable from now all pingbacks / trackbacks on your wordpress blog posts.

So, why is this software such a precious?
Let’s just assume that you have hundreds or even thousands of pictures on you computer. A part of this pictures you’re sending to your friends over the internet and you duplicate and resize this pictures in order to sent them. After a while your computer will be full of duplicate pictures (as it was my PC).

Or, maybe you are a big music listener. You will have tons of mp3s, a part of them in two or more places on your computer, as duplicates. To delete manual all this junk is a big pain. The only solution is to use a tool and DupeTrasher is it’s doing a great job cleaning your HDD for duplicates.

What is DupeTrasher actually doing?
DupeTrasher is searching on your HDD for duplicates. Once the search process is done you can let DupeTrasher to remove automatically the duplicated files/directories/archives or you can select them manually.

I had chosen the automatic method and the results were impressive – almost 9 GB of duplicates were founded and removed from my HDD, most of them pictures but a few movies and dozens of mp3s too. Of course you can use a free tool to do this but I have found very hard or, to be sincerely, impossible, to find a good free software to remove safely the duplicate files, and anyway what I found didn’t removed the directories which contained that files too.

What can I say more? I am really impressed about the performances of this small piece of software. For all of you interested in removing the duplicates from your computer I recommend that you check this duplicate file finder – DupeTrasher.

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 CoDecS Pack\BSPlayer\ in this form: bscap000.jpg, bscap001.jpg, etc.

The problem is the Video Card, the hardware acceleration which makes practically impossible for a movie to be captured into a print screen (remember this is applied only to WMP) . A similar situation is in photography where it’s very hard or impossible to catch the cyclist into a shot because of the speed of the action.

What we can do in both situations is to slow down the action and to make it “printable” on our screen. In computers we have to refer to the video hardware acceleration.

Here are the steps to be followed:

1 – Open Windows Media Player
2 – Go to Tools > Options > Performance
3 – click on “Video Acceleration“, drag the slider to none
4 – Click Apply and then OK
5 – Restart WMP if it’s not restarting by itself.
6 – Open the movie you want to take a screenshot of, fast forward to the place that you want one of, then click Print Screen button.
7 – Open MS Paint / Adobe PhotoShop, Corel Paint or whatever program you are thinking to use and paste it.
8. You should have now the printscreen of the movie.

A second method is referring to Overlays:

1. Open Window Media Player
2. Go to Tools > Options
3. In Options, click on Performance Tab
4. Click on the Advanced Button
5. Uncheck “Use Overlays”

Don’t forget to roll back the changes when you’re done :)

Click Ok

The solution is very simple and it’s offered by Yahoo Messenger itself. The curious thing is that it was impossible to find it over the web. Or maybe I didn’t use the right search keywords. So, as usually I figure it out by myself (after a couple of beers :-P).

Lets do it together. Open both YM accounts (there can be more, no problem – you will have to repeat the steps). For this you’ll need two computers or Y!Multi Messenger which allows you to have two or more YM instances opened in the same time on the same computer or just ask a trusted friend to help you by giving him your password.

In the account you want to export contacts go to Actions / Send my messenger list or simply press CTRL+SHIFT+M. In the first window select your second contact name (to which you want to add your contacts, that one you opened on the other computer) and after that click Next to choose which contacts to send.

Import Yahoo Messenger Contacts

Go now to the second instance of Yahoo Messenger. You should have there a new window opened and an invitation to view all those contacts you have been sent a couple of moments ago. Click on view contacts and then select from the list which one you want to import in this account. The contacts you have already in the list will be marked in grey and with a message telling you that you have it already in your list.

In the case you have already all of those contacts in your account list, there will pop up a message telling you “All of the contacts who were sent to you are already in your Messenger list”.

Done! You have now all your contacts transferred from one Yahoo Messenger account to another :)

PS. The new YM 9 is offering ways to transfer contacts from even different accounts like Gmail, MSN etc.

Update: There is no need to open in the same time your both Yahoo Messenger accounts. Just send that list to your new account and than open that new account and click on view contacts and then select from the list which one you want to import in this account.

First method (the easy one):

Click Start, Run and copy/paste this command:

REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableTaskMgr /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

Click OK.

If you still cannot access the Task Manager try the second method:

1. Click Start, Run and write: regedit
2. Go to the following:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies\ System

3. In the right-panel, right click on DisableTaskMgr, click on Modify and change the Value to 0
4. OK
4. Close the window

Now try CTRL+ALT+DEL. It should open the Task Manager without any message :)