Monthly Archives: October 2008
Disabling Opera BitTorrent Download
| 30 October 2008 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
Since version 9, Opera has built in bittorrent download manager, and by default, Opera will ask you if you want to use the built in bittorrent download manager to download files from bittorrent network when you’ve downloaded a .torrent file. This is quite annoying since we cannot save the .torrent file to be use in our favourite bittorrent client.
If you are new to Opera web browser, here are the simple steps to disable the built in bittorrent download manager in Opera. Open a new tab in Opera. type about:config (1) in the address. Click ‘BitTorrent’ (2), untick ‘Enable’ (3), and hit ‘Save’ (4). Just as simple as that, and you’ve disabled the built in bittorrent download manager in Opera. Now, .torrent file will be treated as a normal file that can be downloaded.
Surfing Blocked Websites With Tor Browser
| 29 October 2008 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
One of the easiest way to surf a blocked website is by using Tor Browser Bundle. Tor Browser Bundle is basically a portable software package which contains Tor client, Vidalia (GUI for Tor client), Polipo (web proxy), Portable Firefox and Torbutton (Firefox extension for Tor). Tor client will enables you to connect to the Tor network, which is a network that allows you to communicate anonymously on the Internet, and we can use this network to access a blocked website.
Tor Browser Bundle is very easy to be installed and it requires zero configuration. After you’ve downloaded Tor Browser Bundle, just run the self extracting executable, choose the folder where you want to extract it, and run Start Tor Browser.exe. The launcher will automatically launch Vidalia and Tor client. After you’ve successfully connected to the Tor network, Vidalia will launch Polipo and Portable Firefox. When you exit Firefox, Popilo and Vidalia will automatically closed.
Vidalia Control Panel
Tor Network Map
Tugs Uptime Project: Compete Your System Uptime With Others
| 23 October 2008 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
Uptime can be described as the time of a system running without any reboot or powered off. For most geeks, maintaining a system uptime to its highest is a satisfaction. The Tugs Uptime Project will allows you to compete for the highest system uptime with others.
To participate in Tugs Uptime Project, you will need to be a member of the site. Registration is free. Then, download the client so that the client can update the server with your latest uptime status. The client is open source, and official client is available for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. The rules are very simple:
“Rules are so simple. To participate just create an account. Number of machine is not limited, one login, many machine. You have just to install Client on machine and configure it with your login and password. The machine will automatically be recorded.
A machine which does not send uptime during more than 4 days will be identified as "inactive" (by the sign " PowerOff "). A new transmission will make it active again. At the end of 30 days of no connection, machine’s uptime will be fixed to zero and machine will be pushed at the end of toplist…”
Unable to Boot Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu: Busybox?
| 21 October 2008 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
If you are unable to boot into your Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu system, and it shows you the Busybox terminal, try run the fsck utility on all partition, especially the partition that you install your system. Here are the easy steps on how to do this:
1. Boot to your system with your Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu Live CD. Run the partition manager software (GParted) to check on which partition you had your system installed (1). Take note of the partition file system (2). In my case, I’ve installed my system on /dev/sda1 with ext3 file system.
Inserting .FLV Flash Video in Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc)?
| 21 October 2008 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
So, you’ve downloaded a cool flash video from YouTube, and you want to insert it into your PowerPoint slide show. However, Microsoft PowerPoint gives you this error message: “PowerPoint cannot insert a movie from the selected file. Verify that the path and file format are correct, and then try again.”
How To Recover/View Saved Dial Up/VPN Password in Windows 9x/XP/Vista
| 19 October 2008 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
For those who use the dial-up method to connect to the internet, I’m sure you would save your dial-up password in your system. You can connect to the internet faster, without the need to enter the password every time you want to connect to the internet by saving the dial-up password. However, in case you’ve forgotten your dial-up password (for example, you want to format your computer), and you haven’t saved your password anywhere else, this small tool will help you to recover your stored dial-up password.
Free Utilities To Monitor Hardware Temperature
| 3 October 2008 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
In this post, I will list 6 free system utilities that can be used to monitor your hardware temperature such as CPU and hard drive.
1. Core Temp
Info: Core Temp is a compact, no fuss, small footprint program to monitor CPU temperature. The uniqueness of it is that it shows the temperature of each individual core in each processor in your system! You can see in real time how the CPU temperature varies when you load your CPU. It’s also completely motherboard independent.
Core Temp is available for Intel Core and Core 2 processors as well as the whole AMD’s Athlon64 line of CPUs only. Older processors are not supported.
How To: Install All Hardware Drivers Easily
| 2 October 2008 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
DriverPacks is a collection of hardware and device drivers, and this bundled drivers is very suitable those who are too lazy to search for drivers everytime you re-install Windows or if you just simply forgot to backup all your hardware drivers.
DriverPacks is an open source project, mainly to create a ‘uniform’ Windows installation CD that works with every hardware without having to look for the drivers. The latest DriverPacks slipstream tool, DriverPacks BASE 8.09 RC 1 support the creation of stand alone drivers location, without the need to have a source OS. Currently, there are 10 DriverPacks available:
GIMP 2.6.0 released
| 2 October 2008 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is one of the best free (and open source) image editor. GIMP is often considered as a free alternative software for Adobe Photoshop. On 1st October 2008, the GIMP developer has released the latest stable version of GIMP 2.6.0.
Some changes in GIMP 2.6:
- Integration of GEGL, a graph based image processing library that bring high bit-depth and non destructive editing to GIMP.
- Toolbox menubar has been removed.
- Toolbox and docks are now part of utility windows.
- The ability to pan beyond the image border when working with images.
- The free select tool has been enhanced and improved.
Quick Updates #2
| 2 October 2008 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
The ultimate graphic card guide – All you need to know about graphic card.
Download the latest Xunlei/Thunder No-Ads by Ayu. Xunlei/Thunder is an alternative bittorrent client. If you need an English translation for Xunlei/Thunder, download this language pack. [Download: Thunder.v5.8.6.600.NoAD-Ayu.zip] [Mirror download: Thunder.v5.8.6.600.NoAD-Ayu.zip]
How to easily reduce the memory usage of all program in Windows.
Oosah – Get 1TB of FREE online media storage. Right now Oosah has a file size upload limit of 250MB per video, 50MB per image and 50MB per mp3.
The latest VLC media player 0.9.3 (0.9.2 for Windows) gets a new GUI!
Hotmail has update its interface, and offering more storage for users. Each user will get 5GB of inbox size, and 500MB more per month every time user hit the limit.
View the user names and passwords stored by Google Chrome Web with ChromePass
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