So Webshots closed their little wallpaper changer software and replaced it with Smile. The Webshots users are very disillusioned because they were left with thousands of images/wallpapers encoded in WB1 format. But don’t worry! I have found a nice (actually a much much much nicer) replacement. It is called BioniX Wallpaper Changer. BioniX is the […]
Webshots is dead. Smile! Read More »
So, few days ago I had nothing better to do so I uninstalled my old antivirus and ‘upgraded’ to Comodo Antivirus. Boy! That was such a bad idea! This is why: First at all, Comodo pretends their antivirus is freeware but it isn’t. Its bloated adware. Lots of pop-us and reminders that you should be
Bad antivirus! Bad! Bad! (Comodo) [includes DNS fix] Read More »
For years I crawl my web sites from one host to another. Recently my subscription at www.InMotionHosting.com (thanks god!) expired so I moved to what I hoped to be ‘a better web host’. That is www.iPage.com. Only few days after I moved and the madness began. They closed my web sites (yes, all of them)
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I know that it sounds exactly as a scam but it isn’t, believe me. Plimus (a software reseller) added a new policy that force its software vendors to offer “30 days money back guaranty; no question asked”! Buy any software application listed on Plimus Store and then place a refund request and you will instantly
How to get thousand of software programs for free LEGALLY on BlueSnap Store?!? Read More »
Everything is nice about InMotion Hosting until you have a problem and you need to reach the support. Then the hell breaks loose. The Indian support guy won’t to listen to your problems. The only way to fix it is to search the solution by yourself and then try to convince the support guys to
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I got a new laser mouse. It was pretty cheap. The brand is SpeedLink. The hardware part seems good but the driver is unusable. They said that the mouse has 5 programmable buttons but after a while it loses the function assigned to the buttons So, the ‘programmable’ buttons are not that programmable. I will
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Probably you already know that Windows 32 bits will use only (about) 3 GB of RAM even if you have more than that installed in your computer. PAE (Physical Address Extension) allows you to enable your computer to use up to 4GB of RAM. So, all your have to do is to enable PAE on
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Archos 70b eReader Arnova 7 Internet Archos 7 Home Tablet Archos 70 Home Archos 70 Internet Tablet Arnova 10 Hardware Processor RK2818 cpu probably RK2818 2008? / ARM 600 MHz ARM 9 @ 660 MHz ARM Cortex A8 @ 1 GHz Processing power (million instructions / sec) Not specified Not specified 800 DMIPS 2400 DMIPS
Archos PC tablets – Comparison table Read More »
I don’t know if I should love or hate this camera. It is packed with lots of nice features but each feature has its own issue/bug. The worst one is the GPS which sometimes refuses to work for days. I was in Gran Canary one week and I had beautiful weather. But only 5% of
Big problems with FUJI FinePix F550EXR GPS reception! Read More »
I just purchased this card and I test the read/write speed as soon as I got it. SanDisk advertise this ‘Extreme’ SDHC disk as 30MB/s, however the tools I used show only about 15MB/s. Tested with: Disk Tools http://www.soft.tahionic.com The read speed is 15MB/s and the write speed is 14.7MB/s. Total Commander 7 www.Ghisler.com The
I just purchased a SandDisk Extreme SDHC – it sucks! Read More »
The explanations on Fuji web site are extremely convoluted. What they wanted to say in 500 words (or more) is this: 1. copy the fucking firmware on an empty SD card 2. stick the card into the camera and 3. press the POWER button while DISP/BACK is already pressed. That’s it. ——— PS: you can
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My FijiFilm FinePix F550EXR digital camera arrived today after a few days delay because of Amazon.de The battery is not charged and I had to wait 2-3 hours. After playing with the camera for only few days and taking about 40 pictures the low battery dropped to ‘low’ then suddenly to the dreadful ’empty’ but
FijiFilm FinePix F550EXR digital camera – Hands on review Read More »
FastMM does wonders because it catches ALL memory leaks in your program and in most cases also detects memory corruption and access on objects that have been already freed.In the DPR file of your projects do this: program MyProject; uses FastMM4, <——— FastMM ALWAYS on the first line Forms,
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There is a nice registry hack that allows you to execute a specific application when you try to execute actually a different application. For example if you try to run notepad.exe, the calc.exe will be launched instead. Details: The key you create in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionImage File Execution Options must have the name of the application
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Collection of links: Delphi doesn’t like multi-core CPUs (or the contrary) Fastest CRC calculation PDF Engine
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Application developed under Delphi 7 are 32 bit, and they can only access a limited amount of RAM. This Microsoft document says that the limit is 2GB. So I have made some tests and indeed I could not allocate more than 2GB of RAM. However, The document also says that 32bit applications could access up
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I had recently a problem with a vWorker coder. He was supposed to fix a PHP script. When the deadlines come, he posted my file back and asked for his money. All he has done was to force some checkboxes to true (which was wrong anyway). His work amounted to less 40 extra characters added
vWorker (ex RentACoder) – Let them win Read More »
What they charge? Are you new to online software selling? How much do you think you will make when you sell a copy of your software that worth $100? $99? Wrong! $95? Wrong! $90? Wrong! $80? Wrong! $50? Wrong! $40? Still wrong! Let’s take example of a $100 order placed via PO by your customer.
This is doable. In your user profile folder find the prefs.js file. In this file change the order of your accounts like this: user_pref(“mail.microsoft.accounts”, “account4,account1,account3,account2”); You can also use a Firefox extension called ‘Folderpane Tools’. Once you successfully installed the extension you will be able to define the new sorting orde. To configure Folderpane Tools:
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I had problems in the last month with Firefox which refused to remember the URLs I typed in the address bar. There is a fuzzy Mozilla article that says to fix bookmarks problems. However it applies also to the problem described above. The article says that deleting the ‘places.sqlite’ will solve the problem but you
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It’s truly a shame that in these modern days, some developers still cling to coding in Notepad. Many of them are so far from grasping advanced concepts such as IDEs. RAD? Well, they’ve never heard of it. Framework? “Why use a framework… I can do all that code by hand,” one of them said. Just
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More horror stories about Toshiba’s crappy drivers. I just find out that turning on the year-candy features in Toshiba (x505) sound driver (especially the Dolby stuff) will eat one on my CPU’s cores! The high CPU utilization cannot be viewed directly from Task Manager since it is generated by a driver. Instead can be seen
Toshiba sound driver thakes a lot of CPU Read More »
Each test ran 4-5 times. The application priority was set to High in Task Manager. ————- Start point: No optimization: 2.28 sec ————- Test 1: With FastMM4 enabled: 2.23 sec With FastMM4 enabled and RtlVclOptimize: 2.18 sec With FastMM4 enabled and VCLFixPack: 2.10 sec With FastMM4 enabled and FastCode: 2.09 sec All (FastMM4 and RtlVclOptimize
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Recently I wanted to test some things and I wanted to comment some of the units used in my project, in the DRP file. Unfortunately, I forgot to close the comment (close bracket}) so I commented too much code in that DPR. As soon as I compiled the project I got an access violation in
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Today I recompiled and run a program. FastMM started to report all kind of strange memory leaks but it was unable to locate the source of the error (unknown address). After a while I tried disabling FastMM and recompiling the program. The program was recompiled but it had no icon. Solution: After a long trial
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I wondered if an EEEPC can run Windows 7 smoothly so after upgrading the HDD and the RAM I tried it out. Well, it does. The first thing I had to disable was that damn Window indexing service (called Window Search under Win 7) via services.msc in order to make the computer run faster. As
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I just upgraded my EEE PC 1000HE to 2GB of RAM (800MHz). It also received a 250GB SSD A-DATA hard drive. The last touch was a brand new and shiny Windows 7 32 bits. Here is how to install Win 7 without a DVD-Rom unit.
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Place the DVD/Flash stick Into Your Computer & Restart The Computer. Make Sure Your Bios Boot Settings Are Set To Boot From DVD ROM Drive or Flash stick. Once you boot from your DVD you will see this screen: At this point the Win 7 Setup is running. It will guide you through the process:
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1. Download and install “Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool” from Microsoft’s web site. The program has only 2MB. Hint: instead of the above mentioned tool you can also use this one. 2. Get the Windows 7 ISO file 3. Start “Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool”. It will ask you where is the ISO file. Show
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The 4GB limit In the default Windows configuration, 2 GB of this virtual address space is designated for private use of every process, and the other 2 GB is shared between all processes and the operating system. Typically, applications such as Notepad, Microsoft Office Word, and Adobe Acrobat Reader use only a fraction of the 2 GB of
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