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Delphi generates a series of annoying and useless files such as *.bpl, *.identcache and *.local. They are totally useless and safe to delete. Few people know that Delphi Distiller is capable to disable the generation of these files. This is because the panel from where you do this is hidden under an obscure menu called […]

After installing KIS 2013 I have seen that the Video Call and Voice Call buttons are disabled in Yahoo Messenger, while the chat was still working. This is the fix: In KIS go to: 1 settings 2 advanced settings,network, monitored ports 3 monitor all ports for specified applications There you search for yahoo messenger and

On Toshiba support forum a kid name Bob sustains that two Toshiba tech guys sais to him that is dangerous to keep your computer in stand-by/hibernate mode. So he would like to start his computer faster but without using the stand-by/hibernate mode: > The holy grail for me would be to use sleep mode 100%

iPage support is a nightmare! A part of my site (a script) was down for few days. I contacted the support. I told them that the page is down at random intervals. They loaded the page in their browser once and concluded there is no problem. Those guys from iPage support are too busy playing

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

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

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)

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

  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  

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

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

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

Collection of links: Delphi doesn’t like multi-core CPUs (or the contrary) Fastest CRC calculation PDF Engine

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:

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

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

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

Since Windows Vista and Windows 7 Microsoft started to embrace the “big brother” attitude even harder. There are a lot of secret software installed by Microsoft on your computer through their magic “Windows Update”. Here is some evidence: Windows Update updating without permission! http://cubicspot.blogspot.com/2007/08/windows-update-updating-without.html True Spyware In Microsoft Windows 7 http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=670&pgno=1 http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=670 Microsoft Windows 7

I am really pissed off because Plimus bank applies extra fees to my customers but they will not admit it. I have several cases in which the customer demonstrated (receipt send from bank) that he sent the full amount but only a part of that an amount reaches me. Just few days ago, I received

It looks it is possible to switch from IDE to AHCI after Windows was installed in IDE mode. All you have to do is to change the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetServic esmsahciStart key from 3 to 0.  The details are here: http://ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?69682-Change-from-IDE-to-AHCI-after-Installation Increase in performance due to AHCI is minor (few percents) while the problems created by this

1. Note: If you already have an empty partition to install XP on it, use it and jump to step 2. Shrink the existing partition (use Computer Management-> Disk Management) to make room for the second partition. For Windows XP you need minimum 4GB. In the space that you just freed, create the new partition.

Scareware Scareware comprises several classes of scam software with malicious payloads, or of limited or no benefit, that are sold to consumers via certain unethical marketing practices. The selling approach uses social engineering to cause shock, anxiety, or the perception of a threat, generally directed at an unsuspecting user. Some forms of spyware and adware

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On Toshiba support forum a kid name Bob sustains that two Toshiba tech guys sais to him that is dangerous to keep your computer in stand-by/hibernate mode. So he would like to start his computer faster but without using the stand-by/hibernate mode: > The holy grail for me would be to use sleep mode 100%

One month ago, my OS froze and I had to forcefully turn off my laptop by pressing the power button for 4 seconds. The laptop cut the power off but after few seconds it rebooted and started to load the BIOS, then Windows. So, I pressed the power button (and keep it pressed for few

When did you looked last time in your ‘Plugins’ section of your Firefox browser? Did you know that you have lots of garbage there? Many companies such us Microsoft, Yahoo and Google stealthily  install plugins that you don’t want and without your permission. Some of them are of GREAT danger for your security. See these

Few months ago I had to run a test to see if DNA sequence files (FASTA files) compress better than simple text files. DNA files contains only 4 characters (A, C, G, T) so you will expect that they will compress really well compared with text files. However, the DNA code is pretty random (well