Microsoft USB storage Fix

If you haven't heard yet, Microsoft is now admitting that it slowed down transfer speeds because of Windows 7 settings. The patch to this fix is contained on kb2581464 but you'll still have to tweak your registry. 

For everyone else just wait until Microsoft deploys it via Windows Update. Hopefully everyone will now be please with their flash drives transfer speeds.

Windows 7 ISO

Here are the legal links for Windows 7 ISO Home & Professional. I am just glad that someone had the common sense to post these ISO images for IT Technicians.

Roboform for U3

What happened to RoboForm's U3 free download. It's still available but it looks like RoboForm is hiding it to force user's to purchase their product. As a registered user, I must admit that the software is a must have password manager with unlimited free updates.

Youtube Keyboard shortcuts

Let's just say that if you want to easily watch videos on YouTube, these are great shortcut tips.

Full screen view of videos: Press F11 to view the running video in full screen mode.
Play or pause a video: Pressing space bar will pause the currently running video and pressing space bar again will release (play) the video.
Volume up/ down: If you want to turn volume up or down when a video is playing, press up arrow to increase volume or down key to decrease volume of the videos.
Forward or Rewind a video: Pressing left key rewinds video 10% and right key forwards video 10%.
Skip through the video: If you do not like the starting of a video and want to skip the starting part or even want to jump over to half of the video, you can do so using keys 0 to 10. 0 being a shortcut to jump at the beginning of the video.

Lots of thanks from Parkblogger.com

Stimator

Here's another website estimator to tell you how much a website is worth. I don't know how accurate these results maybe, but at least you have a good idea.

Build Your Own IR Head Tracker

It's a great simple project with the help of Free Track.
Here are some of the materials your going to need:

Materials
a) webcam no more than 320x240, it's not high resolution but will be good enough.
b) for IR Led the recommendation is SFH485P for it's wavelength and viewing angle.
(these items are under a dollar at DigKey)
c) need a resistor try a SFH485P

Tutorials

For more information seek Maximum PC December 2010 magazine 

Eat Free on your Birtday

Want to eat free on your Birthday. This is how with this wonderful website. In most cases you'll first have to sign up so don't waste anymore time to eat free.

Hound.com

New job hunting website that really works. It's a premium site with a trial version that does a lot of hunting. You not only get regular job postings in your area, but direct company job postings as well.
If your recently out of work, give Hound a try. It's worth the price if you beat the odds on getting your resume out first.

$1- Hosting

In need of a hosting site, well I prefer GoDaddy.com, but if your not doing anything on to your domain and you just want your page just up. It's an alternative.
They're are some draw backs with it because sites could go down often. But when compared to other's it's still worth the cost.

Time Freeze Free

Here is a new virtual way to safeguard your computer. It's a virtual computer that safeguards your computer from viruses and malware. Then if you surf online and get a virus or malware, all you have to do is reboot and the threat is gone. It's a dream come true for computer user's.

Router Password Viewer

If you have a router and need to backup it's setting and for some reason forgot the password. This software comes to the rescue to help you recover the password. It's not guaranteed that you'll find the password. But it sure beats having to reset from scratch.

Instr
Just backup your router configuration using the router build in backup software and save it onto your desktop click on routerpassview and open the router configuration file to see login name and password.

Windows 8 Pre

Want to know what's new in Windows 8 Beta release. Simple just download the iso and install it via Virtual Machine and presto, you'll get a sample of Microsoft new Operating System.

Results:
Looks like Microsoft took a lot of key features that Google Chrome had and just pimped it.
What did you expect?


Links:
1- VirtualBox 4.2.1

Power DVD Player

Looking for a new version of Power DVD for Blue Ray DVD's. It's a trial version, but at least you can try the software before you buy. Now watching Blue Ray will be a breeze.

Remove a Bios Password

This is the easiest way to do it

1-The simplest way to remove a BIOS password is to simply remove the CMOS battery. A computer will remember its settings and keep the time even when it is turned off and unplugged because these parts are powered by small battery inside the computer called a CMOS battery. If we pull out this battery, the computer will forget a lot of its hardware settings, including its BIOS password.

2-You can use a bios password cracker, but chances are that this can take forever to crack. Link

3-The last step requires you boot into DOS and use DEBUG to corrupt the bios. On the reboot, the Bios will realize their is an error and resets everything to factory defaults, eliminating the password. Here are some helpful tips to make a usb bootable disk.

Citibank Credit or Reward

Citibank is rolling out it's new Credit or Reward credit card program in which user's decide when purchasing if they want to use it as a credit credit card or reward points. The new card comes with new payment processing by a push of a button. Hopefully changing the way we now buy goods.

Overclock the New Droid 2

It was only going to be a matter of time before someone would attempt to do this. It's not going to be lightning speed, but good enough to want to overclock. No tools needed.

Here are the Links

Apple Kills Recovery Disk

Yes we all knew that it was only a matter of time before manufactures stop making system restore disks. And just to prove that this theory is moving forward. Apple is already on the front line making USB recovery drives.

Life Expectancy Calculator

If your planning on retirement, once thing everyone should always calculate is their life expectancy. You just don't know when your time will be up. Let the statistics you the results.

Eset SysInspector

Here's a great utility for IT responders to figure out what's going on with your system. It captures all the details on what's running, registry, startup and network connections. It's an ideal tool for troubleshooting.