eMailaya 3.5.0

In order to communicate in the virtual world, users can use variety ways and an e-mail using is one of it. For those who do Traveling, whether in order to work or leisure, would have difficulty in the same computer to read e-mail through e-mail client that is installed on the PC.

There is a good idea if the e-mail client, it can be brought whereever you are, and used.....

on any PC connected through the Internet with a portable media. One of the e-mail client that can be used is eMailaya a portable e-mail client software.

This application contains many unique features, user-friendly and can be brought in a removeable media as a portable ones, so easy to use on other computers that are connected Internet anywhere, without installing it.

In general, various activities in the e-mail is available in it so you can use it every day comfortably. While some features eMailaya which is commonly known as password protection, tabbed emailing, the mode text / html, back up files, ssl support, a quick chat and others.
eMailaya can be downloaded as a free version in its site with 1.88MB size.

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Microsoft Gives a Free Software

Microsof Indonesia officially announced its commitment to provide free software for Indonesian students. That Software which provided by Microsoft is the latest software for design courses and development that are expected to trigger students creativity , and also prepare them to get ready in accupation world. 

Microsoft Dreamspark is a downloading software solution for students, both in Indonesia and around the world, and its avalaible free of charge. through this software, students can utilizing the software provided, like a professionals ones.

One of the goals of Dreamspark is creation of various creative industries development, which became one of the new Indonesian government purposes in labour field and improving a human resources.

At the first time Dreamspark was released on 19 February 2008, at Sanford University, California, by Bill Gates. Dreamspark launching in Indonesia marked with memorandum of undertstanding agreements between Microsoft Indonesia with several universities and private which has a ready facilities to access Dreamspark.
Before all the university can connect with Dreamspark, ITB and Aptikom become IDPs (identify providers). After the second run with IDP, then every university will be able to connect to Dreamspark system well.
From the total number of students in Indonesia, which reached more than 2 million students, it expected around 20% or 400 thousand students can download its free software.Curently this Software is provided is for students majoring in design, technology, mathematics, and engineering.

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Google Chrome: An Innovative, faster and safer browser

Finally, Google released its first browser, Google's Chrome and currently is in beta version now. Basiccaly, Google Chrome includes one of an Google gears applications, which based on webkit, a rendering engine that was previously used by the Apple Safari.

One of the interesting features of Google Chrome is a tab which has own manager proccess and memory which quite the same with the Task Manager feature in the Windows OS.

With the manager proccess on the tab, it enable us to see which tab has the most consumed memory, and another unique feature is if one of the tabs get hang or crash, the entire browser is not involved in crashes or hangs too.

Google Chrome kernel is come from Webkit engine, a HTML light rendering that was developed by Apple and part of the KDE open source project; a KHTML components. In addition, Webkit also adopted within the context of applications, including Adobe AIR Runtime, Troltech, Qt, the Nokia S60 web browser and also Google Android.

Although Chrome is made based on Webkit technology, Its developers decided not to use SquirrelFish, a high-runtime performance belongs to Apple, and they prefer to use V8, a unique virtual machine developed by a group of researchers from Denmark.
With this V8 engine, Chrome has proved as the fastest browser between its competitor like Firefox 3.0.1, IE7, IE8 beta 2, Safari 3.1.2 even Opera 9:52

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How to protect your copyright Photo

A Photo as the expression instrument need tobe protected from the piracy. Here are some easy steps to create your protected copyright photos using Adobe Photoshop:

1. Make a duplicate of your original photos
Before starting to protect your photo,which called watermark, please create duplicate of you original photos first. It aims to make an original one before the photo is being watermark and published. You can copy a page from Window Explorer or Photoshop to do so by clicking File | Save as. Give specific name and you can also change the format when you use Photoshop.

2. Make a layer photo duplicate
After making a copy of your original photo, now in Photoshop you can change the status of your photos from a type of diversified Background Layer by double click on the tab photo layer. After changing into layers, Duplicate this layer by pressing the keys CTRL + A or by clicking on the alert which is aimed to make a grouping process running smoothly.


3. Create Your Typical Text
When you ready with a new layer. Provide text, images, logos, and other signs which show the characteristics of your photo. If you insert an image or logo, create a new layer above. If you want to insert text, Click Type tool on the toolbar. After that, Click pointer input text on the place that you want. When the cursor appears, set the large, type, model of the font, and give color to text. After that, type the text in that area. Once completed, set back the position of the text.

4. Bevel and Emboss technique
Just give a little effect on the text so it becomes more visible and prominent, and can be seen on the next grouping process.Then you can give effect bevel and Emboss on this text by Click sign tab on the bottom layer, and then choose the option bevel and Emboss. Arrange that effects as you wish. It is important to set the display text is not too obtrusive to the original photos. After clicking OK, Your text have a special effect now

5. Merge text with photos
Once the text is ready, next step is to make the text seems appear with the original photos by grouping tet with the photo layer.Here they are, first move the position of the original Photos layer to the top, so the layers of the text is in the middle of the second layer photos. Click the photo layer from menu tab and Click Layer | Group with Previous. Once completed, you will get the text appear disguised in the photos.

6. An Addition
Now you have Photo that have special marks on it already. This marks deliberately made vague and placed in the middle of the photo it is not misused easily. If you still feel less secure with this signature , you can add the typical signs on other area.Most importantly, make signs typical of an additional layer on your new order not to disrupt existing. Once finished, save your new image and ready to publish.

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Downloading Podcast as Freely as U Can

It is quite simple to download a podcast freely. The best way to acquisition chargeless podcasts is apparently to analysis a podcast directory. A podcast agenda is a advertisement of many and sometimes bags of altered podcasts. The podcast directory will usually adapt the podcasts by affair and genre, authoritative it simple to acquisition the blazon of podcast that is sought.

In addition, podcast directories generally acquiesce the visitors to animadversion on the podcasts listed, and provide a account of the admired podcasts on the site, authoritative it easy for users to acquisition the best podcasts available. These podcast directories can be acclimated to browse through, introducing users to abounding altered podcasts they otherwise would not accept found.....

Once a podcast has been begin making interests a user, it is all-important to download the chargeless podcast. The vast majority of podcasts will be free, but there will be a few bulk and waste our money. The action to subscribe to and download the podcasts is the aforementioned in either case. First, a podcast applicant needs to be begin and installed.

There are abounding chargeless podast audience available, all accouterment a hardly altered user interface and range of options. They appear with abounding altered names, such as Podscape, or Nimiq, and analytic for 'free podcast client' or something like it will about-face up many possibilities.

When the podcast applicant has been installed, inputting the augment abode will acquiesce the podcast to be downloaded. The podcast applicant will check the abode accustomed for a small, apparatus readable file alleged an RSS file.

This book will contain information about the podcasts, conceivably some text about the alone episodes, as able-bodied as the area of the adventure file. Once the podcast applicant has been located the book referred to in the RSS feed, it will be downloaded and stored on the users computer until the want to appearance it.

Sometimes, of course, admission to a claimed computer is not available, but it is still important to analysis a certain podcast. Fortunately, abounding podcast directories offer built in podcast readers in the site. Not alone do they often appearance anniversary contempo adventure that is available, they may aswell action a way to appearance or accept to those podcast episodes from aural the site.

By application the viewer contained aural the site, it is no best all-important to
even download the podcast episodes. However, the ability to move and allotment the episodes after downloading is one of the admirable things about podcasting. The files can be placed on about and media player, alignment from iPods to the new Play
Station Portable.

This adaptability is one of the reasons podcasts accept succeeded, admitting added technologies like alive music and video. The admiration of consumers to accept ascendancy over technology cannot be over estimated.

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Podcast for client

A podcast is the software acclimated to admission and download podcasts. Podcast audience are aswell accepted as media aggregators, programs advised to automatically access an online file, or feed, and download the audio or video book associated with it. Hundreds of these programs exist, with names like IpodderX, Juice,Nimiq, and PodSpider.

These podcast audience are simple to find, and because there are so abounding accessible for free, it is simple to acquisition one that apparel an individuals needs and style. These programs run on the users computer, periodically downloading a baby RSS book from sites that it has been told to monitor.

The book tells the program about an audio or video book stored on the server, and the podcast applicant again downloads that file for the user to appearance or accept to.

The podcast applicant appropriately allows the user to view information on a advanced ambit of capacity from their computer, after even application a web browser.

Just like blogs let humans acquisition writers they enjoyed for any niche topic they were absorbed in, podcasts let humans do them aforementioned for audio and video. Its as if a bags of radio and television channels were created to server every accessible interest, and added were fabricated every day.

Using the podcast applicant to admission and download the files makes it as simple to accumulate up with the sites one likes as it is to broadcast the feed.

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Auto install Xp

May be this might be useful. I install 98 with backup/restore utility.

My way of auto installation of XP
Then on second partition or the same partition XP without pagefile.sys.

Then i get a dual boot. So after booting into XP, Install all ur fav progies
n games. Test each of them, to make sure they work... etc etc... all
ur drivers also. Tweak ur xp.

make sure u unhide all files relates to win xp dir and progra files.

Then boot into 98 > goto backup utility of 98....

Select the folders used by XP, eg
my documents and settings
winxp (or windows- what ever name u gave to windows dir)
check all files in the root
program files folder
and like this all folders and files used by xp.

then start the backup process.

make sure u have ~ > 3gb of free space on the disk / partition
u r planning to save the image file.

Then when ur XP crashes or U crash it ... lol
then just boot into 98, goto restore option,
and click ok. Over write old files or new ones as u like.

It takes ~20min to install



Windows Xp including

Office Xp
Interdev
.net framework
winzip
winrar
tweaks
easy cleaner
adobe
gif animator
acdess 6
service pack1 , and now service pack 2b
lan settings
mcafee antivirus
zone alarm
cute ftp3 pro
Easy CD-DA Extractor 7
Eraser
Ahead
Links Organizer
Bulk Rename Utility
BitStrike Software
Mozilla Firefox
Microsoft Visual Studio
Opera
Onlinetimer
Nokia
Ulead Systems
UltraISO
Virtual CD v4
SlimBrowser
Yahoo!
Msn
Webroot
Spamihilator
inetpub


U can exclude any folder, u think is not needed at that time for reinstallation.

The whole task id completed in 20 minutes ... in the mean while
I make a nice cup of tea for myself and wait for XP to start

PS: dont forget to include boot.ini file.

Hope it will help.

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Yahoo Massenger with NO- Ads

I went into the system registery and found out that Yahoo! moved the 'banner url' key to a slightly different location. Than what it used in version 5.5!

Yahoo! IM no longer uses 'YUrl', but uses 'View' instead. You gotta click on each key inside of 'View' and edit the 'banner url' string to anything you want... I simply cleared mine out completely and it works flawlessly!

Here is what you gotta do:

Run regedit
Goto HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Yahoo -> Pager -> View

Inside the 'View' key there are a several other keys... go through each one and edit the 'banner url' string to your liking. It even works if the string is left blank (this causes it to look as if ads were never even implemented)!

Restart Yahoo! IM for the effect to take hold.

This is great for Yahoo! IM 5.6 users who don't want to be bothered with ads.

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10 Fast and Free Security Enhancements

Before you spend a dime on security, there are many precautions you can take that will protect you against the most common threats.
1. Check Windows Update and Office Update regularly (_http://office.microsoft.com/productupdates); have your Office CD ready. Windows Me, 2000, and XP users can configure automatic updates. Click on the Automatic Updates tab in the System control panel and choose the appropriate options....

2. Install a personal firewall. Both SyGate (_www.sygate.com) and ZoneAlarm (_www.zonelabs.com) offer free versions.

3. Install a free spyware blocker. Our Editors' Choice ("Spyware," April 22) was SpyBot Search & Destroy (_http://security.kolla.de). SpyBot is also paranoid and ruthless in hunting out tracking cookies.

4. Block pop-up spam messages in Windows NT, 2000, or XP by disabling the Windows Messenger service (this is unrelated to the instant messaging program). Open Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Services and you'll see Messenger. Right-click and go to Properties. Set Start-up Type to Disabled and press the Stop button. Bye-bye, spam pop-ups! Any good firewall will also stop them.

5. Use strong passwords and change them periodically. Passwords should have at least seven characters; use letters and numbers and have at least one symbol. A decent example would be f8izKro@l. This will make it much harder for anyone to gain access to your accounts.

6. If you're using Outlook or Outlook Express, use the current version or one with the Outlook Security Update installed. The update and current versions patch numerous vulnerabilities.

7. Buy antivirus software and keep it up to date. If you're not willing to pay, try Grisoft AVG Free Edition (Grisoft Inc., w*w.grisoft.com). And doublecheck your AV with the free, online-only scanners available at w*w.pandasoftware.com/activescan and _http://housecall.trendmicro.com.

8. If you have a wireless network, turn on the security features: Use MAC filtering, turn off SSID broadcast, and even use WEP with the biggest key you can get. For more, check out our wireless section or see the expanded coverage in Your Unwired World in our next issue.

9. Join a respectable e-mail security list, such as the one found at our own Security Supersite at _http://security.ziffdavis.com, so that you learn about emerging threats quickly and can take proper precautions.

10. Be skeptical of things on the Internet. Don't assume that e-mail "From:" a particular person is actually from that person until you have further reason to believe it's that person. Don't assume that an attachment is what it says it is. Don't give out your password to anyone, even if that person claims to be from "support."

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Graffiti On Walls 4 Adobe Photoshop Cs 8.0

For This Tutorial You Must Have A Basic Understanding Of Adobe Photoshop Cs 8.0, Example : Where The Features Of The Program Are.
CODE

For This Tutorial You Will Need The Font Called Political Graffiti FIll Which Can Be Aquired Here:
http://www.dafont.com/en/font.php?file=political_graft And....
The Starting Wall Picture Which Can be Aquired Here:
http://www.imagehosting.us/imagehosting/showimg.jpg/?id=59054





(1). Open Photoshop Cs 8.0

(2). Open Wall Picture

(3). Type Ur Second Name In Red At 210pt Font Size In The Political Graffiti Fill Font.

(4). Click Icon All The Way At The Topright That Looks Like A T With A Rounded Line Under It. (Warp Text)

(5). Distort Style Squeeze Vertical, Bend = -31%, Horizontal Distortion = +18%, Vertical Distortion = +34%

(6). Layer> Layer Style> Blending Options, General Blending> Opacity 79%> Fill Opacity 100%, Blend If: Gray, Underlying Layer Black 60, White 210

(7). Type Ur First Name In Red At 210pt Font Size In The Political Graffiti Fill Font.

(8). Click Icon All The Way At The Topright That Looks Like A T With A Rounded Line Under It. (Warp Text)

(9). Distort Style Squeeze Vertical, Bend = +50%, Horizontal Distortion = 0%, Vertical Distortion = -31%

(10). Layer> Layer Style> Blending Options, General Blending> Opacity 79%> Fill Opacity 100%, Blend If: Gray, Underlying Layer Black 60, White 210

(11). Duplicate Both Layers

(12). Move Copied Layers One On Top Of The Other (In The Layer Menu)

(13). Hide The Original Ur Second Name And Ur First Name Layers By Clicking The Eye Icons So That They Dissapear.

(14). In The Copies, Right Click (One At A Time) And Click Rasterize Layer.

(15). Go to Layer> Merge Down (Ctrl + E) (On Top Name Layer).

(16). Layer> Layer Style> Stroke Change Color To Black, Size to 8, Then Opacity To 68%.

(17). Save If No Blur Effect Wanted

(18). Filter> Blur> Smart Blur> Mode: Overlay Edges, Threshhold 48%, Radius 6, Quality: High.

(19). Layer> New Layer

(20) Brush Tool (B), Paint Brush With The Soft 16pt Airbrush For Spraypaint Effect.

(21). Smuge Around Graffiti For Paint Smudge Look For Good Effect (Optional)

(22). Save.

Finito

Final Images:

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Graffiti With Blur:
http://www.imagehosting.us/imagehosting/showimg.jpg/?id=59056

Graffiti No Blur:
http://www.imagehosting.us/imagehosting/showimg.jpg/?id=59057

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Free World Dialup

"Use FWD to make real, free phone calls using your favorite telephone, computer or PDA and any broadband connection. Call your neighbor or a relative, next door or in another country; all with the same ease, speed, and high quality." Thanks to Jeff Pulver and his crew!

Quick summary:

1 - First, got to http://www.freeworlddialup.com and sign up to get your FWD # and password.
2 - Download http://brands.xten.net/x-litefwd/download/X-LiteFWD_Install.exe FWD/X-Lite ("self-configures") program or go to http://www.myphonebooth.com/ to call any FWD # and U.S. toll free #s using Internet Explorer (Firefox not supported).

Quickstart Guide: http://www.freeworlddialup.com/support/quick_start_guide
FWD Xlite Configuration Guide: http://www.freeworlddialup.com/support/configuration_guide/configure_your_fwd_certified_phone/fwd_xlite/all
MS Windows Messenger Configuration Guide: http://pulver.com/fwd/fwd30news.html#messenger (FWD supports Windows Messenger 4.6/4.7 but not MSN Messenger 5.x.)

3 - To call a U.S. landline/cell #, dial *+arecode+7digit#. (This FWD feature is not listed on their website, but has been working for several months now.)

4 - To call a FWD # from a PSTN (your regular phone), click
http://www.dslreports.com/r0/download/476274~3ccc4c9edbe2a596714a4fd9da897204/fwdaccessnumbers.zip or after you've signed up go to FWD web page, click on "Features", "Access #s" for a list of FWD access numbers in your area. Available in several states in the U.S., UK, NL and DE at this time.

Packet8:
-- To call a P8 phone # from a FWD phone: Dial **898 + 1 + P8 number to be routed to P8 service.
-- To call a FWD # from a P8 phone:
*If the FWD # you are calling contains 5 digits, start to dial with the prefix 0351. For example: 035112345
*If the FWD # you are calling contains 6 digits, start to dial with the prefix 0451.

Call UK:
Get a UK telephone # that will call you on your FWD #. Register http://fwd.calluk.com.

FWD Features: Some features like Voice email needs to be activated at http://www.fwdnet.net

Internet Calling
Call Waiting
CallerID
Missed Call notification
Call Forwarding
Call Transfer
Three Way Calling
Voice email
SoftPhone, IP Phones & *Web-based
Aliases
Whitepages directory
ENUM Entry
eDial SOAP
Conferencing
Instant Messaging
Web Calling/FWD-Talk
Corporate Cisco Call Manager Connection
Calling to Toll Free Numbers in the UK, US, NL, JP and FR TellMe Service (411).
-- NL Dial *31(800)... to reach Netherlands toll free #s.
-- UK Dial *44(800)... or *44(808)... or *44 (500) to reach UK toll free #s.
-- US Dial *1(8xx) xxx xxxx to reach United States toll free #s.
-- JP Dial *81 0120... to reach Japan toll free #s.

Frequently used numbers
613 Echo test
55555 Volunteer Welcome Line
514 FWD Coffee House
612 Time
411 TellMe Information
611 Part Time Technical support
511 FWD Conference Bridge

At the moment, I think this is way better than Skype, Yahoo IM voice chat, etc...I've been using FWD for over a year with my cable broadband service and didn't have to set up any port forwarding on my broadband router. Obviously you'ld need a mic/speakers connected to your PC.

You can also use your regular telephone via an adapter http://voipstore.pulver.com/product_info.php?products_id=32 and IP phone http://voipstore.pulver.com/product_info.php?products_id=33. Adapters and IP phones from different vendors like Cisco are available.

* Broadbandreports.com VoIP forum (formerly known as DSLReports.com)
-- If you have any questions or just curious about VoIP, visit the VoIP forum http://www.dslreports.com/forum/voip at DSLReports.com.

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Enable Folder and Icon Refresh

This reg file Enables Folder and Icon Refresh.

1. Copy the following (everything in the box) into notepdad.

QUOTE
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"NoNetCrawling"=dword:00000000

2. Save the file as disablerefreshundo.reg
3. Double click the file to import into your registry.

NOTE: If your anti-virus software warns you of a "malicious" script, this is normal if you have "Script Safe" or similar technology enabled.

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How to find a remote IP

Method 1

To view someone's IP# when they send you hotmail email do this:
1) Click "Options" on the upper right side of the page.
2) On the left side of the page, Click "Mail"
3) Click "Mail Display Settings"
4) Under "Message Headers" select "Full" or "Advanced"
5) Click ok

Method 2
reg a dydns account and install the ip pointer, so each time you ping the host name you regestored

for example:
you regestor the host name myhost.dydns.com, then you keep a little software running on the target host. The little software will keep update your IP to dydns.com server.

so at your pc just start cmd, and ping myhost.dydns.com, it will give you the most updated ip address.

Method 3
neverender, what doesn't work for you? Simply type in nc -vvv -l -p 80 on your box, which will set it to listen in verbose mode on port 80. Then give them a link to your IP address (for example: 111.111.111.11) and tell them to type it in their browser. The browser should resolve the address as well as append port 80 automatically. Just make sure that your friend is not very computer literate.

Method 4
Just download a very simple server such as this one and install it on your comp. Then run it and give your ip to the person you want and tell them to connect to it through a browser. Your server will log their connection and you will get their IP.

link:http://www.download.com/Abyss-Web-Server/3000-2165-10283992.html?tag=lst-0-6


Other Ways
-www.imchaos.com and make a "spy poll" to put in ur profile, this will tell u the IP of anybody who answers ur poll
-originalicons.com there is a page for doin it (i dont like it, but it works)
-or irc


Here is a more detailed tutorial about using NetCat.

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/05/29/netcat.html

Windows users can download NetCat from here:

http://www.atstake.com/research/tools/network_utilities/

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how to execute chm files in linux

download the following rpms on ur pc:-

http://dag.wieers.com/packages/chmlib/chmlib-0.35-1.1.fc3.rf.i386.rpm
ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/dag/fedora/3/en/i386/dag/RPMS/wxGTK-2.4.2-5.1.fc3.rf.i386.rpm
http://acmserver.cs.ucr.edu/%7Ensoracco/rpms/xchm-0.9.8-1.i386.rpm

and also install them in the same sequence. using the command:-

rpm -ivh

Note:- i am giving the path of packages for fedora cpre 3. if want for any other os take a look at the following sites.

chmlib:- http://dag.wieers.com/packages/chmlib/
wxGTK:- ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/dag/
xchm: - platform independent for all redhat's.............

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HOW TO CAPTURE STREAMING MEDIA

many websites (http://ww.smashits.com) stream songs and videos
people believe they cannot be downloaded, quite why i dont know. they kinda think there is no file present to dwnld

once the file is located it can then be retrieved by nettransport
nettransport is able to dwnld any file whether ftp or rtsp etc

1. Download Project URL Snooper 1.02.01 from http://rain66.at.infoseek.co.jp/
2. Install URL Snooper (and WinPcap together)
3. Don't run URL Snooper when it is done installing
4. Restart computer
5. Open Project URL Snooper
6. Click on the General Options Tab
7. user posted image
8. Chose a network adapter
9. Now click on the search tab
10. Click Sniff Network
11. Go to a webpage and you should see some results in the results list
12. If nothing is appearing then chose another network adapter, until one works

13. Now you are ready to begin searching
14. Click the "Hide Non-Streaming URLs" option to hide all http:// references and only show URLs corresponding to streaming audio/video (rtsp, pnm, wma, etc.)
15. Then click Sniff Network
16. Your links should appear as you begin streaming your file
17. Select your desired stream user posted image
18. usually rm file user posted image
19. On the bottom there should be the link which you simply copy user posted image

20. Download nettransport from here ftp://down_transport:123@s1.5fox.com/NT2Setup_multi.EXE or
ftp://nettransport:nettransport@61.153.24...Setup_multi.EXE
http://lycos26486.l97.lycos.com.cn/download.htm

21. Install it
22. Click on new
23. Paste link

now you should be able to download any file
if u need ne help
jus ask
i think dialups may have problems

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How to Add an URL Address Bar to the task bar

You can add an Internet URL address bar to your Windows XP taskbar. Doing so will let you type in URLs and launch Web pages without first launching a browser. It will also let you launch some native Windows XP applications in much the same way as you would via the Run menu (so you could type in calc to launch the calculator or mspaint to launch Microsoft Paint. Here's how you add the address bar:

1. Right-click on the taskbar, select Toolbars, and then click Address.

2. The word Address will appear on your taskbar.

3. Double click it to access it.

4. If that doesn't work, your taskbar is locked. You can unlock it by right-clicking on the taskbar again and uncheck Lock the Taskbar.

NOTE: You may also need to grab the vertical dotted lines beside the word Address and drag it to the left to make the Address window appear.

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HHow to Add an Option to Print the Contents of a Folder

ould you like to be able to right click any folder in Explorer and print its contents? You can add this option to the context menu by following these steps:

First, you need to create a batch file called Printdir.bat. Open Notepad or another text editor and type (or cut and paste) this text:

@echo off
dir %1 /-p /o:gn > "%temp%\Listing"
start /w notepad /p "%temp%\Listing"
del "%temp%\Listing"
exit

Now, in the Save As dialog box, type "%windir%\Printdir.bat" (without the quotation marks) and click the Save button.
Click Start, Control Panel, Folder Options.
Click the File Types tab, and then click File Folder.
Click the Advanced button.
Click the New button.

In the Action box, type "Print Directory Listing" (without the quotation marks).

In the Application used to perform action box, type "Printdir.bat" (without the quotation marks).

Click OK in all three dialog boxes to close the dialog boxes.

You're not quite finished yet! Now you need to edit the Registry, so open your favorite Registry Editor.

Navigate to HKEY CLASSES ROOT\Directory\shell.

Right click on "default" and select Modify.
In the File Data box, type "none" (without the quotation marks).

Click OK and close the Registry Editor.

Now when you right click a folder, you'll see the option to Print Directory Listing. Selecting it will print the contents of the folder.

Who needs a stinking program to print a folder directory?

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How Long Has Your System Been Running?

Here's how you verify system uptime:

Click Start | Run and type cmd to open a command prompt.
At the prompt, type systeminfo

Scroll down the list of information to the line that says System Up Time.

This will tell you in days, hours, minutes and seconds how long the system has been up.

Note that this command only works in XP Pro, not in XP Home. You can, however, type net statistics workstation at the prompt in Home. The first line will tell you the day and time that the system came online.

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Flashing A Video Card Bios

PCStats have a new advanced guide out for flashing your video card BIOS! While this *not* something for the novice to undertake, flashing your video card BIOS may lead to performance and feature enhancements.

We recently ran an article on flashing (reprogramming) the BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) of your motherboard to enable new features and fix errors. That got us thinking that we'd only covered half the story. Sure, hardware enthusiasts have been upgrading the BIOS on their motherboards for years, but what about the other components of a computer system?

Here's a snap:

Video cards in particular have an interesting history in relation to the BIOS flashing procedure. While motherboard BIOS fixes generally add support for new processors and fix hardware glitches, video card BIOS updates have the potential to do much more. Enterprising tech-heads have discovered instances where a video card can actually be transformed by a BIOS update, activating hidden features and potential buried performance aspects by the manufacturer (generally for marketing purposes).

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