Computer Tips For Geeks » Quick-How-To

Disable Skype Listening On Port 80

Nelson — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:00:00 +0000

I use XAMPP on my computer to test and create WordPress, and Joomla templates, and I use Skype to communicate with my work team. sometimes when Skype is open, and I want to use XAMPP Apache won’t start. Apache status says “Stopped”

The reason XAMPP won’t start is because port 80 is already taken by Skype, so to be able to use Skype and programs like XAMPP you need to change either program to listen on different ports. and because changing Skype listening port is easier than changing Apache’s, I will show you how to change Skype’s.

On Skype click on Tools then go to Options. then click on the Advanced tab, and then Connections:

Uncheck “use port 80 and 443 as alternatives for incoming connections. and click on Save. then sign out from Skype and sign back in:

Now Skype should not be using port 80, and Apache should start fine.

that’s it.

Import Emails From Gmail To Outlook

Nelson — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:00:00 +0000

If you are new to Outlook, and are wondering how to import all your emails from Gmail to Outlook, then hang on, I will show you an easy way to get all your Gmail emails imported over to Outlook. Outlook offers a richer text formatting capabilities, and other advantages than the Gmail web based Interface, so Outlook is definitely better.

First of all, to import your Gmail emails to Outlook make sure your Gmail account has IMAP access enable. to check that, you need to go to your Gmail mail settings by clicking the configuring icon on the top left side of your Google Gmail page:

then under IMAP Access, click on the Enable IMAP check mark to enable IMAP access on your Gmail account:

click on Save Changes right at the bottom. and close Gmail.

now, I will assume you’re using Windows 7 on your computer, if you are using Windows XP, then the steps I’m about to guide you through should be almost the same. if you are using any other OS, please check the documentation on how to get to these settings for that system.

On your Windows 7 computer, go to Control Panel, once in control panel, click on User Accounts and then Mail:

the mail setup wizard will come up. click on Show Profiles:

click on Add then choose an account name, and click on OK. the add new account wizard will come up. if you are using Outlook 2007 or Outlook 2010 ( if you’re using an older Outlook version, look below ) then let Outlook automatically find the settings for Gmail. so just enter the basic info for your email account.

click on Next after entering the info required above. Outlook will establish the connection with the Gmail server, and pull the settings automatically for you. after a minute or so, your account should be setup:

open Outlook and all your Gmail emails should be on your Outlook. you’re done.

if you are running an older version of Outlook like 2003 or even 2000, then you will need to add Gmail settings manually.

on the Add New Account window above, click on Manually configure server settings:

enter the info as follow:

your Name: Your Name
Email Address: Your Email Address
Account type: IMAP
Incoming Email: imap.gmail.com
Outgoing Mail Server ( SMTP ): smtp.gmail.com
User Name: your gmail login username
Password: your gmail password

click on finish when you’re done entering the information. your account should be now configured.

How To Bypass Sonicwall Content Filtering At Work

Nelson — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 23:06:16 +0000

If Facebook and other social media sites are being blocked at your workplace, then there are a few methods you can use to bypass the rules of content filtering on a SonicWall or other firewall . Normally content filtering is done at the firewall level and websites are blocked using domain names. for example, if you want to get to Facebook, then you put the IP address of the site as the URL on the browser instead of the domain name, and that will bypass the firewall rule.

so how do you get the IP address of Facebook, YouTube or any other website your company is blocking?

ping the website URL!!

for example if you want to know the IP address of Facebook do the following. press the Windows and the letter R keys simultaneously on your keyboard. the RUN command should pop-up. type CMD and click OK. the command prompt window should come up. type Ping facebook.com and hit Enter. you should be able to see the IP address on the replies:

open your browser, and type the IP address like this on the address bar http://69.63.189.11/ that should open facebook!!

do the same for all other websites you want to get to from your content filtered network.

another quick method of getting to a blocked website is by using a proxy server. proxy servers hide your computer identity so a firewall won’t detect it.

here is a good proxy server website – with a nice name. http://hidemyass.com/

Picture Upload Not Supported By Blog

Nelson — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 19:18:35 +0000

If you use Windows Live Writer to update your blog, and you have recently moved your blog to a new hosting provider, and now you are getting the following error:

Picture Upload Not Supported By Blog

Then your new wordpress directory WP-Content/uploads folder does not have the right permissions. from your FTP client ( I use FileZilla ) login to your wordpress hosted files, and navigate to your wp-content/uploads folder. make sure you set permissions to 777 like this:

that fixed the problem with the error above I had when trying to publish new posts on my blog using Windows Live Writer.