Windows Easy Transfer can’t transfer files from a 64-bit computer to a 32-bit computer:

the error is correct, because of architecture differences between windows 7 64-bit and Windows 7 32-bit OS, the program only works one way, from 32-bit to 64-bit but not vise versa. I know it sucks, but I have a solution for you, not the best one, but still you can get your files back, if that’s critical for you.

you need to install either VMware Server or Virtual PC.  after you install VMware Server, or Virtual PC create a VM and install Windows 7 64-bit  on it. you can download Windows 7 64-bit trial for 90 days from here  after you have installed Windows 7 64-bit on the VM, run the Windows easy transfer from the VM to get the files, and then manually copy the files to your new 32-bit Windows 7 computer.

easy.

I told you it was not the best solution, but it worked for me, and it might work for you.

cheers,

Nelson.

read the full article here http://www.aptiquant.com/news/is-internet-explorer-for-the-dumb-a-new-study-suggests-exactly-that/

I personally find these tests inaccurate, and pointless. this website forevergeeks.com gets about 80,000 unique visits a month from search engines, and about 39% of this unique visitors use IE.

Most visitors to this site are IT professionals and I assume they are well aware of other browsers, and somehow they are still using IE. should I assume they are stupid because they are using IE? not at all. there might be many reasons why they still using IE, corporate policies, internal application comparability reasons, and many just because they like IE. I myself use IE9 regularly for website development, and comparability testing, because despite these tests trying to portrait IE as the worst browser, IE is still being used by the majority of Internet users. call them whatever you like, but one thing I’m sure, they ain’t stupid.

Why easiness is important to me? because if you have worked with remote users, then you know how a pain in the ass is to guide them over the phone to download and configure a software to gain remote access to their computers. not too long ago, I had to write long how-to documents for users on how to download and install the remote screen sharing tool I was using in order for me to get remote access to their computers.

not anymore with join.me

there are only two buttons on join.me, so there is no confusion at all ( this is a huge + when dealing with users ) basically the whole process of gaining access to a remote user computer is inviting that user to go to join.me and click on the share button, and execute the a little executable file that get’s downloaded.  there is no installation. after the user click on the executable file, this menu will appear on top of the desktop:

then just ask the user to send you the link that appear on top, and that’s it… its just that simple.

so far, I have been using Mikogo for screen sharing, but now Mikogo has been substituted by join.me… let’s see how it goes.

before this hack ( more about this below ) to run an Android phone emulator you needed to install and configure the Android SDK package which  on a Windows PC is a pain in the ass to do. but now, thanks to a developer at the xda forums, installing the SDK android developer’s package is not required. Just download the emulator below, and execute it.. that’s all.

please take note that I did not develop the emulator nor I have any association with its development. all credits and feedback should be given to the poster at this forum thread http://forum.xda-developers.com

I downloaded the emulator, added two patches, tested it, and then zipped it and uploaded it to my web server. the original link on the thread above points to a Rapidshare download link, and links there come and go without notice, that’s why I uploaded it to my web server so it can stay there as long as I want to.. please visit the forum link above for updates and improvements on the emulator.

Download the Android phone emulator by clicking on the download image below:

Jomsocial – Open Source

built on top of the famous and robust Joomla engine, Jomsocial is one of the easiest to setup and heavy feature packed open source social networking engines out of there. with Jomsocial it takes less than 30 minutes to have a functional networking website up and running.

Features Include:

• Four default templates included.
• Robust Photo gallery management
• Hot linking from video provider websites supported, or upload own videos option.
• Friend Activity stream like Facebook with spam control filter
• Facebook sign up option ( people can sign up using their Facebook info )
• Full profile page and a lot more

Elgg – Open Source

Elgg is an award-winning open source social networking engine that provides a robust framework on which to build all kinds of social environments, from a campus wide social network for your university, school or college or an internal collaborative platform for your organization through to a brand-building communications tool for your company and its clients.

features include:

• Powerful Data Model – Elgg provides a powerful data model making the creation of different entities simple, yet flexible.
• Activity – StreamsThe granular activity stream API ensures your plugins can push the required content to your users.
• Plugin API – Use Elgg’s powerful plugin API to build and add your required features.
• User Management – Elgg handles your user management and relationship requirements.
• Access controls -All objects in Elgg can have an access control level applied making granular access permissions possible.

Anahita – Open Source

Anahita™ is a developer friendly and open source social networking engine for building the very foundations of your social web project or business idea.

key features include:

• Essential social networking features upon installation
• Lead, Follow, Mutual (LFM) Social Graph
• Story Feeds
• Ability to block unwanted people
• Dashboard
• Comments
• Geolocation Support
• Translatable User Interfaces
• Fully Customizable Look & Feel
• System and Email Notifications
• Powerful CMS Functionality
• Extend Anahita™ Using Custom Social Applications

Social Engine – Open Source

SocialEngine is a feature-rich white label social networking application built to support almost any concept.

Features Include:

• No “powered-by” branding.
• Fully unencrypted source code
• Drag-and-drop Content Management
• Membership levels and moderators
• Buy third-party plugins and themes

Boonex – Open Source

open-source, downloadable, scalable, customizable, full-featured, independent and free software package for building social networks, dating sites and niche communities. Dolphin is the only “all-in-one” bundle of PHP community scripts, Flash plugins, Adobe AIR and Mobile apps that provide full control, freedom and flexibility. Launch your site, customize it and watch it grow!

Features Include:

• Memberships and access levels
• Extensions, Plugins, Add-ons…
• Packed with thousands of social networking and online dating site features.
• Mobile, interactive, fast and secure community software.

Community Builder – Open Source

Add Social networking to your own website, fast and easy with Joomlapolis Community Builder, ‘CB’. CB, the most popular and comprehensive social networking solution gives you all the tools and usability needed to grow and maintain your website community. Let members search for other members, facilitate member interaction, they will want to keep coming back to your site. Extended member registration functions, profile image uploading, membership content creation, messaging, moderation, reporting and more! Open source, many plugins available and Joomla version independent.

Features Include:

• Works natively with all stable flavors of Joomla!TM and Mambo
• Know your members with categorization, lists and reporting features
• Encourage member interaction with member connect features (search, messaging, more!)
• Enable members to create content on your website
• Empower key members to be moderators, ‘front-end’ moderation available!
• Fully translatable language options (front and back)
• Create your own brand by integrating any CB commercially available template plugin
• Additional add ons available
• Scalable, reliable, robust, secure
• Open source with GPL
• And CB is free!

BuddyPress – Open Source

BuddyPress was conceived in 2008 while working to add social networking features to a WordPress MU powered site. The first official stable release was in May 2009. The platform has grown and morphed considerably since then, into the dynamic, easily extensible package you see today.

Features Include:

• Activity Stream
• Extended Profiles
• Friend connections
• Private Messages
• WordPress Integration
• Extensible Groups
• Discussion forums

If you’re a WordPress plugin or theme developer then you already know the fundamentals of BuddyPress. You should be able to start building and designing for BuddyPress with very little extra work.

• AllDup is a freeware tool for searching and removing file duplicates on your Windows computer. The fast search algorithm find duplicates of any file type, e.g., text, pictures, music or movies ( recommended )

• Duplicate Files Finder Duplicate Files Finder is an application which searches for duplicate files (files which have the same content, but not necessarily the same name) and lets the user remove duplicate files, either by deleting them or by creating links. The search is very fast compared to other similar programs which use hashing algorithms.

• Duplicate Cleaner Find and delete duplicate files, mp3s, photos, old documents and much more. This fully featured program will work at home or in a networked environment. Best of all Duplicate Cleaner is freeware, meaning you get the full program and it doesn’t cost a thing.

• Clonespy CloneSpy can help you free up hard drive space by detecting and removing duplicate files. Duplicate files have exactly the same contents regardless of their name, date, time and location. Also, CloneSpy is able to find files that are not exactly identical, but have the same file name. Perhaps you have different versions of a file and you want to find all of them and remove the older versions. CloneSpy can also find zero length files. These are files that have no content.

• Doublekiller DoubleKiller is a fast and easy to use application for finding and removing duplicate files.

• Winmerge WinMerge is an Open Source differencing and merging tool for Windows. WinMerge can compare both folders and files, presenting differences in a visual text format that is easy to understand and handle.

• Fast duplicate file finder Fast Duplicate File Finder FREEWARE will help you find fast all duplicate files in a folder and its sub folders. The application will compare the content of your files so it will find duplicates even if they are using different file names. The Professional version can even find similar files regardless of their file types. It will analyze the content of the files in order to find similar files and not just file attributes like name and size as the standard duplicate file finders do

• Yet another duplicate file finder Another duplicate file finder/remover. But this one is ULTRA FAST, safe, easy to use and of course free and open source.

please if you know any other freeware or open source file duplicate finder tool, post the link in a comment, and I will add it to the list, if its worthwhile.

To check if indeed this is the problem there is utility in the BES server to check permissions for a specific user in Exchange. the utility is found on the following path:

“C:\Program Files (x86)\Research In Motion\BlackBerry Enterprise Server\Utility” on windows 2008. it should be similar on windows 2003. when you execute the tool, you should get the following pop-up:

click on OK. then search for the user you need to check the permissions on the global address book, and add it to the list, and click on OK:

if the account is set with the right BES permissions, it should look like this:

if you get permissions denied, or other errors, then most likely you need to set the right permissions on exchange for that user.

I hope that helps.

In order for someone to use your wireless Internet connection he needs to obtain an IP address from your router, and the router keeps a record of all the IP addresses of computers currently connected in the DHCP table. so, if someone is indeed connected to your wireless router, then it should show in the DHCP table.

to check the DHCP table on a Linksys router do this. Type the IP address of the router in the browser. if you don’t know what IP address the router is using, check the documentation of the router. login and click on the Status tab:

the click on the Local Network, and then click on the DHCP Clients Table:

on the DHCP table you should be able to see the computers currently connected to your wireless router. 

on a Verizon wireless router is even easier to see who is connected to wireless access point. when you login to the router, click on My Network tab and there you should be able to see who is using the router.

I hope this helps you find out who is leeching your wireless Internet connection, if you want further help on this matter, please use the comment section below.

cheers,

Correcting this problem is easy. from Windows 7, click on the Start button and type “ncpa.cpl” on the search field. the network connections window will come up. Right-click your VPN connection and go to Properties:

then, click on the Networking tab, and and select Internet Protocol version 4 (TCP/IP ) and click on Properties

then on the Internet Protocol Properties, click on the Advanced tab:

then uncheck Use default gateway on remote network

click on OK, and then close out of all the VPN windows open. now VPN should not be your default Internet connection when connected to VPN.

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.