Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Fixing The Firefox Memory Leak

in case you didn’t know Firefox has a small memory leakage problems that can cause your pc to freeze up. basically what happens is when you minimize Firefox it stops consuming memory, however when you maximize it again the memory usage will increase, sometimes even doubling. fortunately, there is a small fix that you can implement.
heres what you do:

1. Open Firefox and go to the Address Bar. Type in about:config and then press Enter.
2. Right Click in the page and select New -> Boolean.
3. In the box that pops up enter config.trim_on_minimize. Press Enter.
4. Now select True and then press Enter.
5. Restart Firefox.
tada, Firefox will stop eating your memory.

How to improove Windows XP performance

First, what is the kernel? Well kernel is a piece of code that is considered the "heart" of the operating systems. It's responsible for managing system resources and the basic communication between hardware and software. It translates any functions between the applications and the CPU, main memory and other devices.

Accessing the kernel from the hard disk is usually the default on any operating system. You can set it to automatically load in the system's RAM at the boot and get better performances.



First open the Regedit tool (Start Menu - Run - regedit.exe). By using the icons in the left panel, navigate to HKEY LOCAL MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management (by clicking the + sign near each and expanding it).
In the right panel you can see the values assigned. Double click the DisablePagingExecutive to edit that field and change it to 1. Be sure to make the change in decimal.

This will make all drivers and kernel to run from system's memory.

You can also edit LargeSystemCache value and change it to 1 in decimal. This will improve kernel access time.

Then you can edit IOPageLockLimit field. Change it according to these rules:

- 4000 if you have 128 RAM or less
- 10000 if you have 256 RAM installed
- 40000 for more

This will change the number of bytes for input-output operations and will increase system performance.

2) Boot

To improve boot times edit the following value:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\SessionManager\MemoryManagement\PrefetchParamete rs with Regedit like in 1).

Change this value from 3 to 5 in decimal. This will improove boot time with 5 to 20 seconds depending on your system's speed.

3) Shutdown

There are some tweaks that help your computer to shutdown faster.

a) automatically end any task running (Caution: this will disable any confirmations like "Do you want to save document X before closing?")

Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop using Regedit and edit the AutoEndTask key. Set it to 1 in decimal.

cool.gif make the open applications close faster at shutdown

Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop and set the WaitToKillAppTimeout and HungAppTimeout keys to 1000. Make these two changes in the HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop too.

c) make any service close faster

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Contro l and set the WaiToKillServiceTimeout to 1000.

Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Unlock SkyBox

To people from Europe
http://rapidshare.com/files/29635238/ulsb.rar

Here i got some tricks to unlock the sky box, u can also watch free sky boxoffice movies on Your tv with that.

Guide For Getting Free Stuff

Ok, if you are like me you have heard so much about the FreeIpods and FreeFlatScreens websites on different forums, blogs, IM's, etc, you are about to puke. So am I. But yet the draw of getting an Ipod for doing basically nothing is pretty strong. I dismissed all the "stories" of people getting their ipods as the marketing machine at work. However, when Kevin Rose published that not only did he receive his, but a few of his friends did as well, I figured I might take a chance and give it a go. Today I received proof that it does indeed work. Yep, I got my iPod.

Whats in it for them?
Step 1. Collect Names.
Step 2. Send those names items worth $200 or more
Step 3. ?????
Step 4. Profit

Before I signed up, I wanted to get to the bottom of the ?????. I didn't want any sweaty, filth pushing webmonkeys to have all my info, so I did my research. Gratis Internet, the parent company of the FreeIpods, FreeFlatscreens, etc. sites, recently did an interview with Wired Magazine.In this article Gratis states that they are acting as Head Hunters for companies (more on that later) and are paid between $50-$90 per referral. Although this seems like a lot of money, this is nothing compared to what these companies spend for print advertising which does not guarentee ANY customers. So now we know what ?????? equals. ??????=$50-$90 for Gratis per guranteed customer (referral sites).

How Does it Work?You sign-up on one (or more) of the following websites:

http://www.FreeDesktopPC.com/?r=13082204 This site gives away free flat screen monitors and TVs. At the time of this writing the following flat screens were available: Sony 19" LCD, Samsung 15" SyncMaster 510MP LCD TV, Samsung SyncMaster 710N LCD Monitor, Sony 27" FD Trinitron WEGA TV, or a 24" Toshiba TV/VCR/DVD combo

http://www.dvrs4free.com/default.aspx?r=90581 This site gives away TiVo, Replay TV, and $275 paypal.

http://www.cameras4free.com/default.aspx?r=90773 This site is giving away high end digital cameras. At the the time of writing this, you follow cams are available: Canon Powershot S1 IS, Sony DSC-P100, Sony DSC-W1, Canon Powershot A95, $325 paypal.

Easy way for XP users to resize pictures

If you have Windows XP its very easy... all you need to do is follow the instructions below. This is the quickest and easiest way I have seen to resize as there is no need to open a photo editing software. Micro$oft has a special XP addon for resizing pictures... download and install it from here:

Download size: 520 kb and is freeware http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/ImageResizerPowertoySetup.exe

Using the resizer
1. Find the picture on your hard drive you want to resize.
2. Right click the picture and chose "Resize Pictures" from the context menu
3. A small size selection window will appear - select the size you want or click "Advanced" and then "Custom" for specific sizes like 400 x 300
4. Click OK

You'll find that the a new smaller picture has been created in the same place as the original. Its that simple

Free rapidshare account, hurry

http://rapidshare.com/files/19272967/Hopefully_these_rs_passes_work.zip
If u hurry, then you could have luck to obtain free rapidshare account!!!

How to change taskbar time to military

Would you like to change the time format in the taskbar to military or international time format?
1. Click on the Start Button, type in intl.cpl and hit Enter.
2. Click the Customize this format button.
3. Click on the Time tab.
4. Change the time format to H:mm:ss and hit OK.
5. Hit OK once more to close Regional and Language Options.

Saturday, May 05, 2007

Google Rabbits

Google is one of the biggest search engines on the internet, used by people from all over the world. It has over 8 Billion web pages indexed, along with some extra stuff that with a little searching, you can find almost anything you like, From music,applications,skins,web templates or pretty much anything you are after! Follow the short guide below and you can start getting what you want from google.Viewing Some Sites WebStats

Webalizer usually runs at /webstat/ so a simple search of "Usage Statistics for" will return pages of webstat pages for many different websites, sometimes it is interesting to look at other peoples statistics.


File Directories
I dont know about you, but i like to nose around other peoples webdirectorys, with the search "Index of \files" it gives you a chance to, some interesting things sometimes can be found such as the linux dell files

http://linux.dell.com/files/

On a similar note if you do searches for "Index of \fonts" you can find big directories of fonts to download such as :

http://www.justusnow.com/fonts/

Template Monster Templates
Template Monster is one of the biggest suppliers of paid high quality templates, people who buy them upload the whole folder online, which leaves the psd files, the flash files and the html files there for google to index do the simple search below using brackets.

"with_fl"

You will now have pages apon pages of template monster templates to download and use, although this is illegal and i do not condone it.

Warez Directorys
If people are silly enough to host their warez online then there is a high chance that google has indexed it, doing a simple search such as "Index of \Appz" will return a lot of results, you will need to sith through them to find some, but there are some there such as the second place in the search result

http://www.yois3xy.com/appz
http://www.lamouri.com/Appz/

Thursday, May 03, 2007

Change Windows 98 password easely

Have you ever forgotten your windows password and never been able to retrieve those files you longed?

Well heres how to change your password without knowing the old one.


1)when the computer boots keep pressing F8 until you get to a boot screen.

2)Select boot in DOS.

3)Get yourself into the windows folder by typing "cd windows" (without the "")

4)next type "dir *.pwl". This will display the login password files.

5)after you found out the one thats yours (or ne1 elses you want to get into) type del username.pwl

6)Reboot the computer

7)When you have to login, put in the username you deleted, and enter any password you like.

8)The computer will say sumthin like "No password. Would you like to use this one? Confirm?

9)Put your password in, and have fun!

Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Bypassing Rapidshare's Time Limit legally. NEW!

This is how I download from RapidShare...maybe someone else may find it useful.
1. Go to the following site:
http://anonymouse.org/anonwww.html
or
http://www.the-cloak.com/login.html
http://www.secure-tunnel.com/
http://proxify.com/?69
http://behidden.com/
http://www.unipeak.com/

2. Below where it says: "enter URL", paste your rapidshare link
3. You will be redirected to rapidshare free download link
4. After finishing your download, return to the same site above and repeat the procedure

NOTE: You cannot do multiple downloads this way. Only one and you must wait for the first one to finish and then start over again.

Increase Hard disk`s speed

StarterGroup: MemberPosts: 95Joined: 1-January 07From: {FiJi IsLaNdS}Member No.: 94,801
INCREASE HARDDISK SPEEDTo speed up your hard disk speed we need to configure a special buffer in the computer's memory in order to enable it to better deal with interrupts made from the disk. This tip is only recommended if you have 256MB RAM or higher.Follow these steps:

Run SYSEDIT.EXE from the Run command.
Expand the system.ini file window.
Scroll down almost to the end of the file till you find a line called [386enh].
Press Enter to make one blank line, and in that line type
Irq14=4096
Note: This line IS CASE SENSITIVE!!!
Click on the File menu, then choose Save.
Close SYSEDIT and reboot your computer.

Done. Speed improvement will be noticed after the computer reboots.Update: The most speed improvement is visible with IDE drives, however there are reports that this tweak also does good for SCSI disks. In any case, it won't harm your system, so why not try it yourself and let me know what you find.

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

How to mass rename files

When one downloads an album from a torrents or web site, they usually get songs that look something like this:01_this_song_rocks-example_artist.mp3I assume they rename it in this format to make it a little less search-able by anti-piracy groups.If you want your song to look like this:01 This Song Rocks - Example Artist.mp3 This program (freeware, made by Denis Kozlov) is a great mass renamer which allows you to add "rules" which removes, replaces, makes uppercase, etc. all the files in a folder you choose and then rename them.

1. Add a new rule. 2. Set the rule to Replace. 3. In the Find: field, type in _ 4.In the Replace: field, you should obviously type a space. 5. Click Add Rule. The results will appear on the right side of the bottom right box. 6. If you like the results, click Rename in the upper right corner or the window.

* The "-" symbol should have spacing before and after to show a change in description (Ex. from Title of Song-Author to Title of Song - Author).

1. Add a new rule.2. Set the rule to Replace.3. Inf the Find: field, type in -4. In the Replace: field, type in a - but with a space before and after.5. Click Add Rule. The results will appear on the right side of the bottom right box.6. If you like the results, click Rename in the upper right corner or the window.

* If all song titles and authors are in lowercase, you can make all the first letters of the words uppercase with the Case rule.

1. Add a new rule.2. Set the rule to Case. (I recommend setting the capitolization Capitolize Every Word. Is set by default I believe.)

*Tip*If you really want to get in-depth on what words capitolize you can add fragments: Depending on what you enter in the fragment box, the program will capitolize every word except for the ones you typed into the fragment field. This is helpful for preventing words like "the", "is", "and" etc. from becoming uppercase.

4. If you added fragments, check the Force Case for fragments checkbox.5. Click Add Rule. The results will appear on the right side of the bottom right box.6. If you like the results, click Rename in the upper right corner or the window.

Take a screenshot using Windows Media Player

Whenever you wanna take a screenshot of a good movie or whatever you press "the print screen" button and all you see is a black screen.well, not anymore.All you have to do is open you Windows Media Player (All Versions)click on the right mouse button and goto Tools > Options... > In the tabs goto Performance and down there you'll see "Video acceleration" move the button from full to NONEPress Apply and you'r done!

Finding Phone Videos with Google

You can use the following Google searches to find 3GP files for viewing on some cell phones:

CODE
-inurl:htm -inurl:html -inurl:asp intitle:"index of” 3gp

CODE
filetype:3gp inurl:3gp

CODE
filetype:3gp inurl:3gp yourkeyword
(On my phone I can view WMV, though I didn’t find any good site with small, downloadable and fun videos. Replacing “3gp” with “wmv” above technically works, but most of the videos you’ll find are too large for cell phones.)

find out a person's IP by using MSN messenger

connect to them (file share, send, etc...) then run command (XP) or cmd (2000 and under)type in netstattheir IP is the one listed that isn't yours.

How to download from video sites like youtube easier

http://dlthis.com/ use this link

Some common questions about the Video Grabber:
Q: Why do I get a 403 error and/or a blank page saying "You are not authorized to view this page" when I download some videos from FlickPeek or Peekvid?
A: This is because DailyMotion (where the videos are actually hosted) has taken the videos off of their servers. You need to inform PeekVid or FlickPeek so that they can upload a newer version and update their links.
Q: My favourite site [insertsitehere].com isn't supported. What can I do?
A: You can send the URL of the site and if you want, a specific example link from the site to porkchop009[at]gmail.com.
Q: What do I do with the FLV files after I've downloaded them?
A: You can either view them using a FLV player such as "FLV Player" or "VLC Player", or you can convert the files to another format using "SUPER".
Q: You liar! You said that [sitename] was supported, but I tried a link from [sitename] and it didn't work. What's the deal?
A: Certain sites will change the way they operate, especially if they're a newer site. Just send the link in question to porkchop009[at]gmail.com and I'll try to deal with it.

List Of Free TV Sites Online

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Increase the speed your modem connects.

Increase the speed your modem connects.

1. Click start.

2. Click control panel.

3. Click modems.

4. Click properties.

5. Click the connection tab.

6. Click advanced.7.

In the extra settings dialog box add the string S11=40.8.

Click Ok.

Boost Up Your Internet Connection

METHOD 1For:WinME Win95 and Win98-----To do this click on your start button, then go to Search then open up Dial UpNetworking, then right click on your connection,Go to Properties then where the modem islocated(Tellin you wut modem you are using)Hit Configure, Next click on Connection, andlocate the Advaced button click on it and see where it says Extra Settings Type This:at&fxThen hit apply, then close it out, and disconect from your internet, and then start it backup...your connection speedwill be 5 times more...It made mine boost up from 45,200BPS to115,200BPS-----

For:WinXP WinCE and Win2000-----Right click on "My Computer" then go to "Properties" then go to "Hardware" then go to"Device Manager" then go to "Modems" Then select that tab so it scrolls down, then go toyour modem, and right click and go to "Properties" then go to "Advanced" Then in the boxsaying "Extra Settings/Extra Initialization Commands" type in that box:
at&fx--then click ok then ok again and exit out of everything, disconect from tha internet andreconnect and you will be connected at a faster speed. you wouold be connected at 42,200KBPSand now your new connection will be 100,200KBPS--