Category Archives: Computer How-Tos

Why The World Run In 2.4Ghz?

Have you ever curious why most wireless gadget have a 2.4Ghz sticker on it? Does the one with a 5Ghz sticker runs twice as fast? I was at a local electronic store (Fry’s) the other day and the salesperson convince … Continue reading

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Anime Desktop Icons

Kind of lazy and have not update My Anime Wallpaper section for some time now .. So to make it up I posted a good collection of Anime relate Icons.  On Windows environment you can change any application icons by  … Continue reading

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How To Rip and Backup Your Blu-Ray Disc For Free – Advance Version

Look like a lot of people enjoy the guide I posted recently on “How To Rip And Backup Your Blu-Ray Disc For Free”.  Some of you want to know how to keep some of the more advance features in a … Continue reading

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DVDDecrypter Fail To Set Data Error in Windows 7

Ripit4me + DvdDecrypter + DVD Shrink is the ultimate free DVD backup solution  It may not be the simple one click solution but it is free and can handle  most DVD protection scheme. But if you recently move from XP … Continue reading

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How To Rip and Backup Your Blu-Ray Disc For Free

Blu-Ray is great in picture and sound but not the most friendly of formats in term of backup. It’s highly proprietary and heavily copy protected. Video encoding has come a long way since the days of lower quality DVD rips. … Continue reading

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Getting Your Home Movie From iPhone 4 or 3GS

Few people ask me already in how to get the home movies off their iPhone4 to their computer? They have looked everywhere in iTune and can’t find them. They also look into the iTune Photo and can’t find them either. … Continue reading

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How To Create Windows 7 Theme Pack

“How-To Geek” have a very good article on how to create you own Windows 7 Theme Pack. It is actually not a very complicated process. I am not a big “Theme” person because I prefer to change the looks as … Continue reading

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Batman Desktop

Come across a set of very cool Batman wallpaper and icons. Wallpapers Right Click the picture to save to your computer.    Desktop Icons Click picture to download icon set. all are in ICO file format. “How To Geek” has … Continue reading

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iPhone4 Ringtones Collections 1

Here is the first collection of my ringtones files. There are 35 ringtones in this collection most of them are Chinese songs with some video games songs mix in. They all have been converted to work in iPhone 4 and … Continue reading

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iPhone 4 Voice Control List

iPhone support basic voice control for some time now but for some reason the command list is not well publish. To start the voice control From iPhone – Hold the home button for 2 seconds. From a wire headset – … Continue reading

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3G Video Call on iPhone 4 with Fring

Want to use video call but can’t get it to works because of iPhone WiFi limitation. You will want to give the application Fring a try.  It is not as polish as Facetime but at least it works. However you … Continue reading

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How to Rebuild the Orb Media Database

ORB does works well and it is nice to have your collection of TV and Movies with you on the go. But it is not a very well polish S/W for sure. One of the more annoying “features” is its … Continue reading

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How To Make ORB Work on AT&T 3G iPhone 4

If you use ORB to watch your home TVs like I do than most likely you have already found out it does not working after you move to iPhone 4. In iPhone4, ORB will works fine in WiFi connection  but … Continue reading

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Solved The iPhone 4 WiFi Connection Problem

Picked up a a cheap $20 WiFi router from Frys which seems to resolve the iPhone WiFi connection problem. Funny part is iPhone fail to connect to higher grade hardware and prefer the low end stuff. I think the trick … Continue reading

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See What Facebook Says About You and Your Friend

Facebook’s new Open Graph API stir up a lot of privacy concerns. Many people are questioning what Facebook is publishing to the public. Developer Ka-Ping Yee has created a simple tool shows you what everyone else can see. To check … Continue reading

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Easy Way To Create And Remember 90 Days Password At Work

Most company now require you to create a strong password usually with the following rules: At least 8 characters long. Must be a mix of numbers, capital, lower case and punctuation. Can’t reuse old password. Must  change every 90 days. … Continue reading

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Update AKAIO to 1.6 RC2

You will need to update to AKAIO 1.6 if : You have problem using the latest rom file on your Acekard. The WiFi update for the loader said you need to manually install AKAIO 1.6 You can get the 1.6 … Continue reading

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How To Wipe SSD and USB Flash Drive?

SSD and USB flash drive are  getting more and more popular specially for laptop/netbook market because it is fast, shock prof and some what more battery friendly. But it come with its own unique problem – Unless you going to … Continue reading

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How to downgrade from Firefox 3.6 to 3.5

Firefox 3.6 has been released which offer performance, security and technologies update. At the same time it also introduced a lot of bugs and most important of all broken most plug in – most noticeable one is “IE Tab”. Luckily, … Continue reading

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Sony: Don’t Turn On Your PS3 Until PSN Bug Is Fixed

Sony is now asking people NOT to turn on the PS3 until the latest PSN problem has been fix, they  hope to resolve the problem in the next 24 hrs.  Latest  status update can be find on the PS3 BLOG:  … Continue reading

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How To Covert MTS File to Other Format For Free

Most of the new digital camera and camcorder store the video file in AVCHD (Advanced Video Coding High Definition) format or aka MTS extension.  It is a very good format to store high definition video but player support is very … Continue reading

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Integrates XBMC With Windows 7 Media Center

The plug-in  gives users a super-easy way to switch back and forth between XMBC and WMC with a remote. It’s especially handy if you prefer to use XMBC UI to watch movies  and  use the Media Center to control your … Continue reading

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Better MKV File Control in Media Center

Windows 7 Media Center is one of the best media center option out in the field.  One of its main weakness is its ability to handle MKV file format. Media Center’s interface lacks the ability to interact with the meta … Continue reading

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This Program Might Not Have Installed Correctly

Windows 7 may be friendly to  SSD but it doesn’t like portable applications (those application you carry around on your USB stick or on a dropbox storage).  The messages are powered by the Windows service PcaSVC which is the “Program … Continue reading

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How To Speed Up A Netbook

I got 1-2 email a week now from friend and family asking why the new cool netbook they get during last xmas is not hot on performance. The truth is netbook is design as a ultra-portable computing device and is … Continue reading

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