Hibernation is enabled by default in Windows Vista, and is one of the seven options (i.e. Hibernate) that appears on the Vista shutdown menu. Hibernate your Vista system will enable you to quickly restore to existing system state and intact workspace instead of start afresh, run programs and open your documents one by one again. If you do not use the hibernate feature in Vista, […]
The US-based financial services and communications company, Western Union and GSM Association (GSMA) have jointly announced their plan to develop a system that would allow consumers to transfer money/cash across international borders via just a mobile phone. It’s a very cool and convenient commercial cash transfer service based on “Mobile Wallet” technology!
Internet users like to display their picture while they are participating in forum, chatting in MSN, ICQ, Yahoo Messenger, etc. Display pics sometimes represent the characteristics of the user to a certain extent. For instance, a humorous user likes to use funny photos or cartoons as his display photo to show his sense of humor. We found an interesting webpage from China that allows you […]
In Windows Vista, the SATA (Serial-ATA) based optical drives such as a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive may disappear and not available right after the system boots u pagain after users enable and switch to use the Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) feature on AHCI chipset for the SATA ports in system BIOS configuration. Previously, the CD or DVD (ROM or RW or Writable) drive is […]
After installing Windows Vista on a SATA (Serial ATA) based hard disk drive (HDD) which is also a boot drive, if users attempt to change the Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) mode of the boot drive to use the Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) specification, the following stop error will appear in the BSoD (Blue Screen of Death) screeen after users restart the computer. STOP […]
You decided that it’s time to reformat and reinstall your computer’s operating system so that it will start fresh and fast. However, when attempting to boot from Windows XP or Vista or Linux flavor (RedHat, Ubuntu and etc) installation setup CD/DVD, the install may stop and halt with an error message saying that setup does not detect hard disk drives installed on the computer. Without […]
When installing Windows XP on SATA hard disk drive, you may encounter problem where you unable to install Windows XP on the SATA drive as the Windows XP setup installation interface does not detect and recognize any of the hard disks mounted on S-ATA (Serial ATA) ports, and thus XP installer cannot find usable physical disks on the computer system and unable to continue to […]
For those whose Windows XP, 2003 and Vista system is installed and infested with the latest new version of Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Tool ActiveX control version 1.7.59.1, Team ETH0 has released the corresponding cracked version for LegitCheckControl.dll v1.7.59.1. As with previous versions of WGA crack hacked by Team ETHO, the crack is not a full workaround to bypass WGA. However, the cracked version will […]
To boost and optimize your internet browsing speed, you need to clean the rubbish accumulating in your system such as your internet history, computer tracks, unused files, etc. There are many thrash eraser tools, rubbish removal utilities, computer track cleaning tools, etc. available to help you to clean your system in a faster way and keep your system neat, effective and responsive. But these utilities […]
RealPlayer or RealOne Player is quite a popular cross-platform media player that can support numerous RealMedia formats such as RealAudio (*.ra, *.rm), RealVideo (*.rv, *.rm, *.rmvb), RealPix (*.rp), RealText (*.rt), RealMedia Shortcut (*.ram, *.rmm). It is quite common to use Real Player to watch downloaded video movie clips especially in *.rm and *.rmvb. The player is quite easy to use and features a handful of […]
PaSoRi (modal RC-S320/S and RC-S310) is an external USB FeliCa smartcard reader and writer. FeliCa (Felicity Card) contactless RFID IC chip smart card system by Sony which used primarily as electronic money cards. Example of FeliCa card usage includes transit tickets such as Octopus Card in Hong Kong, ez-link Card in Singapore, TRAVEL Card in India, Shenzhen Tong TransCard in China, Metro Card in Thailand […]
We have discussed how to download Flash files from the internet in our previous post. (Refer to article Download Interactive and Creative Flash File with FlashGet). It will be more interesting if we can convert flash swf files to AVI format video or MPEG format which is compatible with VCD, DVD and SVCD so that they can be played on TV. To make the conversion […]
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