Alternative Portable File Manager for Windows Explorer
Confronted a nice tool called SE-Explorer. It’s a free and simple yet powerful file manager supporting windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista and offering some cool features. like
- Two file windows side by side
- Enhanced search function
- Tabbed interface
- A lot of built-in viewers
- Portable version availability
Built in views include:
- Picture viewer which supports most popular image file formats
- Video player for quick video preview
- Audio player with playlists support
- Text editor with syntax highlighting
- Hex editor for binary files
- ZIP archives explorer
- RTF document file view
- SWF Flash movie preview
- Browser window for local web files
- TTF Font files view
- XML structure view
How to Download your windows Updates manually
There are some exclusive windows updates which are not available via automatic updates. Most of the people use Microsoft Download Center to download their normal updates and “Microsoft update catalog” basically allows you to download the updates that you can only find in the update section. They also include Hotfixes, Security Updates, Drivers, etc.
So what you need is the exclusive windows updates. Make a note that the updates that you find at the microsoft download center doesn’t appear through this since they can be already manually downloaded.
How to Jailbreak your iPhone 3G using Windows
Users at Whirlpool forums have figured out and released a step by step guide on how to jailbreak your iPhone 3G using Windows, they have tested this on windows Vista and it should work fine on Windows XP as well.
Note: Before doing this, please remember that there is a risk involved so before you do any hacking, it’s recommended that you backup your iPhone immediately.
Step 1: You need to download two files: x12220000_4_Recovery.ipsw and iPhone1,2_2.0_5A347_Custom_Restore.ipsw.
Step 2: Make sure you have iTunes 7.7 installed.
For Vista: Click Start then copy this into the search box and press enter after:
For XP: Click start then run, then copy this into the run box:
%appdata%\Apple Computer\iTunes
Step 3: Make a directory called: Device Support. If the directory already exists, clear it.
Step 4: Copy x12220000_4_Recovery.ipsw into the Device Support folder you just created.
Step 5: You need to get your device into DFU mode. You can follow these steps to achieve this:
* Connect your iPhone to your computer.
* Turn iPhone off.
* Hold power and home together for 10 seconds (exactly).
* Release power but keep holding home until the computers beeps (observed on a PC) as a USB device is recognized.
* At no point will the display come on. Now your restore should work.
Step 6: Once your phone is in DFU mode and detected by iTunes (should be black screen on phone NOT iTunes logo with USB cable), click on iPhone in iTunes, then hold the SHIFT key and click on restore.
Step 7: Browse to the folder where you downloaded iPhone1,2_2.0_5A347_Custom_Restore.ipsw and select it. iTunes will then extract the file and you will see the iPhone Dev Team’s pineapple logo pop up after a few seconds. Refer to the image below:
Step 8: When restoring has completed, it will ask you to connect to iTunes, then re-do the activation process (download carrier settings).
How to clean your hard disks easily, Advanced Hard disk cleaner.
If you are looking for a good hard disk cleaner to get rid of that extra and un-wanted space, check out SBMAV Disk Cleaner. It is a nice application that can safely clean your disk. It cleans all the trash, empty folders, duplicates, cookies and temporary hard drive files that are of no use.
This application also helps you detect and delete old backup copies and documents, check out file duplicates and gives you access to delete all those unnecessary files.
Windows SteadyState 2.5 Download
Microsoft Windows SteadyState 2.5 has been released for download. What is Windows SteadyState? Whether you manage computers in a school computer lab or an Internet cafe, a library, or even in your home, Windows SteadyState helps make it easy for you to keep your computers running the way you want them to, no matter who uses them.
What’s New in Windows SteadyState 2.5:
Windows SteadyState includes many new features and enhanced capabilities.
- Easier to set up – Installation has been simplified and the improved Windows Disk Protection feature in Windows SteadyState does not require repartitioning.
- Easier to use –
- The Windows SteadyState UI has been redesigned to help make common tasks easier to manage from one location.
- With simplified user restriction settings, you can choose a High, Medium, or Low restriction level for each user account.
- Windows SteadyState enables you to import and export user accounts from one computer to another.
- Ongoing support efforts include a fully-revised Windows SteadyState Handbook (included in both PDF and XPS formats), updated Help content included with the download, new online demos, and the new Windows SteadyState Community Web site.
- Increased Protection for All Users – Windows SteadyState includes more Windows and program feature restrictions, as well as support for Windows Update. Windows SteadyState also enables you to restrict user access to local programs.
- Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) – There are significant risks to running a non-genuine copy of Windows. Only genuine Windows customers are able to receive Windows product downloads, Windows updates other than security-related updates, and special offers.
Windows SteadyState requires that your copy of Windows is genuine before installation. For more information, please visit the Windows Genuine Advantage Web site.
How to Disable Microsoft Error Report in windows
Microsoft’s Error Reporting in windows sometimes is disturbing, most of us don’t want to send that error report because it’s of no use. There’s a easy way to disable microsoft error report in windows.
Disable Microsoft Error report in Windows XP:
1- Open Control Panel (Start > Control Panel)
2- Open the Problem Reports & Solutions applet Under advanced options and disable error reporting.
Disable Microsoft Error report in Windows Vista:
1- Right click on my computer (Desktop) and click properties
2- Click the Advanced Tab
3- You’ll see a “Error reporting” button at the bottom, click it
4- Select Disable Error Reporting
And you’re done.
Download Windows Vista Transformation Pack 8.01
Vista Transformation Pack is a great application that transforms your regular windows interface to ultimate Windows Vista alike (Even better). With Vista Transformation Pack, you can give your Windows XP system an amazing fresh and cool look. Windows Vista Transformation Pack changes the skins, toolbars, system icons and give your desktop new enhancements like dock bar / different system tray clock.
If you want to transform your Windows user interface to ultimate Windows Vista alike, Windows Vista Transformation Pack is a must for you.
Windows Vista Transformation Pack Features:
* Boot screen
* Welcome Screen / Logon Screen
* New msstyles files (visual styles)
* New desktop and file icons
* New toolbar icons
* Progress Dialogs
* Sounds scheme
* System Tray icons
* New Wallpapers
* Windows Media Player Skins
* And much more
Download NVIDIA Gelato 2.2 For Linux / Windows
NVIDIA Gelato 2.2 has been released for download for both Windows and Linux OS.. Nvidia Gelato 2.2 is a great rendering software that allows anyone with an NVIDIA GPU to create stunning images fast. Basically, Gelato was designed to create 3D Visual effects and animation scenes in feature films including film & broadcast, CAD, architecture etc.
NVIDIA Gelato Zone is an online community for artists and animators. This virtual gathering place provides you the latest information about Gelato (NVIDIA’s final-frame rendering software) and lets you share information and images with other users. Nvidia Gelato is a hardware-accelerated, non-real time and you can create images at a very high quality.
CodeLite IDE v1.0RC01 - Download for Linux, MAC OSX and Windows
The CodeLite team released the CodeLite v1.0RC01 (An open source project that target itself to become the best open source IDE for C/C++) which includes a bundle app for MacOS 10.5.2. CodeLite is a powerful open-source, cross platform code editor for the C/C++ programming languages (regulary tested on Windows XP sp2, (K)Ubuntu 7.10 / 8.04, Fedora Core 6, Debian lenny/sid and Mac OSX 10.5.2). CodeLite is distributed under the terms of the GPL license. It uses a sophisticated, yet intuitive interface which allows user to easy create and build complex projects.
