It you are still bitching about your poor experience with Windows Vista, perhaps this is the ebook for you. This ebook written by Rich from mintywhite.com and it covers installation tweaks , new registry system , disabling the annoying User Account Control to Boot screen and Theme hacks.
This book is designed to aim at users of all skill levels – even if you’re new to Windows Vista or computers in general, you can still follow along easily. Go ahead download the pdf version of the ebook here Download. This is a free ebook, if you paid for this book, do get a refund .
OpenDNS is the leading provider of free security and infrastructure services that make the Internet safer through integrated Web content filtering, anti-phishing and DNS. OpenDNS services enable consumers and network administrators to secure their networks from online threats, reduce costs and enforce Internet-use policies. OpenDNS is used today by millions of users and organizations around the world.
With OpenDNS configured to your network settings, whenever you served into the dangerous site it will automatically filter it out for you. It also comes with SMARTCache - a feature that enables SmartCache, a new DNS record handling technology that allows users of its service to access Web sites when they are inaccessible everywhere else on the Internet.
Sometimes, if we encounter problem with DNS updating in local ISP, you may try to switch to OpenDNS for a while after all is a FREE service.
To switch to OpenDNS switch your DNS in network adapter to this IP.
During one of my flash game development project, I soon found out that I need to use some kind shape based hit test. Yes, basically – in older days of hittest, this can be accomplish with either an insane amount of mini invisible movieclip stacked around the shape of the object, or they do it using some mathematically formula. This is because, the function hitTest doesn’t work exactly like the shape of the movieclip but, takes the entire movieclip as whole.
Well, this tutorial isn’t about the two method above but, a way simpler method to do collision detection based on shape.
Take a good look at the sample flash below in action.
Over the weekends, I was trying to learn the ways on how to work faster without typing much codes and minimizing errors. The solution is learning to use Aptana’s Snippet View. Firstly, before we start – I would like to suggest rearranging your IDE into more simpler view.
I like to close unwanted views and combine three of my mostly used View into ones dock to the left side of the IDE namely, File, Project and Snippets.
Let’s move on, we will then need to create our own set of snippets – be it JS script, XML, HTML, CSS or whatever you are programming with this IDE.
Simply put, a registry cleaner is a tool designed to remove unwanted information and repair invalid information in the Windows registry. A registry cleaner tool has many benefits. Let’s take a look at some of the most useful ones.
The first and perhaps most important benefit is that a registry cleaner helps you maintain a healthy and error-free registry. This is required because the registry is a centralized database in which all configuration information related to software, hardware, system settings, and user profiles is stored and it controls almost all operations on your Windows computer. Windows does provide a registry tool, Registry Editor (regedit), however, it is very difficult to repair the complex registry using it. So, you can opt to use a good third-party registry cleaner tool that simplifies registry cleanup and repair by automating the whole process. In other words, by using a good registry cleaner you can repair and clean your registry within 2-5 minutes.
Most of the registry cleaner tools available today are GUI-based and have a very simple-to-understand interface. So, even if you are not aware of the technicalities of your computer, you can use registry cleaner to perform regular registry maintenance.
Many times, when you remove programs from your computer, some no-longer-required orphan keys and place-holder empty keys are left behind. These unwanted entries unnecessarily fill up the registry and generate registry errors. A registry cleaner tool helps you easily detect and get rid of these unwanted entries and enables you to fix registry errors.
A registry cleaner also comes in handy when you are trying to remove some malicious virus or spyware from your computer. Many of these malicious programs add entries in the registry that are quite difficult to detect and remove. Using a reliable registry cleaner Vista or XP tool, you can perform a deep scan of the registry tree and weed out all malicious information. Additionally, you may use the tool to repair any registry entries that may be altered by these malicious programs.
If the registry is large in size, it tends to get fragmented. As a result, the data access speed of the registry goes down. This, in turn, affects your PC performance and you may start encountering frequent system freezes and crashes. To help you counter this problem, a good registry tool helps you defrag your registry to rearrange the fragmented files and make them contiguous. Defragmenting the registry also helps in compressing the size of the registry. So, when you defrag, the size of your registry goes down and its files are contiguous. This helps in speeding up the registry and as a result enhances the performance of your computer.
Because the registry is so important for your computer, it is a good idea to make regular backups of it. A good registry cleaner makes it very easy to create these backups by automating the backup and restore process. Also, a good feature that almost all good registry tools have is that they make a registry backup before making any changes to it during the registry cleanup and defrag process. So, if anything goes wrong with the repair process, you can easily restore the registry from the backup taken earlier.