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Yeah, a biggy and vague topic. Those of you who wondered into my site probably read a lot of forums and technical blogs each stating their own style of installing Microsoft Windows Vista.

About a few months ago, I was trying to upgrade my Pentium 4 to Windows Vista SP1, but encounter tonnes of blue screen problem to system hangs on boot up. IT WAS A NIGHTMARE!

Then, I reformatted and stopped the SP1 from auto updating until I resolved this issue. Later, this month – I decided to get a new set with better hardware and hopefully having less trouble in installing to Vista. Prior to that I’ve done some research here and there.

I listed out some of the important pointers one should take before considering about installing Vista on your test machine.

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Normally editor such as notepad, editplus, notepad++, visual studio, devstudio and many more. They came with light theme by default, which means utilizing white as the background and the syntax as the colored ones. Have you ever seen a dark theme before?

 A dark theme looks like a classical o/s prompt command or linux terminal. I found a wonderful color customization from Boris Popoff that day, regarding the customization of color template for dark theme for Aptana IDE. After using Aptana IDE for quite some time, I find dark theme suits my vision better, cause I always thinks that white background on the lcd monitor can be way too bright. Well that’s just my field of vision.

 

For those who are new to Aptana IDE – Free javascript IDE can read my review here

 

 

The font used for this is MS-Consolas. When tweaked your IDE will look like the picture above.

To download this color customization template for Aptana IDE check out http://gueschla.com/labs/green-chaud/.

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Today we are going to talk about the infamous Blue Screen of Death or known for short as BSOD. Microsoft named them as Stop errors designed to safeguard the system if the system encounters condition that compromises safe system operation. Ironically, I dont feel much of a pain when I was diagnosing BSOD for third party pcs however, I can get extremely desperate and frustrated if that BSOD happened to me.

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Oh yeah, just in case I forget I’ll just post this one to remind me. Adobe Spry AJAX LoadURL is one of the method used by Spry Framework to post data accross site without refreshing of pages.

There’s other methods as well, such as Post Form using XHR method. But I’ll be posting on this one first

Like all AJAX you can customized your data to send and trigger a callback functions. Spry LoadURL is part of SpryData.js so make sure you include it in your script tag.

Let’s take a look of the parameters to use:-

var req = Spry.Utils.loadURL = function(method, url, async, callback, opts);

More info on how to use it at here. Here is my demonstration for php.

I wrote some sample on how I use loadURL to with sample effect for callback here. Download

Check out more on source code sample.

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1. TerraCopy
This tool is a life saver. Don’t you just love the awesome speed of when you are copying huge files over the network and to removable files (you should try that in Vista). Sometimes, when we are doing it over USB 1.1 it gets even worst. Have no fear TerraCopy is here. 

A mini tool that attaches itself to your explorer, with Terracopy you can copy and paste files faster, you will be able to modify buffer speed and even pause a file transfer. 

2. Unlocker
Another great tool to have, the unlocker!…what does it do? Well, I’m sure you sometimes, you get an annoying message of file unable to move, relocate or delete, because a process is using it but unfortunately, you don’t know which process is that? Annoying isn’t it?

Well this tool does just that, identify which locked file and the tool frees it from the dying glutch of the process. FREEDOM!!!

3. CPUz
When, it comes to updating your firmware and bios (especially those planning to upgrade to Vista or Vista SP1) and do not know your motherboard bios version and processor clockspeed. Use this cool tool. It tells you the system clock speed, processor details, motherboard details, bios version and etc. All in one exe file.

You can then use the details to google for updates. Nice

Most of all, these software are ALL FREE!

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