Archive for the ‘Tips and Trick’ Category

Windows Vista Auto Logon

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Sometimes security aspect can make your life difficult. Why need type a password everytime you turn on your computer?

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If you’re not sharing your computer with other users and no one else can access it, you can configure your Vista to login automatically, so you can turn on computer, leave for coffee and it will be ready to use when you back.

To do so, click on Start button and type “control userpasswords2″ or “netplwiz” in the search field, then uncheck the “Users must enter a user name and password…”, provide the username and password you want auto login to and restart computer. Your Vista will automatically log on with your account.

Online Radio Streaming on Your Playstation 2

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

Just connect your Playstation 2 to your audio system, enjoy the music from Internet Radio. A homebrew programmer made software based of Simple Media Player (SMS) called Argon, which allows you to play multimedia files and also listen to online radio stations!

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Gmail and Yahoo Mail Settings on Nokia Phones

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

You can retrieve your Gmail messages with Nokia phone. You can choose either IMAP or POP3 protocol.

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IMAP offers several advantages over POP, you can store the email data on Gmail server so you can synchronize with multiple clients, it has better functionality in manipulating inbox, and the ability to manage email folders within single account.

POP is designed to offer simple offline operations, it downloads email to the phone, and generally removing it from the Gmail server, it doesn’t support email folders.

IMAP

Before you can use email on your phone you must enable IMAP in Gmail:

  1. Sign in to Gmail.
  2. Click Settings at the top of any Gmail page.
  3. Click Forwarding and POP/IMAP.
  4. Select Enable IMAP.
  5. Configure your IMAP client and click Save Changes.

Now configure your phone:

  1. Select ‘Messaging’ > ‘Options’ > ‘Settings’ > ‘E-mail’ > ‘Mailboxes’.
    If you have never set up email on your phone before, select ‘Yes’ to define a new mailbox. If you already have other mailboxes, select ‘Options’ and then ‘New mailbox’.
  2. Select ‘Start’ to begin the setup wizard.
  3. Select ‘IMAP4′ and then ‘Next’.
  4. Enter your full email address (including ‘@gmail.com’) as the email address and select ‘Next’. Google Apps users, enter your full address in the format ‘username@your_domain.com’.
  5. Enter ‘imap.gmail.com’ as the incoming mail server and select ‘Next’.
  6. Enter ’smtp.gmail.com’ as the outgoing mail server and select ‘Next’.
  7. Select the appropriate access point and then ‘Next’.
  8. Enter a descriptive name for the email account mailbox name.
  9. Once your mailbox is set up, select it from the email mailbox settings screen.
  10. Select ‘Connection settings’ > ‘Incoming e-mail’.
  11. Enter your address (including ‘@gmail.com’ or ‘@your_domain.com’) and password.
  12. Select ‘SSL/TLS’ for your security (ports) and define your port as ‘993′.
  13. Select ‘Back’.
  14. Select ‘Outgoing e-mail’.
  15. Enter your email address (including ‘@gmail.com’ or ‘@your_domain.com’) and password.
  16. Select ‘StartTLS’ for your security (ports) and define your port as ‘587′.
  17. Select ‘Back’ and change any other settings according to your preferences.

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Access Windows Shared Folder with Your Phone

Sunday, January 11th, 2009

Got Wi-Fi equipped phone? Now you can access your windows folder from your phone, using this handy mobile application. SysSMB is an application that capable to access, copy and even share your files between Series 60 3rd edition mobile phone and computer. SysSMB turns the mobile phone into a highly efficient network accessible mobile computer.

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Screenshots
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Compare Folder Script

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

Today I created a script to compare the contents of two folder including its subfolders. It’s a simple solution if you don’t want to buy folder comparator software, but the script will not compare the content of the file, it only compares the file size and last modified date.

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Click read more to see the script
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Rename Multiple File with Regex Script

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

Since Windows rename command doesn’t support regular expression, so today I made a VB Script to batch rename multiple files using regex method.

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What is Regular Expression?
Basically, a regular expression is a pattern describing a certain amount of text. Their name comes from the mathematical theory on which they are based. But we will not dig into that. Since most people including myself are lazy to type, you will usually find the name abbreviated to regex or regexp. I prefer regex, because it is easy to pronounce the plural “regexes”.

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Internet Radio on Nokia Phones

Saturday, December 20th, 2008

Nokia released Internet Radio, a symbian software to listen live internet radio. It is fully working on Nokia S60 devices. It comes with a huge directory of compatible radio stations.

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Warning: Expensive GPRS cost may apply if you use packet data connection, use WLAN connection instead

The application supports SHOUTcast streaming audio playback (MP3 and AAC+). It also supports local playback of audio files in the following formats: MP3, AAC, eAAC+, MP4, M4A, WMA, 3GPP, AMR, and WAV.

You can download it here.

Requirements
The known list of supported phones:

  • S60 3rd Edition
    Nokia 3250, E60, E61, E70, N71, N73, N80, N82, N91, N92, N93
  • S60 2rd Edition, Feature Pack 3
    Nokia N70, N72, N90
  • S60 2rd Edition, Feature Pack 2
    Nokia 6630, 6680, 6681, 6682
  • Other S60 phone may also supported, just give it a try

Click read more to see local stations list.
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Multiple Virtual Servers on IIS (Windows XP Pro)

Friday, December 19th, 2008

Microsoft Windows XP Pro has built in Web Server called Internet Information Service (IIS). In order to use the feature, make sure your IIS service already activated:

  • Right click on My Computer, choose Manage
  • Expand tree Services and Applications
  • If you see Internet Information Services item, then your IIS service is already installed

IIS Installation
To install IIS Service, follow these instructions to activate it:

  • Go to Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs
  • Open Add/Remove Windows Components, tick on Internet Information Services (IIS)
  • Click Next button until it finished

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Create a Virtual Server
Check on the Web Sites folder in IIS management console, you may see only “Default Web Site”. If you are a web developer, sometime you need to have another separate web servers. Of course you can also mount a virtual directory to the server, but it will never have root path.

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Bypass NTLM Authentication in Browser

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

If you’re browsing behind Microsoft Proxy Server, you’ll be familiar with NTLM authentication prompt your username and password. It’s pretty annoying as you need to type it everytime you open the browser.

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Even some Internet application doesn’t support NTLM authentication, for example like Download Accelerator. Some browser like older versions of Firefox asking you the password everytime it load a page.

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Fortunately, there is some application that can solve the problem. It’s called NTLM Authorization Proxy Server (NTLMAPS), a proxy software written in Python that allows you to authenticate via Microsoft Proxy Server using NTLM protocol. In order to use the software in Windows, you must install python first or you can use Windows version of it (a standalone executable that does not require python to be installed compiled using py2exe).

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Main Features of NTLM Authorization Proxy Server

  • supports NTLM authentication via parent proxy server (Error 407 Proxy Authentication Required)
  • supports NTLM authentication at web servers (Error 401 Access Denied/Unauthorized)
  • supports translation of NTLM scheme to standard “Basic” authentication scheme
  • supports the HTTPS ‘CONNECT’ method for transparent tunneling through parent proxy server
  • has ability to change arbitrary values in client’s request headers
  • supports unlimited number of client connections
  • supports connections from external hosts
  • supports HTTP 1.1 persistent connections
  • stores user’s credentials in config file or requests password from a console during the start time
  • supports intelligent failure detection and failover between multiple upstream proxies

Click read more to see the instructions.
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What is SSL

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

SSL is short for Secure Sockets Layer, a protocol developed by Netscape for transmitting private documents via the Internet. SSL uses a cryptographic system that uses two keys to encrypt data – a public key known to everyone and a private or secret key known only to the recipient of the message. Both Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer support SSL, and many Web sites use the protocol to obtain confidential user information, such as credit card numbers. By convention, URLs that require an SSL connection start with https instead of http.

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SHTTP
Another protocol for transmitting data securely over the World Wide Web is Secure HTTP (S-HTTP). Whereas SSL creates a secure connection between a client and a server, over which any amount of data can be sent securely, S-HTTP is designed to transmit individual messages securely. SSL and S-HTTP, therefore, can be seen as complementary rather than competing technologies. Both protocols have been approved by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as a standard.

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