Since file hosting sites are getting more popular, we have seen some new type of uploading style. Most file hosting site have file upload size limit, some smaller some larger. I personally would prefer smaller file size as it reduces the chance of broken file or sudden file lost due to lost of connection, especially when your at 90 over percent. Since uploader can't upload a file that's larger than the limit, they have to split the original file into smaller separate file. In the past, most people's are using Winrar to do the job, but it has less choice in size and harder to use. So a free software called hjsplit comes to the rescue. Although the software doesn't compress the file, it can easily split a large file size into various smaller size file & join it together again with a few clicks of button.
So next time when you see extension such as .001 - .(whatever number), you need to download hjsplit freeware at: www.freebyte.com/hjsplit/ and join the file back together before you can use it. If you can't see the extension of the file, read my previous post and learn how you can activate it. The free software doesn't require any installation, download the .exe double click the software and you are ready to use. The software is only about 300 Kb in size, so it can be downloaded within seconds depends on your internet connection.
It's not only useful when using to upload file online, I also found it useful when transferring large file from my netbook to my PC. If you have a large pendrive then transferring large file would be easier, but if you are like me only have 2 1 GB pendrive then you'd have to split the file using hjsplit, so you can transfer those smaller file to your pendrive then to your PC. Once you have transferred all files to your PC, use the free software again to join all the bits together. There's various reason why people's need such software, I never thought of it before I need it and it's really useful. I found myself using it quite a lot to transfer file from my netbook to my PC or PC to netbook. Even if you don't need it now, remember this freeware hjsplit, some day it might becomes handy. Especially when you download a lot from file hosting site, you might come across such extension in future.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Saturday, September 19, 2009
It's time to move from Windows xp to Windows 7
Before I start talking my experiences with the new Windows 7 RC version which will be released on 22nd October this year, I have never use Vista before. You might be wondering why I never want to try Vista but willing to test the RC released of Win 7? That's because I heard too much bad thing about Vista, on the other hand, Windows 7 has been getting positive review since the Beta released & my friend just happens to have the RC version on his pendrive, so out of conveniences I decided to install Windows 7 in my netbook along with Windows xp.
To tell the truth, my experience with Win 7 has been overwhelming, the first thing you would notice is the graphically impressive interface. I know it's weird but it gives you a classy and professional feel to it that makes using Win 7 a great pleasure. But still, the most important thing is the innovative features. I know some of the function such as Aero effects is in the vista, but it slows down even the most powerful computer as I heard, it's a badly optimized OS. Fortunately, Windows 7 is as fast as it can be with Aero effects even on a 1.66 Ghz, 1 GB of RAM netbook. Sometime it even feel faster than XP with all the very cool desktop effects, and the boot & shut down time is on par with Xp, maybe a little slower. Beside the old Aero effects, there's also some new and improved features in Windows 7. Let's talk about the improvement first, the gadgets which is one of the favorite features. In Vista there's a limited space on the right side that let you drop your favorite gadgets in it, but you can only use very limited of gadgets as there's very limited space. In Windows 7 you can drop it wherever you want on the desktop and design it on your own. There's a lot of useful gadgets already in Win 7 such as clock, calender, cpu meter..etc. Beside the one already in Win 7, users are allowed to develop their own gadgets and share it on Windows official site. Some cool gadgets I found including one button shut down, hibernate. I'm sure when Windows 7 is release, you'll be able to find more cool gadgets.
Now let's talk about what's new in Win7. There's quite a lot, I'm just going to briefly go through it such as jumplist & pin any program to taskbar which is also very cool & useful. Every time you point on the program for example your firefox browser, it'll show you a list of all browser. Point at it and it'll display the browser on the background, click on it and it'll stay. Pin any program to taskbar let you place your most use program on the taskbar for quick access.
I've been talking about how great Windows 7 is, but is it really flawless? Unfortunately no. I have some driver problems with my modem and the company hasn't update any new drivers since XP. So if I want to use Windows 7 and my internet connection, then I might have to buy a newer broadband modem. Although Windows 7 have a compatibility mode called xp mode which let all software that run on Windows xp also run under Windows 7. But to use the xp mode, you need some kind of intel virtualization support which my netbook doesn't support. It's a great addition for those who are still using old software, but the need of hardware support itself is a problem. Thank god I installed Windows 7 as an additional so I can dual boot both xp and 7.
Even though there's still some driver problem with my modem, I still seriously thinking of buying Windows 7 when it release later next month. It's a great OS, it looks great and run fast. I think it's time to move from a 10 years old os, you can really see the age of xp after you use windows 7. If you are buying a new PC or notebook, wait till the release of Windows 7, you won't regret it.
To tell the truth, my experience with Win 7 has been overwhelming, the first thing you would notice is the graphically impressive interface. I know it's weird but it gives you a classy and professional feel to it that makes using Win 7 a great pleasure. But still, the most important thing is the innovative features. I know some of the function such as Aero effects is in the vista, but it slows down even the most powerful computer as I heard, it's a badly optimized OS. Fortunately, Windows 7 is as fast as it can be with Aero effects even on a 1.66 Ghz, 1 GB of RAM netbook. Sometime it even feel faster than XP with all the very cool desktop effects, and the boot & shut down time is on par with Xp, maybe a little slower. Beside the old Aero effects, there's also some new and improved features in Windows 7. Let's talk about the improvement first, the gadgets which is one of the favorite features. In Vista there's a limited space on the right side that let you drop your favorite gadgets in it, but you can only use very limited of gadgets as there's very limited space. In Windows 7 you can drop it wherever you want on the desktop and design it on your own. There's a lot of useful gadgets already in Win 7 such as clock, calender, cpu meter..etc. Beside the one already in Win 7, users are allowed to develop their own gadgets and share it on Windows official site. Some cool gadgets I found including one button shut down, hibernate. I'm sure when Windows 7 is release, you'll be able to find more cool gadgets.
Now let's talk about what's new in Win7. There's quite a lot, I'm just going to briefly go through it such as jumplist & pin any program to taskbar which is also very cool & useful. Every time you point on the program for example your firefox browser, it'll show you a list of all browser. Point at it and it'll display the browser on the background, click on it and it'll stay. Pin any program to taskbar let you place your most use program on the taskbar for quick access.
I've been talking about how great Windows 7 is, but is it really flawless? Unfortunately no. I have some driver problems with my modem and the company hasn't update any new drivers since XP. So if I want to use Windows 7 and my internet connection, then I might have to buy a newer broadband modem. Although Windows 7 have a compatibility mode called xp mode which let all software that run on Windows xp also run under Windows 7. But to use the xp mode, you need some kind of intel virtualization support which my netbook doesn't support. It's a great addition for those who are still using old software, but the need of hardware support itself is a problem. Thank god I installed Windows 7 as an additional so I can dual boot both xp and 7.
Even though there's still some driver problem with my modem, I still seriously thinking of buying Windows 7 when it release later next month. It's a great OS, it looks great and run fast. I think it's time to move from a 10 years old os, you can really see the age of xp after you use windows 7. If you are buying a new PC or notebook, wait till the release of Windows 7, you won't regret it.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Free software to check your computer system information
Recently my friend has this problem, he reinstalled windows xp because malware are slowing down his PC. After the installation every thing when smoothly, in fact the PC start and work faster like never before. But the problem start here, he doesn't have the necessary software CD for his sound card driver. You might be thinking that what's the big deal, just search the internet for the driver. Unfortunately he doesn't know the manufacture of the sound card either. Thus, first he needs to find out what sound card he is using before he can search for the right driver.
There's a few way you can check your sound information directly on the Windows.
1) Go to "start" select run, then key in dxdiag & press enter. Wait for a while for the program to load, it takes some time. You'll see some of your hardware information on the first page such as processor, motherboard, ram...etc. Never mind that, click the tab "sound" & you should see your computer sound card information. This method doesn't work for my friend, it says no sound card detected.
2) Second method, go to control panel & open "system". Choose the tab "hardware" on top, then click on "device manager". Now select option sound and see what you can find.
If the above two method doesn't work for you either. Then you might need the help of third party software. There's a lot of free diagnostic software on the internet, and following two is my favourite.
1) The first one is called fresh diagnose. The software will show very detail of your computer system information unlike dxdiag on the windows which shows briefly information. Download free version of fresh diagnose at: www.freshdevices.com/freshdiag.html
2) If for any reason the above doesn't help at all. Try out this second software which I found through user recommendation on some website. The software is Belarc Advisor, as for the official download site, you'll to do the work yourself. Just search for Belarc Advisor and you should see the company website on the top result.
There's a few way you can check your sound information directly on the Windows.
1) Go to "start" select run, then key in dxdiag & press enter. Wait for a while for the program to load, it takes some time. You'll see some of your hardware information on the first page such as processor, motherboard, ram...etc. Never mind that, click the tab "sound" & you should see your computer sound card information. This method doesn't work for my friend, it says no sound card detected.
2) Second method, go to control panel & open "system". Choose the tab "hardware" on top, then click on "device manager". Now select option sound and see what you can find.
If the above two method doesn't work for you either. Then you might need the help of third party software. There's a lot of free diagnostic software on the internet, and following two is my favourite.
1) The first one is called fresh diagnose. The software will show very detail of your computer system information unlike dxdiag on the windows which shows briefly information. Download free version of fresh diagnose at: www.freshdevices.com/freshdiag.html
2) If for any reason the above doesn't help at all. Try out this second software which I found through user recommendation on some website. The software is Belarc Advisor, as for the official download site, you'll to do the work yourself. Just search for Belarc Advisor and you should see the company website on the top result.
Monday, September 14, 2009
Free ftp software
It seems like internet is getting more popular when video streaming & social networking is made available. We got a reason to stay on the internet a little bit longer & stay away from the television. Eventually, people's get more tech savvy, then we learned about using blog & create our own website. Blog is free to use & you can share whatever information you want just like this blog. But if you want your own domain, you'll have to spend some money on it including a ftp software that will allowed you to upload files to the server.
So is there any free ftp software out there. The answer is Yes! Note: Beside using a separate ftp software, Internet Explorer has a ftp built-in function that will let you access to your ftp server. To find free ftp software, do a search on google. Here's what I found:" filezilla-project.org, www.coreftp.com, www.smartftp.com". These are the top three result on google, I never use them before, so I'm not sure if they are good or not. Since they are free, download and try it yourself. Beside the three I posted above, there should be more free ftp software around. You can try searching through the pages or go to download.com for more free software. The good thing about download.com is that you can easily determine a decent software by the review. But still the best free ftp software might not be on the site, so you might still need to do more research if you want the best. Otherwise, the three I mentioned should do the job just right.
Personally, I preferred cuteftp and still using it. If you are willing to pay, I recommend you to try out cuteftp. There's a free version of cuteftp on its official site, you can try it first before buying it. Though, I'm not sure if cuteftp is the best ftp software out there.
So is there any free ftp software out there. The answer is Yes! Note: Beside using a separate ftp software, Internet Explorer has a ftp built-in function that will let you access to your ftp server. To find free ftp software, do a search on google. Here's what I found:" filezilla-project.org, www.coreftp.com, www.smartftp.com". These are the top three result on google, I never use them before, so I'm not sure if they are good or not. Since they are free, download and try it yourself. Beside the three I posted above, there should be more free ftp software around. You can try searching through the pages or go to download.com for more free software. The good thing about download.com is that you can easily determine a decent software by the review. But still the best free ftp software might not be on the site, so you might still need to do more research if you want the best. Otherwise, the three I mentioned should do the job just right.
Personally, I preferred cuteftp and still using it. If you are willing to pay, I recommend you to try out cuteftp. There's a free version of cuteftp on its official site, you can try it first before buying it. Though, I'm not sure if cuteftp is the best ftp software out there.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
The best p2p software
Torrent & p2p? Are they the same? Basically yes, both share files among computers. But there's some differences in functionality, each with its advantages & disadvantages. To download a torrent, first you need a software, you can download it free on the internet, bitcomet & azureus are some of the most popular out there. Second, you need a torrent tracker, without it the software is useless. How do you find these tracker? You can find it on website or forum that let user's to share their tracker. The only website I can remember right now is mininova.org. Search for the file name and download the tracker of that file. If you can't find it that's mean there's no one sharing the file you are looking for.
P2p is quite different from torrent when searching for a file. You don't have to search for website or forum to find tracker, such function has built in the p2p software itself. Depends on the p2p software you are using, it'll search on some of the most famous network such as edonkey & gnutella server. Those who are connected to the p2p network server will be sharing files among their computer's.
Now, the question you have been waiting for, which is the best p2p software? In my own experiences, limewire & shareaza are among the best. Limewire are only good for downloading songs/music. Personally, I preferred shareaza as you will be able to find some rare video as well beside songs. Shareaza is more versatile, you can find lots of music, video, software across gnutella & edonkey server. There's a lot of file in the network, but also a lot of junk file containing viruses. So be extra careful when you are downloading files in .rar compressed format. It's very important for you to scan every files you downloaded from torrent or p2p before viewing the actual content. This is the disadvantages of using p2p software, you wouldn't know if the file you are downloading are fake or not. And you can't find any comments on that file like torrent. Since you'll be downloading tracker from a website or forum, usually you can find some user's discussing the file assumed that it's popular. That information can be used to verify the authority of that file. If the file is not working or contained viruses, someone will post it there to warned others.
P2p is quite different from torrent when searching for a file. You don't have to search for website or forum to find tracker, such function has built in the p2p software itself. Depends on the p2p software you are using, it'll search on some of the most famous network such as edonkey & gnutella server. Those who are connected to the p2p network server will be sharing files among their computer's.
Now, the question you have been waiting for, which is the best p2p software? In my own experiences, limewire & shareaza are among the best. Limewire are only good for downloading songs/music. Personally, I preferred shareaza as you will be able to find some rare video as well beside songs. Shareaza is more versatile, you can find lots of music, video, software across gnutella & edonkey server. There's a lot of file in the network, but also a lot of junk file containing viruses. So be extra careful when you are downloading files in .rar compressed format. It's very important for you to scan every files you downloaded from torrent or p2p before viewing the actual content. This is the disadvantages of using p2p software, you wouldn't know if the file you are downloading are fake or not. And you can't find any comments on that file like torrent. Since you'll be downloading tracker from a website or forum, usually you can find some user's discussing the file assumed that it's popular. That information can be used to verify the authority of that file. If the file is not working or contained viruses, someone will post it there to warned others.
Friday, September 11, 2009
How to remove software from pc
This is a guide for Windows beginner. Windows is an operating system, to run other third party software, first you need to go through the installation process. Now the important part, how do you remove these installed software from your PC? There is two way:
1) Go to "my computer" on the left hand side under "other places", click on "control panel". You should be able to find "add & remove programs", double click and open it. Now search through the list for the software you want to uninstall, then click on remove.
2) Go to the folder of the software where you have installed in. Check all the files within the folder and see if you can find an icon that's an uninstall word on it. If you find it, double click and follow the instruction to remove the software. Most popular software have this uninstall function built in.
Actually there's a third way but it's not recommended. Just delete the whole folder of the software, by doing this you'll leave the registered keys and other information on your pc, and eventually stored up useless information in your PC. But there's another way to fix this problem, download free registry cleaner and do a clean up.
Remember the two recommended way sometime just remove the major files of the software from your PC. It all depends on the software company. Some might let you delete everything associate with the software but some will leave some files & registry in your PC. To tell the truth we I hate it as it's not right for the company to do that. It's an invading of our privacy. So in the end you might still need to do the third way by removing every files and folder manually. But do this after you use the first two method. The download software such as registry cleaner and other files cleaning tools software to help you to remove all useless files from your PC.
1) Go to "my computer" on the left hand side under "other places", click on "control panel". You should be able to find "add & remove programs", double click and open it. Now search through the list for the software you want to uninstall, then click on remove.
2) Go to the folder of the software where you have installed in. Check all the files within the folder and see if you can find an icon that's an uninstall word on it. If you find it, double click and follow the instruction to remove the software. Most popular software have this uninstall function built in.
Actually there's a third way but it's not recommended. Just delete the whole folder of the software, by doing this you'll leave the registered keys and other information on your pc, and eventually stored up useless information in your PC. But there's another way to fix this problem, download free registry cleaner and do a clean up.
Remember the two recommended way sometime just remove the major files of the software from your PC. It all depends on the software company. Some might let you delete everything associate with the software but some will leave some files & registry in your PC. To tell the truth we I hate it as it's not right for the company to do that. It's an invading of our privacy. So in the end you might still need to do the third way by removing every files and folder manually. But do this after you use the first two method. The download software such as registry cleaner and other files cleaning tools software to help you to remove all useless files from your PC.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
How to get rid of spyware
Spyware and adware are starting to be a serious issues, companies are placing spyware in your computer when you visit their website to track your internet movement or collect personal information. We called this privacy and they are invading it. Spyware is nothing new on the internet, but it's getting out of control when they are everywhere. Most spyware would just collects data such as your internet surfing habits..etc. But some other would install additional software in your browser and interfere user control. Some even change your computer setting, reulting in slow computer & internet speed, pop up advertisement..etc.
Some spyware can be cleaned easily by clearing your internet cookies and temporarily folder. But some others are not so easy, they'll try to hide behind your eyes. Fortunately, there's some pretty good spyware removal software that would help you to get rid of spyware. Here's three that I recommend you to try out
1) Ad-aware
2) Spyware Doctor
3) Spybot
These are some of the most popular spyware and adware cleaner out there. They both come in free and paid version. Try it yourself and see which works best for you and you might want to consider buying the full version.
Some spyware can be cleaned easily by clearing your internet cookies and temporarily folder. But some others are not so easy, they'll try to hide behind your eyes. Fortunately, there's some pretty good spyware removal software that would help you to get rid of spyware. Here's three that I recommend you to try out
1) Ad-aware
2) Spyware Doctor
3) Spybot
These are some of the most popular spyware and adware cleaner out there. They both come in free and paid version. Try it yourself and see which works best for you and you might want to consider buying the full version.
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