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TrackIDâ„¢ is a feature available in most of the newer range of mobile phones from Sony Ericsson. It’s a feature that allows you to record a few seconds of a song using your mobile, and get track, artist and album information sent to you in seconds. While it’s a handy tool to help you identify [...]

This could be something already commonly known among experienced Windows Vista users, but there are still a fair amount of users who are unaware of it. User Account Control (UAC) is a feature introduced in Windows Vista to improve the security of Windows by limiting applications to standard user privileges until an administrator authorizes an [...]

There are a couple of applications that may fail to start and complaint because its port is being used by a different application. This is a quick and dirty way of knowing which application is responsible for tying up a port on a Windows box.

Most people who own iPods would probably have iTunes installed to transfer/organise music on their iPod and most likely be coerced to use iTunes as their music player on their computer (it’s so tightly integrated that Apple labels it as iPod + iTunes, and apple.com/ipod goes to apple.com/itunes). Unfortunately, I absolutely loathe iTunes (slow and [...]

As promised, for those who are on UltraVNC, securing your VNC over Internet is very easy with a DMS plugin available for encryption. There are currently 3 encryption plugins for UltraVNC, namely MSRC4, ARC4 and AESV2. I’ll demonstrate how to use the MSRC4 plugin as this is well documented on the UltraVNC forum and it’s [...]

LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) monitors are now somewhat the de facto standard when choosing a display device with a new machine or when replacing aging monitors. Although they have become a lot more prevalent, certain batches that come off the production line and into shops are still plagued with ‘dead pixel(s)’ which has not gone [...]

Continuing CK’s article on VNC where he left off, here’s the VNC-over-Internet remote administration version of the guide. The first part of the tutorial is the setting-up of VNC-over-internet and the second part deals with hardening your VNC in regards to security best-practices. This article is gonna be a long one, so take a deep [...]

I’m sure you had the experience before when you’ve burnt out a file to your CD/DVD to back it up and deleted the original but when the time came when you wanted to retrieve your backup, to your horror, the file was corrupted during burning even when you turn on the “verify-after-burn” option on your [...]

Want to control your hall’s PC while you’re physically in your room, but too lazy to walk over there? You wish there’s a “remote control” for you to initiate a torrent download in your hall’s PC, from your room’s PC? The answer will be “Virtual Network Computing” aka VNC Here’s a dummy tutorial to show [...]

These few months, I had been suffering an annoying problem whereby whenever I startup my company notebook, I had to wait for around 10 minutes due to a system process called “svchost.exe” that took away all the CPU time, and because of that I couldn’t do anything until the process “cool down” by itself Clueless [...]