In a never ending cat and mouse chasing game, Hazar has came up with a new update for his popular RemoveWAT v2.2.5 to bypass the KB971033 update that Microsoft has put out to kill most of the available cracks on Windows 7.
Only time will tell when Microsoft is going to release another update that again detects this updated RemoveWAT. Basically what RemoveWAT does is it totally remove the activation requirement from the Windows 7, whilst keeping genuine functions available such as validated downloads and updates. This means you do not need to activate Windows 7 but you can continue using it and also download updates from Windows Update.
The download links of RemoveWAT 2.2.5 can be easily found on the Internet but we STRONG advice our readers NOT to use these cracks to illegally tamper Windows 7 and make them genuine when you do not own the legitimate license. It’s never safe using these tools because many people has reported that it is causing blue screen of death and the 2 hour auto restart nag with messages like “Evaluation_expired”.
It has been proven that by simply turning off your computer screen, it can save a lot of power. Torrent downloaders that leaves their computer turned on 24 hours a day should already know this fact and do the following. Humans are flawed and forgetful which makes us sometimes forget to turn off the screen unintentionally. Wouldn’t it be better if the computer actually knew when you were at the computer and when you have left?
This is now made possible as long as your computer has a microphone and a speaker. Well this two hardware are mostly made available in modern laptops including the all-in-one desktops. The Sonar Power Manager uses a new user presence detection technique to shut off the computer display when you are not present. It was developed by researchers at Northwestern University and University of Michigan. The goal is to shut off the screen immediately after you leave, even if you just moved the mouse 10 seconds ago.
It uses a very simple type of sonar system to accomplish this:
The Sonar Power Manager uses ultrasonics (sound above 20kHz in frequency and which humans cannot hear) on your computer’s regular sound system. For these unlucky users, the Sonar Power Manager will not properly detect user presence. Other unlucky users will find that their speakers produce annoying lower-frequency harmonics or noise while the sonar is operating. SonarPM runs on Windows 2000, XP, Vista and 7. Linux is also supported although you need to manually recompile from source.
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If you have a website with a fixed width, you have to be very careful with the images that you put in because if it’s too big, it will overlap the sidebar which screws up the whole page but if it’s too small, your readers will not be able to really see the image properly. The best is just maximize the image according to your website width. A lot of time we need to measure the width of an image that is on a website, or finding out what is the width and height of a website without going through the html source code, or even just to measure how long is the text.
If you have a screen capture software, you can use it to capture a screen shot of that page you want to measure, crop it and then check the size. Alternatively, you can just install a useful Firefox addon that adds a measurement ruler to your browser to measure anything you can find on the page without hassle.
MeasureIt is a Firefox extension that draws a ruler across any webpage to check the width, height, or alignment of page elements in pixels. After installing the extension, to use it, just click on the ruler icon you see at the bottom left, and you will notice the whole screen fades a little bit. Now you can use your mouse to draw the lines and a measurement will be shown. To close it, you can either press the Esc button on your keyboard or just click the ruler icon again. So far this addon has been downloaded by nearly 1.5 million times and it proves to be very useful.
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Most computer technician nowadays doesn’t need to travel to another location just to take a look at some computer problems. With remote access software such as CrossLoop and TeamViewer, a technician can just sit on his computer and connect to the remote computer via internet and move the mouse and control the keyboard from his hardware. However before starting a remote support session, clever technicians would ask for important information on the user’s computer first. Information such as the operating system, screen resolution, web browser, browser size, ip address, color depth, javascript enabled or disabled, flash version and cookies enabled or disabled are VERY important.
Problem is, most newbies can’t tell you the answer to those questions as probably they have never heard of those terms. To depend on them to check on those information are time consuming and the easier way is just ask them to open their web browser, and visit the Support Details website.
Once opened, the website uses javascript to extract the information and display it on screen. The user can either read the details to the technician or can just send the details to the technician via email with the built-in feature located at the top of the page. If you are preparing some kind of report, you can also extract the information and save them as CSV or PDF format.
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A screensaver is a type of computer program initially designed to prevent phosphor burn-in on CRT and plasma computer monitors by blanking the screen or filling it with moving images or patterns when the computer is not in use. However contemporary screensavers are now used primarily for entertainment or security. Entertainment because it has animated 3D text and security so that when you resume, it will ask for password. Screen saver has been around since Windows 95. Back in the days, Windows 95 screen saver option can be easily bypassed by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del and killing the screensaver task.
Now the latest Windows 7 too comes with screen savers and they are more nicely animated compared to screensavers that you get in Windows 95. Although the new screensaver in Windows 7 is nice, overtime it can get a little boring because seeing it a lot can get a little too used to it. Windows doesn’t provide a way to edit or customize the default screensavers.
SevenScreensaverEditor is a simple application that allows you to easily edit the screen saver found on Windows 7. Specifically it can customize Bubbles, Mystify and Ribbons screensaver. If you are unsure of the settings on the program, just click on the Quick Guide button and a wizard will appear with proper questions to understand each settings.
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