Since upgraded to Windows 7 from windows Vista, my rapidshare downloader JDownloader seems to have problems starting itself properly. Executing JDownloader.exe will leave your system running javaw*32.exe (simply because JDownloader was written in Java) forever and you won’t see the main user interface starting up at all. I later found out that it has something to do with UAC. So, here’s the solution to get it running in Windows 7.
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How To Turn Off User Account Control UAC in Windows 7
4 easy steps on how you can turn off UAC in Windows 7.
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How To Translate Documents In Google Docs
Here’s how you can write a document once in your own language in google docs and translate them into 42 different languages!
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How To Open and Read EPUB Ebooks
EPUB is a free, standardized format that almost every hardware eReader or desktop software understands. Amazon’s Kindle, however, cannot read EPUB texts without using some intermediary software that converts these books into a format the Kindle can understand. While there are a few competing formats, EPUB has turned into the de facto standard for eBooks. Some vendors, like Sony, wrap a digital rights management (DRM) solution around these books, but others just publish completely open, non-DRMed versions of their books. The EPUB files from Google Books will not be locked down by a DRM solution.
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How To Call Or Run Windows Update Manually
Most of us have windows update enabled by default to run at a specific time (daily, weekly or monthy). Windows also have a windows update start menu shortcut that we can click on so that we can tell windows to look for updates whenever you wanted to.
But what if you want to run windows update manually?
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How To Fix Power Calibration Area Error When Burning CD/DVD/Blu-Ray
I was trying to burn an ISO onto a DVD with imgBurn but was returned with this error message “Power Calibration Area Error”. As I haven’t actually use my laptop disc drive to burn optic media for quite a long time now, I thought that the drive might have “died due to old age”.
However, I was able to get rid of the error and the DVD finished burning successfully after following the following steps.
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How To Open CHM Files On Mac OS X
You can open and view Windows Compiled HTML Help (CHM) files easily with CHMOX, which is a .chm file viewer for Mac. Chmox is a 100% native Cocoa application to read CHM (compiled HTML) ebooks on Mac OS X.
CakePHP: Assigning The Return Value of New By Reference is Deprecated
A few web applications has been returning this “Assigning the return value of new by reference is Deprecated” message after I’ve upgraded my local web server to run PHP 5.3. Don’t be surprise if your CakePHP 1.2 app suddenly shows this message. The fact lies in that php 5.3 included a few changes and some scripts are not written to be php 5.3 compatible yet.
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VMWare Workstation Shared Folder Unaccessible Solution
First the setup. I have a local machine which is Windows XP and a VM which is running Windows Server 2003 R2. In the VM settings, I shared a folder to access some executable setup files that I have on my local machine’s C:\ so I can run them directly in the VM (saving the hassle of having to copy them into the VM).
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How To Edit Windows 7 Environment Variables
The Windows 7 environment variables settings in Windows 7 is not so obviously found but you can get to it by doing the following.
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