Control Your Computer With Your Cell Phone

Now you can make your cell phone a remote control of your PC. BluePad turns your cell phone into a remote blue tooth controller with which you can control your computer. It is free software released under GNU GPL license. It is composed by two programs, one for you to install in your computer, and another to install in a mobile device.

Features

  • Control your computer from your cell phone.
  • Choose the right remote device easily from your computer.
  • Control presentations as if you had a remote controller.
  • Play and control your music or movies remotely.
  • Play games using you cell phone as a game pad.
  • Key configuration sets for Presentations, Movies/Music and Games.
  • Easy to install/use.
  • Easily configure computer keys and cell phone keys all from your cell phone.
  • Platform independent (it should run in every standard Java enabled cell phone).
  • High-speed action due to blue tooth communication.
  • Cell phone software available in English, Portuguese, Spanish, Greek, Italian and French.
  • Free to install/copy/redistribute (GNU GPL License).
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    Recover Data From NTFS Drive With Open Source Software

    NTFS Undelete

    NTFS undelete is a very handy, easy to use and efficient software to recover data from NTFS drives. Since deleted files recovery is a very delicate process that’s why this software provides many types of packages to perform many types of undelete processes. Its completely free. There is a very simple installation method even a beginner can do it without any problem. If you don’t like to install you can download the zip package, just unzip and here you goes.

    You can choose the method of installation according to your specific situation.

    Windows Installer

    Installer will set up NTFS Undelete on your computer. This is the easiest way to install NTFS Undelete; however, installer can be used only when the files you want to undelete are not located on the system disk (usually disk "C:").

    If deleted files are located on the system disk, then you should choose different method of installation.

    Download NTFS Undelete (Windows installer)

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    Migrate Your DHCP Server Without Interruption

    Migrating DHCP server in LIVE environment from Microsoft Windows 2003 Server to Microsoft Windows 2008 is not an easy task to do. You have to shutdown your old server to configure your new server. Let me share a very handy and built-in method to migrate your DHCP server from windows 2003 server to windows 2008 server. You can perform this task even in office hours without any service interruption, no down time scheduling. All the things including scope, reservations and server settings will me moved to your new server. Steps are given as under;

    1. You need to log into your DHCP server (Old DHCP server running windows 2003) with your administrator account and run the under given command by using the CMD;

    netsh dhcp server export c:filename.txt all

    The above command will take a complete backup of the DHCP server at the specified location.

    2. Log into your new DHCP server (New DHCP server running windows 2008) with administrator privileges. Copy the above backed up file from the old server so that your can import that file into your new DHCP server that is already running DHCP role. I assume that you have copied the file to your C drive of 2008 server.

    netsh dhcp server import c:filename.txt all

    You might get some kind confliction errors if you have some predefined settings in your new DHCP server. Nothing to worry about, just go into your new server and remove the default settings for the server. There might be already given DNS server that can conflict with your old settings.

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    Top 10 Open Source Security Software

    Open source has became the world’s largest community to offer a large number of software’s to perform daily tasks.  Let me share a list of ten most downloaded security applications from open source community;

    Anti-Virus / Anti-Malware

    1. ClamWin Free Antivirus

    A very handy windows application that uses popular anti-virus engine ClamAV to detect viruses and spywares. It includes a scanning scheduler, automatic downloads, and a Microsoft Outlook plug-in. However, it does not provide real-time scanning; you’ll need to scan your files manually in order to be protected.

    2. ClamAV

    Most of the commercial and open-source products are based on the Clam Antivirus engine because of its light weight and efficient behavior. It is designed for protecting e-mail gateways, ClamAV offers automatic updates, a command line scanner, and many more. List of compatible operating systems is Unix, Linux and BSD.

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    Send Up To 100MB attachments with Outlook

    Most of the e-mail servers around the globe allows you to send e-mails with attachments approximately 20MB maximum. What if you like to send an e-mail with 50MB or 100MB attachment? Solution is provided by drop.io Outlook Plug-in. Drop.in Outlook Plug-in The simplest way to attach the files No Registration Required One Click Install Its … Read more

    Microsoft Security Essentials Update Error

    Microsoft Security Essentials Update Error

    Microsoft Security Essentials Update Error can make you crazy because everything seems normal and there is no specific error as well. Microsoft Security Essential is a great anti-virus and anti-spyware software. I found this software more efficient,  light weight and easy to use. Now coming back to original point I am going to discuss a very common problem that can happen anytime in windows. I hope most of the people new and seen this error message that on startup of windows system says “at least one service is disabled”. This can cause lots of problems in most of the programs running on windows Like I said in the title “Microsoft Security Essential Update Error”.

     Error Code: 0x80070422

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    Top 5 Free Compression Utilities (ZIP)

    1. ZipItFree

    zipitfree ZipItFree is a small free utility that supports over 15 compression formats, Including (ACE, ARC, BH, BZip, CAB, GZIP, JAR, LHA, RAR, TAR, UUE, XXE, ZIP,Zoo, And  Archive Stream). ZipItFree is easy to use with modern interface that works with archives also. The ZipItFree windows integration gives you One Click capability for most of compression functions like Extract Here, Zip & Email.

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