Archive for August, 2007
I wasn’t going to do it. Yeah I’m talking about the iCar. Wasn’t gonna do it, didn’t want to do it but, due to multiple requests for information and a new Microsoft vs. Apple battle…Here comes the NEW controversy: Is your next car gonna be a Mac or a PC?
Microsoft + Ford vs. Volkswagen [...]
There are two things we hate over @ AtA : Registering for a website JUST to SEE content.That is just evil – sure you get your membership numbers up but, we HATE you. We hate you we hate you we hate you. Did I say we hate you? Especially sites like the New York [...]
of Course you do… Who wouldn’t right??
Well This is utterly amazing… I didn’t really grasp how cool it was until I used it… I dialed up 23907 and hit send text message and typed out my text query…ABOUT [topic]
about wikipedia
And I got back a link dumb quick which put me into wikipedia mobile with the [...]
Our Buddy over @ Bauer-Power had an exciting time running system restore from the command line. Check it out.
I had a computer today that reacted a little funny to an install of McAfee Virus Scan. After the reboot it didn’t agree with McAfee’s OnAccess drivers. Long story short it would give me a BSOD at [...]
We just learned from several readers who I guess actually read the user manual of their shinny new iPhones. We were pointed to a post on cr.eations.net. That post pointed out a fact that a lot of us missed when reading our manual. You didn’t read the manual – hmmm neither did I. Seeming this [...]
One word – Portableapps.com . If you say it fast it is one word. Trust Me.
Don’t get me wrong for some serious fixing – data recovery action I get down with Knoppix. It always seems to get me out of a jam. I keep it on a CD in my bag for emergencies but [...]
So you have an OVERZEALOUS ADMIN WHO LIKES USING CAPS LOCK? How About Someone That Capitalizes Every Word In A Sentence? Does That Bother You? Need To Change ALL CAPS to all lowercase? Don’t retype it use this quick key combo ala life hacker [via Zeigen]:
Go ahead select some text in any app that uses [...]
Straight out of the press release website Emoze offers free push service via a client installed on your mobile device. No more waiting 5 minutes for a sync or paying an extra thirty bucks a month for blackberry services. It sounds good. I am going to give it a try and report back. What about [...]
We know you Young-ins are busy preparing to go back to college. Now it’s time to add another item to your checklist of back-to-school essentials. Firefox Campus Edition combines the speed, security, and features of the Firefox browser with special extras that give you streamlined access to music, cool sites, and useful information.
It’s everything you [...]
Good Evening Ladies and Gents,This just in from my lazy, insomniac news wire: The New Jersey kid who cracked the Iphone and set it free from it’s AT&T bonds is definitely reaping the rewards of accomplishing a feat that happens to be the hottest thing on the newswires everywhere. Now normally hackers do stuff every [...]
There is a great website that some of you may have seen before and we give it AtA’s two thumbs up. It got us out of many a looooong phone call setting someone up to forward their remote desktop or webserver ports on their (insert brand name) router here.
Go online and Google Portforward.com and [...]
As always we hate being left out. Why shouldn’t we be able to watch a GREAT TV Show just because it is only airs in the UK? That’s discrimination I tell you!
Well kind of! Um geographic discrimination?.. Whatever.
We discovered this show by word of mouth and a link to YouTube. The YouTube Geeky [...]
We read a report yesterday from AutoBlogGreen that essentially said that the magic secret code inside the modern key fobs has been cracked allowing for a remote user with a laptop and an hour can potentially unlock and start your vehicle. Among the list was Nisan whos systems happen to be identical to Infiniti – [...]
So you’ve just finished rolling out 500 new desktops using disk imaging. How are you going to keep them updated? As you know, Microsoft releases updates on the second Tuesday of each month. You need a way to approve and install these updates on all your desktops and servers, and you need to do it [...]
You might have seen it before on someone else’s laptop, and wondered how you can get down with the hibernation game. Why doesn’t it show up by default on your shutdown screen?? Don’t have hibernation envy!
I’m referring to seeing 4 options to choose from on your Shut Down menu of Windows XP. After this hack [...]
Our reader Per Ove Sleen from Norway Writes In:
Hello and thank you for a splendid blog. I have two questions:1.How do I go about making a post ending like yours. With the links for technorati, facebook, Netscape and so on (see picture 1).
How can I make an overview over my posts like the one you [...]
I don’t know how useful this actually is but I thought I would share it with you guys anyway. You seem to like useless information… Right?? This one kind of threw me for a loop. I was watching a junior admin install Windows XP from a CD and he turned to me and said Want [...]
If you use TorrentSpy.com like some of our users you came across a message that looked something like this:
Sorry, but because you are located in the USA you cannot use the search features of the Torrentspy.com website.Torrentspy’s decision to stop accepting US visitors was NOT compelled by any Court but rather an uncertain legal climate [...]
For those of you that have heard of MythTv you know it is a free open source DVR software package. We love Free over @ AtA so we bring you this release for your perusal. You can not only achieve TiVo like DVR functionality it gives you so much more like an on screen [...]
We laughed @ the whole lolCatz thing… it came and it went but now you too can laugh out loud with your very own t-shirt like this geek over here… Fill in the blanks with any number of funny sayings below. Read them and chuckle along with us Check it out from ThinkGeek… Nineteen bucks [...]
The Time has come…It’s Sat morning 8/25/07 and there are officially – 4 yes you read that right 4 unlocking methods that all cost money, duckets, green, them dead presidents…What have you. If you have held out this long – Wait a little longer dudes and dudettes there WILL be a free method. The [...]
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Quick Wipe Hard Drive’s Using Lysol – Freeware 5 Second Hard Drive Blow Away
How can I Remove Backgrounds [...]
Engadget gets Props for breaking the Software Based Iphone Sim Unlocker Story a little while ago (Plus Information RoundUp)… When the free version will be released information will be here.
Do you hear that? Yes that there… That is the sound of freedom and rejoicing at the overthrown ATT over lords. Alright maybe we are [...]
Have you ever needed to quickly blank a hard drive? Now I’m not talking about for security purposes, for that I like using DBAN. No I’m just talking about one quick wipe down to erase the drive? I do, especially when I really want to test a disk image. I want no previous instances of [...]
This answer is pulled in its entirety by permission from ThemBid.com
This tutorial was created using Adobe Photoshop CS2. When I first started with Photoshop, many years ago, I remember removing backgrounds manually using the eraser tool. Very tedious, but you can sometimes get good results. Here I will show you how to do remove backgrounds [...]
Hi Ladies and Gents,Commodore here to bring you a quick tip. I know I haven’t written in a while, but I haven’t forgotten about aTa, just been working on some back-end stuff here if anything at all. But this is a tip I’m sure will benefit lots of users of WM5 devices who have trouble [...]
My troubles started today early in the morning and coincided with a new post by a new author on AtA – He just happens to blog in word and cut and paste – We all know Blogger and MS Word do not play nicely together. Long story short i got rid of the formatting and [...]
So its just about lunch time around NYC and things are slow today. So I was click click clicking away on the intermanets and came across this Geek Test From Inner Geek Normally I just pass these things by and Stumble onto something else but a few of the questions caught my eye – This [...]
Why Image?
When you have one machine to deploy, you insert your CD or DVD, click through the prompts, enter your license key, install all your software and make your customizations. It’s time consuming, but when you only have to do it for a single machine it’s not too bad. What happens when you need to [...]
So we flopped around Googles website yesterday and stared in disbelief as the only answer to backup or export your data seemed like a crappy work-a-round. And Word Press one uped Google’s Blogger by adding an Import feature to their WordPress 2.0! It only works with NEW blogger templates so if you haven’t upgraded – [...]
Prepare yourself… If you are waiting patiently for your Dell XPS M1330 this tidbit might get you a little mad… Hopefully it is an isolated incident and we won’t hear of others. This guy gothis XPS 1330 2 weeks ahead of schedule… But it was missing an OS, BIOS and there was damage to the [...]
Thanks to LifeHacker for the answer to this one. Now you can reference a column by its header or label. This is wonderful and had more than a few of my end users jumping for joy! It works in OpenOffice as well as most Pc versions and on the Mac!
While you’re writing formulas in Excel, [...]
Before I start, I should probably introduce myself a little. My name’s Phil, and I run a blog at twistedethics.com, but I’ll be cross-posting all the good stuff on to here as well. By day, I’m responsible for the IT within a small company in the United Kingdom. We run a mixed-OS network, so [...]
Back To Bussiness…We have been looking at ways to improve AtA and here are some possible additions to the site in the form of a Top Ten Blogger Hack List. Check em’ out Let us know if you use any of these in the comments. Using anything cooler? Put us on.
Can I use a different [...]
You sure can and it is easier than you think. Check out this link here http://blogger-templates.blogspot.com/2007/03/recent-comments.html and there is a place to plug in your information and boo-yah it creates the widget for you.
We liked it so much we incorporated it into AtA’s Sidebar – Check it out and let us know if you like [...]
So here we are 2pm EST and we are back up after a morning of AtA horror. We were down for hours on end and got flooded with emails asking whats up with us. This was totally out of our hands and we will be pushing toward our big move to our own box. We [...]
Update we are back up @ 1:38 For real this time! We are going to start our back up now! Sorry For Any Inconvenience Admins! Stay tuned on how to back up your Blogger blog!So I am on my admin console (9:42am 8/22/07) from http://www.asktheadmin.com/ when I see a pink bar saying:
Could not connect to [...]
So I am on my admin console (9:42am 8/22/07) from http://www.askTheAdmin.com when I see a pink bar saying:
Could not connect to Blogger.com. Saving and publishing may fail. Test connection now. I Click and Get: Contacting Blogger.com…
I tried, and I tried until I could try no more. I started pinging and open up web consoles. [...]
Everyone out in Admin Land knows we use Zip programs to make a bunch of big files into a smaller file. This is handy for quick emails – to fit a lot of data in a small place. With that said
we just finished installing and testing WinZip’s new Email Companion Beta 2.0 and So Far [...]
Now I’ve been using this gem for a few years now with great results.
The add on is called Biet-o-Zilla, but I am not 100% sure that it is still under development, but I know it works.
The only place I could find it was here.
It’s a foreign language site, but you can click on the install [...]
Our faithful reader Michael writes in from New Jersey:
HELP!
My hard drive (my largest storage drive h:\) just started to make these light intermittent clicking noises. Sometimes the drive does not show up in bios nor in My Computer. Then it magically reappears after a few restarts – but its getting louder and now there [...]
I spend around two hours a day on my daily commute into Manhattan Most of my trip is below ground and as such I don’t get a signal. No gprs no edge no nothing.So i read my downloaded feeds in egress on my wm6 dash.
AtA gets the question of where can I get a [...]
AskTheAdmin Gets Reviewed!
How many of you out there are not fond of the Microsoft Update site? I am sure there are many of you. How many of you are fed up with the Genuine Advantage nonsense every time you want to make sure you are up to date? Not to mention if you have a “legally [...]
We are all about helping out good causes and on October 15th of this year Ask The Admin will participate in “Blog Action Day”! This is where all participating blog authors write articles about a common topic. This year it is the environment. So get you environment related questions in before them and suggestions on [...]
Is printing documents from your mobile device somewhat of an adventure? You have to get to a meeting and your doc is sitting on your handheld. The copies weren’t printed and sent over by your Secretary – What do you do? There are plenty of work-a-rounds and hacks but nothing definitive to allow you Mr. [...]
Alot of web designers have probably heard of Browsercam’s pay service that allows you to test your web design in a multitude of different browsers and platforms using a distributed screen-shot service. But I, personally have not subscribed to browser cam simply because I have the ability to preview in the browser variants that I [...]
Good Morning Boys and Girls. I wanted to share with you this glowing review we got from the guys over @ TechWag here.
A good system administrator is worth their weight in gold, anyone that can run around the networked systems and fix the bizarre arcane things that happen on a daily basis, regardless of operating [...]
Happy Saturday Faithful AtA Readers! No you are not having Deja-Vu, we pushed this back up to the top for two readers – Joe in Massapequa and Arman out in Saudi Arabia. We received a number of emails regarding Dell and their no recovery cd policy by default. Yes you need to [...]
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How Do I Create A Backup Of My Entire (blogger) Blog?
August 23, 2007 in BACKUP BLOGGER FILE HTML COMMENTS HELP EASY BUTTON GUI
We don’t want to be this guy so us Admins got to stay ahead of the game and back up everything. Never feel secure with your data in someone Else’s hand. Word Up! So today after being down I want to mirror our data over to wordpress while we get the logistics worked out on [...]