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If you’re a fan of the Outlook 2007 To-Do Bar, but wish your upcoming appointments and tasks could be shown even when Outlook was minimized, you can do this today with the Outlook Sidebar Gadgets.
One of the new features introduced in Windows Vista is the Windows Sidebar, an application that allows gadgets (small applications that provide quick access to useful information or commands) to be displayed on your desktop or in the Sidebar. [Read more…]
If you wanna find some apps, files etc on rapidshare.de via google, do the following. [Read more…]
Probably two of the most widely spoken language on earth, it’s useful sometimes just to know how you can translate a phrase or word in chinese to english, or from english to chinese. This website allows you to do that easily. [Read more…]
Simple and short, this is how you can initialize a variable in VB.NET.
Take the following for example:
Dim dirInfo As System.IO.DirectoryInfo = New System.IO.DirectoryInfo("C:\")
The first part:
Dim dirInfo As System.IO.DirectoryInfo as I would like to call it, “dreams” about a variable dirInfo which belong to a type of System.IO.DirectoryInfo.
The second part:
New System.IO.DirectoryInfo("C:\") actually realizes your dream, it “creates” that variable. It’s only now that your variable dirInfo trully exist.
You can also initialize a variable like so:
Dim dirInfo As System.IO.DirectoryInfo
dirInfo = New System.IO.DirectoryInfo("C:\")
One of the error message that you may get if you haven’t been initializing a variable correctly is “Object reference not set to an instance of an object”. The following code can cause an error, since the variable dirInfo is still a “dream”.
Dim dirInfo As System.IO.DirectoryInfo
dirInfo.GetDirectory("C:\")
As in life, good things starts with a dream, and you have to do something to it, before it can be realized.
Upgrading wordpress can be a dauntng task for some. Actually it can be painless if you know how. I’ve recently upgraded wordpress using a way which I never thought was possbile. [Read more…]
As of today, I’ve received a message from one of my mates in MSN and the message was one which I wouldn’t have expected, which goes like “Can you have a look at my pic, I’m going to use it on Myspace?” and a file “Image26.zip” was sent. Being a bit suspicious, I asked a few questions and didn’t get a reply. [Read more…]
Windows keyboard shortcuts, or Windows Hotkeys are basically a combination of keys when press together will trigger a Windows task that will otherwise require few mouse movements or mouse clicks to complete.
Using shortcut keys can speed up your daily task and greatly enhance your performance and experience with Windows Vista. Do note that most of these shortcut keys also applies to Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server.
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It’s been almost a year since I started blogging and only today, yes today, that I realized the importance of usefulness of trackbacks and pingbacks. When used correctly, it doesn’t only provide you with an increase in traffic, but also creates relationship by recognising what others have written and contributed through their ideas and writings. It’s definately a win-win situation here.
The following are, persoanlly, some of the good read of what trackback and pingbacks are and how you can use them:
1. A bit of history about trackback and pingback
2. WordPress Trackback Tutorial
3. Youtube video explaining Trackback
Hope those can at least get you started. Have a nice time blogging.
If you’re going to use Oracle Database or SQL Server in a local environment or in virtual machines, make sure you install Microsfot Loopback Adapter first before you even try to install Oracle and SQL Server. Typically, the computer on which you want to install Oracle Database is connected to the network. While doing an installation, both Oracle and SQL Server will check what the current IP of the current computer is, and use this IP in several places in its installation. While this itself isn’t a problem, it might still cause *some* trouble after installation if:
1. You had DHCP dynamically assign new IP for your computer
2. You want to run database server locally in a non-networked computer but was connected to the network while you were installing Oracle or SQL Server.
What you need is the Microsoft Loopback adapter. The Microsoft Loopback adapter is a tool that can be used for:
1. Virtual network environment where network access is not available
2. Assigning a fake constant IP to be used by Oracle or SQL Server installation
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The worse thing that can happen to you after installing wordpress would be (drums roll please): Forgetting your password.
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