January 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Download Adobe flash RTMP video streams using RTMPDump

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I want to download a file but it uses RTMP protocol. Even though the file extension is .flv, but I cannot download them as I always do with HTTP or FTP.

RTMP is Real-Time Messaging Protocol which was designed for high-performance transmission of audio, video and data between Adobe Flash Platform technologies, such as Adobe Flash Player and Adobe Air.

To download these files you either can use Internet Download Manager, or geeker way using RTMPDump.

In this article, I’ll show you how to download a file from RTMP by using RTMPDump.

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November 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Remove PDF Password using PDF Password Remover Tool

There are two types of password protections in PDF which is,

  1. User Password – Password to open the PDF file
  2. Owner Password – Password to print, copy, modify the PDF file

If your PDF file is protected with User Password, this trick will not work for you. This tool will not be able to recover and remove the password from the PDF.

However if the PDF file is using Owner Password, this tool will decrypt and remove the password so you can print, copy, and make changes to the document.

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October 26, 2011 By 2 Comments

Portable BlogDesk with Dropbox

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Portable BlogDesk with Dropbox

I’m using BlogDesk as my desktop blogging client to update my blogs. The interface is straightforward, can manage multiple blogs, and easy to use.

Most of the time, I will use my PC and laptop to update my blogs. Both have Blogdesk installed but the data are kept in each device separately. That’s mean when I saved a draft from PC, I can’t continue writing the draft from my laptop.

So, how can I make the draft or any data like images portable in BlogDesk?

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March 7, 2011 By 7 Comments

WordPress Error: Is its parent directory writable by the server?

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When I want to upload a file to my WordPress blog, there was an error shown on the Media page like in the image above.

“facebook.png” has failed to upload due to an error
Unable to create directory /home/OLDPATH/public_html/BLOG/wp-content/uploads/2011/03. Is its parent directory writable by the server?

Supposedly there should be no problems because I have successfully uploaded many files before. After awhile I remembered that a few days ago I moved the blog to another server. There might be some configurations that I missed to change.

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January 3, 2011 By 5 Comments

Automatic Update Copyright Year in WordPress Footer

It is new year guys. Have you update the copyright year in your WordPress footer? Make sure it is year 2011 and not 2010. :-P

Here is a tip that you can use to automatically update the copyright year. Open up your footer.php theme file, and add this line:

<p>Copyright &copy; 2005 – <?php echo date(‘Y’); ?> yoursitename.com</p>

The PHP date(‘Y’); function will display the current year so you don’t have to manually update the copyright year every year. ;)

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April 19, 2009 By 5 Comments

Delete Files in C:\Windows\Installer

I was shocked when found out free space in my C drive is only 94MB left. At first I thought it was because of a virus attack so I did run virus scan on my computer but got negative result. So I run disk space analyzer and here is the result.

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As you can see, 7GB space has been occupied by Installer folder in my C drive. But is it safe to remove all those files from my system?

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August 6, 2008 By 6 Comments

Automatically Empty Recycle Bin

When we delete a file, that file will move into Recycle Bin. There, we have options whether to restore it or just empty the Recycle Bin.

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I usually empty my Recycle Bin before I shut down my computer. But, it would be more better if evertime when I delete a file, it will completely remove the file from the system and not send into the Recycle Bin. I can choose to use Shift+Delete but there is another better way to do so.

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June 17, 2008 By 7 Comments

Delete or Erase files with Eraser

I use my PC mostly for blogging, internet surfing and sometimes pay bills online. I also store sensitive information such as my education grades (this can be sensitive information too :p ) in my PC. Everything that I do and files that I saved are recorded and stored into the hard disk. Even though I have deleted the files and removed “the traces”, they are still exist in my hard disk.

Maybe you have heard about this. When we delete a file, the file that we have deleted is not removed from our hard disk entirely. It is still exist in our hard disk but the operating system doesn’t know where to find it because the first byte of the file has been changed to E5 (a HEX value). The data is still remains on the hard disk unchanged unless when a new data is written on it.

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If you have sensitive documents in your PC or you don’t want somebody else found what you did with the PC, you can wipe your traces by using Eraser. Eraser is a powerful tool that can help you to cover up your tracks. This freeware tool will overwrite the file up to 35 times when using Guttmann technique.

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January 31, 2008 By 137 Comments

“Hack” Huawei E220 – Make it supports up to 7.2Mbps

By default, Huawei E220 can only support up to 3.6Mbps speed. In Malaysia, 3.6Mbps is the top speed that 3.5G broadband users can get. But the truth is, it is just a fantasy. No one will get that speed.

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By default, Huawei E220 only can handles 3.6Mbps connection

I even asked Celcom technician to do speedtest at place. Do you want to know how much speed that he got? Only 1.2Mbps. And the test was done in the morning (at low peak time). And when I asked why he only got 1.2Mbps and not 3.6Mbps or even 2Mbps? Here is what he replied,

“This is because our server can’t support so many users. If there are many users use the Internet at one time, the slowness will happen.”

Duh…what a very frustrating answer. Why don’t you guys (Celcom) use our money to upgrade the server? It is better than hearing our complaints every minutes and seconds.

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But this “hack” can make it to 7.2Mbps

Ok, back to the article. How you can “hack” your Huawei E220 USB modem to make it supports up to 7.2Mbps speed? By default, Huawei E220 will only can operates at 3.6Mbps. But by doing this “hack” you can make it to operate at 7.2Mbps.

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January 22, 2008 By 7 Comments

CSS Drop Shadow in WordPress

I found this effect at Neo’s blog. I don’t think it is suitable to use on my website so I use it on my personal website instead. You can see the demo at my personal blog or just visit Neo’s blog.

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To setup this effect is not difficult. It only involves CSS and a shadow image. First what you need to do is download this shadow image and upload it to your theme image folder. Like in my case, I uploaded it into /images.

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