Wang Kai

Introduction
The Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities have been rolled up into a single Suite of tools. This file contains the individual troubleshooting tools and help files. It does not contain non-troubleshooting tools like the BSOD Screen Saver or NotMyFault.

The Suite is a bundling of the following selected Sysinternals Utilities:

AccessChk: This tool shows you the accesses the user or group you specify has to files, Registry keys or Windows services.
AccessEnum: This simple yet powerful security tool shows you who has what access to directories, files and Registry keys on your systems. Use it to find holes in your permissions.
AdExplorer: Active Directory Explorer is an advanced Active Directory (AD) viewer and editor.
AdInsight: An LDAP (Light-weight Directory Access Protocol) real-time monitoring tool aimed at troubleshooting Active Directory client applications.
AdRestore: Undelete Server 2003 Active Directory objects.
Autologon: Bypass password screen during logon.
Autoruns: See what programs are configured to startup automatically when your system boots and you login. Autoruns also shows you the full list of Registry and file locations where applications can configure auto-start settings.
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Are you sick of messy and complicated URLs which are way too long to remember? Well here is a list of free URL truncation services, which are able to generate a short URL for unsightly long one. The shortened URL will be automatically forwarded to your original long URL.

1. TinyURL
2. is.gd
3. URL.ie
4. EasyURL
5. jmp2.net
6. w3t.org
7. xaddr.com
8. doiop.com
9. Snurl / Snipr / SnipURL
10. Budurl

Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 – the all-in-one security solution that offers a worry-free computing environment for you and your family. It has everything you need for a safe and secure Internet experience.

Highlights

Essential Protection

• Protects from all types of malware and spyware
• Scans files, email messages and Internet traffic
• Protects instant messengers (ICQ, MSN)
• Updates automatically

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This is for those who needs to use “Phone Activation” option to re-activate your Adobe Acrobat 8.0 product.

If you install the Acrobat 8.0 (Pro/3D) for the first time, you would be lead to the “normal” type of activation. If you however, happen to uninstall the Acrobat 8.0 but try to reinstall it again, you would probably find the activation interface results in the “repair” mode, where your original activation key doesn’t work any more.

How to get rid of this “repair” mode and kick in the original phone activation interface? Well, here is the only thing you need to do:

For Windows XP user: delete C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\FLEXnet\adobe_00080000_xxx.data

For Windows Vista user: delete C:\ProgramData\FLEXnet\adobe_00080000_xxx.data

For Mac user: delete content under /Library/Preferences/FLEXnet Publisher

That’s all. The “normal” activation mode should be back.

Personally I don’t like the “Post Revision” feature at all. It just creates tremendous useless post entries in wp_posts table every time I click on “Save” button while writing a post or page. Over time, the database may grows bigger and bigger.This is really not my style.

If you are also using WordPress 2.6 or newer version, and feel that post revisions feature is not that useful, there are ways to  turn it off. Just follow this simple 3-step way:

1. Open wp-config.php file which is located in the root or home directory of WordPress blog.
2. Add this line of code in wp-config.php: define(’WP_POST_REVISIONS’, 0);
3. Issue following clean-up SQL command: delete from wp_posts where post_type=’revision’;

Step 2 sets the constant WP_POST_REVISIONS to 0, indicating the revision feature to be turned off. Step 3 actually purges all post revisions related records in current database. This should give you a relative clean database environment (Wow~).

If you also suffice with AutoSave feature built-in in WordPress editor, then simply add another line in wp-config.php file: define(‘AUTOSAVE_INTERVAL’, 600); This changes the interval of AutoSave trigger to be one hour, which should be long enough.

Picture Resizer is another free tool for batch resizing of JPG pictures and photos. It’s very easy to use:

1. Drag and drop JPG files or folders with JPG files on the application icon.
2. The tool will resize JPG images and save them next to the originals. Names of the new pictures will be based on the original names, with a suffix indicating their size. For example, the resized version of MyPhoto.jpg will be called MyPhoto-400.jpg, where the number 400 indicates the size of the picture.

Drag it and that’s all! Cool isn’t it?

Firstly I found that EXIF tags are missing after conversion. Well, this is no more an issue: in order to copy metadata (including EXIF tags) to the resized file, simply append a M – PhotoResize400M.exe – at the end of file name. That all and enjoy it.

Current version is 3.0.

Download : Picture Resizer

Streaming Download Project – SDP is designed to download Windows Media files and Windows Media live streams as they are sent over an Internet or network connection. SDP handles MMS over TCP/UDP and HTTP 1.0 streaming protocols.

It’s FREE and I found it very convenient to use. Schedule download is also supported. I’m using it to download my favorite Discovery TV program that is broadcasting in NUS campus, especially those I’m gonna miss out ^_^.

Download : Streaming Download Project

Design, develop, and maintain standards-based websites and applications

Build world-class websites and applications with one of the industry’s leading web authoring tools. Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS4 software is ideal for web designers, web developers, and visual designers.

Download : Adobe Dreamweaver CS4

Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom™ software is the professional photographer’s essential toolbox, providing one easy application for managing, adjusting, and presenting large volumes of digital photographs so you can spend less time in front of the computer and more time behind the lens. So you can spend less time sorting and refining photographs, and more time actually shooting them. Its clean, elegant interface literally steps out of the way and lets you quickly view and work with the images you shot today, as well as the thousands of images that you will shoot over the course of your career. Because no two photographers work alike, Adobe Lightroom adapts to your workflow, not the other way around.

Lightroom lets you view, zoom in, and compare photographs quickly and easily. Precise, photography-specific adjustments allow you to fine tune your images while maintaining the highest level of image quality from capture through output. And best of all, it runs on most commonly used computers, even notebook computers used on location.

New Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 2 helps you sort and find the photos you want faster, target specific photo areas for more precise adjustments, and showcase your talent using more flexible printing templates. A host of other new features and enhancements make Lightroom 2 an essential upgrade for professional photographers.

Download : Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.1 Final

Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier. Google Chrome also uses a brand new javascript engine (V8), which is much faster than existing javascript interpreters. This means you can create more complex and more intensive AJAX applications with fewer speed and processing constraints. Finally, Google Chrome is built on top of WebKit, so Google Chrome users will benefit from the CSS3 features being added to WebKit as those features are released.

Download : Google Chrome 0.3.154.6