I would like to write about an awesome program called “Surf Anonymous Free”.

There are two reasons that every computer should have a program that can hide their surfing identity and geographical location.

1. Whenever you are surfing the web, purchasing on ebay, looking at your bank accounts there is a possibility that someone else could be looking as well. Whenever the web address that your on doesn’t start with https the communication between your computer and the web page is not secure. This allows hackers, spammers and people with other fraudulent activities in mind  to intercept your transmission and obtain any data you may be sending to and fro.

2. Now that internet is fast enough to stream movies or TV shows live from the internet there are hundreds of websites that list television shows, movies etc. Most of the better sites such as fox, cabs and hulu have agreements with various television broadcasters in various countries and therefore block these shows from being outside America. This kinda sux when you want to watch something that isn’t released in your country yet etc. but with Surf Anonymous Free you don’t have to wait. Just run the program, click on “hide IP” open your browser and you can stream all the movies and television you want.

There are many programs designed to be able to hide your ip address using various proxy servers around the world therefore preventing this from occurring. I have tried many of these programs, both paid for and free and have not found any as reliable and easy to use as “Surf Anonymous Free”.

The first thing you will notice when you run the program is it opens an easy to read small windows with your current IP address details and the city you are in.

Simply click on the “Hide IP” Button and your window will change to show you the fake IP address that was just issued to you as well as your real IP address on the line below.

When you are finished hiding your address you just click on “Stop Hide” button.

For a small fee per year you can purchase “Surf Anonymous Free” and have some more options such as choose which country you wish the website to think you are coming from.

Simply click on the “Select Fake Location” button and choose your country in the selection box.

There are a couple of other settings which allow you to set up start up options as well as choose whether you want your proxy to change automatically while your surfing etc..

I highly recommend this program for anyone looking to protect there identity online or wanting to stream movies or TV.

Outlook 2007

1. Tools-> Trust Centre…-> Add-ins
2. At the “Manage” dropdown list at the bottom select which type of addins you would like to enable/disable
3. Press “Go…” and make the changes
4. For some addins you’ll need to restart Outlook for changes to take effect.

Previous versions of Outlook

1. Tools-> Options-> tab Other-> button Advanced Settings…
2. Press the “Add-In Manager…” or “COM Add-Ins…” button depending on which addins you want to enable/disable
3. For some addins you’ll need to restart Outlook for changes to take effect

Profile Name: 12voip
Service Profile: IETF
Default Access Point: “your network here without inverted commas”
Public Username: username@12voip.com
Use Compression: No
Registration: When Needed
Use Security: No

PROXY SERVER:
Proxy Server Address: sip.12voip.com
Realm: 12voip.com
Username: username
Password: userpassword
Allow Loose Routing: Yes
Transport Type: Auto
Port: 5060

REGISTRAR SERVER:
Realm: 12voip.com
Username: username
Password: userpassword
Transport Type: Auto
Port: 5060

How do I increase the maximum file size of an UNICODE pst file? The default size is 20 GB but as far as I know there must be a registry value that allows to increase the maximum up to approximately 4TB?

Yup, you can do this via the registry or via Group Policies. Note that this does not apply to pst-files created in Outlook 97-2002 (ANSI formatted pst-files).

Via the Registry
You need to go to the following location in the registry;
Outlook 2003: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\PST
Outlook 2007: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\PST

Here you must create and set 2 new DWORD values (note that these values are case sensitive);

    * WarnLargeFileSize
      Don’t set this higher than 4090445042 (decimal) or f3cf3cf2 (hexadecimal)
    * MaxLargeFileSize
      Don’t set this higher than 4294967295 (decimal) or ffffffff (hexadecimal)

The first value is how many MB a user can write to a pst-file. The second value is how many MB the system can write to a pst-file. This difference has to be at least 5% since there is more written to a pst-file than just user data.

This is a registry only option now

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Options\Mail
Insert-> New-> DWORD
Name; Send Pictures With Document (note the spaces)

With a value of 1 you’ll include the picture with the message instead of as a link.
If the value is set to 0 or when the key is missing you’ll send a link.

To boot to the system recovery partition in Acer press and hold the "Alt" key and press "F10" on start-up.

Problems:
If the recovery partition becomes in accessible you can use the following procedure.

Boot up to a DOS prompt using any Boot CD that you use.
Change to the Acer recovery partition.
Go to the RYTOOLS folder.
Copy "rtmbr.bin" and "mbrwrdos.exe" to the "C" Drive.
Under a command prompt type "mbrwrdos.exe install rtmbr.bin"
The computer should confirm the creation of the mbr file.
Reboot your computer and use the trigger listed above to enter system recovery.

Make sure the you do not space in between the db/.Apple and use capital letters where they are in the code and it will work

Reboot

Hold apple + s down after you hear the chimes.

When you get text prompt enter in the terminal commands which create a new admin account (hit return after each line)

mount -uw /
rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
shutdown -h now

When you reboot your computer you should have a new admin account. Most times you will have to set up your user again. After you login you can delete the old admin account.

I cam accross a problem today in windows when i tried to delete a folder off my desktop. I right clicked and slected delete and got the error that the file was not present. If your anything like me have a file you cannot delete, especially on the desktop…….would drive you insane and you would have to fix it.

I looked around the net for a couple of hours. There some responses with:-

1. rename the folder and then delete it
2. mane a new folder in the same folder as the file reporting the problem and call it the same name. when requested to overwrite, let it overwrite and then delete it.

etc. etc. etc.

Nothing i tried worked…..

Then i came across a response that told me to try and delete it using an elevated command prompt. i tried this and it still didn’t work. Eventially i found a comment about adding the /so command to the remove directory command and it should work.

It did work, and that made me very happy..

Here are the instructions on how to do it:

On vista “click on start” type “cmd” and you will see a black item appear on the top left hand side of the menu with the letters “cmd” beside it. Right click on this and select “rin as administrator”

For XP click on “start” and then in the run box on the bottom right of the menu type cmd” and then press enter..

Yu should now see a black box on the screen something like the image below.

Type the following after the c:users\Users Name

rd [directory] /so

The file should now delete for you.

Hope this helps.

In my blog for the next few entries I am going to talk about some of my favourite add-ins for Mozilla Firefox. The add-on for today is Ziink Surfer.

One of my friends told me about Ziink Surfer so I went and checked it out. It is now amongst my must have Firefox Add-ons.

Ziink Surfer has some various settings and features but the main one I like is “Auto Page”. You know when you are looking through a website and there is 15 pages, you have to click next, next next each time you want to view the next page. Not any more with Ziink Surfer, when you scroll to the bottom of a page it automatically loads the next page underneath. i.e. you end up with one big long page with all the pages on the next button. e.g. you have a site and there are 6 pages, each time you get to the bottom of a page, the next page automatically appears below until all of the 6 pages are displayed on the one.

There are more features than this to Ziink Surfer as you can see below.

You can find the Ziink Surfer plugin here

Clients often request to be able to provide “Digital Download” of files through their website or shopping cart.

Looking around at various digital download software I arrived at the conclusion they were either expensive, hard to use, had ongoing fees or all of the above.

The result I wanted had to have the following attributes:

1. Be easy to set up and use.
2. Be able to use the PayPal payment gateway.
3. Be able to be used with existing shopping carts.
4. Be able to be used without a shopping cart. i.e. by using simple “Buy Now” buttons on a webpage.
5. Had to be cheap or preferably free.
6. Had to be reasonably secure.

I looked for days without finding a satisfactory solution.

Finally I found a “FREE” PHP script that does the job. It is safe, secure, easy to use and allows digital downloads from existing shopping carts (such as CoffeeCup Shopping Cart Creator) or by using buttons on your webpage.

The download is provided as an automatic attachment to an email as well as an encrypted download link for which you can set an automatic time limit.

If you are interested in receiving a copy of this script I am more than happy to provide it to you. Use the “Live Support” buttons around my website to contact me or in the event that our Live Support is offline leave a message and I will get back to you as soon as I can.