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I’ve just install the latest version of Ubuntu – 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope. Well, compare to previous version, installation is much faster, start up & shut down also faster.

Well, for linux OS, everythings are installed, what we need to do is to customize our own, what program we prefer to use.

For web browser, Firefox is included, but not the flash plugin due to not open source. So, we need to manually install the plugin.

1st, we need to go to Adobe website to download the flash plugin.

*Select “.deb for Ubuntu 8.04+ ”

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LockHunter is a free tool to delete files blocked by someone you do not know. LockHunter is useful for fighting against malware, and other programs that blocks files without a reason.

Features:
* Shows processes locked a file
* Allows to unlock, delete, copy or rename a locked file
* Allows to kill locking process
* Integrates in to Explorer menu
* It deletes files into the recycle bin, so you may restore them if deleted by mistake
* Supports both 32 and 64bit Windows

-via MyDigitalLife-

Due to the “good design” of Window based OS, we often need to reformat and reinstall the OS. After reinstall OS, we need to install the related drivers for each hardware that hooked together, such as mainboard/motherboard, graphic card, printer and other peripherals. Normally cd containing driver and manual are included when we purchase the hardware, but sometimes we might lost it or not included for bundled pc and etc. Thus, we need to find from the internet in order to download the driver. So, the 1st driver we need to install after reformat is the motherboard  driver. (*U need to bring up the pc in order to conduct internet search & download for others hardware). Below is the few ways that we can identify the model and manufacturer for particular motherboard in order to download the related drivers.

1. Press “Pause” key during boot up. Up to date motherboard often include manufacturer or chipset logo. For below boot screen , we know that it is using AMD 690G chipset, thus we can download the drivers from AMD website.

2. We can also use software to check the motherboard. Download CPU-Z and run it.  It is a freeware that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system. Such as processor, motherboard and ram.

For branded retail motherboard such as Asus, MSI, Gigabyte, Biostar and etc, their manufacturer name can be detected, but OEM board might not available.

3. Lastly, we need to open up the casing and look at the motherboard. We can find the model name or manufacturer name printed on the board. Once we found the model name, we can search on internet.


Above model is a Jetway motherboard.

Latest Ubuntu 9.04, The Jaunty Jackalope has been released. This time, a new series of netbook remix version is also released targeting on netbook. Make it total of 3 version, which are desktop, server and netbook remix.

New Features:

• GNOME 2.26
• X.Org server 1.6
• Wacom tablet hotplugging
• New style for notifications and notification preferences
• Boot performance
• Linux kernel 2.6.28
• Ext4 filesystem support
• Cloud computing
• Turn-key mail servers

FreeOTFE is a free, open source, “on-the-fly” transparent disk encryption program for PCs and PDAs

Using this software, you can create one or more “virtual disks” on your PC/PDA. These disks operate exactly like a normal disk, with the exception that anything written to one of them is transparently, and securely, encrypted before being stored on your computer’s hard drive.

Features:

• Highly portable – Not only does FreeOTFE offer “portable mode”, eliminating the need for it to be installed before use, it also offers FreeOTFE Explorer – a system which allows FreeOTFE volumes to be accessed not only without installing any software, but also on PCs where no administrator rights are available. This makes it ideal for use (for example) with USB flash drives, and when visiting Internet Cafés (AKA Cybercafés), where PCs are available for use, but only as a “standard” user.
• Source code freely available
• Easy to use; full wizard included for creating new volumes
• Both PC and PDA versions are available; data encrypted on your PC can be read/written on your PDA, and vice versa
• No need to install it; making it ideal for use on USB memory drives, etc
• Available in English, German, Italian and French, with support for other language translations
• Optional support for smartcards and security tokens
• It’s powerful: Supporting numerous hash (including SHA-512, RIPEMD-160, Tiger) and encryption algorithms (including AES, Twofish and Serpent) in several modes (CBC, LRW and XTS) – providing a much greater level of flexibility than a number of other (including commercial!) OTFE systems
• Encrypted volumes may either be file, partition, or even disk based

PocketManTool is a freeware systray utility for Windows Mobile 6 Professional devices. PT2 supports Windows Mobile 6 Professional only. It is written specifically for the HTC TyTN II, HTC Touch, AT&T Tilt, & my Toshiba G900, though it should work with other Windows Mobile 6 Professional devices.

Features:

*Some features are specific to HTC devices and might only apply to the TyTN II aka Kaiser. They are not guaranteed to work on other devices.

• Soft Reset – reboots the Windows Mobile device
• Settings – quick access to Control Panel applets
• ScreenOff – switches off the screen. You can assign ScreenOff to a hardware button for easy access
• Stay Alive [Power] – allows you to temporarily stop your Pocket PC from auto power-off
• Battery Meter – displays the battery life percentage in the systray
• Disconnect – Disconnects current RAS connection
• PIN Lock – Invoke the PIN prompt. *You must have the PIN prompt enabled for this to work (Settings -> Personal -> Lock)
• Quick access to toggle Bluetooth on/off by adding a Bluetooth icon into the systray. *Supports Microsoft Bluetooth Stack ONLY
• Quick access to toggle WiFi on/off by adding a WiFi icon into the tray
• *Quick access to HTC Task Manager by adding an icon to the systray for easy access to provide one hand operation to close running applications
• Hides SIM Contacts – SIM Contacts is set to hide even after soft-reset
• Data Connections – Allows you to disable data connection entries to stop them from connecting automatically. This feature is great when you are roaming and do not want to pay for costly data roaming charges. You can also set data connection entries to be AlwaysOn
• Disable SMS ‘Message delivered” popup
• Disable HTC screen off after a call has been connected
• Enable/Disable window animation
• Enable/Disable menu animation
• *Enable/Disable sliding keyboard to wake up phone
• Increase System Font Cache
• Increase File System Cache
• Increase File System Filter Cache
• *Enable GPS Photo for HTC TyTN II
• Disable camera default 90-degrees clockwise rotation
• Enable/Disable SMS Delivery Report
• Enable/Disable Flight Mode
• Use one line to show date in Today Date plugin if possible
• Make reminders show only once
• Enable/Disable Lunar Calendar
• Change 4-way pad behavior in PIE
• Enable/Disable ClearType in PIE
• Enable/Disable running scripts in PIE
• Enable/Disable running ActiveX controls in PIE
• Enable/Disable ClearType in Landscape mode
• Show EDGE network icon instead of GPRS
• Adjust keyboard backlight timeout
• Increase TCP Window Size
• Enable/Disable security warning if program is not digitally signed
• Increase number of TCP Connection Retransmissions
• Increase number of TCP Data Retransmissions
• *Enable/Disable TouchFLO Scroll – This is the finger-scrolling feature. NOT the cube scrolling as found on the Touch.
• *Adjust TouchFLO sensitivity (This tweak has been temporarily removed)
• Enable/Disable HSDPA
• *Set HTC camera to save pictures to \Storage Card\My Documents\My Pictures
• Set number of phone number digits to use for Call ID matching to your Contacts
• Enable/Disable wireless network detected notification
• Keep WiFi connection active when device goes into Standby
• Add Disconnect button and connection duration timer on Connectivity bubble
• *Enable/Disable Assisted GPS
• NavBar (Title bar) Clock options
• Disable Sleep when in calls
• Disable in call volume change tone
• Enable/Disable Power Management SD Card (SD, MiniSD, microSD), PPTP, L2TP, and AsyncMac
• Enable/Disable ClearType for all applications
• Change display orientation
• Disable Threaded SMS (for wm6.1)

Paper-Label-maker is a professional software for printing paper labels, such as address labels, letterheads, flyers, file brochures, postcards, software and product labels.

Features:

1. High degree of accuracy
   Tolerance of printed content on paper is within 0.1 to 0.5 mm for the most of recent inkjet and laser printers, it means labels can be printed at exact positions as you want.
2. Flexible designing
   The program contains three projects: Single, Multiple and Format, which are implemented for different purposes and  satisfy for both business and personal requirements.
3. Rich in properties
   Border, Background, Place, Transparent images, Trace, Font and Align properties allow you to design labels in many nice styles for both plain and fixed label papers.
4. Support for all databases implicitly
   Customer data in any databases can be easily exported into the program for printing customer related labels – such as post addresses.
5. Easy-to-use
   You can get start in 5 minutes then reach to all features of the program naturally.
   Label templates are historical stories from today.

Wipe is a free, easy and powerful tool to clear user browsing history, clean index.dat files, remove cookies, cache, logs, delete temporary internet files, autocomplete search history and any other tracks that user leaves after using PC. No user documents deleted, just tracks that computer records about your activity without your permission!

Idlebackup provides easy to use backup and restore program that can make a backup during idle time of the computer. Can also make a compressed (zip) backup. Suited for novice and advanced users. Can be started manually or in automatic mode. When started manually, optionally you can select to shutdown the computer afterwards.

The backup medium to be used is: hard-disk/usb-stick/usb-drive or network. There is an option in mode ´Mirror´ to synchronize the backup (cleanup unused files on the backup).

Yesterday evening my Streamyx connection having issue… Totally cannot online…This morning also cannot, until afternoon…

Below is the system log from my Aztech 600EU modem. It is due to the gateway and IP address problem.

Sometimes i will receive this kind of IP, but after restart, it will back to normal… But this time, it took a day to resolve this issue…Eventhough internet access is up, i found that some servers and MSN Messenger cannot be access…

Below is the correct gateway and IP…