How to Convert DOCX files to DOC files for Free in Any OS

March 22nd, 2008 PHP files are scripts which are interpreted by php interpreter (php.exe in windows). Converting them to exe files makes it easy to distribute PHP applications to Windows users.

February 16th, 2009 Downloading cool videos from YouTube or Google Video on you Mac. Now who doesn't need that? What you know is that these videos files are in FLV format.

April 1st, 2009 Every time I think of loading an iTune mp3 audio file to m4r ringtone to iPhone there is a lot of hassle I had to undertake. Well, that's not as nerve wrecking when you gotta switch the audio file formats for you audio player.

April 6th, 2008 As a security measure to prevent potential viruses, Gmail doesn't allow you to send or receive executable files (such as files ending in .exe) that could contain damaging executable code. GMail doesn't clearly define what kind of file extensions fall within this list.

January 8th, 2009 Gasping for free space with your 2GB Gmail account? Mozilla Firefox has come up with an apocalypse to take you by surprise. Currently the most popular browser, Mozilla now poffers a new add-on Gspace.

August 19th, 2008 Apache Ant is an excellent and popular Java based build system. It has several built-in commands (tasks in Ant lingo) one of which allows you to create Jar file from your existing class file and resources.

April 7th, 2009 One of the most popular backup systems, Carbonite online back up, has come up with a subscription plan that gives you 20% discount on purchasing 1 year's subscription from them. Carbonite offer that used to come for $ 54.95 is now only $ 43.99.

January 14th, 2007 A very simple way to execute HTML files is by telling the server to parse html files for SSI commands. To do it simply add the following lines to your .htaccess file: AddType text/html .html AddHandler server-parsed .html This has the downside of processing all the html files in that directory and its subdirectories.

June 21st, 2006 Archit3ct and IR4DEX GROUP have discovered a vulnerability in SmartSiteCMS, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. Input passed to the "root" parameter in include/inc_foot.php is not properly verified before being used to include files.

August 14th, 2007 I discovered a really cool way to use Subversion, my favorite version control system - automatic versioning / commit on save. Essentially with this simple tweak you can use subversioned files like you would use any ordinary files.

October 8th, 2007 PmWiki is a popular wiki software which uses the file system to store wiki pages. We use for our intranet and to document our processes and systems.

August 24th, 2005 After briefly scanning the eleven defects fixed in 1.5.2 (an interim release before WordPress 1.6) I identified the changed files. They are: xmlrpc.php comment-functions.php wp-admin/post.php pluggable-functions.php registration-functions.php wp-admin/categories.php wp-commentsrss2.php wp-includes/template-functions-category.php edit-page-form.php I am shortly planning to provide a patch update from 1.5.1.3 to 1.5.2.

February 4th, 2009 Just imagine a situation where you have an important project in PDF. You have to merge the documents in no time and for worse you don't have access to Adobe Acrobat or other PDF converts.

June 13th, 2008 Sun is offering three free assessment tests for Solaris 10 operating system focusing on Unix Essential and System Administration. They are for the following certifications: UNIX Essentials Featuring the Solaris 10 Operating System Objectives: Use command-line features and help resources Manage and view files and directories and change the directory contents Create and modify files and use basic file permissions Create ACLs Control the user work environment Use commands within the shell Perform basic process and job control Archive files and create archives Compress, view, and uncompress files Perform remote file transfers Sun Certified System Administrator (SCSA) for the Solaris 10 Operating System (Part 1) Objectives: Manage file systems Install software Perform system boot procedures Perform user and security administration Manage network printers and system processes Perform system backups and restores Sun Certified System Administrator (SCSA) for the Solaris 10 Operating System (Part 2) Objectives: Describe network basics and the client-server model Describe remote administration with the Solaris Management Console Manage swap configuration Manage crash dumps and core files Configure NFS and AutoFS Describe RAID and Solaris Volume Manager software concepts Configure Solaris Volume Manager software Configure RBAC Configure system messaging Configure naming service clients Configure NIS Configure a custom JumpStart software installation Perform a Flash installation Take the tests and find out how strong you are in Solaris.

October 8th, 2006 While downloading Fedora Core 5 using DAP, I ran out of temporary disk space (which is by default in C: drive) thereby wasting several hours of download. Download Accelerator Plus (DAP is a popular file download utility) saves the partially downloaded segments in %TEMP% directory.