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Laptop is portable ….. but an IPod as a laptop?

Well, when I explain to my friends and collegues about this discovery …. almost everyone laughed and said “You’re kidding ….right”.

As you normally guess …. it is definately a discovery, no kidding.

Technology is movin at a fast pace right now and you can actually turn your Ipod or any storage device (portable hard disk, USB drives) into a portable laptop virtually.

With Mojopac, this fantasy is a reality.

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I recently a panic call from a friend stating that her laptop has a BSOD while booting up.

As you seen above, this is another case of a corrupted boot menu which is a very common thing on a Windows XP operating system.

How to solve it?

The recovery console , what better way…..

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Recently, I’ve covered a topic on portable applications and I believe that more and more people would want to make full use of their existing thumbdrive.

One application that is not in the list of portable applications on the portableapps.com website is Skype.

Skype, as you all know, is the most used VOIP application and almost majority of the desktops and laptops in the world will have Skype installed in their PC.

Best of all, now you can make it portable and run it on your thumbdrive.

Cool ……. lets’ begin.

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If you are a frequent visitor of my blog, you will notice the new theme design that I’ve applied in this blog.

And you might be wondering why I ditched the UDB Moneymaker theme which was doing quite well with this blog. Personally, I like the UDB theme till 2 days ago.

Well, to make it even super …. this theme is made by me; my first ever wordpress theme.

To honestly speaking although I’m a techie guy, I’m not well versed with PHP so how do I make this theme without having PHP Essential knowledge?

Simple, it is down with a software called Artisteer.

Artisteer is a software specialized to making themes in a snap. It can be you are designing a Joomla template, Wordpress template, Drupal, ASP pages or just the basic html, Artisteer has got the tools to make it done simpler with no coding at all.

I was quite sceptical but I decided to give it a go.

I downloaded the trial yesterday and by today morning ( a total of 3 hours designing) I completed my design.

To get things done using a new software which you did not have knowledge on that is fast.

Lets go thru the details ….

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Being an IT administrator, I have always wanting to make life simpler for myself; i.e. to carry my programs (or program files) and use them whenever I  go.

A laptop is a good mobility tool but sometimes you can’t possibly use it at work or carry it everywhere ( do note my Lenovo is like 3kg and the battery life last for about an hour and a half on full charge).

Though this is a laptop blog, I would also like to share with you technologies that can be made much more simpler for us users.

I’ve recently made my imation Flash Go! USB drive a portable application.

To make my explanation sounds simpler, I can now run my office suite, browser, chat program, media player,  password manager tool, anti-virus, pdf reader, e-mail client and much more … all from my USB thumbdrive.

That’s a lot of stuffs there and my thumdrive is only 4 Gb, so how is this possible?

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Remember when there is a time when you start your laptop and it keeps on loading for a while and then it restarts. This contiues on and on …. again and again.

No matter how you try to overcome this ….. you end up in sheer frustration.

Well, if you’re using XP, you can always use the automatic repair function but what if the automatic repair function tell you that it is an “UNKNOWN” partition?

I have faced this problem a couple of times with my clients PCs and the fast way to overcome is NOT the F- word ( in a gentle manner re-formatting).

Using the command prompt recovery console is a good solution and once you are familiar with this one …. it’s a snap.

Firstly … boot up and proceed to your recover console environment.

• Next choose the drive…. by default it is 1 - which stands for your C drive.
• Type chkdsk to run a scan on your disk.
• After the chkdsk have ended, type fixboot C:
• Finally type BOOTCFG /rebuild to fix your boot up files.
  You might be prompted whether you want to attempt this operation. Just choose Yes or type Y and proceed

What it does it fix up your boot up files. For the UNKNOWN partition, once your boot up files is corrupted it messes your partition. And don’t worry, by doing this, your data will be untouched.

Hi guys, it’s been a long time ( a month actually) since I did any posting and to my fellow visitors, some might wonder what actually happens to me and all my new posts?

I’m back from the dead (to say the least) as I was pre-occupied with developments on the Windows SharePoint platform (MOSS) and my first ever experience with Rapidshare.

Due to all these activities, I kinda neglect a bit of my blogging and to tell you the truth ……. it’s been a hell of activities and experiences for the past month.

I would like to thank my fellow visitors for visiting this blog of mine and for some wonderful comments posted in this blog.

During the time, MYBOXPRO.com has an increased in Page Rank from PR 1 to PR2.

I’m very grateful for all the support given by my fellow visitors and for continuous tips and tricks, this site will continue to provide more of that.

I’m back and this site is back and who knows since I could even do a blog on SharePoint in the future .

Just as the time when lots of applications on the web are running on Adobe Flash (e.g watching videos on youtube.com), Microsoft so-called flash based web application named “Silverlight” is gaining momentum as more and more web-based mash-ups/applications are based on that.

Question ….. what has it gotta do do with me?

Well, it actually has an effect on users and a techie guy like who is always on the internet; it definately does.

As more and more web applications run on silverlight, internet browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome and many others will be affected.

How it affects the user, is when a website prompts “You need the latest version of Silverlight” message box appears on the desktop and it will be a complete disaster if your web browser does not support Silverlight.

Till now linux based browser Konqueror and cross-platform based browser Opera has yet had official support for Silverlight. Whether is it a Microsoft tactic to kill Adobe Flash or web browser competition is yet been known.

Websurfers, like you and me however, can enjoy the rich and dynamics of websites that is being displayed on our desktop.