May 092012
 
internet-safe-surfing

Remember to be careful which website you access. There are many websites on the internet that are there to do harm to your computer/ laptop. These websites can infiltrate some nasty adware, malware and trojans viruses into your computer/ laptop. It is recommended that you install some very cool plugins on your browsers apart from the already installed anti virus, security software and firewall in your computer / laptop.

Have a read on one of my post virus hoax about a particular e-mail hoax that has been sent many times to many e-mail addresses.

Here is a list of some of the tools, utilities and programs I recommend.

  1. Ccleaner To clean all the rubbish and maintain a healthy registry
  2. Comodo Internet Security for anti virus, firewall and secure my system
  3. AVG is the antivirus tool that I am using with my windows 7
  4. Spybot search and Destroy to clean and control adware, malware and spyware
  5. Partedmagic I use for editing my partition and troubleshooting other issues that might arise in windows or linux
  6. Ubcd I use to test and troubleshoot issues with windows and linux
  7. Filehippo to monitor some of my tools
  8. Virus Total: VirusTotal is a free service that analyzes suspicious files and URLs and facilitates the quick detection of viruses, worms, trojans, and all kinds of malware
  9. Spyware blaster
  10. Trend Micro
  11. HijackThis A very cool little tool that helps you check to see what is going on in your boot up sequence. It also checks to see what is running in the background.

Here are a some links to websites that provide information in regards to e-mails, shopping online and websites. This is very important as many keep falling for hoax e-mail and reveal very sensitive data and purchase products that don’t exist. Remember the GOLDEN RULE if it is too good to be true chances are that it is a hoax, fraud and a lie.

  1.  Hoax-slayer: Hoax-Slayer is dedicated to debunking email hoaxes, thwarting Internet scammers, combating spam, and educating web users about email and Internet security issues. Hoax-Slayer allows Internet users to check the veracity of common email hoaxes and aims to counteract criminal activity by publishing information about common types of Internet scams. Hoax-Slayer also includes anti-spam tips, computer and email security information, articles about true email forwards, and much more. New articles are added to the Hoax-Slayer website every week.
  2. Snopes:Welcome to snopes.com, the definitive Internet reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation. Use the search box above to locate your item of interest, or click one of the icons below to browse the site by category.
  3. Review FBI: Ultimate Reviews On Wholesale, Dropshop & More. This link is very important if you do a lot of online shopping and some sites offer drop shipping.

If you require any information about protecting your computer/ laptop running windows operating system or have some issues with your system leave a message here and I will be glad to assist you. If you have other recommendations please share with everyone by posting here.

Have a safe internet surfing experience :)

Mar 102012
 
windows-software-recommendation

Latest addition to the list Advanced SystemCare Free 5.

These are the tools and software I recommend to run a safe, secure and troubleshoot a Windows environment. You will notice that some of these tools will help you with your linux environment as well. The tools below are the tools I have been using on my old computer running windows XP Home and my brothers computer running vista. I now have upgraded to windows 7 Home Premium and have tested them on windows 7 and they run well.

Be aware when you partition the hard disk in Vista and 7 using gparted found in Partedmagic. You will have to use the vista or 7 recovery disk to fix an issue with the partiton table. Also please make sure that you back up to an external hard disk all your important data before you resize the partition.

  1. Ccleaner To clean all the rubbish and maintain a healthy registry
  2. Defraggler to defrag the hard disk
  3. Comodo Internet Security for anti virus, firewall and secure my system
  4. AVG is the antivirus tool that I am using with my windows 7
  5. Spybot search and Destroy to clean and control adware, malware and spyware
  6. Easeus I am using with windows 7. A very good tool to create a hard disk image.
  7. Partedmagic I use for editing my partition and troubleshooting other issues that might arise in windows or linux
  8. Ubcd I use to test and troubleshoot issues with windows or linux
  9. Filehippo to monitor some of my tools installed in my system running windows 7 and keep them up to date
  10. Advanced SystemCare Free 5 is a wonderful tool to have and it is free with many utilities added to this system care package. 

If you are interested in multimedia and web design with flash look no further, my good friend Dileep Katiyar has won a few awards for his superb designs and his artistic ability with web developing, drawing and 3d designs. Take a look at his designs and abilities and you will see the greatness of his talent. He is a very modest person, so I decided to promote him on my blog.

If you live in South Australia then you can check out Peter Bowey Computer Solutions – Recovery Computer Service Repairs. His company has over 23 years of IT and support experience. So give him a call or send him an e-mail. He will be glad to help you ;)

If you need any help with the list above, just drop a line and I will be glad to help you.

Oct 042011
 
can-only-edit-an-article-once-in-joomla-1-7-and-wordpress-3-2-1

I have had this problem and many have also reported this issue with Joomla 1.6, 1.7 and even with WordPress. It appears that when you try to edit an article and in some cases a menu or a post in WordPress your browsers sits and does nothing and the only way out of this is by refreshing your browser. I spent many days trying to work out this issue, which it just seem to appear out of the blue :( I call this a gremlin which seems to appear when you less expected :)

The following is what I did to work out this issue.

  1. I started to uninstall many programs
  2. I unistall chrome and revert back to an early version of Firefox 6.0.2
  3. Tested the connection on a adsl broadband and it worked fine after I created another account and deleted my old profile.
  4. Tested the connection on wireless broadband and again the issue continued
  5. Uninstall bigponds connection manager. Downloaded the latest version from the internet and installed it.
  6. Tested saving a post in WordPress and the same issue continued.
  7. Change the settings in Firefox proxy and cache and still the same issue.
  8. Tested IE, Chrome, Firefox and SeaMonkey and still the same issue.
  9. Finally I read an article on the Microsoft forum that people using Windows 7 with SP1 installed had issues with the browsers. So I decided to uninstall SP1 and voila the problem is gone for now. I have run many test and so far it seems to be working fine.

I will keep you all posted if there are any changes. So far so good :)

Latest update:

Hello I am back with some more testing, please be aware that this might not resolve your problem. After testing all of the above, it was working well without a problem. Then I was asked to update the flash plugin in Firefox and so I did.

  • The plugin that I had installed was Flash Player 10.3.183.10 none (IE)
  • Then I updated it to the latest version Flash Player 11.0.1.152 none (IE)

So I started testing and found that the issue came back. It kind of made sense to me, so I uninstalled Flash Player 11.0.1.152 none (IE) and reinstalled Flash Player 10.3.183.10 none (IE) and did some testing. This worked for me but I will keep on testing.

I hope this helps everyone here regardless whether they are using a Mac, Windows or Linux.

Kind regards

These are my specifications:

  • Lenovo T61 laptop
  • Windows 7 Home Premium
  • Intel Core 2 Duo cpu T7300@ 2.00ghz
  • 3 Gigs of ram
  • 120 g hard disk

Browsers “The latest version for all browsers below except IE”

  • IE
  • Firefox
  • SeaMonkey
  • Chrome

I hope the above works for you. I have not done any testing on linux or mac. If you have any question just leave a comment here.

Kind regards