2010
01.29

For most businesses, it is common to use a traditional FTP client which makes sharing and exchanging data over a network more effective and efficient. Nonetheless, if you are the one responsible for keeping track of your data, or keeping track of changes and additions in your data, then your only option is to manually search through the folders and look for updates and changes. This is hardly the most practical option and it can take a great deal of time. However, with FTP Getter 3 Professional, you can have the ability to automate FTP and SFTP transfers, greatly increasing the speed and efficiency of the process.

The chances are that you don’t really have the time to manually rifle through all of your files to review them. Since time is money, you want to be able to save as much time as possible, allowing you to focus on other essential areas of your business. Using this software gives you exactly that luxury, greatly decreasing the amount of time you need to deal with your data transfers.

When you consider the entire process that you need to go through just to add, download or modify a single file through a traditional FTP client, it will seem rather daunting. First you have to log into your client, search through all the folders and select each file individually and wait for them to download or upload as required. For a single file here and there, this is not really a big deal, but once you need to do this many times during the day, it can sometimes become a full time job in itself.

The good news is that you can automate your FTP and SFTP transfers simply by using a powerful and user-friendly utility such as FTP Getter 3 Professional. You can find out more information on this program at ftpgetter.com. Using this software, you can schedule tasks and allow the program to automatically check for file creations on a daily basis. All you need to do is configure the program which does not take long, and then it will do all the hard work for you, greatly freeing up your time and human resources.

Using this software, you can also synchronize your directories between a remote server and your computer, making sure that both files are kept current. This also helps to minimize the risk of losing important data when one file is changed and updated. The program can check which is the latest version and synchronize the file(s)accordingly.

The program is also easy to use, with an interface designed to be easily understood by anyone regardless of their level of IT experience. You don’t have to rely on an IT technician or department to use all of its features and installation and setting up the program is an easy task. With just a few clicks of the mouse, you can set up and schedule tasks and then sit back and let the program do its work.

No other solution gives you the luxury of full automation of FTP and SFTP transfers. In business, since time is money, FTP Getter 3 Professional is a must-have product.

By: Vladimir Davidenko

Article source: http://www.articledashboard.com

FTPGetter 3 Professional helps manage data transfer workflow and automate FTP and SFTP transfer tasks by taking control of uploading and downloading files and folders.

2010
01.23

When using the computer, lots of PC users will unconscionably store lots of preferred images without noticing that there will be lots of duplicate images coming along. Though the image duplicates won’t harm the computer directly, they will eat up disk space, extend disk visiting time, and fragment the hard disk, which will eventually cause serious problems to PC proper running. Here, we will discuss how to delete these duplicate images easily without losing original ones.

So it is very urgent to delete duplicate images from the computer to regain more disk space and faster computer speed. Normally, what people do is to locate the these images individually from each drive and then manually delete the duplicate ones. This can be used but not effective for the whole process is very long and tedious. And it will consume very longer time when there are thousands of image duplicates on the hard disk. Furthermore, it will sometimes incorrectly delete the original images.

As what have been discussed above, we can see that it is not effective and safe enough to manually delete duplicate images. If you have ever searched the Internet for solutions on this problem, you will get advice to depend on a professional file finder to quickly delete image duplicates from the computer. These applications apply with very advanced compare / analysis technology and scan criterias, which can thoroughly scan the whole computer and only delete the duplicate files.

It will be very easy to buy such application in today’s modern world for there are lots of file finders being sold in the market. But at the mean time, the thousands of ones will always confuse us to exactly select the correct one. All of the file finder I have ever used, a program named Duplicate File Cleaner is really useful to delete all kinds of duplicate files, needless to say duplicate images.

To delete duplicate images with Duplicate File Cleaner, we can easily follow the steps below:
1) Run Duplicate File Cleaner and select “Picture” tab at the top.
2) Select the drives or directories to be scanned in the left-hand pane.
3) Select the scan mode and scan filter based on your own requirement such as scan for same name, similar picture, or only scan JPEG files.
4) Once the scan finishes, we can select how to deal with the duplicate images, to recycle bin or an assigned folder. But the default option is to the recycle bin, and a removal to the assigned folder make a restore point easily if necessary.

In a word, it is recommended to delete duplicate images with a third-party file finder rather the remove them manually when trying to get more disk space or a faster computer.

By: Daisy Wee

Article source: http://www.goarticles.com/

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No matter what you are and where you go, it is much better to have a clean and faster computer. So do not forget to timely delete duplicate files from your computer!

2010
01.23

The term BIOS stands for Basic Input Output System. It is an integral part of mother board and work to provide information during boot process. Many people use the term BIOS and CMOS interchangeably as BIOS load information from the CMOS or Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor. Now, on certain occasions you may need to access your BIOS set up to change or update some of your system features. Unfortunate fact is that, no tech support expert can direct you to find a key way to get into BIOS settings as there are multiple BIOS chip vendors available. So the online technical support service suggest users to watch carefully when the computer is starting up, brief instructions appear there. Commonly you will need to press Delete, F1, Alt or Ctrl immediately seeing the instructions to get into the BIOS set up screen.

Most of the computer support professionals advise their customers to avoid frequent BIOS access as a little error can cause serious consequences. Therefore, it is rather wise to access BIOS in presence of a tech support expert. Still make sure you back up essential data before reconfiguring or accessing BIOS setup to be on the safe side. Besides reconfiguring several common features BIOS setup allows users to reset the password also. This step is even needed sometime, as explained by the tech support service providers, to maintain BIOS security preventing unauthorized access to your PC.

There are two passwords in BIOS system. One for initial log in while the other is to access BIOS settings. Tech support or computer support professionals provide specialized assistance to deal with such delicate system set up. Mind the fact that if you have forgotten the start up password, you can never open your computer system any further. The common way to reset start up password as directed by the online technical support experts is discharge mother board battery. Detaching the battery will stop power supply to the system and so the BIOS will loss all the information within. When you will allow power supply again BIOS will set back to its original state losing all the setting information including password.

In some machines it is quite difficult to remove battery from the mother board where your tech support will suggest another alternative. They will help you to find the jumper somewhere in your mother board that will work to clear BIOS password. However, computer support technicians have some other alternatives for the users having no room for these options.

Motherboard manufacturer has backdoor password within in order to help users get access to the BIOS settings. Such passwords work, no matter what the passwords you have set manually for your BIOS setup. System manufacturers change the backdoor password time to time and so you essentially need computer repair or tech support assistance to track the back door pass words. Not only password tracking and resetting but computer support professionals also help users to upgrade their BIOS setting to support added functionalities on the system.

By: James Madisons

Article source: http://www.articledashboard.com

James Madison is a technological enthusiast who translates computer jargon and processes in common terminology for the laymen. His numerous articles on common computer issues and troubleshooting processes reflect his knowledge on Computer technology, computers support and Network support.

2010
01.22

Since computers came into use in research institutes, industries and later in our homes the demand of a proper channel to communicate with other computers had been growing rapidly. Till today the demand of high speed inter network communication still remains. Nowadays inter network communication between computers goes at a speed of Gbps. But we still need more. It is only because advantages of using Local Area Network at your work place or home are numerous. To use a LAN you should understand the basics behind it and how it is going to be useful for you.

LAN in simple words

LAN stands for Local Area Network. As the name suggests it is used to bind a series of computers within a structured network inside a local work place of yours. If you have hundreds of computers at your office or simply have a couple of computers at your home then you can connect them via Ethernet cable and build up your own LAN.

What do you need to set up a LAN?

There exist different hardware and software facilities to help you build up a LAN. As far as software applications are concerned, most of the operating systems in use today are already loaded with them. So if you need a general purpose LAN then the required software interface is available in your existing operating system itself and you do not need anything else. But for more complex functionality you will need specialized software packages.

The same goes for hardware also. Nowadays all computer manufacturing companies dispatch computers with inbuilt network adapters which is the hardware platform upon which two computers communicate. So all you will need to buy from market is Ethernet cable which will serve the purpose of physically connecting two computers. If you need to connect more than two computers then you will need a specialized hardware called Router. Inside a LAN or any sort of network a computer is uniquely identified by an IP Address. Using this IP Address you can find and connect to any computer within you network.

Advantages of using LAN

As already said the benefits of connecting two or more computers over a LAN are unlimited. You can share and transfer files over the network which simply removes the burden of using external storage disk of any kind. In your office, you can provide an inter network chat environment for your employees. At your home you can play games over a LAN with your friends. These are only a few examples which pop up first whenever there is a discussion going on advantages of using LAN. Moreover you can also connect your LAN with other available larger networks like WAN (Wide Area Network) or if you want you can also connect two or more LAN.

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By: Isa Kain

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2010
01.22

A corrupted SQL Server database has many shortcomings, one of them being the unmountability of the database. In most cases, the corruption is caused due to these factors – file system damage, virus infection, metadata structure damage, and concurrent modification of same database component. An error message pops up when you attempt to access the database records after the database is corrupted. This error message does not allow you to view the records stored in that database component. To access data in such situations, you will need to restore the database component from an updated backup. But if in case, the backup is unavailable or has not been maintained for that particular component, then you will need to repair the database using an advanced SQL Database Recovery application.

Consider a practical scenario, where you receive the below error message when you attempt to access the records stored in your database table:

“Table error: Object ID O_ID, index ID I_ID, page ID P_ID1. The PageId in the page header = P_ID2.”

The database table error message makes the records stored in the table inaccessible. The same error pops up every time you try to open that particular database table. This is a severity level 16 error message.

Cause:

The above error message appears when DBCC asks for P_ID1 page, but found P_ID2 in the disk header. This can occur due to logical or physical damage of the SQL database.

Resolution:

The solutions for the above error message are discussed below:

For solving the physical damages, you will need to replace the damaged system component with a brand new component.

For solving logical crashes, run DBCC CHECKDB command to identify the exact level of corruption. After complete identification, run the same command with the appropriate repair clause. The result of the repair primarily depends upon the page type. However, if the above command fails to repair the database, then you will need to opt for a powerful SQL Database Repair software.

These SQL Repair tools can be downloaded from the Internet and are easy to understand because of their interactive user-interface. With no modifications on the original database, these tools are absolutely safe to use.

By: Naveen Kadian

Article source: http://www.articledashboard.com

Naveen Kadian is a self employed Internet entrepreneur and product reviewer. This SQL Server Recovery utility is extremely useful when the database gets corrupted due to internal program errors, hardware malfunctioning, accidental deletion of data and more.SQL Recovery

2010
01.21

Years ago, a Webmaster fluent in HTML was required to build a targeted website and establish an optimal online presence. But today’s technology has rendered this skill set nearly obsolete, with an easier, more flexible option for publishing web pages. There are now new ways to keep a website aesthetically-pleasing, completely updated and feeling fresh with content of all types with a content management system.

A content management system (CMS) is software, implemented as a Web application, for creating and managing HTML content. It is used to manage and control a large, dynamic collection of material while facilitating content creation, content control, editing, and essential maintenance functions. The software provides tools designed to allow users with little to no knowledge of HTML or other programming languages the ability to create and manage content with relative ease and flexibility. In short, it is the new way to update and maintain your website.

The benefits of content management are significant. Content management provides its user with a set of tools that allows as much control over their websites as they wish. There are no more late night calls to the web designer, dealing with frustrating e-mail attachments, and annoying file formatting. Content management allows you to modify the breadth of your pages through a secure login page hidden in your website that you only have access to, at any time and any place you can get online.

Content management systems will save you and your business time, money, and aggravation. There is a nearly endless list of features that are offered through content management that expands your company’s reach and changes your overall communication platform. Here is a look at a few that you will immediately benefit from:

Online Newsletters and Press Releases

Through a secured template on your website, you will be able to copy and paste or create email newsletters and online press releases. This is not only an easy way to keep people informed, but it generates targeted traffic online and establishes your company as an authority within the industry.

Current Events Calendar

Keep your employees, customers and visitors updated instantly with a Current Events calendar. You can manage it conveniently within the CMS and allow authorized employees to access to help organize and manage events in and around your business, industry, and its community.

Photo Gallery

Humanize your business and engage your visitors. Photos of your employees, offices, and events are a great way to build a personal and professional rapport with anyone browsing through your site. Content management makes it easier than ever to create photo galleries on your site.

Shopping Cart and Product Catalog

The purpose for most business websites is to convince a visitor to purchase a product or sign up for a service. A content management system is the most user friendly and convenient execution of shopping cart and product catalog modules, especially with a Drupal site design and its highly toted shopping cart software, Übercart.

The Worx Company, a Drupal site design company, offers a content management system and service that will work wonders for your website. We will guide and steer your Drupal site design and content management in the direction your business needs to succeed. The Worx Company is an Oklahoma-based business with over 14 years of aggregate experience developing Drupal site design and content management. We are a team of highly efficient consultants, coordinators, designers and programmers, all dedicated to providing the highest quality and best service for your Drupal website project.

By: Elizabeth.Ruda

Article source: http://www.goarticles.com/

2010
01.21

The Dell E1505 AC adapter

Dell Inspiron E1505 AC Adapter 90W 19.5V 4.62A Description: Input: AC100-240V (worldwide use) Output: DC19.5V 4.62A Power: 90W Connecter size: Internal Diameter: 5.0mm External Diameter: 7.4mm With central pin inside http://www.udtek.com/dell-inspiron-e1505-ac-adapter-65w-195v-334a-p-3097.html

This part, like the batteries, is an essential element of your machine and is also the cause of a great number of breakdowns. Indeed, one of the elements most fragile of your laptop is the AC connector, i.e. the connector female in which comes to plug in the plug of your Dell E1505 AC adapter.

The repetition of these plug in and sometimes their useless violence ends regularly up tearing off the female connector of the motherboard.

That often occurs by stage, initially light poor contact, then as you move the cable in all the directions to find the current, the connector is torn off definitively, or the produced sparks roast the motherboard.

An adapter in bad condition (stripped cable, broken case repaired with tape…) is often the cause of a fatal electric problem to the motherboard of your laptop. To avoid that you just have to purchase a new AC adapter (genuine), it is always less expensive than a repair or a swapping of the motherboard.

About the compatible Dell E1505 adapter

To try to save some dollars (whereas often the genuine adapters are not much more expensive) or simply because their retailer does not propose a genuine adapter, much buy “compatible” adapters.

Let me be frank, for repairers these adapters are a blessing! Their male connector, relatively adapted to the socket of the laptop, tears off more often than others the females connectors.

Their voltage and their amperage more or less close to the needs for your laptops and a sometimes irregular flow, even straightforwardly random, and their annoying tendency “to kill the fuses” by at the same time roasting your motherboard and other power cards, are an important source of occupation for the technicians.

The failure rate, properly incredible, due, in an unquestionable or probable way, with these adapters makes that I dis-advise them formally. I am the first to propose to use compatible parts when they are less expensive and as powerful as the original parts. But for the AC adapters I advise prudence.

By: udtekbattery

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We have powered the devices of mobile computer users. Udtek delivers high quality laptop parts and accessories with a high level of service.

2010
01.21

You must have quite a lot photos and you love to share them with your friends, then a powerful photo slidershow software would be necessary. Today editor from Topsofts will show you Ten Best Photo Slideshow Software Reviews from Topsofts.com to help you find out one slideshow tool which suits you very well.

A photo slideshow is a collection of images to be displayed, usually in public. Slideshow software often has a lot more features than simply showing the pictures. By using computer software one therefore has the ability to enhance pictures in a way that isn’t otherwise possible.

With different photo slideshow software in the market, you should have an idea how to pick the one exactly meets your need. Topsofts will tell you that a good photo slideshow would possess the features below.

An excellent photo slideshow should be easy enough for a beginner to use it without any issues or errors. Different slide effects can make your photos more colorful. This includes photo effects, transition effects and the text effects. An excellent photo slideshow should make the photo clear that which formats you need your computerphoto slideshow to output in.

CyberLink MediaShow is the one second-place of Ten Best Photo Slideshow Software from Topsofts.com and CyberLink MediaShow has all the excellent Photo Slideshow features above. CyberLink MediaShow is a fast and easy way to preserve and share your life’s best moments. One-click fixes, face tagging, uploading to Facebook and express video conversion, are just some of the convenient features available for organizing and sharing your photos and videos.

CyberLink MediaShow has many perfect functions as the Editor’s Pick:

Add themes to your slideshow.

You can give your slideshow a theme to distinguish it from others, you are allowed to choose from MediaShow’s 12 style templates.

Support 30+ transition effects.
With more than 30 transition effects CyberLink Mediashow provided, you can make your slideshow more colorful.

Supports 36+ text effects.
After you add some text to your photo, it also enables you to add some effects to the text such as funny thought bubbles, comic book dialog, credit sequences, or even TV captions to your slideshows.

Divide slideshows into chapters.
If your slideshow is longer in length, try creating chapters within your slideshow using color boards.

Background music supported.
Add different types of background music to set the proper tone for your slideshow.

Intuitive inferface. interface-2

The storyboard style workspace boasts an intuitive design, allowing easy drag-and-drop of photos to change the playback sequence of your slideshows.

Support all popular image/video formats.

Drag and drop to easily add content to a show

Wanna more information about CyberLink MediaShow and Ten Best Photo Slideshow Software Reviews, please feel free to visit the page below.

http://www.topsofts.com/pop/photo-slideshow/index.html

By: Christine from Topsofts

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Topsofts.com, Offering over 100, 000 software download service online, is one of the most popular freeware & shareware download website where you could access to professional software reviews, testing reports and How-to articles so that you could get the best software solution.

2010
01.18

A downloaded data file can be in any one of the formats like mp3, WMA, OGG etc. But to run it on your system you should have a data file format that is sustained by your media player. In such a case, you can switch the digital files as and when you download or later by utilising online converters. These unpaid online converters change media files from any data format to any other stipulated format. The online converters take the sound track file in the original format and convert it to the format you determine.

Online converters switch your data files on the cyberspace. By utilising this amenity, you will not have to buy authorized converter software program to change mp3. Other softwares may have excellent conversion speeds but you will have to install by purchasing the whole versions. And you can change formats only on your computer. Online converters furnish free tools that switch any media file formats to the preferred format. The online converters make conversions very easy. To change mp3 format, all you will have to do is select your input data file from your computer system or a URL and opt the preferred output format. On saying submit, the conversion operation initiates and depending on your internet connection the time involved for conversion differs. You also have the choice to download the switched data file from the web site or you can also get it posted to your mailbox.

To get media data files from the online media library, the YouTube; you have to be a certified user at the YouTube site. There are several YouTube converters that convert media files to befit your PC’s media player, iPods, iPhones, mobile phones etc. YouTube converters also change different data formats to mp3 data format. The recent application on YouTube, the YouTube converter will download, switch and play media files of any data formats. YouTube supports many formats like mp3, WMA, AVI etc. The utilization of YouTube converters is similar to that of online converters.

Text files like doc, rtf, txt can all be converted utilizing online converters. Hence these convertors are not restricted only to media data files. These converters also function betwixt different operating systems. One example of such an inter OS online converter is the zamzar online converter. This converter will take in all format text files from either Windows or Linux platforms and switches it to any other determined text of any other platform.

Text and media files have a wide range of online converters available on the cyberspace. You would be surprised to know that it is also manageable to convert pictures and hash codes by employing the suitable online converters. Online converters not only spare money on purchase of true software packages but also simplify jobs of conversion. We can change files anytime we want by utilising an online converter, considering we have a good internet connection!

By: Tariq Ghazi

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2010
01.18

AMD technologies have been ruling the industry of graphic cards for a few years now. Thus, most of the successful PC gaming systems have got ATI graphics cards plugged on their mother boards. ATI graphics driver update is one of the unique ways AMD technologies have adopted to ensure their clients would gain the maximum out of this rapidly evolving gaming industry. Sometimes, an ATI graphics driver update can add more advantages and uses to a pre-existing AMD graphics card.

So how can you find an ATI graphics driver update? And if found, how can you get it rolling? AMD’s official site enlists all new driver updates on a special section; however, thousands of graphic cards models are present. Hence, special care is to be taken to download the right ATI graphics driver update for your graphic card model as installing a wrong driver might stop the graphic card from working at all. Moreover, many web services offer most graphics driver updates for free download.

So, if you’ve found the right ATI graphics driver update, here’s how to install it. Firstly, right click on my computer icon and click mange. A “computer management” window should pop-up on your screen, on which you would have to choose the device manger option. While on the device manager menu, click on your ATI graphics card which should be under the display adaptor list. Here you should easily click the “Update Driver” box and specify the location of your ATI graphics driver update to get it rolling.

Graphics cards are developing very rapidly in a way that a graphic card bought today could easily become an old trend in less than a year; however, ATI graphics driver update is a valuable tool that can help everyone survive the rapidly developing gaming world without the need to do many hardware changes.

By: Ashish Arora

Article source: http://www.articledashboard.com

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