Slow Windows Load Time
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 Posted in Technical Issues, Tricks | 1 Comment »I'm trying to solve a problem where my computer at work takes forever to become usable after logging onto windows. Edit: For lazy people, the end result was mapped drives were slowing boot time significantly. The following tweaks helped only with ...
Useful hMailServer Tips & Tricks
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 Posted in Technical Issues, Tricks | No Comments »Tricks Using TrendMicro Security Server Speedup downloading large attachments in Thunderbird Use hMailServer to share email across a home network Spam Installing ASSP with hMailServer Use ASSP with hMailServer Add ASSP multiple report buttons in Microsoft Outlook Dealing with Problems Very large mailbox crashes hmailserver
Work on sites before the DNS has rolled over (by editing the hosts file)
Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Programming, Tricks | No Comments »Important: This does not work if you are behind a proxy, which includes antivirus firewalls and such. Right click on the hosts file in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc Go to properties, turn off "read-only" Open the file using Notepad or any text editor Add a line to ...
Speed up Magento by ~235%
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 Posted in Tips, Tricks | 29 Comments »What: There's a feature called "gzip" that's installed by default on most web servers. Modifying your site to make use of it can really speed up the performance. How much faster? Try the quick and easy mod_gzip tester by WhatsMyIP.org. Just enter the URL ...
Replacing your main hard drive is actually really easy
Friday, February 8th, 2008 Posted in Tips, Tricks | No Comments »I recently had to swap out a hard drive on a perfectly good computer here at work. I needed to do this quickly, so I found out about Acronis True Image. This program lets you make a bootable disc that ...
Easy Windows Explorer Tweak
Friday, February 1st, 2008 Posted in Tricks | No Comments »You can make Windows Explorer start in whatever folder or drive you want! I always found it really annoying how it would start in "My Documents", which after a while has so many subfolders in it that you have to ...
Backup solution with WinRAR and a batch file
Sunday, January 13th, 2008 Posted in Tricks | 1 Comment »I wanted to make the perfect manual backup solution in a batch file, so here's the code. Just make a file called backup.bat and paste this text into it. You might have to change a few of the file ...
Shorter nested IF statements in Excel
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007 Posted in Programming, Tricks | No Comments »This code checks to see if A1 equals the letters K, H or L. Instead of using: [code lang="html"]=IF(A1="K",TRUE,IF(A1="H",TRUE,IF(A1="L",TRUE,FALSE)))[/code] You can use: [code lang="html"]=IF(OR(A1="K",A1="H",A1="L"),TRUE,FALSE)[/code] As you can see, it's a lot shorter and makes a lot more sense. Especially if you need to add more ...
Easy stylesheets with basic PHP
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 Posted in Programming, Tricks | No Comments »Create a file called stylesheet.php and link to it in you're page. Then play with this code: [code lang="php"] BODY { background: ; color: #000000; margin: 0px; } [/code]