Few Tips Before reinstall windows

Sometime we need install new windows.

Save the firefox ad-ons + bookmark export from Bookmarkes->manage Bookmarks -> Export

Saved password export/import

Password Exporter: Firefox ad-ons

This extension allows you to export your saved passwords and disabled login hosts using XML or CSV files that can be imported later.

Save My Documents

Check if there any Folders important in your primary Disk

Before you erase the old windows think twice if your ready and nothings loose

How to fix “Generic Host For Win32″ and Svchost.exe error in Windows XP

If this is regarding of port 445 and 135 which u can check when the error message appear ,all u need to do is follow this simple steps;

FOR PORT 445
-Click Start -> Run (This opens the run dialog box)

- In the Run box type regedit (This launches the Registry Editor)

- Navigate to the the following key in the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\NetBT\Parameters

- In the right-hand window pane you will find an option called TransportBindName.
Double click onTransportBindName and delete the existing default value and click Ok (This gives TransportBindName a blank value)

FOR PORT 135

- Navigate to the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Ole

- In the right hand window pane you will see an option called EnableDCOM

- Double-click EnableDCOM and change the Y to an N and click Ok

- Close the Registry Editor and restart your computer.

hopefully this fixes the nagging menace. hope that helps

Copy and Paste in PuTTY?

How does this work?
First, highlight a chunk of text in any application, then open a new application and middle-click the mouse. The highlighted text will automatically get pasted into the active application — bypassing the clipboard altogether! In fact, this method will not disturb the existing contents of the clipboard in any way.
This method works fine for Putty …

SUDO: SUper-user DO

The SUDO  command is a program for some Unix and Unix-like computer operating systems that allows users to run programs with the security privileges of another user (normally the superuser, or root).

Remove Thematic Top Menu

Add the following to the functions.php

function thematic_custom_access()

{

?>

<div id=”access”>

<div>

<a href=”#content” title=”<?php _e(‘Skip navigation to the content’, ‘thematic’); ?>”><?php _e(‘Skip to content’, ‘thematic’); ?></a>

</div>

</div><!– #access –>

<?php

}

function thematic_remove_access()

{

remove_action(‘thematic_header’, ‘thematic_access’, 9);

remove_action(‘wp_head’, ‘thematic_head_scripts’);

remove_filter(‘wp_page_menu’,'thematic_add_menuclass’);

}

add_action(‘init’, ‘thematic_remove_access’);

add_action(‘thematic_header’, ‘thematic_custom_access’, 9);

Find and Replace String @ SQL : Mysql

Sometimes we need find and replace string/text in mysql tables. Here is the sql i use and find works

UPDATE mysql_table_name SET mysql_column_nam= REPLACE(mysql_column_name, ‘string_to_find’, ‘string_to_replace’);

grepWin: Regular expression search and replace for Windows

Download grepWin Now

As a developer i do need search and replace some text on many files and need this for sometimes for subfolder and to make it simple i like to use grepWin. its a real nice software to use and it save many of my time,,, you can try also ….

TCPView : Watch which applications using Internet connection?

Introduction

TCPView is a Windows program that will show you detailed listings of all TCP and UDP endpoints on your system, including the local and remote addresses and state of TCP connections. On Windows Server 2008, Vista, and XP, TCPView also reports the name of the process that owns the endpoint. TCPView provides a more informative and conveniently presented subset of the Netstat program that ships with Windows. The TCPView download includes Tcpvcon, a command-line version with the same functionality.

Using TCPView

When you start TCPView it will enumerate all active TCP and UDP endpoints, resolving all IP addresses to their domain name versions. You can use a toolbar button or menu item to toggle the display of resolved names. On Windows XP systems, TCPView shows the name of the process that owns each endpoint.

By default, TCPView updates every second, but you can use the Options|Refresh Rate menu item to change the rate. Endpoints that change state from one update to the next are highlighted in yellow; those that are deleted are shown in red, and new endpoints are shown in green.

You can close established TCP/IP connections (those labeled with a state of ESTABLISHED) by selecting File|Close Connections, or by right-clicking on a connection and choosing Close Connections from the resulting context menu.

You can save TCPView’s output window to a file using the Save menu item.

More info …http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897437.aspx

Remove the prefix “Cetegory” From WordPress(WP) URL

By default, WordPress category permalinks are displayed that way:

http://www.omasters.com/blog/category/categorytitle

As you can see, the category in the url is pretty useless. Here’s how to remove it:
First backup your .htaccess file. Then, open it and append the following line:
RewriteRule ^category/(.+)$ http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Once saved, your categories pages will be displayed like this:

http://www.catswhocode.com/blog/wordpress

Better, Solution You can simply use plugin to solve the issue

The Top Level Categories plugin allows you to remove the prefix before the URL to your category page. For example, instead of http://fortes.com/category/work, I use http://fortes.com/work for the address my “work” category. WordPress doesn’t allow you to have a blank prefix for categories (they insert category/ before the name), this plugin works around that restriction.

Download Top Level Categories Plugin

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Make site pixel perfect

For developer who work for PSD to XHTML Conversion jobs, i think the firefox adons
is a must…

About Pixel Perfect:
Pixel Perfect is a Firefox/Firebug extension that allows web developers and designers to easily overlay a web composition over top of the developed HTML.

By toggling the composition on and off, the developer can visually see how many pixels they are off in development. Pixel Perfect also has an opacity option so that you can view the HTML below the composition. By being able to see both the composition and the HTML you can now simultaneously use Firebug while Pixel Perfect is still in action.

Although we do understand that all browsers render slightly different, and sometimes even OS dependencies come into play, we still believe Pixel Perfect is a great tool to help keep the integrity of the perfectionist designer.

Magento Debug technique: Exception printing is disabled by default for security reasons.

while development is ongoing @ magento developer need to see what’s going wrong …while we see Exception printing is disabled by default for security reasons. … such message.

to enable this error display follow

1. Go MagentoRoot/errors/

2. Copy local.xml.sample – and create local.xml @ MagentoRoot/errors/local.xml

Now the error message will show and you can easy debug the system. Very easy hah

Speed up your magento store by combining, compressing and caching JS and CSS.

Speed up your store by combining, compressing and caching JS and CSS. The extension  ( Fooman Speedster )reworks how Magento handles the loading of JavaScript and CSS. It utilises the Minify library developed by Steve Clay and released under a BSD license.

Firefox : Import and Export Bookmarks

1. From the Firefox browser, click on on the “Bookmarks” menu located at the top of the window. Next, click on the “Organize Bookmarks” option.
2. This brings you to a separate window which lists all existing bookmarks (favorite websites). From the File menu at the top, you have the option to Import and Export.
3. If you need to import external bookmarks and merge them into Firefox, do so by clicking “Import” from the File menu. This allows you to import your favorites from Internet Explorer , or just an existing file you had saved in the past. Choose the desired option, and hit “Next” to search for your bookmarks. When done, click “Finish”.
4. If you need to externally save existing Firefox bookmarks, click on the “Export” option from the File menu. Once you choose a save destination, you’re all set.