If you’ve been using Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 or 10.5.1 and had previously used the Terminal to make your menu bar opaque, you’re going to notice that something is slightly out-of-order when you upgrade to 10.5.2. Basically, what happens, is the old menu bar opacity hack still works in 10.5.2, but it looks slightly [...]
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How-To: Revert the Mac OS X 10.5 Opaque Menu Bar Hack
Published by February 12th, 2008 in Guides, Macintosh, Software 0 CommentsJanuary 2008 Update
Published by January 18th, 2008 in Guides, NeoSmart Technologies, Reviews 1 CommentThere’s been a lot going on so far at NeoSmart Technologies, and 2008 is shaping up to be an exciting year… Yes, January is almost over; so, no, this isn’t a New Year’s resolutions list. The thing about New Year’s resolutions is that they’re almost always left unfulfilled. But that doesn’t mean we can’t share [...]
Proper Shell Scripting on Windows Servers with Perl
Published by November 13th, 2007 in Guides, Hacking, Linux, Macintosh, Operating Systems, Programming, Software 5 CommentsFact: Shell scripting is a must for any serious IT admin managing a server. From automating backups to checking logs and keeping server performance and load in check, scripting is a must.
Fact: Shell scripting on Windows sucks.
Fact: Shell scripting on Linux and other *nix operating systems is powerful, well-documented, and quite straight-forward.
Most people take [...]
Getting WordPress Super Cache to Run on a Windows (IIS or Apache) Server
Published by November 8th, 2007 in Guides, Software 7 CommentsIf you’re a regular reader, you probably know by now that we just love performance and can’t get enough of server performance-improving software/code… Especially when it comes to WordPress.
Donncha has recently released a great plugin for WordPress, called "WordPress Super Cache." It builds on the original WP-Cache plugin by Ricardo Granada - except that it [...]
How-To: Changing the Windows Vista Startup Sound
Published by August 28th, 2007 in Guides, Hacking, Software, Windows 24 CommentsOf the many controversies surrounding Windows Vista, probably the most infamous (and pathetic) issues brought to the table is the Windows Vista Startup sound - and how to get rid of it. If you were anywhere but under a rock during the beta, it’s impossible to have missed the posts going back and forth by haters and [...]
How to: Install the Vista Bootloader on Windows XP
Published by August 3rd, 2007 in Guides, Software, Windows 11 CommentsEver since Windows Vista came out, a lot of hype has been going around the new bootloader. That’s the hype that drove us to create EasyBCD, and that’s the same hype that’s been driving people to ask all around the web: “Is it possible to install the new Windows Vista bootloader on a non-Vista machine? [...]
Using Bad Word Filters to Boost SEO & Productivity
Published by June 12th, 2007 in Guides, SEO 0 CommentsIf you’re a webmaster, administrator, or moderator of any large blog, forum, or other community site, you’ll find that a lot of time is wasted spelling out URIs to various useful links, whether they’re to guides, reviews, downloads, or forms. On a big website with lots of members (especially that kind that don’t use the [...]
SharpDevelop “invalid EventMemberSpecifier” Error & Solution
Published by June 3rd, 2007 in Guides, Programming 5 CommentsThe Problem
SharpDevelop, for those of you that haven’t heard of it, is a very light-weight open source alternative to Visual Studio 2005. It doesn’t have all the frills and features that Microsoft’s professional IDE does, but in exchange it gives you much less bloat, faster speeds, and quite a few nifty built-in tools like SVN [...]
How-To: Hide Vista Partition from XP with NeoGrub!
Published by June 2nd, 2007 in Guides, Windows 19 CommentsOne of the biggest problems that faces dual-booters is data corruption on many different fronts. While using proper dual-boot techniques and going by the book can avoid most forms of data corruption, there are some things that you can’t just work around, especially if it’s considered a “feature” by Microsoft… One such “feature” is that [...]
Recovering Corrupted Downloads the Right Way
Published by May 3rd, 2007 in Guides, Software 4 CommentsYou don’t have an OC-48 or even T3 in your home. It takes you 24 hours+ to download the latest DVD image of Ubuntu or Windows Vista. Or maybe it “only” takes you 12 hours+. Either way, you’ve just finished your download to realize that its corrupt: the crc32 and md5 hashes just don’t add [...]
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