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When you plugin your USB stick into a computer and copy some files from or to USB stick and then tried to eject it out by using Safely Remove Hardware. 

Although you have already finish copied files and close all the program and folder that related to the USB stick but you still will received a warning message prompt out, “The device ‘Generic volume’ cannot be stopped right now. Try stopping the device again later.” This problem come out is because some processes running in the background are accessing your USB drive while you cant just plug out the USB stick that will make a risk of corrupting the data inside it.

Until now, your only way seemed to be shutting down the computer. Not any more, for here comes a very nifty little utility. Read along to find out more.

EjectUSB is an extremely tiny (250 KB) utility that finds out what all applications are using the USB disk, kills them all mercilessly and releases your disk from the Windows jail, all within a matter of seconds.
All you have to do, is download the zip archieve, extract it to your USB disk and run the executable. Visit this link to watch a video of EjectUSB in action.

Note: Remember to close all unsaved files in USB drive before attempting these.

On July 02 2008, Rapidshare make a decision to stop using captchas service while let free users to upload and download bigger files (up to 200MB). Anyhow rapidshare still will limit the speed for free user that is 500kilobit per seconds. for fair enough, Rapidshare will still remain premium users to download file instantly with download accelerator and parellel downloads.

Premium-users now profit from more flexibility regarding the download volume: It used to be limited to 10 gigabyte per day and can be “saved” now to a maximum of 50 Gigabyte. As a consequence, the volume that was not used is transferred to the following day automatically, up to a maximum of 50 gigabyte. If the complete download capacity is used up during one day, the premium-user is able to save another 10 gigabyte the following day.

Here is the access level of premium users and free users:

¹ With RapidShare Manager

² Your files are only deleted once you close your Account. You can use 500 Gigabyte (500.000.000.000 Byte) storage space.

³ Rapidshare support all kinds of connections. If you’re using a DSL-8.000 for example, you can save 100 megabyte from rapidshare.com within 100 seconds A premiumaccount enables you to download 4 Gigabyte per day, that’s4.000.000.000 byte. The volume not used is automatically transferred to the following day, up to a maximum of 30 gigabyte. If the complete download capacity is used up during one day, the premium-user is able to save another 4 gigabyte the following day.

⁴ As long as enough bandwidth and free slots are available.

After Rapidshare change the new layouts, the upload system also changed. the upload system become more nicer than before, but i don’t have the old screenshot while take the new screenshot. here it is:

PIKOM PC FAIR 2008 (I) are here in April. The Date and Venue are stated below:

Date: 1 - 3 August 2008
Time: 11:00 am - 9:00 pm

KL Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur City Centre, 50888 Kuala Lumpur

Persada Johor International Convention Centre, Johor Bahru, Johor
Jalan Abdullah Ibrahim, 80000 Johor Bahru

Central Square, Sungai Petani, Kedah
Jalan Kampung Baru, 08000 Sungai Petani

Dewan Sri Mentakab, Mentakab, Pahang
28400 Mentakab

Date: 8 - 10 August 2008
Time: 11:00 am - 9:00 pm

Penang International Sports Arena, Penang
Jalan Tun Dr Awang, 11900 Relau

Mahkota Parade Melaka, Melaka
Jalan Merdeka, 75000 Bandar Hilir

Sabah Trade Centre, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah
Jalan Istiadat, Teluk Likas, 88400 Kota Kinabalu

Dewan Tun Hj Mustapha, Lahad Datu, Sabah
91100 Lahad Datu

Date: 14 - 16 August 2008
Time: 11:00 am - 9:00 pm

KB Mall, Kota Bharu, Kelantan
Jalan Hamzah, 15050 Kota Bharu

Pusat Dagangan Terengganu, Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu
Padang Hiliran, 21100 Kuala Terengganu

Star Parade, Alor Star, Kedah
Jalan Teluk Wanjah, 05200 Alor Star

Date: 15 - 17 August 2008
Time: 11:00 am - 9:00 pm

Berjaya Megamall, Kuantan, Pahang
Jalan Tun Ismail, Sri Dagangan, 25000 Kuantan

Date: 12 - 14 September 2008
Time: 11:00 am - 9:00 pm

Stadium Indera Mulia, Ipoh, Perak
Jalan Stadium Perak, 31400 Ipoh
This event has been postponed to 12 - 14 September

For more information logon to www.pcfair.com.my
PIKOM PCFAIR 2008 (II) Banner Advertising Opportunities
PIKOM PCFAIR 2008 (II) Exhibition Rates
PIKOM PCFAIR 2008 (II) Lauch Alerts
PIKOM PCFAIR 2008 (II) Exhibitor Information
PIKOM PCFAIR 2008 (II) Local Member Status

I am now using HP Pavilion dv6601tx Limited Edition Entertainment Notebook PC. My father bought it at RM4999, that is a promotion price. This notebook comes with 2.20 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor T7500 featuring Intel Centrino Duo processor technology, 2GB RAM, 250GB Harddisk, NVidia GeForce8400M GS, 15.4″ WXGA High Definition BrightView Widescreen with the screen resolution 1280X800 and etc. For more specification go to HP Pavilion dv6601tx Notebook PC site. Besides that, this notebook pc also come with Geniune Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium edition.

Sometimes i feel that Windows Vista is very nice, i mean the themes and the winkey+tab (Flip 3D), but sometimes i feel laggy when i play games and some application such as Electronic Management & Accounting System and some others softwares not fully supported to Windows Vista. So i prefer to downgrade my PC to Windows XP. So i bought one Geniune Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition.

After completed installation of Microsoft Windows XP in HP Pavilion dv6601tx notebook PC, this is the time i feel have some headache. I try my best to find the chipset and hardware brand so that i can use other notebook XP driver that same chipset with my HP. I have try to contact HP Customer Support while the person in charge that chat with me give me an address that tell me I should not attempt to downgrade my WIndows from Vista to XP that will cause several operational problems. Read It Here.

So i make my decision to find the driver myself since HP online technician do not want to help me on this. My board chipset is Intel PM965 chipset, my modem is motorola SM56, My graphic card is NVidia 8600M GS, my Wireless is Intel Wireless WiFi 4965AGN, Realtek High Definition Audio, Flash Media is RICOH R5C832/843, Finger Print is AuthenTec Inc. AES2501A and HP Quick Launch button.

I will put all the driver here and you can download it for your HP Pavilion dv6601tx notebook PC. The driver are given below:

Chipset : Here
Graphic Card : Here
Audio : Here
LAN : Here
Modem : Here
WIreless : Here
Bluetooth Wireless : Here
Card Reader : Here
FingerPrint Reader: Here
Quick Launch : Here
Quick Touch : Here
Synaptics TouchPad : Here

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Thank you for downlod the XP driver so enjoy your HP Pavilion dv6601tx Limited Edition Entertainment Notebook PC with Windows XP.

As i talk before the free online storage to everybody in the topic (MyBloop - Unlimited Free Online Storage), here i want to recommend another free online storage but not unlimited space, this online storage is only 10GB web space for you with 2GB bandwidth per day and upload up to 100MB size per file. The free onlien storage is Uploadingit.com.

It is a normal web services with currently up to 34,000,000 files inside the server. Besides that, there are 56 supported file format including MP3 files, also you can hot-link the file to the website you want to put on. Uploadingit.com also allow you to customize your profile and and have your own blog photo with unlimited slideshow.

With Uploadingit stat tracker, you can know how much bandwidth and disk space you use inside your account. Also you can know your file’s download history. The bandwidth per day is already enough for a normal person in a website. Uploadingit are using two types of upload from your computer to uploadingit online storage, one is progressbar upload and one is normal upload. Progressbar upload is using AJAX and Flash function while Normal upload is just using html scripts.

The review i give to uploadingit.com is they are a good storage hosting website but sometimes the server will down cause my website pictures cant load out, but i still think that they are trying their best to give us a good services. Thank you to Uploadingit.com.

Website: Uploadingit.com

I’m not sure if this is for real, but there are two videos showing the same results.

If you’ve downloaded that must have program only to realize that Windows has no idea what to do with it. After an hour of Google searching, forum posting, and being called stupid, you finally figure it out.

Here is the list of 10 programs that will take care of those pesky “Windows cannot open this file” messages once and for all.

1. K-Lite Codec Pack

File Types: DivX, XviD, AVI, Mpeg 1-4, AC3, AAC, FLAC, WAV, FLV, OGG, VOB, and tons you’ve never heard of.

Description: Why there are 85,000,000 different audio and video types we have no idea. What we do know is trying to install codecs one at a time generally ends in a reformat.

Thankfully, the good people from K-Lite (Koors Lite?) have bundled all the software and codecs you need into one executable. Cheers!

2. Real Alternative and Quicktime Alternative

File Types: RM, RA, RAM, RPM, RMVB, RPX, SMI, SMIL, RT, RP, MOV, QT, 3GP

Description: Before the days of Youtube, the Real Player and QuickTime were kings of Internet multimedia. Sure you had to deal with popups, reminders, updates, and bloatware, but that 1″ video was so worth it.

Fortunately, the Real and Quicktime Alternatives removed the real in Real Player and restored the quick to QuickTime. Enjoy your 1″ video! Read More

Do you bored with your email address and you think of want a custom email address that looks a bit more professional than username@yahoo.com or username@hotmail.com. Email service provider, Mail.com provides users with a chance to pick from dozens of available domain names. That means you can get a free email account like user@techie.com, user@singapore.com, user@doctor.com, or of course, user@mail.com.

You can choose from many categories such as Top Choices, Academics, Cities, Countries, Faith/Philosophies, Hobbies, Internet, Jobs A-Z, Locations, Jobs(mail.com or mail.org), misc A-Z, Out of This World or USA.

Once you registered a free email account, you will have 3 gigabytes of storages for email, spam and virus protection, Address books, calendar, tools and free customer support. Besides that, Mail.com also offer a premium email account that charge you $3.99/month or $29.99/year which have an unlimited storage, no banner or ads free, Industrial leading spam protection, POP access by using Outlook Express or Windows Mail and Email forwarding.

Register at Here.
Mail Email account info at Here.

[via TechnoSpot]

If you wan to delete a file, you just press the delete button on your keyboard or right click and select delete, but this will not permanently delete the file from your computer, it can still be recover back to your system by using TuneUp Utilities or any other recovery softwares. Here have a new software that can delete the file permanently and no one able to recover it back that is Wipe File.

Wipe File is a free Windows utility that lets you wipe files or directories using one of 14 different methods. Instead of simply moving files to the recycle bin, Wipe File will overwrite the section of your hard drive that contained the file making it difficult, if not impossible for anyone to discover what the original file contained.

When you open this software, all will be in German, but wipe file support up to 9 languages including English. So you just click on Extras then there will be a list of languages there.

If you’re looking for a program that can wipe entire discs or partitions, you might wan to check out Wipe Disc, another utility from the developer of Wipe File.