Thursday, February 25, 2010

Can't Use Your Own Domain With Weebly

Does this sound like you?
HELP! I'm having trouble publishing my new eebly site under my owned domain. When I go to my domain I see a weebly 404 web page saying that everything is configured properly and to go republish. I go to republish in the settings tab and it says "domain currently in use by another website." I have written to weebly support numerous times without response. What will solve my issue?

That was taken from getsatisfaction.com where a user of Weebly could not use their own domain name with the free website. Someone replied to their response, and told them to visit Weebly through this special link. I tried it, and it resolved my same problem when I tried to use my free co.cc domain with them.

UVNC's (UltraVNC 's) SingleClick is Now Windows Vista Compatible (Revised)

If you find the following information useful please feel obligated to donate money. The link for donating is in the right hand column. I don't get paid for anything I do on this website, and the routine addition of content is diminishing.

UltraVNC's SingleClick is a great product. Sadly out of the box it does not work with Windows Vista, or Windows 7. To make it work on the newer operating systems I spent some time looking around for a solution. I found this thread and on that thread I found a link to this website. At that website they host a version of UltraVNC's SingleClick that works with Vista. The problem is that it is hosted as a .rar, and I would prefer a zip. I tried downloaded the rar file and found its contents scrambled. Below I have a zip file that is unscrambled. I have not tested this software on Windows 7, so if anyone does please share in the form of a comment.
Note: Box.net flagged the installer, so I had to put a password on the zip. The password to open the file is 'password' without the single quotes.


The Password is password

Monday, February 15, 2010

Activating a Preloaded Trial of Microsoft Word

For PC some users, Microsoft Office is already installed on their computer in the form of a 60 Free Trail. When this free trail runs out it is possible to reactivate the software without having to insert a disk. For some, their computer doesn't have a CD/DVD Drive on their computer, and they must have another solution.

If you would like to activate a pre-installed version of Microsoft Office with a product key you have acquired, you are in the right place.

If you do not have Microsoft Office already installed on your computer, but have a product key; you can download an install Microsoft Office for free. Of course, you will still have to have an activation key, but the download is free.

If you're running Windows Vista, or Windows 7 the solution is relatively the same.

1. First, find your product key. This is the 25 digit number/letter combination that it located on the box, or was given to you by some other means.

2. Click on the start button or the Windows Orb as some call it. It is the little round icon in the bottom left hand corner for most people.

3. In the search bar type Microsoft Office. Before you finish type you will probably see it pop up. Start one of the office products, and it will ask you to activate your product.

4. Type in your product key.

5. Your product should now be activated and ready to use!

Good luck, and enjoy Microsoft Office.

Friday, February 12, 2010

Acer 5810TZ System Restore

Before I begin I must first warn you about what occurs when you perform a system recovery from a recovery partition. When you boot into a recovery partition and run the process ALL DATA WILL BE DESTROYED. The only data that will be left is what was on the computer when it was shipped from the factory. This process deleted everything and starts over. If you do not understand this process I do not recommend you to continue as it will result is lost data when done incorrectly.

Before starting a system recovery you should back up all important information. There are multiple ways to back up your important files, and I will not highlight them here at this time. When confronted with a broken Acer 5810TZ, you may find it necessary to remove everything and start from scratch. To start a system recovery from an Acer 5810TZ you should press
CTRL + F10
repeatedly at the BIOS screen (this is the name for that initial screen you see before you see the graphical windows loading bar). If you make it to the graphic windows loading bar, you have gone too far, and should start over. Do not confuse the screen that says "Windows is loading files" (black and white), with the graphical screen.

If you see a screen that is black and white and says it is loading the file, you're in the right place.

After it loads you will see a graphical recovery counsel. Follow the instruction to which type of restore you would like to perform. Make your decision wisely. Once you have selected your recovery option, you will have to wait for it to do its business, but be patient, because if you aren't you computer may not see life ever again. After you have completed your recovery process you will be confronted with a computer that has its factory defaults in store. This is a good thing; however I do recommend you follow my guide to optimizing a PC. It is geared toward Windows XP, but some of the information does translate to newer versions of windows.

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Restore an Eee PC Without Using An External DVD Drive

myeeeguides.wordpress.com has a great how-to on how-to run the Eee PC's System Recovery disk from a flash drive. Note that you cannot use Windows Vista or Windows 7 to make the USB drive, this how-to only works with windows XP. The process is very simple, and once you've created the USB drive to act as your restore disk it is mostly automated.

Without the how-to you need to purchase a external DVD drive, or you can't restore your computer. Before considering the idea of restoring your computer from scratch try restoring your computer to a privous restore date using system restore.