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  So many times that I have been needing this software in doing my daily tasks, having my application always on top of the other.  This is very useful especially when you are doing a data entry job, wherein a notepad is always needed on top of an excel file or in an openoffice calc file.  This software very easy to use, all you need to do is open up the software you want to be on top always and [...]

Its been a while that I used Scite as my default source code editor.  It has been my default IDE for 2 years and now I am trying to use Notepad++, eclipse and RapidPHP but I am so uncomfortable using them.  Now, I am running windows 7 ultimate 32 bit on my machine and installed Scite but can’t get it to be on the default programs because windows 7 treats Scite and notepad as one.  To solve my problem I [...]

I have successfully exported Thunderbird email files on ms outlook 2007 on a Windows XP platform which can also be done in windows vista and windows 7 platform.  There are several steps on how to do it. 1.  First, you need to download and install this software:  IMAPSize 2. Locate your Thunderbird emails, usually it is located in this directory C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Thunderbird  or  you can copy paste the directory and change the user to your account name.  When you are in [...]

Filezilla is an FTP Client used for transferring files from one host to the other or is used to exchange and manipulate files over a TCP/IP based network.  It is a free software downloadable on their official website filezilla-project.org.  Filezilla is one secure FTP client and so far the best FTP Client I have used.  I already have tried several software before like SmartFTP.  SmartFTP is easy to use but it is not a free software, you need to buy [...]

Thunderbird, a free mail client software has a new version which is version 3.O that comes with a lot of new features and one of this is the clean interface. Since most of the viewers of this blog is requesting the newer version of an add-on that minimizes Thunderbird on the tray instead of closing it. The add-on which I provided on older version is not working on Thunderbird v3.O but I have an alternative solution which is also an [...]

Partitioning your Hard Disk Drive (HDD) is also one of the most important thing to think of when we are having plans in reformatting a Hard Disk Drive.  Partitioning it to half ways is one of the best practices that technicians do, but for me I prefer splitting it in a way that I my system files is smaller compared to the second drive where I usually put all my files and no matter what happens to my operating system [...]

If you are a web developer and having problems on Installing PHP Curl on Apache with PHP installed on Windows Operating System, below is my version of tonyspecer’s “cURL with PHP and Apache on Windows“.  The steps are simple and direct to the point. I have windows apache version 2.2.14 and PHP Version 5.2.10 installed on my Laptop using the installers provided on the respective sites. 1.  Install APACHE and PHP (I installed my APACHE on C:\apache and PHP on [...]