Tips ‘n’ Tricks | Shawn's Tech Place

Simple Tips to Remember All Your Important Passwords

May 26th, 2010

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I forget My Password !!!! How do I remember all of my passwords?

For that matter, there is an open source software that helps users to remember their passwords. Additionally, it also helps to store website login passwords, e-mail account, FTP account and Softwarre registration code. So, Efficient Password Manager is the software that I want to recommend you.

Password Stores

In brief, the interface looks fine and there are 8 different interface styles options. In term of safety measurement, the irreversible SHA algorithm encrypts the main login password (Highly protected). Therefore, not to worry too much.

Accordingly, Efficient Password Manager is …

1. Free !
(Compatible with Windows 7)

2. Multiple Interface Styles
(Various tones of color like blue, green or metallic)

3. Portable Edition Available
(Just run from your USB flash drive)

Tips to Read and Write NTFS External Hard Disk on your Mac OS

May 19th, 2010

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NTFS-3G

Previously, I’m not able to updates or copy any files from my Mac to my old NTFS external hard disk. My another new external hard disk works well as I had converted to FAT format after I bought it. But, I don’t think that is a good idea for me to reformat my old NTFS external hard disk as it still not solving the problem.

In this case, I found out users around Internet already came up with binary version (in DMG) of ntfs-3g, which enables my Mac book to load NTFS with read and write capability. Ok! You can try it if you want to.

NTFS for MAC
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Mac, Tips 'n' Tricks FAT, hard disk, NTFS, Open source, OS, OS X

How to protect your blog content Being Copied

August 11th, 2009

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P-CopyRightPro

Today I found a newest plugin “P-CopyRightPro” in my dashboard. Generally, it a plug-in that disable the copying of texts and images from your wordpress blog.

Accordingly, This plug-in will

* Disable selection of text

* Disable right click on your WordPress

* WP-CopyRightPro doesn’t have problems with search engines
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Tips 'n' Tricks blogger, Guide, Protection, wordpress, WP Plugins

Upgraded to WordPress 2.8 Stable Version

June 12th, 2009

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Shawn’s Place ad been Upgraded To WordPress 2.8

How to upgrade WordPress in few second? Just 2 simple steps

1. Under the dashboard of wordpress, click upgrade automatically

(Note: for safety reasons, always backup your database first)
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Technology, Tips 'n' Tricks Download, upgrade, wordpress

How to Setup Apple Mail to work with Gmail

March 16th, 2009

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A quick 3 simple steps to setup your Apple Mail to received and sending mail from Gmail account.

First of all, Log on your gmail account.
1. Click Setting
2. Click Forwarding/POP/IMAP, Consequently, Enable POP for all mail
3. Save Changes

How to Put Password to secure your file in Mac OS

March 8th, 2009

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If you don’t want other people to be able to access your files, what can you do? As an option, you can try to set password on it. Here is a pretty simple guide to show you how to secure your documents by using Disk Utility.

First of all, under the application, open Disk Utility

File > New > Disk Image from Folder

Tips to not Let Your Mac Fall asleep again

February 25th, 2009

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Free Caffeine Software Download (For Mac)
A moment ago, I just download a freeware Caffeine, a tiny program (less than 300k) to disable my Mac from automatically going to sleep mode, dimming the screen or starting screen savers. Basically, it pretty simple to use. It appears as a coffee cup icon in the right side of menu bar.

coffee

Once you click it, the function is enabled and you can click it backs again to go back to the normal mode. In order to show the menu, you have to hold down the command key while clicking the icon. Through the menu, you can set your active time to indefinitely, 5 minutes or more.