How To Use Whoami To See Account Information
Windows Vista has a cool new commandline tool called Whoami that shows plenty of information about the currently logged on user, including the account name, a list of group memberships, and much more as well. At any command line, type whoami, and you’ll be shown the name of the loggedon user. Type whoami/all to see [...]
The Cisco Learning Network
Three days ago learned about and visited The Cisco Learning Center website and registered an account because I know that by joining the community I would have a better chance at a Cisco certification. In this community one has a lot of chance to glean the needed knowledge in order to get the coveted Cisco [...]
How to Mount your Zune as a Hard Drive
You know that by default you can’t use your Zune as a hard drive because Microsoft meant it only to be used via its built-in sync. But the rule breaker in you knows that there is a hack around it, you just don’t know how because if you do you won’t be wasting you time [...]
Here Come the Dungeon Runners
I could not help but associate dungeons and dragons with neo-classical rock. I think of Yngwie Malmsteen and how his music moves like the way the characters in MMORPG’s . But with Dungeon Runners we are in for a new treat. What with hip hop gnomes complete with the gangsta attitude? Dungeon Runners is a [...]
Resize Your Desktop Icons in Windows Vista the Quick Way
Don’t you know that you can resize Vista’s desktop icons by right-clicking the desktop and selecting Personalize > Adjust font size, then choosing either the default size (96 dpi) or a larger size (such as 120 dpi). If you then click Custom DPI, you can choose from a much larger range by selecting a percentage [...]
Believe in Magic
The key to success is the ability to reinvent. Criss Angel and Cirque Du Soleil are among the few who know how to reinvent their craft. Like Harry Houdini, Criss Angel reinvented magic and has changed our way of seeing this art form. But unlike Houdini, Criss Angel has taken his art to a higher [...]
A Faster Way to Shrink Video Files
To be able to watch your favorite videos in media players like iPod, Sony PSP, Zune, mobile phones and many others, you need to shrink them into a size that’s small enough for the above mentioned media players to handle. There are a many ways you can do this, but the fastest and I think [...]
Learning To Connect The World
In a world that relies on computers for almost everything, the obvious path to take is the one that leads to an IT career. Everyone knows this, that is why advancing in this field takes a lot from one’s competitiveness. For a kid who grew up in the years between the late 70′s and early [...]
How to Run Incompatible programs in Windows Vista
One thing that makes Vista unlikable is that many programs, especially older ones, won’t run on it. When I first tried to run Anim8or on Vista the little program refused to run. But I was able to run it after doing this : I right-clicked the program’s executable file and selected Properties. I clicked the [...]
Import Real-Time Data from the Web with Excel 2007
Excel 2007′s ability to import, automatically update, and refresh (live) any data from the Web is one of its coolest features. This is made possible by Web Queries. Web Queries are links that auto-update as the data they grab from the web changes. Excel 2007 takes advantage of this but this works only if the [...]
