PC Memoirs

All businesses need to save time and thankfully Google Chrome is available to help! A range of Chrome extensions are also at hand to make life smoother, and not only streamline your browsing experience but streamline your tendency to become distracted.

Image Search

“Image Search” is a perfect tool for taking the trawl out of trawling the net for that perfect picture for your presentation or article. While there are other tools, this particular extension will work its way through “Flickr” and “Photobucket” along with all the other usual suspects. The tool allows you to customise details such as size and type, which means the images that the search returns should be a perfect fit in more ways than one.

Copy without Formatting

Copying web sourced information to a single research document is easy enough, although if you’re in the habit of compiling large research documents it can result in garish and difficult to read documents complete with a host of unnecessary formatting. “Copy without Formatting” does just that; it’s not a big or clever extension but it simply saves a bit of time. Time is money and we all like saving both.

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MS Exchange Server uses a logging mechanism to record all changes to the Exchange database. These changes are stored in Exchange database transaction logs. If your database becomes corrupt, the transaction logs are used to restore the database to a consistent state. These files ensure a high level of recoverability. When some of these log files go missing or get accidentally deleted, the Exchange database may fail to mount.

For instance, you may see the following event in your Application log after your database failed to mount on the server:

Event ID: 455 Description: eseutil (4724) Error -1811 (0xfffff8ed) occurred while opening logfile drive_letter:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\MDBDATA\E00.log.

The above problem may surface if you have installed antivirus software in your system that has quarantined or deleted the current Exchange log file.

In order to work around the issue, you need to check the configuration of the antivirus software. Ensure that the software does not scan the Exchange Server directories. Also, check the log files of the software. This will help you identify if the log file was quarantined or deleted.

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Dome9 (the nanny) is the provider of firewall hosting services meant for protecting cloud servers, and it just created a very useful iPhone Security App that you may want to check out.

What is Dome9 and what does it offer?

Dome9 is an Israeli security company that enables the users to lockdown SSH access or admin panels unless the users particularly open them using the company’s web console. Additionally, the company released an iPhone application recently that provides a far easier access to this console. Normally, users leave their means of remote administration of a server most of the time or else they won’t be able to access it when they need to do so. The conundrum that administrators land into because of this is that it leaves the users’ servers open to hacking attacks of mere password guessing of hit and trial while other vulnerabilities in control panels or access protocols can also be taken advantage of. Admins have taken various measures in order to overcome this problem but Dome9 offers a different approach altogether.

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The Vodio App is an awesome application for the iPad that organizes your video stream. It not only allows you to easily watch videos from different sources but also has an impressive display, thanks to the iPad. The Vodio iPhone app however, requires iOS 4.3 or later and is compatible with the iPad. The controls are simple and easy to learn, and it has some impressive features that no other app has. In short, it is a great app for someone who loves watching videos.

The Vodio App For iPad allows users to rate the video he or she watches and takes those ratings and in turn develops a suggestion pattern for you. That is to say, it will then display or feature videos that the user is most likely to enjoy based on their previous preferences and ratings. While this ratings format has been successful with music apps like Pandora, this is the first app that has applied to videos.

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127.0.0.1 is a set of numbers that you may have heard a technician on the phone tell you to type on your computer screen. This odd number series is called a loopback address, which is also called the local host. These things may sound like very technical things but really they’re not. Add to that the interesting fact that computer terminology is quite descriptive.

Figuring Out the Definitions

Loopback simply means something that returns or goes back to its source. On the other hand an address is something tells us the location of someone or something. So, using a small amount of Sherlock Holmes deductive reasoning, a loopback address is an object that tells us the location of something that basically points to it. This address is also called the local host, which simply refers to the computer where the signals are coming from.

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