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USB Webserver 8.0 (unofficial)

UPDATE (15 July 2010): An “official” version of USB Webserver 8 has been released, please use this instead of my “unofficial” version. You can download it from http://www.usbwebserver.net/

This is an unofficial updated version of USB Webserver. The original USB Webserver was created by http://www.usbwebserver.nl – but their site is currently down, and they haven’t released an update for a while.

This version contains:

Apache: 2.2.11
PHP: 5.2.10-dev (with GD and cURL)
MySQL: 5.1.30-community (with InnoDB)

It defaults to “English” (the original was “Dutch”), and you may need to change the ports if you have been using USB Webserver previously.

Download: “USB Webserver 8.0 (unofficial).zip” (17.6mb)

(and yes, I know the main USB Webserver screen still says “USB Webserver 7.0″ – ignore that :P)

Free ad on MillionDollarFollow.com (Twitter)

Million Dollar Follow is giving away a free $1 advert slot on their website (think “Million Dollar Home Page”) for all TwitterMass users – you should see a message waiting for you when you view the dashboard. If you haven’t started using TwitterMass yet, it’s not to late… you have until midnight tomorrow – there isn’t even a sign-up process, just go to the website and let it access your Twitter account, and click on the link the message!

Your twitter icon will be put on the Million Dollar Follow page for the world to see – there are only 1 million slots available, so get yours before it’s too late – and while it’s free ;)

Mass Deleteing WordPress Spam

I logged into one of my blogs, that I haven’t checked on in a while, to find that I have nearly 750 pending comments. Although there might be one or two legitimate posts in there I don’t care to find them – I want to delete all of these pending comments… would you believe there isn’t an easy way to do so? Sure, there’s the “Bulk Delete” option which deletes all 20 displayed on a page… but I don’t really want to sit through 37 pages to delete them all. It seems the only other way of doing this is manually delete all the rows from the database – surely there’s a better solution? If not, I guess I’ll have to write one… *sigh*

memcache on PHP 5.2.*

I decided I wanted to start using memcached because it’s really awesome, but really struggled to get it working in Windows on PHP 5.2.3 because I couldn’t find the stupid “php_memcache.dll” file I needed (at the time of writing this, Pecl4Win is down… which happens to be where the official PHP documentation tells you to get it from – great).

Luckily I came across this blog post, which not only tells you how to to install the extension (adding 1 line to your “php.ini” file) but also linked to a PHP 5.2.* version of the it. I decided to mirror it, for anyone else trying to find it:

php_memcache.dll (49kb)

FileZilla 3.2.3.1 Annoyances Fix

I’ve been using FileZilla 2 for ages, but changed to FileZilla 3 yesterday (previously version 3 didn’t allow you to edit a file by double clicking on it ?!?!?! which it finally does). I hadn’t been using it for very long when I found some two things that REALLY annoyed me (specifically version 3.2.3.1):

A Fractal Universe?

I found this article this morning, about some scientists who suggest that the universe is laid out in a fractal pattern… which is pretty hectic. Of course this challenges the current “big bang” theory, so “Many cosmologists find fault with their analysis, largely because a fractal matter distribution out to such huge scales undermines the standard model of cosmology“, even though “Nearly all physicists agree that on relatively small scales the distribution is fractal-like” – what amuses me is how religious people are mocked for, and accused of, holding onto their beliefs and disregarding “scientific evidence”, yet it seems the same thing’s happening here? Who cares if it goes against the standard model of cosmology… investigate, and update – isn’t that what science is meant to be about?

The problem, however, is that “According to the accepted story of cosmic evolution, there simply hasn’t been enough time since the big bang nearly 14 billion years ago for gravity to build up such large structures” – unlucky.

Useful Windows tools (that I can’t live without)

I use a couple of programs that I probably couldn’t live without… most of them are portable (or can just be run without needing to be installed), and all of them are free. Combined they weigh in at under 20mb – a very small price to pay for the functionality.

I’ve listed them in alphabetical order, and will provide a brief description of what they do and why I use them, but it’s up to you to read more about them and try them out:

allSnap – enabled “window snapping”, like WinAmp and Steam do… just helps with positioning windows on the screen

DisplayFusion – allows you to set different wallpapers on different monitors and provides hotkeys for moving windows between monitors, when you have more than 1 monitor (yes, I know, you could just use UltraMon, but it’s not free – though it does offer more features)

Hamachi – allows you to “network” computers over the internet, works through all kinds of network setups and firewalls

KatMouse – by default Windows scrolls the “active” part of the “active” window when you use your mouse scroll whell, this program scrolls whatever’s under your mouse

Launchy – basically a “Run” menu on steroids, you tell it the directories and file types to monitor and it makes launching files or apps incredibly quick and easy

PowerMenu – provides extra menu items when right-clicking on items in the taskbar, allowing you to adjust a program’s transparency, minimize it to the system tray, make it “always on top” and adjust it’s priority

ProcessTamer – monitors running programs and lowers the priority of any using too much CPU usage so your PC doesn’t slow down or freeze (only started using this today, but it looks like a keeper)

StrokeIt – gives Windows “mouse gestures” (you hold down your right mouse button and drawing shapes/letters) to execute commands, maximize/minimize windows etc (DEFINITELY can’t live without this one)

Taskbarshuffle – allows you to reposition items on your taskbar or in your system tray by dragging them, and close them by clicking your middle mouse button (like FireFox tabs)

UltraVNC – allows you remotely access/control your computers (I use this with Hamachi to access my home pc from work and visa versa)

Unlocker – when ever you get a “file in use” error (eg: when trying to move or delete a file) this program will tell you what’s using the file and allow you to close that program or unlock the file

I hope you find these tools useful :)

CleanMem

I just read about a program called “CleanMem” on gHacks.net, it’s a little program (36kb) that reduces the amount of memory that running programs use. There are lots of programs out there that claim to do the same thing that work by filling your memory, forcing stuff to be moved out and into a file on your hard drive. This program’s different, because (from what I can tell) it tells Windows to reduce the amount of total memory a program’s using… so it literally changes the amount of memory a program uses, not where a program’s memory is currently stored.

I’ve tried it, and it seems to work great, so I’d definitely recomment it :) did I mention that it’s freeware? Download it here: http://www.pcwintech.com/node/145

HOW TO: Switch back to the “old” Facebook

1. Go to: http://www.new.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2345053339

2. Click “Go to Application”

3. Click “Allow”

3. Go to: http://apps.new.facebook.com/?fbnew_opt_out=1

Google Chrome

So Google have released their own browser, called “Chrome” – am I the only one who thinks it’s logo looks like a Pokeball (from Pokemon)?

You can download it from here: http://www.google.com/chrome