WordPress uses PHP Sendmail for sending out messages by default. So if you’re having troubles with that, check out your hosting plan. 000webhost.com free hosting plan has sendmail enabled. To allow WordPress to send out e-mails, go to your webhost cpanel and create a mailbox called wordpress at the domain of your wordpress installation. I.e., […]
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Can’t find equalizer in Foobar2000? That could be frustrating. First, you have to enable it in Menu->File->Preferences->Playback->DSP Manager by adding Equalizer to Active DSPs list.
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If you ever wanted to get a cheap small bluetooth USB dongle like this you’d better not. They are CSR-based and come with trial blueSoleil software. But even that doesn’t help. Phones do not connect. Headsets keep disconnecting and the sound quality is very poor. And even keyboards, mice and other HIDs, paired after much
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You have a DTS/DD receiver hooked to your computer via spdif, but VLC doesn’t have the option A/52 over S/PDIF? Check your Playback devices in Windows 7 Volume control. Make sure Digital Audio (S/PDIF) is set as Default Device and open its properties. In the Supported Formats tab, select all the Encoded formats and all
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Assigning keyboard hotkeys to desktop shortcuts makes life easy and allows to spend less time on routine computer operations. However, sometimes these hotkeys stop working in Windows 7.
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Windows creates thumbs.db files in each folder containing pictures. Caching thumbnails is completely pointless: it just pollutes your drives. Unzip and run this to disable thumbnail cache.
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There is a bug in Windows 7 with icon cache. If you have some icons on your desktop that point to a drive not mounted on boot, the icons are gone.Only default ugly icons are displayed.
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Some Windows 7 installations don’t have Bluetooth places icon. To get it back, simply put this shortcut to your desktop.
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Some Windows 7 installations don’t have the Network properties in Control panel for some reason. To open them, simply run ncpa.cpl from command prompt. That opens the network properties snap-in. Alternatively, you may place a shrotcut on your desktop for that file.
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Some of Windows security features are really useless and annoying. One of them is the file open warning for downloaded files. To disable it, unzip and run this with administrator privileges. Reboot and you’re done.
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