So if you have a flash storage drive lying around that you don’t use give it a try and make your PC faster. Not all USB flash drives are supported but it should work most of the times. If you want to take real benefit of the ReadyBoost functionality there are two simple rules:

• Find the fastest storage available with read speeds at least ~10 MB/s
• Use double the amount of RAM storage in size, so if you have 2GB of RAM, then you would want to use a flash drive of at least 4GB

But even if you don’t meet above specifications you can take huge benefit of ReadyBoost, the two rules mentioned are fist rules to get the most out of the  ReadyBoost functionality. Plugging in your old Flash Drive always helps quite a bit.

How to enable ReadyBoost:

1. Plug a flash drive or flash memory card into your computer.
2. In the Autoplay dialog box, under General options, click Speed up my system. (Right-click and then properties if autopolay is not enabled)
3. In the Properties dialog box, click the ReadyBoost tab, and then do one of the following:
   • To turn ReadyBoost off, click Do not use this device.
   • To use the maximum available space on the flash drive or memory card for ReadyBoost, click Dedicate this device to ReadyBoost. Windows will leave any files already stored on the device, but it’ll use the rest to boost your system speed.
   • To use less than the maximum available space on the device for ReadyBoost, click Use this device, and then move the slider to choose the amount of available space on the device you want to use.
4. Click OK.

Some devices  can not be used for ReadyBoost but don’t give up right away. Try formatting your USB flash storage device in different formats (NTFS, FAT32, FAT) and test it a couple of times.

More information:

• http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/features/readyboost
• http://www.grantgibson.co.uk/misc/readyboost/ (Compability list, a bit old and I got two devices working which are mentioned not to be supported).

The list below shows a list of free cloud storage services, limits are not always clear but I think every service will shut you down eventually if you start to generate serious amounts of traffic.

Demo (using Ubuntu One):

To use these numbers just choose a credit card vendor below and enter an expiry date within three years from now. For the security/CVV2 / CVC / etc number just enter three random numbers.

Note: none of the numbers below can be used to buy anything.

A quick search for a free US based VPN service lead me to Streaming VPN. The service isn’t actually free but you can test it for two days with a time limit of five minutes per session. That’s all we need to enable Google Music on your Google account. Once you enabled Google Music for your account you don´t need to use the VPN anymore.

Instructions:

• Visit http://streamingvpn.com/ and make an account using the “Free 2-day Trial” button
• Choose one of the available USA VPN servers (for example: 64.191.104.233)
• Setup the VPN connection with your StreamingVPN account and connect with a USA based server (Windows | Mac)
• Visit music.google.com
• Download and install the Music manager and voilá you’re good to go

From now on you can use Google Music even if your not from the United States. For iOS users, there is no app available but the web app works brilliant. Just visit http://music.google.com on your iPhone or iPad. Enjoy :)

On Vimeo I found one good tribute video, it shows only his two years in MotoGP and not his brilliant riding in the lower classes but it gives a very nice idea about what a great rider Marco Simoncelli was:

Click here to view the embedded video.

BACKUP

And the crash video for those who want to see …

Click here to view the embedded video.

BACKUP – Youtube (no audio)

It’s been a great ride and I want to thank the members and visitors of the website. Your input helped me a lot in maintaining the website. Hopefully you’ll find a new safe haven for your WD TV (Live) tweaks. Be sure to check out http://wdtvforum.com. As of now it is the best source for your WD TV tweaks and homebrew apps.

Thanks for everything, kind regards.

Using LESS can be done in multiple ways, there’s a client side Javascript but that’s only good for testing purposes in my opinion. You don’t want your users wait the extra milliseconds and be dependent on Javascript for the compilation of the CSS for your website. I’d say don’t use less.js on you’re production evironment. For Mac OSX there’s the less app and for Windows there are different command line tools out there.

I’ve been using Dreamweaver myself, it is my preferred code editor. And since the first of september there’s a LESS CSS plugin available and with a little workaround LESS syntax highlighting is also available. The Dreamweaver extension allows you to compile your less css files into pure CSS instantly. It also includes basic syntax error checking.The Dreamweaver extension is made by Drummer_si and is available for Dreamweaver CS5 and above.

Usage:

Download the plugin from the Adobe exchange

To compile the currently open .less file, select “Compile .less file” from the Commands menu. To compile multiple files or folders, simply right click on the requested items in the “Files” panel and select “Compile .less file”.

LESS CSS syntax highlighting

• Open C:\Program Files\Adobe\Dreamweaver CS?\Configuration\DocumentTypes\MMDocumentTypes.xml (Windows) or  /Applications/Adobe Dreamweaver CS5/Configuration/DocumentTypes/MMDocumentTypes.xml (Mac OSX) in a plain text editor.
• Do a find for “CSS” and modify winfileextension=”css” to include the less file extension.
• it should look like winfileextension=”css,less” or macfileextension=”css,less” when your done.

Note: Dreamweaver CS5.5 users also need to do this for C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Dreamweaver CS5.5\en_US\Configuration\DocumentTypes\MMDocumentTypes.xml

The easiest solution I found was using KeePass with Dropbox synchronization. KeePass is very secure password management software. It’s open source and because of that available on a lot of platforms (PC, MAC, Linux, Android, iOS, Blackberry, Windows Phone 7). I recommend using KeePass classic (v 1.20) because it uses the .kdb extension which has support on all platforms. If you have support for .kdbx (KeePass 2.x) on all the devices you want to use  then go for the professional edition, their both free to use on most platforms.

Although KeePass for Windows supports ftp syncing, the other two platforms I’m using Android and iOS don’t have ftp support. So I had to look for an alternative way of syncing the KeePass database. Dropbox is the obvious solution. I did try SpiderOak but although supposedly more save than Dropbox it didn’t work out for me. It just wasn’t as easy to use as dropbox is and full syncing is not possible for Android and iOS, only public shares. Besides that, the security of the password management setup described is done by KeePass (not Dropbox) using numerous ways to prevent your password database from being cracked.

Instructions:

1. Install KeePass – http://keepass.info/download.html
2. Install dropbox – https://www.dropbox.com/
3. Import your passwords from your browser into KeePass
4. Change passwords using the KeePass password generator (the stronger the better!)
5. Install both dropbox and KeePass on other devices you are going to use

Here’s what to do:

1. Create a Google AdWords account if you don’t already have one.
2. Redeem your voucher or deposit a small amount.
3. Create a dropbox account if you don’t already have one.
4. Go to: https://www.dropbox.com/referrals and copy the top link in the right box
5. Create a new campaign using the link from dropbox, make sure you create 4 or 5 ads it works better and faster.
6. Set max budget per day to 5 or 10 euro/dollar
7. Set max CPC to 0,01
8. Sit back, relax….

For more detailed instructions watch the youtube video:

Click here to view the embedded video.

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