New URL Shortening by McAf.ee

Sep 23

wingloonWebsites 4 Comments

McAf.ee

Being a diehard fan of McAfee products, I am happy to know that McAfee is now offering its own URL shortening service, McAf.ee. The shorten URL destination will be examined whenever a user clicks on a McAf.ee link or browse to a McAf.ee link.

With the McAf.ee service, you will have a peaceful day everytime you click on the link created by McAf.ee service knowing it is secured by McAfee. Feel free to use the McAf.ee service as it is now Beta and McAfee value every single ideas and bug reporting going to them. Needless to say, I created a McAf.ee shortner URL for my blog, http://mcaf.ee/80c3db.

Lastly, one of their guy, Wes Widner created the McAfee Secure URL Shortner for Google Chrome Extension which allows you to quickly use McAf.ee shortening URL service.

How To Create Boot Disk Image File from USB Drive

Sep 20

wingloonWindows No Comments

Found this great software for writing boot disk image file from USB drive, Roadkil’s Disk Image. Let me start with a simple steps below: -

1. Run the software (I downloaded the standalone version).

2. Click “Store Image” tab and select the correct drive to read the image from.

3. Click “Browse” button and locate the place you want to store the disk image target file.

4. Once done, click the “Start” button to proceed.

Is that simple? Thank you for reading.

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Offline Installer for IE9

Sep 17

wingloonWindows 1 Comment

By now, all of you alrady know that Microsoft launched Internet Explorer 9 (IE9). If you are interested to have a spin with IE9, you can download the IE9 beta installer from BeautyOfTheWeb but this is not a complete installer. So, don’t waste your time.

However, I do recommend you to download one of the offline installer for your Windows 7 and Vista below: -

Source: MSDN IE Blog

Google Chrome Linux Mac Windows 6.0.472.53 Graduated from Beta to Stable

Sep 03

wingloonTechnology 1 Comment

Happy 2nd birthday to Google Chrome. Google Chrome 6.0.472.53 has been released to the stable and beta channels for Linux, Mac and Windows. You can read more details about the new features in the Official Google Chrome blog. Updates from the previous Google Chrome stable release include: -

  • Updated UI
  • Form Autofill
  • Syncing of extensions and Autofill data
  • Increased speed and stability

If you download and already using Chrome for Linux, Mac and Windows from www.google.com/chrome , you are able to get auto-updated to this latest stable release. You can download the 19.5MB of Google Chrome 6.0.472.53 offline installer for Windows. Get speedy with Google Chrome today!

Source: Google Chrome Releases

DynDNS Limit Each Account to 2 Dynamic DNS Hostnames

Aug 26

wingloonNews 7 Comments

What a surprise!!! After I logged into DynDNS today, I get a red color box tell me a “Changes to Dynamic DNS Service”. Further reading, they are limiting each FREE account to 2 Dynamic DNS hostnames and limiting the number of domains we offer for the free services. They are so generous coming out a recommendation asking me to upgrade to DynDNS Pro to protect the current hostnames from possible deletion.

Here you go. The reason behind these changes (from DynDNS): -

  1. Having 88 free domains to choose from was overwhelming for many of our new users. By reducing this to 18 it makes it easier for people to get started.
  2. By limiting the free options to the DynDNS branded domains, it helps grow the awareness of our services. Although we are happy to offer our free services, we simply ask that you help spread the word to other people who might find our paid services helpful. We have to pay those bills somehow.
  3. Looking at the stats of our users over the past 12 years, we see that the vast majority of people only use 1 free hostname. Our support team has seen a lot of confusion caused by the five free hostnames, so when you combine that with the normal use case, it just made sense. we are allowing the 2nd hostname for those of you who need to create a WebHop to access your hostname. If you are going to need more than 1 or 2 hostnames there’s a good chance you are using us for something important. If that’s the case, we simply ask that you pay $15/yr for the DynDNS Pro upgrade, which provides a number of other benefits.
  4. If you are using our services for business critical needs, you should consider our Custom DNS service.

I guess it is time to hunt for other FREE Dynamic DNS provider. I am looking into No-IP.com and Afraid.org service. Please share with me their service if you are using it. Thank you.

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