Day to Day Technical Help

On your Windows XP computer, Administrative tool section on the control panel might be a place you haven't checked for a long time. It contains some nice tools that you can track everything about your computer. It requires little bit of IT knowledge to handle those tools but you can always use a search engine for dig more about them.

Recently I was looking at the event viewer (Which can be found on Control panel -> Administrative Tools) and I noticed that my system log contains a warning with Event ID 52

The driver has detected that device \Device\Harddisk2\DR2 has predicted that it will fail. Immediately back up your data and replace your hard disk drive. A failure may be imminent.

It was a old IDE hard drive on my computer, but I have valuable information stored in there. On first I was having doubts about this error message and I was keep look for the same Event ID on the system log. I noticed that It appears every day for a long time in there.

To make sure that I have a disk error I have looked for a free Hard Drive Scanning tool. I Found a nice tool called "HDD Health v3.3" which can be downloaded from here. This tool will detect existing problems on your hard drive and show you warnings. This tool shows Hard Disk health and Hard disk temperature which allows you to quickly identify your faulty hard drives. In my case hard drive temperature was too high and hard disk health was drop down to 40%. I have immediately turn off my computer and disconnected the power for that hard drive. I'm planing not to use the old hard drive until I buy a new one. It was my pure luck not to have this problem on the hard drive that my OS runs. So I can easily disconnect the hard drive and keep using on my computer until I can get a new hard drive.

If you have accidentally upgrade your iPhone 3G or 3GS in to new Firmware 3.1.2 with baseband 05.11.07 and if you want to Jailbreak & Unlock it Blackra1n now has the ability to do that. If you are reading my blog I have posted a article about Jailbreak with Blackra1n earlier. On that time Blackra1n was not supported for New Baseband. Blackra1n will work on Both PC and MAC and the steps to Jailbreak & Unlock the iPhone is very simple.

1) Download Blackra1n from blackweather website. Click the appropriate logo for PC and MAC users.
2) Connect your iPhone to your PC. (Make sure that you have close the iTunes)
3) Run the Blackra1n.exe file.
4) Click on make it rain button.

That's it. There are few more steps that you need to do in order to unlock your iPhone. Once your phone is rebooted look for a icon call Blackra1n. Click on the Blackra1n icon and start the program. Look for a package called sn0w. Click on that one and install it. Once you done that your iphone will be unlocked and you will be able to use any sim card in there.

If you have lost your WiFi after the Unlock follow this. Go in to settings Click general then network now go in to cellular data network scroll down and click reset settings now your WiFi Should come back.

Sharing stuff on Facebook is nothing new to you. According to Facebook developers blog, Each week users share more than 2 billion pieces of content on Facebook. In order to do this most of the time users click share on Facebook button which found on many of the current websites. One of my old blog post explained why these sharing buttons are important to placed on your blog. Now speaking about share on Facebook buttons Facebook has just released a new Facebook Share Button which includes a live counter that tells you how many times an item has been shared.

Code generating page is very simple and it will allow you to customize your Facebook Share Button. You have a nice automatic preview which will change according to the customization you're doing to the button. Final part is copy the code and place it on your blog or website. Placing it on your blog is really simple if you know how to play with the HTML codes.



So, if you are interested in putting a share on Facebook button on to your website or blog please click on this link to access the code generating page which shown above.

Windows 7 Release is an old news now since it happens on 22nd of October 2009. But the excitement to have a newer Microsoft Operating system is always very huge. With the bad feed back which they got for their previous Operating system "Windows Vista" Microsoft promise this will be the replacement for all those problems. But Apple (Other main competitor in Operating system industry) is not sure about this promise and decided to use this for their new commercial. But Windows 7 become the biggest pre-order item in the history of Amazon UK. After 8 long years since Microsoft has released Windows XP now Microsoft users have a solid operating system that can replace their Windows XP computers.


If you’re interested about prices, the price is $319 for Windows 7 Ultimate, and $299 for the Professional version ($219 and $199 for the upgrade, respectively). Windows 7 Home Premium will be $199, and an upgrade from either Vista or XP will cost you $119.

Speaking about the Windows 7 launch event it was very simple and short one. It almost went up to one hour. If you were not able to watch it until now here is it. You may need to install Microsoft Silverlight to watch this video. You can also go to Microsoft PressPass Website for more photos and videos.

There are many possibilities which cause this problem. First of all you need to check that you have latest Java and flash player installed on your computer.

Download latest Java from here

Download latest flash player from here

Most of the time this will fix your problem. If this doesn't fix it there are few more things that you can try.

Check whether you have a firewall installed on your computer which preventing ads to be displayed on your blog or website.

Check some other blogs or web sites which have Google ads on them. If those websites showing ads correctly check your Google Adsense account. May be it has been disabled. If none of blogs or websites showing Google ads we have to follow more steps.

You can try installing an other web browser on your computer. If you are using Internet explorer try to install Firefox or Chrome and check whether its showing ads on your blog or website. If the other browser shows ads without any problem your web browser has a problem. If you are using Internet explorer you can reset Internet explorer to default settings. If none of web browsers shows Google ads there is another option we can try.

There is a possibility that your computers hosts file become infected or changed by a virus. The hosts file is located on this location on Windows XP.

C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc

You can replace the hosts file from an other computer. Copy and replace the existing hosts file and try again to view your blog or website.

If you don't have another computer to replace hosts file download it from here.

On last Thursday (October 8th 2009) Apple releases their newest iPhone OS. So, it will bringing the current version of the OS to 3.1.2. Three bugs has been fixed with this update. If you like to know what are the updates that has been done on new iPhone OS please click here. Yesterday On the iPhone blog posted a news about releasing a jailbreak called blackra1n for this new Apple OS 3.1.2. This will only work in Windows operating systems and if you already have a unlocked iPhone 3G or 3GS don't use this on them. Do not upgrade to 3.1.2 using iTunes if you want to keep your iPhone unlocked.

You can download the necessary software to do this Jailbreak from here.

Follow these videos carefully and jailbreak your iPhone 3.1.2 Firmware. For unlocked iPhone users have to wait little bit until dev team release their new jailbreak tool.