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This post was taken from Yaugenka Bellow summerises how to completely disable ClearType and font smoothing in Windows 7. 1. Disable ClearType by opening “Control Panel->Fonts->Adjust ClearType text” and unchecking “Turn on ClearType”. Alternatively you can change the value of the following registry key from 2 to 1: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop] "FontSmoothingType"=dword:00000001 2. Disable font smoothing by unchecking "Smooth edges of screen fonts" in “Control Panel->System->Advanced system settings -> Performance Settings->Visual Effects. Alternatively you can change the value of the following registry key from 2 to 1: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop] "FontSmoothing"="1" 3. Change window elements fonts. To do this, open “Control Panel->Personalize->Window Color->Advanced appearance settings” and change all fonts from Segoe UI 9 to any other font (Windows XP uses Tahom...

The following link explains the best rendering settings for many video editing applications. Of course it doesn’t have the settings for my editor, "Sony Vegas" but everything is much the same except the "Prepare for internet Streaming" section. To comply with this setting you will have to run another program called MP4 FastStart found here . This will quickly move the imbedded video meta data to the beginning of the video file. Vegas appends this information to the end of the video stream causing people to have to download the whole file before it can play. This also stops the error on you tube : "The MOV/MP4 file you uploaded contains the index at the end. We prefer you flatten the file before uploading so that the index is in the front of the file. See this article for more information." http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=165543 The number designation is, in all cases, the vertical resolution. For 16:9 content...

Facebook privacy settings. As many of you know I have been very hesitant in using Facebook because of privacy issues and Facebook policies on selling personally identifiable information. Last month I started using aliases to test the Facebook platform and to write a Facebook application. I was horrified to learn what information was accessible to me once a user clicks "Allow". The video below shows how, when you use these applications they can gather information about your friends even if your friends have strict privacy settings. Last month I noticed two new privacy settings. "Show my friends list" and "Tags in videos and photos". These new settings claim to stop friends seeing other friends and stop friends seeing your tag in photos. After playing with these settings I noticed all of my friends were still in the suggestion box for other friends to see and my tags are still shown on photos!!!!!! I wrote to Patrick at Facebook. Patrick asked me to send hi...

If you are having trouble finding how to contact Facebook, dont blame yourself. It took me a while to find after going round in circles. Login to Facebook and do the following. 1. In the top menu click Help Centre 2. Click the Privacy link 3. Scroll to the bottom and click Bugs and known problems 4. Scroll to the bottom and click I would like to report a bug with my updated privacy settings. 5. Click the Here link 6. Click the link My updated privacy settings are not working correctly. 7. Click the Here link You should now be at the following page http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=1000#!/help/contact.php?show_form=updated_privacy_bug There may be other ways to get to this form but this was the first way I found. I received a useless response within 12 hours. Good luck!

The best free IPhone Apps list I purchased my first IPhone a month ago and have killed it 3 times already. After hacking and cracking it’s now running everything I need and is a great tool. This lists some of the best Iphone applications I have found. I can’t be bothers putting full descriptions next to them but they are all free so you can download them to find out what they do. Jail Broken Apps Categories BossPrefs vWallpaper Mplayer (all codecs!!!) aTube MxTube SoundHound (but only 5 matches :( ) iFile PdaNet OpenSSH Safari Download Plug-In VoIPover3G WinterBoard Games Air Hocky Auditorium Impossible ZenBound The Creeps! TM Zero Ant Wars Apps Sex Offenders. (OMG , this thing lets me know if there are any sex offenders around me, crazy) Flixster Cooliris Pandora (Sorry Australia only works in USA) Shazam PS Mobile Skype Wallpapers Download Manager Pocket Pix Remote Desktop Bump Units

So, you plugged the IPhone in and for some reason it’s not showing up in ITunes. You can tell that the computer has recognised a USB device because you can see the drive in File explorer. If you have a Jailbroken phone the thought of having to restore with ITunes sux. It would take hours to put all of your CYDIA apps back on, sort your icons and generally setup the phone so you can use it again. The solution is to rename the iTunes_Control folder to something else. On my IPhone, it’s located at /var/mobile/Media/ . Then load up ITunes and it will recognise it as a new device. Make sure NOT to restore when prompted. I use iPhoneBrowser to browse the operating system of my phone. It can be found here. http://code.google.com/p/iphonebrowser/downloads/list

Most people will point you to the boot.ini however in Vista this file does not exists. The easiest way is to: In the start menu type msconfig and hit enter Navigate to the boot tab. Select the OS you would like to boot and set it as the default. You can delete the windows 7 OS now if you want.