How to Backup Your Social Media Accounts – Facebook

Facebook

Log into your Facebook account, click the gear icon to the upper right of the page and select Account Settings. Make sure that you are in the General section of the settings and click the ‘Download a copy of your Facebook data’ link to the right.

There are a couple of options available to you now – downloading a regular archive, or opting for the expanded one. The basic download, referred to by Facebook as Downloaded Info, includes details of your check-ins, chats, general account details, your photos and more.

There are also an ‘expanded archive’ option which includes far more detail including the apps you have installed, a list of people who have been unfriended, data that has been hidden from your newsfeed and details of IP addresses that have logged into your account. Full details of the differences between the two different archives can be found in Facebook’s help pages.

To download a copy of your basic Facebook archive, click the Start my Archive button followed by ‘Start my archive’. After clicking Confirm, you’ll have to sit back and wait while your data is collected together. You will then receive an email letting you know when the archive is ready for download.

If you’re more interested in obtaining the complete history of your account, you should instead click the ‘expanded archive’ link. Enter your password and click Continue. As with the regular archive, you then need to click ‘Start my archive’ followed by Confirm.

In either case you’ll receive an email containing your archive ready for browsing.

Prevent Windows From Restarting Your PC After Windows Updates

Have you seen that message in Windows 8 that tells you your computer is going to reboot and there is not a thing you can do about it except save your work? Here’s how to make sure that never happens again. This tip works for Windows 7 as well.

Note that we have covered this method before for preventing Windows 7 from automatically rebooting. This article has two methods for doing the same thing.

Prevent Windows 8 From Restarting Your PC After Windows Updates

Press the Win + R keyboard combination to bring up the run dialog then type gpedit.msc and press enter.

When the Local Group Policy Editor opens, navigate to:

Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows Update

On the right hand side you will see a setting titled:

No auto-restart with logged on users for scheduled automatic updates installations

Double click on it.

From here you will need to enable the setting by changing the radio button from “Not Configured” to “Enabled”, then clicking apply.

As always, we recommend you force a Group Policy update so that the changes will reflect immediately.

That’s all there is to it.

Using the Registry

If your version of Windows 8 doesn’t ship with the Group Policy editor, you can always use the registry to disable these reboots. Again press the Windows + R keyboard combination to bring up a run box – type regedit then hit enter.

Now navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU

Note: If you don’t see the Windows Update or AU keys you may have to create them.

Then create a new 32-bit DWORD called NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers.

Then double click on it and give it a hex value of 1.

Reboot your machine and you’re good to go!

Do You Really Need to Safely Remove USB Sticks?

You’ve probably heard that you always need to use the Safely Remove Hardware icon before unplugging a USB device. However, there’s also a good chance that you’ve unplugged a USB device without using this option and everything worked fine.

Windows itself tells you that you don’t need to use the Safely Remove Hardware option if you use certain settings – the default settings – but the advice Windows provides is misleading.

Quick Removal vs. Better Performance

Windows allows you to optimize your USB device for quick removal or improved performance. By default, Windows optimizes USB devices for quick removal. You can access this setting from the device manager – open the Start menu, type Device Manager, and press Enter to launch it.

Expand the Disk drives section in the Device Manager, right-click your device, and select Properties.

Select the Policies tab in the Properties window.  You’ll notice that Windows says you can disconnect your USB device safely without using the Safely Remove Hardware notification icon, so this means you can unplug your USB device without ever safely removing it, right? Not so fast.

Data Corruption Danger

The Windows dialog shown above is misleading. If you unplug your USB device while data is being written to it – for example, while you’re moving files to it or while you’re saving a file to it – this can result in data corruption. No matter which option you use, you should ensure that your USB device isn’t in-use before unplugging it – some USB sticks may have lights on them that blink while they’re being used.

However, even if the USB device doesn’t appear to be in-use, it may still be in-use. A program in the background may be writing to the drive – so data corruption could result if you unplugged the drive. If your USB stick doesn’t appear to be in-use, you can probably unplug it without any data corruption occurring – however, to be safe, it’s still a good idea to use the Safely Remove Hardware option. When you eject a device, Windows will tell you when it’s safe to remove – ensuring all programs are done with it.

Write Caching

If you select the Better Performance option, Windows will cache data instead of writing it to the USB device immediately. This will improve your device’s performance – however, data corruption is much more likely to occur if you unplug the USB device without using the Safely Remove Hardware option. If caching is enabled, Windows won’t write the data to your USB device immediately – even if the data appears to have been written to the device and all file progress dialogs are closed, the data may just be cached on your system.

When you eject a device, Windows will flush the write cache to the disk, ensuring all necessary changes are made before notifying you when it’s safe to remove the drive.

While the Quick Removal option decreases USB performance, it’s the default to minimize the chances of data corruption in day-to-day use – many people may forget to use – or never use – the Safely Remove Hardware option when unplugging USB devices.

Safely Removing Hardware

Ultimately, no matter which option you use, you should use the Safely Remove Hardware icon and eject your device before unplugging it. You can also right-click it in the Computer window and select Eject. Windows will tell you when it’s safe to remove the device, eliminating any changes of data corruption.

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This advice doesn’t just apply to Windows – if you’re using Linux, you should use the Eject option in your file manager before unplugging a USB device, too. The same goes for Mac OS X.

Who Divided The Day Into 24 Hours?

Answer: The Egyptians

Why do we have twenty four hours in a day–as oppose to twenty, or twelve, or any other division of time? To uncover the mystery of the twenty-four hour day we need to take a trip back to ancient Egypt.

While many cultures around the world use a base-10 system (largely in part because they began their exploration of mathematics by counting their ten fingers), ancient Egyptians used a base-12 system. Instead of counting their individual digits, Egyptians instead counted the knuckles of each each finger using their thumbs as pointers (four fingers on each hand, three knuckles per hand, twelve total units).

It was this base-12 system that led the Egyptians to divide the day into 24 hours (two divisions of 12). What’s even more interesting about the Egyptian division of the day is that light and darkness each had their own 12 hours–so in the summer when the daylight hours were extended the 12 hours of the day were longer and the 12 hours of the night were shorter. Individual hours of the day did not have a fixed length until Greek mathematicians proposed such an arrangement in order to facilitate easier calculations. Even then the length of individuals hours remained largely fluid until the advent of mechanical clocks nearly fifteen centuries later.

Will There Ever Be Faster DVD and CD Drives?

Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s we all enjoyed increasingly faster CD and DVD drives, but then the growth curve leveled off. Will we ever see faster optical disc drives?

Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites.

The Question

Curious SuperUser reader User1301428 wanted to know why disc drives haven’t been getting any faster. He writes:

I was thinking about the fact that in the last years I have never seen CDs and DVDs supporting writing/reading speeds higher than 52X and 16X, respectively.

Is this a commercial choice (i.e. manufacturers don’t care about optical discs anymore and focus more on flash memories and SSD drives) or a technical limitation (i.e. optical drives cannot support higher writing and reading speeds)?

Well, which is it? Are such drives impractical to market or impractical to build?

The Answers

SuperUser contributor PhonicUK offers up the following explanation:

It’s mostly a technical limitation. Put simply, if you spin the disk too fast it starts to become unstable and wobble around or even start to come apart under the sheer stress. At best this means read/write errors – and at worse means the possibility of it coming loose and causing damage.

At 52x speed, the disk is spinning at around 24000 RPM – at around 27000 RPM the disk would start to crack.

Dan Neely reminds us there were attempts to break through the speed barrier:

About a decade ago there were CD drives that used multiple laser beams to read 7 tracks at once for higher performance without having to spin the disk extremely fast. However they were expensive and apparently had reliability problems as well.

It’s also worth noting that it isn’t just a question of structural integrity of the disk at high RPMs, but also of noise.

Finally, Ramhound points out that it’s of course possible, but that it will never happen thanks to the advent of Blu-ray:

They could modify the disk in theory to suppor higher RPMs the problem of course is that they would create a new standard for a media that is slowly being discontinued. The simple fact is Blu-ray is the future, and most of the manufactures know that, so why waste money making a CD or DVD support faster burn times. You can already burn a double layer DVD in a few minutes.

Looks like we’ll all just have to be happy burning our DL-DVDs in only a few minutes.

Mobile Phone: Free Internet Access

Untuk browse pada MTN line
1) Hantarkan “Settings” ke 2888 jika anda kali pertama dan installkan setting internet apa bila anda menerimanya.
2)Download an install Opera Mini 4.2 Kultiop ataupon Opera mini 4.4 Firefox(http://www.operamini.com). OM Firefox ni lebih laju daripada OM lain.
3)Runkan aplikasi opera mini.
4)Dibawah “Operator Trick Choice”. Pilih “Custom 1”
5)Masukkan: “http://www.mtnonline.com.wx.concealme.com/nph-proxy.pl/000000A/http/server4.operamini.com:80”
6)Tekan “OK” dan tunggu sehingga OM anda “istall” dan anda telah sedia.

Jalan lain,
1) Cari ‘Connection Settings’ didalam mobile anda, pilih ‘Proxy Settings’
2) Enablekan Proxy Server
3) Masukkan proxy address : 94.246.126.89
4) Kemudian teruskan step 2,3,4 seperti cara sebelum “jalan lain”
5) Masukkan “wap.loaded.mtninline.com”
6) Tekan “ok” dan anda boleh nikmati internet didalam telefon anda.

(Untuk bukan nokia dan kelajuan akan bertambah dengan Samsung dan Siny Ericsson)

Trick mendownload:
Jika anda ingin mendownload ketila online, masukkan: “wap.mtnonlone.com/cgi-bin/nph-proxy.cgi/ik/http/”

Tambahan!!!! Good Old Freedom telah kembali dan semakan bagus
Freedom membantu anda menggunakan mobile seperti modem dan browse pada pc. Sekarang anda memiliki pelbagai Operator
1) Tukarkan proxy address kepada “77.92.78.225”
2) Jika dengan MTN, gunakan “85.214.151.156”
3) Atau 76.73.125.131 (Server United States)
4) 81.169.137.16 (German Server)
5) Setkan Connection mode kepada “https”
6) Serkan Port “53”
7) Dengan menggunakan pc suite, enjoy free browsing

Dipetik dan diubahsuai dari:
http://hubpages.com/

Ubah Windows ORB di Windows 7

Apa yang korang perlukan ialah:
Software nih [link] – Pastikan didalamnya ada 6 file.

Cara-cara :
1. Pastikan Windows 7 Start Button Changer.exe dan r.exe ada dalam folder yang sama.
2. Runkan Window 7 Start Button Changer.exe.
3. Aplikasi seperti ini akan keluar.

4. Pilih orb dalam folder “10 sample orb” dan orb anda terus ditukar.

Anda Juga boleh mereka anda punya orb. Tapi pastikan setiap skala mesti betul seperti, kedudukan, saiz, dan format file tersebut mesti dalam bentum bitmap(.bmp).
Selamat Mencuba ^.^

Ubah Window Orb di Win 7

Apa yang korang perlukan ialah:
Software nih [link] – Pastikan didalamnya ada 6 file.

Cara-cara :
1. Pastikan Windows 7 Start Button Changer.exe dan r.exe ada dalam folder yang sama.
2. Runkan Window 7 Start Button Changer.exe.
3. Aplikasi seperti ini akan keluar.

4. Pilih orb dalam folder “10 sample orb” dan orb anda terus ditukar.

Anda Juga boleh mereka anda punya orb. Tapi pastikan setiap skala mesti betul seperti, kedudukan, saiz, dan format file tersebut mesti dalam bentum bitmap(.bmp).
Selamat Mencuba ^.^

Asrama Paling Mewah Di Dunia

Copenhagen, Denmark merupakan bandaraya yang terkenal dengan basikal, di mana pengguna basikal adalah ‘raja’ di jalan raya di bandar itu. Selain itu, ia turut terkenal dengan bangunan-bangunan yang mempunyai desain dan reka bentuk menarik. Salah satunya ialah bangunan Tietgenkollegiet. Ia menjadi asrama bagi para mahasiswa Copenhagen Business School. Bangunan asrama ini mempunyai reka bentuk unik dan ramah lingkungan dengan mempunyai 360 bilik dalam bangunan setinggi 6 tingkat.

#Memang kelihatan agak mewah kan? Memang terbaik 🙂

Re-blog from Nizazaru blog.

Pihak berkuasa kepung kumpulan warga asing bersenjata di Lahad Datu: KPN

Lebih 100 lelaki warga asing dipercayai dari selatan Filipina yang berpakaian ala tentera dan sebahagiannya dipercayai bersenjata api berjaya dikesan menyeludup masuk dan menceroboh ke Lahad Datu, Sabah pada Selasa lalu.

Bagaimanapun keadaan di sana ketika ini terkawal dan pihak keselamatan negara yang terdiri pasukan tentera dan polis, termasuk dari unit komando sedang memantau situasi tersebut bagi mengelakkan sebarang insiden yang tidak diingini berlaku.

Ketua Polis Negara, Tan Sri Ismail Omar dalam kenyataan tiga perenggannya pada malam Rabu bagaimanapun meminta orang ramai supaya tidak bimbang dengan insiden tersebut.

Menurutnya, insiden yang berlaku disebabkan masalah yang berlaku di selatan Filipina.

Beliau berkata pihak keselamatan telah mengambil tindakan mengepung kawasan tersebut dan mengarahkan kumpulan tersebut meletak senjata serta menyerah diri.

“Keadaan ini adalah terkawal dan orang ramai tidak perlu bimbang,” kata Ismail.

Menurut sumber polis, kumpulan ini dikatakan telah mendarat di persisiran pantai Lahad Datu dengan menaiki bot pancung.

Bagaimanapun setakat 10 malam, pihak berkuasa keselamatan tidak dapat mengesahkan tujuan kumpulan itu sama ada merancang untuk melakukan aktiviti keganasan di bandar berkenaan.

Sementara itu, Panglima ATM Jen Tan Sri Zulkifeli Mohd Zin ketika dihubungi Bernama enggan mengulas lanjut mengenai insiden itu dan hanya berkata “tunggu kenyataan daripada Ketua Polis Negara”.

Pengarah Jabatan Petugas Khas dan Anti Pengganas Bukit Aman, Datuk Mohamad Fuzi Harun, berkata polis Sabah masih menjalankan siasatan terhadap insiden tersebut.

Pesuruhjaya Polis Sabah Datuk Hamza Taib ketika dihubungi enggan mengulas lanjut mengenai insiden itu dan kemungkinan satu sidang media akan diadakan Khamis berhubung perkara berkenaan.

Dalam perkembangan berkaitan, Mynewshub.my difahamkan ‘semua tindakan perlu’ telah diambil oleh pihak berkuasa bagi memastikan kawasan yang terlibat khususnya dan Sabah amnya berada dalam keadaan selamat.

Dikatakan, beberapa kawasan pulau kecil yang disyaki digunakan oleh warga asing tersebut telah dikenal pasti lokasinya.

Menurut sumber, insiden tersebut berkait rapat dengan tuntutan warga asing berkenaan terhadap kedaulatan Sabah namun siasatan terperinci masih dijalankan bagi menentukan motif sebenar kejadian.

Maklumat dari sumber:-

Assalamualaikum, maklumat dr Ops room KK:
1. Staf telah menerima maklumat daripada ACP Manaf (Polis Marin Sabah) memaklumkan mengenai status terkini penglihatan kejadian. Pada jam lebih kurang 0800 hari ini, IPD Lahad Datu telah menerima maklumat seramai 32 orang (6 orang berpakaian jubah dan selebihnya memakai baju celoreng dan seluar biasa) telah berkumpul di rumah Ahmad Malandi @ Mat Bom di Kampung Tanduo. Kumpulan ini dipercayai daripada ahli Kesultanan Sulu dari Pulau Sibutu dan Pulau Sipangkot, Filipina di ketuai oleh Hj Musa @ Hj Kuning @ Dato’ Puin. Kumpulan ini juga dilaporkan membawa senjata M16.

2. Kumpulan ini dilaporkan bertujuan untuk melawat Ahmad Malandi @ Mat Bom yang kini berada di wad ICU Hospital Lahad Datu (sakit tidak diketahui). Kejadian ini juga berlanjutan daripada insiden pertemputan MNLF dan KAS yang dilaporkan sebelum ini. Kumpulan ini dilaporkan juga dilaporkan cuba membuat huru-hara dan memalukan kerajaan Malaysia sebelum pilihanraya yang akan datang.

3. Berlanjutan daripada insiden tersebut, Polis Marin telah memulakan Op DAYAK bagi mencegah kemasukan kumpulan ini. 3 buah bot telah ditugaskan untuk mengawas perairan negara dari Pulau Tambisan ke Tanjung Labian. Pasukan VAT 69 juga akan tiba pada malam ini untuk membantu operasi. Bagi aset TLDM KD TODAK telah berada di Tanjung Labian dan sedang melaksanakan rondaan bersama KM BANGI. KD PERAK dalam pelayaran ke Tanjung Labian dan dijangka tiba pada 1900. Tim ZULU dan ZEBRA dalam perjalanan ke Lahad Datu sebelum ditugaskan menaiki CB 90 ke Tanjung Labian.

4. Maklumat daripada anggota perisikan PASKAL, pada 1500 hari ini telah terserempak dengan 10 orang berpakaian celoreng di Tanjung Labian. Butiran lanjut belum dapat dipastikan lagi. Dijangkakan seramai 100 dari kumpulan ini akan bergerak ke kawasan Felda Sahabat dari Pulau Bangao, Filipina (35 bbn Timur Tanjung Labian).

5. Kapal-kapal dipelabuhan telah dimaklumkan untuk meningkatkan 4HNFS.
Maklumat terkini dr PWL2, kapalx tingkatkan immediate notice for sea.