Joomla Content Editors

As a web designer who specializes in using Joomla, I get a lot of inquiries regarding the editing of articles.
Joomla comes with a WYSIWYG editor installed, this is called TinyMCE, and the editing area looks like this ...

A Concise Guide to Android Rooting

While putting together a list of the best Android apps, I asked dozens of Android devotees what were their favorites, and a few fired back a short list of apps "for root users."

Rooting an Android phone is kind of like jailbreaking an iPhone. In laymen's terms, it means you're cracking open the hood to access parts of the operating system that were intentionally locked to prevent you from messing them up, or doing anything to your phone that the manufacturer or carrier doesn't want you to do. A slightly more technical explanation is to say that rooting means giving yourself "root access," or greater privileges, or administrator control, to the lowest level of Android's Linux subsystem.

Warning: If you didn't pick up on the clues above, rooting isn't for everyone and can have serious repercussions. While it's perfect legal, it can void your phone's warranty (more on that below). And if you don't know what you're doing or aren't careful, you could potentially destroy your phone. Rooting also opens up more security risks because you can download apps that have access to files that would normally be hidden from them.

Windows - Create a Shortcut/Hotkey to Clear the Clipboard

Have you ever copied something to the clipboard that you don’t want to leave there in case somebody else is going to use your computer? Sure, you can copy something else to the clipboard real quick, but can’t you just make a shortcut or hotkey to clear it?

And of course you can, with the built-in clip.exe utility in Windows 7 or Vista (see conclusion regarding XP). It’s not really meant for clearing the clipboard, but with a little command line magic in a shortcut, we can make it do just that.

Speed up your PC

Windows PCs typically slow down as applications are installed and used. Whether using word processing, spreadsheets, internet, games or anything else, hard drives fill with temporary files that do not always get removed when no longer needed. Usually conducting disk defrag, registry defrag and cleaning system junk and hidden errors in Windows registry with some powerful tool such as freeware such as Ccleaner toolbox, Wise Registry Cleaner or Wise Disk Cleaner or purchase something to clean up/speed up a slow computer. Read on to learn of ways to help keep a PC running smoothly with little or no money.

Make Google Chrome even faster

Chrome is a great browser. It is still not as fast as Mozilla Firefox. At least not out of the box. There are many things you can change to make Google Chrome run faster and smoother, including: flags, advanced settings, extensions, and browsing data.

Flags

Chrome has many experimental features that are hidden. They hide these features figuring that if you do not know they are there, you probably should not be messing with them. They do want anyone to start messing around and destroy their browser.

ChromiumOS - Vanilla (USB bootable)

Vanilla builds are bleeding edge. They give you the opportunity to see and use the latest and greatest that Chromium OS has to offer. Requires only a 4GB USB drive (download size is around 250MB).

ChromiumOS is a lightweight, lightning-fast operating system for your netbook, laptop or even desktop. With the familiar environment of Chromium/Chrome, the entire web is at your fingertips in seconds. HTML5 is fully supported, allowing you to enjoy the very best that the web has to offer.

Translucator - Photoshop-compatible plug-in

Translucator is a Photoshop-compatible plug-in for Windows designed by ImageSkill Software that can work with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Corel (Jasc) Paint Shop Pro, Microsoft Digital Image Suite etc. Translucator extracts translucent objects (like glass, smoke, fog, fur etc.) from photo in a few mouse clicks with a perfect result. The Translucator unmixs object's and background's colors in processed areas, so you can then place result on other background properly. The cutting objects may be used for collage, scrap-book and greeting card creation.

Privacy Watch: Spotflux Guards Your Privacy for Free

Keeping your data private while you’re browsing the Web can be time-consuming if you want to stop malware, IP-address snoopers, and malicious ads. Spotflux, a New York startup, is aiming to change that with a no-cost, easy-to-use program that encrypts your Internet connection, anonymizes your IP address, and reduces your risk of infection while you surf. Did I mention that it’s free?

Subtitle Burning (AVI) - embedding into video

Burning in subtitles means that we’ll put them directly into the video source. This has the advantage of being playable on every platform (even PSPs and iPhones), but the process takes a lot longer and you won’t be able to remove the subtitles afterwards.

Usually, subtitles are burned into AVI files. We’ll show you how to add subtitles to avi movie file in the tutorial below.

Joomla! 2.5 User Groups permissions

Permissions to do things: Access Control

There are different levels of permissions for doing things in a Joomla! Web site. In particular there is a distinction between:-

Which users can gain access to what parts of the website? For example, will a given Menu Item be visible for a given user?

What actions a user can perform? For example, can a user edit or publish an article?

Users are grouped together in groups. In Joomla! 1.5 these groups give robust but fairly simple distinctions. It has a coarse granularity in that you cannot set permissions to small groups or individuals.

Five Best System Rescue Discs (Lifehacker.com)

When your computer starts behaving strangely, won't boot, or you start getting strange errors that you can't pin down, a great way to troubleshoot the problem is to boot to a rescue disc and see if you can isolate the problem. It might be your operating system, it could be hardware, but you'll never know until you boot to some other media to take a look. That said, there are tons of great system rescue discs to check out if you want a tool to save your ailing system. This week we're looking at five of the best, nominated by you, our readers.

A Lifesaving piece of Software - WinSock XP Fix 1.2

Why did I write in the title: "A Lifesaving piece of Software -  WinSock XP Fix 1.2" ? It`s because it really is! A few days ago I installed Hamachi Log Me In software, because I wanted to create VPN (virtual private network). After rebooting  the PC i couldn`t connect to the Internet anymore. Then I tried to uninstall Hamachi application, but it didn`t work as it should. I managed to uninstall application, but I have had some problems with Hamachi network adapter (it couldn`t be disabled). The best solution is to find it`s driver location  (you can find it in Device Manager under Network adapters) and delete the driver manually.

Ultimate Google toolbox: 20 tips, tricks, and hacks

Google's search, mail, maps, and cloud services are practically de facto public utilities. Fire up your browser, and there Google is. But don't take Google for granted—there's much more to its core services than meets the eye.

With this toolbox of tips, usability tricks, and third-party services, you can rule the Google universe and bend it to your will. The following will help you keep your privacy, fix Google annoyances, and get the most out of automation (so you can waste your time doing other things online).

Start Windows 7 faster

If Windows 7 takes more than a minute to start, it may have too many programs that open automatically with the operating system. Longer delays are an indication of a more serious conflict with a piece of hardware, a network, or other software.

High-performance PC hardware doesn't always deliver the speed users expect. But you probably shouldn't blame the hardware. The slowdown may be due to a software conflict.

Do I need to manually defrag a Windows 7 PC? ISOLVEDI

It is a good practice to run hard disk defragmentation in a month or a couple of months. Defragmentation better organizes a mass storage device so that its contents are stored in the smallest possible number of regions. Defragmentation thus puts the data together and enhances the speed of a system. Windows has an inbuilt defragmentation tool and there are plenty of other commercial defragmentation software as well. Running defragmentation regularly in a couple of weeks or months considerably enhances the speed of your system. But sometimes you may forget or even worse, you gradually give up the habit. But thanks to Windows 7 that automatically defrags your hard disk by default.

Top 10 Free Proxy Applications

To visit YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and some other websites that are blocked in China, sometimes I use free online proxy tools, but most of the time, I like using free proxy softwares, since they are faster and free of ADs.

Among those free proxy softwares, below 10 are the most popular.

Bypass Firewalls & Get into Blocked Websites in School or at Work with FreeProxy

Okay kids, you’ve been searching the web for how to get into blocked websites in school, with no luck. Face it, you’re living in a world where your parents and your teachers want to protect you from the vile and nasty evils that lurk on the Internet. Why? Are there really child predators hiding in every corner? Is it really critical that you are not allowed to check your Gmail account during your free period at school? The reality is that Internet security “experts” around the globe are taking their jobs just a “tad” too seriously.

Acronis True Image Home 2012 Plus Pack: Restoring to Dissimilar Hardware with Acronis Universal Restore

With Acronis Universal Restore you can recover the image of your system to a machine with dissimilar hardware.
This article applies to:
Acronis True Image Home 2012 Plus Pack (differences between True Image 2013 by Acronis, True Image 2013 by Acronis Plus Pack, and Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Workstation you can analyze in the table and paragraph below).

If you are using an earlier version of Acronis True Image Home, see respective articles:
Acronis True Image Home 2011 Plus Pack Restoring to Dissimilar Hardware with Acronis Universal Restore
Restoring to Dissimilar Hardware with Acronis True Image Home 2010 Plus Pack

Install Windows OS in 5 minutes with NortonGhost or AcronicsTrueImage

Acronis True Image Home 2013 has just been released with some exciting new features to keep your data safer than ever. Including file synchronization and better network backup capabilities. Acronis has added New Windows 8 Integration to enable seamless integration into the Windows control panel. Friendlier user interfaces makes it easier than ever to backup and restore your data. See the True Image 2013 Review here.

For the sake of this review of Acronis True Image, lets say that I have just spent hours loading Windows XP on a new computer. I used Windows Update to install all 93 security updates, loaded and tweaked all of my applications to get them just the way I need them to be able to have my computer function exactly the way I like it. I do not want to do that job again any time soon. Another scenario would be that you are about to try something that you are not sure will work, like trying the latest and greatest video driver, and it has the possibility of crashing your computer. If you need to upgrade your hard drive without reinstalling Windows, this is the easiest way to get the job done.

Install Windows 7 or XP fast in just 10 minutes

Generally Windows installation is a very time consuming work. In the normal procedure, windows take approximately 45 minutes to install. This time interval seems to be very long. It becomes very boring task for the computer professionals who used to install windows on computers of their customers daily. The tutorial given below will explain how to install windows XP or Windows 7 quickly in less than just 10 minutes?  By following this tutorial, you can save much time. As a computer professional, this little tutorial can save your much time during the windows installation on the computer of your customers. This tutorial is explained in the simple steps given below:

Start your computer. Insert windows XP CD in CD/DVD-ROM drive. Your computer will automatically detect windows disc inserted. The computer will give a message “Press any key to boot from CD” Press any button from the keyboard to start windows booting.

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