Windows

PuTTY is a SSH and telnet client, developed originally by Simon Tatham for the Windows platform. Furthermore, it is an open source software that is available with source code.

With the latest development of running 64-bit computing, such as Linux and Windows 7, PuTTY has not developed any release for 64-bit.

However, Spunk has taken it to the next level to come up with a 64-bit release, based on the 0.60 version. I have personally tested it and is pretty impressed with the usage.

Overclocking is a technique that is mostly used by a lot of computer users, ranging from novice to experts. In these days, a lot of us are geared towards buying budget Netbooks rather than the more expensive laptops. Without a doubt, these lowly-priced laptops (mainly powered by Intel Atom processors), do fetch some popularities. This has led to the developer at ScaleGamer to write a program for overclocking EeePC - known as EeeCTL Overclocking Utility.

(read more on EeePC Overclocking here...)

With the recent release of Google Chrome web browser (still in beta stage), how many of you have realised that Google actually automatically updates your browser version, without you realising it?

Following the Google Chrome Dev Channel Chooser tool, made available by Google, I have actually updated to the developer's version of 0.2.152.1 (as you can see from the screen-shot below).

(Click here to access the screen-shots of Google Chrome...)

You may purchased a new hard disk drive and replace your current hard disk drive on your machine. Now, with a USB connector cable, you tried to access your previous hard disk drive, like an external drive, to find that there are some folders with security settings preventing you from accessing them! What should you do?

Fear not, as there is a way via the command line using Windows Command Prompt (CMD) to access these secured folders.

(Learn how you can access secured files and folders via command prompt...)

With the recent introduction of Google Chrome, it has, once again, sparked a strong browser war competition against all the browsers, such as Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Opera and some others, such as Netscape.

However, today we are not going to join in the crowd and compare the speeds between all the browsers, rather we are going to provide a simple and quick tip to optimise and speed up Mozilla Firefox.

(Learn more about speeding up Firefox here...)

Yes, it is coming soon. Microsoft has announced that their next generation of Windows Live Hotmail is going to be much faster and better than before. What changes will there be? According to the giant software company, Windows Live Hotmail will:

• be up to 70% faster to sign in and read the email.
• incorporate enhanced technology to identify spams and protect users against viruses and scams.
• be cleaner, simpler and easier to use, because of its sleek design. The idea here is to combine the usefulness of the classic version and the powerful functions of the full version of Hotmail together.
• contain new themes, colours and designs for users' personalisation.
• easier to categorise and group contacts together.
• provide more storage spaces.
• allow users to message using web-based Internet Messaging tool directly.
• let users share calendars with friends and family members.

With so much enhanced features coming up, I cannot wait for it to be released.

It is official now! Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 3 will be releasing soon, just before Microsoft discontinues the sales of Windows XP to the public in June 2008.

Features in SP3

• Previously released Windows XP updates, including security updates and hotfixes.
• Out-of-band releases.
• New OS enhancements.

ZDNet has provided some insights on the upcoming XP 3 features in detail. Microsoft has also provided Release Notes to serve as a guideline for users who intend to install Windows XP SP 3.

Users should be able to get their hands on Windows XP SP 3 on April 29^th, 2008.

After weeks of researching for answer, I finally came up with the solution of how to validate objects within a FormView using ASP.NET 2.0 programming language.

Assuming you have a FormView, and you require users to update information to the SQL database. There is a RadioButtonList and a TextBox. The entry within the textbox is optional, but it will be mandatory if one of the option is chosen. Take for example, the screen-shot below.

(find out how to solve the validation issue...)