Hi all, In todays tutorial I’m going to show you guys how to setup a home web server using WAMP and DynDNS service.
OK, WAMP stands for Windows Apache MySQL and PHP. First of all you need to download WAMP server. To do this Google WAMP Server or head on to http://www.wampserver.com/en/ and download. Its about 16meg file. The latest version is 2.0i. The WAMP server is just for Windows OS and If you use Linux you need to use LAMP Server.

STEP1: Once you finish downloading the WAMP run the installer, WAMPs default directory is C:\wamp and its recommended not to change the path.

STEP 2: After Installation completes you will see a small icon like a speedometer click on the Icon and a menu pops up. You will see several options on the menu, but first of all we need to run the application so click on “Put Online”. Now all the services should up and running.

STEP 3: Now lets verify by opening our default web browser and type “Localhost” and enter. If everything is fine you must see WAMPs default homepage similar to the bellow image.

STEP 4:Now you can add your website files to the directory “C:\wamp\www“. Delete or rename the present index.php file and replace your files and test. If you can see your website when you type Localhost from the browser the first part is successfully done.

STEP 5: Check your IP address of the computer and type this address in browser, this should bring your website. Now you have to forward the port in your Internet / ADSL router to give access to your friends or the whole world to your personal website hosted on your personal computer. Access your router and forward the port 80 to your computer’s IP like below image:

Please note that, your router settings may be different from mine. So you are not sure how to forward port, please visit to http://portforward.com/ to see how to forward port in different types of routers.

STEP 6: One you are done with port forwarding, try to access your website by using the IP provided by ISP, to check your IP please visit http://www.whatismyip.com/.

STEP 7:So now almost done, but now you need some good name for your website. You canot blindly give your IP address to everyone right? So head-on to http://www.dyndns.com/ and create a account. Then go to this page:https://www.dyndns.com/account/services/hosts/add.html . Create a new unique name for your personal page (sub domain) with any one of the domain names listed. Keep the radio button selected for “Host with IP address”.

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STEP 8:Below the IP Address text-box (3) you will see “Your current location’s IP address is XX.XX.XX.XX” This is your current IP address click on this and clik add to cart (dont worry its a free service) and follow the steps.

STEP 9:Assume that, your ISP provide you wilh the dynamic IP address which keep changing. So you need to update your IP with DynDNS when its been changed, so there is a application dynDNS designed for this, “DynDNS® Updater”. you can download this and let DynDNS know when ever your dynamic IP is changed. So your personal site will be online all the time.

Thats it….

Just imagine that you are applying for a Job and you prepared a good presenting covering letter and when it seems satisfied you clicked send…zoooooop…..the mail gone…in next second you realized that, you didn’t attached you Resume…Oh Shi*!!!, what to do, if you wee thinking of resending mail, its a question of reputation and the HR dept. might start thinking about you. But now no need to worry, you can “UNDO the sent mail within next 30 Seconds“.

Note: This is Future is a part of Google Lab and its still under test and might not always work it should work. (Don’t blame me later).

Bellow is the quick tutorial how to enable this future. Before do anything you must enable Google Lab future in your GMail account. It looks something like this:

Click on the Green Icon, Now you are inside the “Lab” tab of Settings menu.
Browse through the Lab tab and stop when you see the Undo Send by Yuzo F section.
It looks like this:

Click the radio button Enable and Save the settings.

Ok Wait not done yet, By default Google provide you undo the sent message for 10 seconds, but you have a future to make it longer up to 30 Seconds. To customize go to Settings menu again (next to the Google Lab icon) and In General tab, look for “Undo Send:” something like this:

Now you are done. To test send a mail and try your self. Good luck.

One you sent mail you will see a message “ Your message has been sent. Undo View message ” Click on Undo before your 30 seconds completes and your you will see again mail composing page.

If you use Windows 7, you must aware that, its one of the best OS ever MS created. Its fast, its Secure and its FUN to use. Well If you are a legal owner of the Windows 7 OS you have a good news from MS, there is a option called Windows 7 “GodMode”.

What is Windows 7 GodMode??
Windows 7 “GodMode” is a term devised by the Microsoft development team, which provides a single place to access all Windows settings without needing to browse options and folders in the Control Panel.

Before You do it please read the BIG RED WARNING.
The trick appears to work on both the 32 and 64-bit versions of Windows 7. Vista 32-bit and Windows Server 2008 32-bit should also work. However, it is known to crash 64-bit versions of Vista — and you may need to boot in safe mode or to the command line to delete the folder.

OK Now lets create it.

1. Create a Folder anywhere (I prefer in C: , as its a data disk and easy to access. You can create on desktop also.)
2. Rename the folder: GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
Note: You are free to change the text “GodMode” but the period and the following folder strings are essential
3. One you rename the folder the folder Icon will change and it look similar to this:

4. Double click on the Icon and you have the Windows 7 “GodMode”

The PowerShell in Win Server 2008 R2 is included the Administration module for the Internet Information Services (IIS). The cmdlets let you manage the IIS or administrate the run time data of IIS.

You can manually add the IIS Module to the instance of Windows PowerShell that you have opened by using the following command at the command prompt: C:\PS>add-pssnapin WebAdministration.

click here to see more detailed article on TechNet : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd819413.aspx

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