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SlimCleaner is a new free windows Maintenance and Optimization tool recently released by SlimWare utilities. Its a powerful, comprehensive utility including best tools for windows users.

SlimCleaner

To download and test visit http://slimcleaner.com/

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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.
Installation 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.
Icon Rightclick

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.
WAMP home page

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:
Port Forwarding

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”.

© 1998-2010  Dynamic Network Services Inc.

© 1998-2010 Dynamic Network Services Inc.

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…. :)

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Now that jailbreaking your iPhone / iPod is legal in US, Comex and company has presented to you, JailbreakMe for iPhone 4. According to their homepage JailbreakMe.com, the hack works right on the iPhone 4 (or 3GS, or 3G, or iPad…) itself, using via the handset’s Safari browser to reportedly break into most any iOS device.

I saw this hot topic on one forum and planed to give it a try on my iPod touch, even I know that, I’m going to break my warranty. But the result see the attached picture.
JailBreaking iPod

It means you canot JailBreak your iPod if you have latest firmware…so bad.

  • *NOTE: Jailbreaking your iPhone may brick it, and void your iPhone’s warranty. Proceed with caution, and jailbreak only when you really need.
  • More details and vid here: http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/official-iphone-4-jailbreak-hits-from-iphone-dev-team/

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    Exchange Server 2010
    Now you can download and try the new MS exchange server 2010 from MS website.

    In this article I tried to show how to install the beta version of MS exchange 2010 in your testing environment.

    First of all you must understand that, Exchange 2010 can only be installed in Windows Server 2008 SP2 x64 or Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 (Enterprise or Standard Edition) Note: It won’t support Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 x32 version

    Exchange 2010 System Requirements

    Please refer here. After installing the OS or if you have the required OS ready, you must have some prerequisites. Those are listed here. Also I managed to list some prerequisites here:
    Operating system components, including RSAT-ADDS (needed on server that will perform schema updates), Web-Server, Web-Metabase, Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console, Web-ISAPI-Ext, NET-HTTP-Activation, Web-Basic-Auth, Web-Digest-Auth, Web-Windows-Auth, Web-Dyn-Compression, RPC-over-HTTP-proxy, Web-Net-Ext and [dot].Net-Framework.

    You can install all of these components at one time (e.g., for the Mailbox, Client Access and/or Hub Transport Server roles) by running the following command:

    ServerManagerCmd -i RSAT-ADDS Web-Server Web-Metabase Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console Web-ISAPI-Ext NET-HTTP-Activation Web-Basic-Auth Web-Digest-Auth Web-Windows-Auth Web-Dyn-Compression RPC-over-HTTP-proxy Web-Net-Ext -Restart

    For more information about the prerequisites for Exchange 2010, including those for the Edge Transport server role, see Exchange 2010 Prerequisites.

    Exchange Server 2010 also supports installing the above pre-requisites by using an Answer File with ServerManagerCmd, and answer files are included in the \AMD64\Scripts folder. To use them, you run ServerManagerCmd -ip . For example:
    ServerManagerCmd -ip Exchange-CAS.XML

    Next, are the software pre-requisites, which include:

    See Exchange 2010 Prerequisites for information about and links to other pre-requisites that might apply to your environment (e.g., for Edge Transport and Unified Messaging server roles, and for environments that use System Center Operations Manager).

    Once the above pre-requisites have been installed, check Microsoft Update for any additional updates that might be needed. Make sure the system has been rebooted after installing any updates which require a reboot.

    Now you’re ready to install Exchange 2010. You can perform the installation using the GUI or command-line version of Setup. In this example, I’ll use the GUI.

    I’ll start by launching Setup.exe from the AMD64 folder. It will show you a splash screen similar to the bellow one:
    Image 1 This Splash screen is much similor to the Exchange 2007 screen. In this screen you can see some pre-requisites will be grayed if they are already installed, if not you will be promted to install them first. Once all the pre-requisites ready, the Exchange Installer will take you directly Step 4.

    Step 4: Install Microsoft Exchange. Clcik on that and the GUI will appear and shows you that, exchange setup is coping required files into your server. (Image 2 is GUI you will see)
    Image 2

    Once all the files copied you will see the MS Exchange 2010 introduction page, which is below:
    Image 3

    Click on Next and Language files location page appears.
    Image 4

    If you have language files other than English (Its default language of my Server), you can browse and select it, or you can just by clicking Continue setups without language files radio button (The setup will take your system default language as Exchange’s language). Click Next to proceed.
    Image 5
    This screen confirms your selected Language.

    Click on Next, now you will see License Agreement page:
    Image 6

    After reading the license agreement, select I accept the terms in the license agreement and click Next. The Error Reporting page appears:
    Image 7
    You must select Yes (Recommended), if you want to send error report, its really useful tool, Or you can select NO to not to send error report.And click on Next. he Installation Type page appears:
    Image 8

    Immediately, you might notice some differences from Exchange Server 2007. First, the Custom Exchange Server Installation option no longer lists any clustered mailbox server roles. That’s because clustered mailbox servers don’t exist in Exchange Server 2010. Exchange 2010 includes a new feature called Incremental Deployment. This feature enables to you configure high availability and site resilience for your mailbox database after Exchange has been installed. Second, the default path for the Exchange Server installation is new and different. If I choose Custom Exchange Server Installation, the Server Role Selection page appears:Image 9

    Choose Typical Exchange Server Installation instead of Custom Exchange Server Installation and click Next, or after completed the Custom Exchange Server Installation choices and click Next, the Exchange Organization page appears:

    Image 10

    Specify a name for Exchange Organization, and then click Next. The Client Settings page appears:
    Image 11

    If your Exchange organization uses Outlook 2003 or earlier, or Microsoft Entourage, then a public folder database is needed so that those clients can access system data, such as Free/Busy information. In that case, you would select Yes on this page. Since im not using Outlook 2003 or earlier, or Entourage, I can leave the default setting of No and click Next.

    The Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) page appears:
    Image 12

    I’ll click Join the Exchange Customer Experience Improvement Program and specify an industry of Computer-Related Products/Services.

    I click Next. The Readiness Checks page appears, and Setup automatically performs readiness checks for any installed language packs, as well as the selected server roles to be installed.

    Image 13
    The readiness checks don’t take much time at all. Once all readiness checks have successfully passed, the Readiness Check page will look like this:
    Image 14

    Now, the system and server are ready for the installation to begin. Click on Install to start the installation of Exchange 2010 Mailbox, Client Access and Hub Transport server roles, as well as the Exchange Management tools (Exchange Management Console and Exchange Management Shell).
    While Setup is progressing, a Progress page will be appeared:
    Image 15

    Once all the componets installed you will see green checkmark, like bellow image:
    Image 15

    Installing Exchange 2010 is quick and easy. In some systems it might take less then 30mins. Uncheck the Finalize installation using the Exchange Management Console checkbox, and click Finish to complete the Setup process. This returns Setup to the splash screen. Click Close to close the splash screen, and when the Confirm Exit dialog appears:Exit Confirmation

    Click Yes.

    Then, reboot the server. (There is no need of restarting, but I recommend you to do so.

    The installation of Exchange Server 2010 is now complete.

    Source: www.technohub.in

    If you want more detailed installation of Exchange server 2010 (not beta), check here: http://muc-ug.org.in/index.php/articles/exchange-2010/109-installing-exchange-server-2010.html

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    If you want to to export dns records to a text,CSV file in Windows 2003/2000 DNS Server follow these steps

    DNS Setup

    Solution 1

    This will work mainly win server 2003/2000

    Click the start button -> programs -> administrative tools -> DNS.

    When the dns control panel opens, click the plus sign beside the server and you should see forward and revers dns zones listed?  Likely you want your local zone listed, so open the forward zones, and select the domain for your organization.

    Right click the domain for you organization, and you will see a context specific dialogue box open, select ?export list??

    Next you will see a dialogue box to save the file.  Select the location to save the file, the desktop would be a fine place, type in a name for the file, and below that select the file type you want to export, ie text, csv, or tab delimited.  You will probably want to select text, but it depends on what you want to do with the file

    Solution 2

    This will work win server 2008/2003/2000

    You can use dnscmd command to export text file

    Example

    dnscmd servername /enumrecords zonename @ /type A /detail > c:\filename.txt

    detailLists all information about the records.

    You can use dnscmd command to export csv file

    Example

    dnscmd /enumrecords zonename @ /Type A /additional > c:\filename.csv