Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Search Your Computer Fast


I use the portable version of this and love it. Can't find that odd file on one of your many hard drives and Windows own lame search has no clue? Use Everything Search Engine. Others exist and I may not have tried them all but Everything is best of breed for me so far. No install is a bonus. I would install it if I had to.

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Create floor plans, house plans and home plans online with Floorplanner.com

Floorplanner is the easiest, quickest, and best looking way to create and share interactive floor plans. Using point-and-click, drag-and-drop tools, you can make your house plan in minutes, and rearrange it as often as you want. Then you can save, send, and print your designs to share them, or place them on your own website.

Create floor plans, house plans and home plans online with Floorplanner.com

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Sometimes we all need to draw a little floor plan. Full CAD software is painfully difficult to use. Here is an online program that actually works.

Sunday, October 4, 2009

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I have not used this and am posting it to remember where it is. I see it recommended often. If you need a quick wiki space use PBWorks (I love it). If you are unsure about having a website try www.110mb.com before investing. There may be several reasons to have a free site. If you simply want to try blogging use www.blogger.com. After becoming infamous WordPress on your own site will be your preference.

Vista/Win7 Network Connection Problems

vista internet speed tweaks

You’ll discover both IPv6 and IPv4 enabled. Go ahead and uncheck the box for IPv6 and click “OK.” You’ll need to reboot your computer, but afterwards if the protocol incompatibility was your problem (and it very likely was), you’ll find that your computer can now communicate fine with the router. Maybe. There is one other complication Microsoft introduced into Vista just to encourage you that much more to upgrade your router – it’s something called “autotuning,” and it’s also the next Vista tweak. (click the link for more)

Top 5 Vista Tweaks To Increase Internet Speed

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If you have no internet DHCP may not be activated - read this.

Vista and Win7 both have trouble connecting properly to some wireless routers. This is hugely irritating when it happens. I have not proved these work but the IPv6 suggestion is common. The "autotuning" suggestion is new to me. Both are worth a try but you will need to document them locally as you will not have a connection - da!


On a fresh install of Windows it can take time for the network to establish connections. So give it time before taking a hammer to it. But this strong connection to wireless but no internet can be a maddening issue that time will not help.

If this is your home router, update firmware, update NIC drivers, soft and hard reset.
Try ping www.google.com and 203.2.75.12 (If you can ping one but not the other it's a DNS problem)
Here is a good basic network post.
This is standard stuff.

Netgear 192.168.0.1
D-Link 192.168.0.1
Linksys 192.168.1.1
Belkin 192.168.2.1

Pin Not Available

Crazy Error I had not seen before. Pin not available blah blah. I restarted a few times and it finally worked. If it doesn't some say to...