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Inside Control Panel, click Parental Controls icon.

2. In Parental Controls window, you’ll get an alert if your Administrator account has not password yet. You have to give your account a password first because Parental Controls require a password to make it safer.

And you can also see it on your account icon (it said No Password) and to create password for your account, just click the icon.

And you’ll get a confirmation message box, click Yes button to confirm making password for your Administrator account.

In Ensure Passwords, enter your password twice; make sure you enter the same passwords between them and then click OK button to save your password.

Then you’ll bring to Parental Controls back. And your account icon has said you have a password protected account now.
(You may bypass this step if your Administrator account has protected by password)

3. Next, set your games ratings system by click Select a games ratings system link below Task section.

Select the games ratings system in list and by default, Windows Vista has set to ESRB system. Then click OK.

4. Next. Set when system will remind you to read activity reports by click Family Safety Options link below Task section too.
In Family Safety Options, you can set it to remind you by Weekly, Every day or Never. Click OK if you already make a choice.

5. Now, the time to create standard account for your kids. And bypass this step if you’ve created it. But if you haven’t, click Create a new user account link.

Then type your account name, and you want your kids set their own password, check User must set password at next logon check box and if you don’t, you can set it at User Account later. Then click Create account button.

6. Then you’ll bring to Parental Controls center for your new account. Or if you’ve had your kids’ accounts, you can click on their account icon to configure Parental Controls configuration to each user account.
In Set up how (account_name) will use the computer form, select On, enforce current settings option to turn it on. And for Activity Reporting, choose On if you want computer collect your kids activities.
There are four configurations available to configure. They are Windows Vista Web Filter, Time Limits, Games and Allow and block specific programs. And we will discuss them one by one.

7. I start from Windows Vista Web Filter. To open it clicks its link Windows Settings section. To block or allow websites, choose Block some websites or contents options. Parental Controls gives you 4 block levels. High, Medium, None and Custom. It will block by category.

And if you want customize your level, choose Custom option and check which do categories to block.

Also, you can block per domain name, to do it, just click To control access to specific websites, add the website to the Allow and block list link And type the URL website and then click Allow button to allowing that website to access and Block button to block it. Click OK to save your settings.

8. Second Windows Settings is Time Limit, with this setting you can manage hours when you can run Windows and not.
OK, to begin to manage it, click Time Limit link below Windows Settings in Parental Controls Screen. In Time Limit screen, just click in start hours and release in end hours on day name. For example if you want set 8:00 am until 01:00pm on Sunday, click 8:00am cell on Sunday bar, drag your mouse, drives it to right and release on 01:00pm cell and you’ll get blue block that mark the hours. Blue cells mean, your kids don’t allow playing with their computer.

9. Third Windows Settings is Games. You can manage what kind of games that can play by your kids. Click Games below Windows Settings to begin to manage it. In Games settings, click Yes option if you allow your kids to play games.

Also, in this screen you can manage the rating and specific games that can play. You can begin to set Game ratings by click Set game ratings.

In games ratings screen, I suggest you choose Block games with no ratings option and the set your ranges of game ratings by click the option box and you can select multiple options.

In Games settings you also can block and allow specific game that can play by your kid. To configure it, click Block or Allow specific games link. And it will display all of your installed games; there are three options to choose. User Rating Setting, this option will follow its rating as in Game Settings value; Always Allow will allow your kid plays this game whatever your game rating configuration; Always Block will block this game to play.

You can scroll down of your screen to block games by the contents categories. Just check it to block.

10. Fourth Windows Settings is Allow and block specific programs. You can manage the installed programs, you allow it or not. To manage it clicks its link below Windows Settings title. In Allow and block specific programs screen, choose (Account name) can only use the programs I allow to set it to your rules. You can check the programs that allow running by your kids in displayed list. If you can find your program, click Browse to pointing you .exe program file.

11. Now, you’ve learn all of Windows Settings have. Don’t forget you can look your kids’ activities reports by click View activity reports link below your account screen.

I hope this tutorial can make you understand how to configure Parental Controls clearly.
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2. Locate the video which you will download. You can search them first. Usually, I was using the search box. To use it, type the video keyword. For example, I want to find anything that linked to iMac word, so I type “imac” (without double quote) in box then press Enter.

3. After Youtube finds the video which related to your keyword, you can see them in result page, choose one in result list by click its link.

4. When the video has displayed,

open Safari’s Activity window by click Window – Activity menu.

5. In Activity window, find item which contains a word get_video and usually has biggest file size (To determine file size you can find it at Status field) and then double click that item.

6. Then Safari will download that file automatically, and you can see the download status in Downloads window that open automatically too.

7. After the file has downloaded, you’ll get a file that named: get_video and by default, Safari put it at Desktop.

8. Rename that file with your own name but give it .flv extension

click Add button when you asked.

then you’ll get a result file with .flv extension (In my case, I give it name: imac.flv)

9. Double click it to open the video.

Make sure that you’ve had installed FLV Player. I use this VLC Player to play FLV file on my Mac. I never try this on Safari for Windows but I think you can run on it too.
(article no:0122)

2. In Registry Editor, drive to HKEY_CURRENT_USER | Software | Microsoft | Windows | CurrentVersion | Policies | Explorer path.

3. In that path, find key: HideClock if you don’t find it. To create HideClock key, right click on right panel, choose New – DWORD value menu and then change the new value name to HideClock. Then change its value to 1 by double click it and then in Value data: box to 1 and then click OK button.

then your Registry Editor will be like picture below.

4. Restart your computer and then look at your systray. Your clock is gone.

You can’t reactivate clock through taskbar properties because its radio check is disabled.
To show it again, just change the HideClock value to 0 or delete that key.
(article no:0119)

2. To open Configuration Editor window, you can click on items in Configuration section (if you’re looking my picture below, click area is inside red rectangle) or go to Edit – Virtual Machine menu.

3. In Configurations Editor, click Resource: Options, click Advanced tab and then make sure Acceleration level set to High and Enable Intel VT-x support is checked.

4. Next, click Resource: Shared Applications. I suggest you disable Share Windows application to Mac and Share Mac applications to Windows with uncheck their checkboxes. Although they are great features, but if you enable them, Parallels Desktop will create many shortcuts and actually you will use shortcuts rarely or even you’ll never use them.

5. Next, click Resource: Shared Profile. The decision is in your hands. But I was choosing to disable it, because it will make you confuse and make your Windows be slower. And in my experience, I got some errors with it.

6. In fact, Parallels Desktop support 3D application ran on its virtual machine but it optimized for Mac products which have dedicated 3D card such as Macbook Pro and iMac. But you can optimize the configurations so that Parallels Desktop permits its virtual machine support Direct X. To enable the option, click Resource: Video and check Enable DirectX support checkbox so as you can run Direct X applications.

7. To configure memory amount of virtual machine, click Resource: Memory. If you run Windows XP on it set memory to 384 MB and Vista to 512 MB. This setting is important because if you configure the amount too large, you Mac OS X will run very slowly. In my experiment, I’ve set Video Memory to 16MB if I ran Windows XP and 32MB to Windows Vista.

8. In Resource: Floppy, sure I disable the Floppy because I don’t see its benefit.

9. In Resource: Hard Disk, you can find an important button here. Parallels Desktop has two mode of its Virtual Hard Disk. Expanding Hard disk and Plan Hard disk. In Expanding hard disk your virtual hard disk has flexible size as your Windows XP/Vista needs. Contrary with Expanding hard disk, Plain hard drive has consistent of file size. And Parallels Desktop set to Expanding mode by default. Unfortunately, sometimes Expanding hard disk has larger file size than the actual used. So, if you feel your virtual hard disk file size is too big, go to Resource: Hard Disk, click Advanced tab and click Compact button to reduce your virtual hard disk file.

10. In Resource: USB Controller, I suggest you choose Ask me what to do option. So, every time you plug your USB device, you’ll ask by system. Mac OS X or Parallels Desktop virtual machine that will use it.

OK, we’ve discussed Parallels Desktop configurations which must get attention. And don’t forget Parallels Desktop also install its tools which calls Parallels Tools Center in its virtual machine. For example, on Windows Vista you can open it by double click its icon in systray or you can open it through Start – All Programs – Parallels Tools menu.

You can compact your hard disk in this tool/Parallels Tools Center. Click Tool: Disk Compacting, check Execute all stages at once then click Start button and it will takes 30-90 minutes. And you can find the others Tool inside it.

(article no:0116)

2. Types at prompt driverquery then press Enter key to display entire your installed drivers.

3. And the power of driverquery is not only display result like that. You can use the parameter to optimize it. And this is driverquery parameters list:

- /s Computer [Specifies the name or IP address of the computer.]- /u Domain\User [Specifies the domain and user account name to be used to run the command.]
- /p Password [Specifies the password for the user specified with the /s Computer parameter.]
- /fo {Table | List | CSV} [Used to specify the format of the output. You can choose to display the output in Table, List, or CSV format.]
- /nh [Used to suppress the display of column headers in the output.]
- /v [Used to obtain detailed information about all device drivers installed on the specified computer].
- /si [Used to obtain information about signed and unsigned device drivers.]

4. For examples; type driverquery /nh to get result without columns header; type driverquery /v to get detail drivers information; type driveryquery /si to display the status of drivers are signed or unsigned; type driverquery \\server_mysql /u office_1\farrel /p **** /fo List to get drivers information from remote computer server_mysql where located in office_1 domain and using farrel account and my password.

5. Then, I focus on /v and /fo parameters to help us exporting the result to spreadsheet application so that you can read it easily. OK, first step is export the drivers list and its information to a csv file by type driverquery /v /fo csv > your_own_file_result.csv then Enter. Change your_own_file_result.csv name with yours. For example; if you want save the csv file into C:\Data folder and give it name: my_drivers.csv, type driverquery /v /fo csv > c:\data\my_drivers.csv then press Enter.

6. Now, you’ve had my_drivers.csv file which contains information of entire drivers in C:\Data folder.

7. Then I want to export it to Microsoft Excel. Open Microsoft Excel, click Data – Import External Data – Import Data menu,

in Select Data Source dialog pointing to your csv file, change Files of type to Text file to display your csv files (in my case I was pointing it to C:\Data folder and choose my_drivers.csv file), and click Open button.

8. In Text Import Wizard – Step 1 of 3 dialog, leave Delimited is chosen, click Next button,

click Comma check box as Delimiters,

click Next button You can set columns type data in third step but I leave it as their default type, and then click Finish button.

9. If you ask the location to put the data, locate it where you want (I suggest to put it to New Worksheet), and then click OK button.

10. Now you can read them one by one easily. And the most important is you can analyze them, which are drivers have big size and use your resource by significance. If you’re already know, you can take the next action to optimize your computer.

(article no:0121)

2. After it has downloaded, double click downloaded file Proxi_v1.4.dmg (file name may vary) and then after dmg file has opened double click Proxi.pkg icon.

3. After installation process has done, open Proxi program (By default, the location in your Application folder).

4. In Proxi window click iTunes Monitor (you can find it at Component section) and click then drag it to Triggers section.

5. If Proxi window don’t show up click Proxi’s Window menu then click Proxi Editor menu.

6. Click iTunes Monitor in Triggers section and then check Trigger when track changes value.

7. Then click Task button and click Insert Task – AppleScript menu.

8. Click AppleScript in Tasks section then choose Run custom AppleScript option (or if you’ve create the file you may choose Run as existing AppleScript option then browse to your Script file), and type this script below.

set messageText to ""
set SkypeIsRunning to 0
try
    tell application "iTunes"
        set trackName to name of current track
        set trackArtist to artist of current track
        set trackAlbum to album of current track
    end tell
    if not trackArtist = "" then
        set trackArtist to " sing by " & trackArtist
    end if
    if not trackAlbum = "" then
        set trackAlbum to " from album " & trackAlbum
    end if
    set messageText to "Listening > " & trackName & ", " & trackArtist & trackAlbum & " <"
end try

set commandText to "SET PROFILE MOOD_TEXT " & messageText
tell application "System Events"
    set SkypeIsRunning to count (every process whose name is "Skype")
end tell

if SkypeIsRunning > 0 then
    tell application "Skype"
        send command commandText script name "test"
    end tell
end if

9. And remember this trick can apply as long as Proxi software is ran, to make it easy just run it at login with set it from its Preferences, you can access it from Proxi – Preference menu and then check the Start at login option.

10. Close your Proxi window and then open iTunes and try to play a song.

11. If you run it for the first time you will asked to allowing Proxi and AppleScript run for Skype.

12. And your iTunes track information has set as Skype Status.

(source: http://www.johnwilker.com)
note :
On Skype 2.7 or above, they had including this ability. Just open Skype Preferences menu and check Show iTunes song in my mood message in Advanced tab. But with this trick at least you can customize your mood message.

(article no:0095)

You can subtitute command man (number 18) with info <command>, for example info fsck.
The BASH shell also offers a rename command, but this is usually used to rename many files at once, so I think mv command is more efficiently.
Hopefully, it can help you…..

(article no:0080)