MySQL is in my opinion the best Database system out there pound for pound – dollar for dollar. Oh wait…it’s FREE! It’s still a fantastic system. Even though it’s a fantastically robust database server the tables may get fragmented with overhead due to continuous update, or delete and insert operation on data stored in database. The solution is to check the DB for integrity. And wouldn’t it be nice if that automagically happened? Here’s how. [...]
When you use hibernate in Vista (just like in XP) it creates a file called hiberfil.sys. This file can grow rather large,if you don't use hibernate, the hibernate file hiberfil.sys is sometimes large enough to impact the amount of drive space you have available, and you're not able to delete it because it's in use. [...]
Since a lot of people have been using GMail for their email, it’s only natural that they would want to setup their mobile with access to their GMail accounts. Here are the instructions on how to setup your Palm Mobile PDA to access your GMail account. [...]
I've been using an application called SyncJEBB on my Blackberry to sync up my device with my Gmail Calendar, Contacts and Address Book. It's a pay service but it works really well. Here is the skinny on how to configure it. [...]
One of the easiest ways of playing any audio of video file is to use VLC Player from VideoLAN. There are a number of features that you can make use of as well such as the Wallpaper feature. Here are the instructions on how to install VLC in Ubuntu. [...]
Sites like Youtube and CNN offer free videos to viewers. It’s great to be able to watch them when you are online but what happens when you are when you are offline? What if you want to take the videos with you? The answer is to download them! [...]
For the longest time I was using Google Browser Sync to manage my passwords and bookmarks. Unfortunately, a while back, just before Google Chrome was released Google discontinued the product. I wonder why? Since then I’ve been looking for something to manage my bookmarks and passwords for free. I finally found the perfect app! Foxmarks! [...]
MySQLTuner is a script written in Perl that will assist you with your MySQL configuration and make recommendations for increased performance and stability. Within seconds, it will display statistics about your MySQL installation and the areas where it can be improved. [...]
Dock Spaces is an application that introduces a feature that everyone thought Apple was going to implement in Leopard when “Spaces” was announced. Unfortunately, it wasn’t, so here is the application that does it. [...]
