Whats Your Computer Feeling Like?

One of the most important facets of computer repair, especially when it comes to computer parts, is keeping your computer cool. High temperatures can easily damage delicate computer components beyond repair, and depending on the part that is frying, it can take other parts out with it when it goes. For example, if your CPU begins to overheat too often and blows, it can damage the motherboard along with it. That means having to replace two components at the same time to get your computer up and running again.

You can keep your computer from overheating several ways. First, make sure the case on a desktop computer has adequate ventilation. Cooling fans are also necessary. Then make sure you keep it clean. The accumulation of dust, dirt and other debris can clog up the ventilation and cooling fans, and gum up the actual parts themselves, causing the computer to overheat. A can of condensed air will do well for blowing dust and dirt out of your computer. After cleaning out your computer, make sure all of the fans spin freely and easily. Any fans that stick or have slowed down, or you notice are making strange noises when running, should be replaced as soon as possible to stay on the safe side. If you use a laptop, get a laptop cooling bed to keep your laptop from overheating. These are usually USB powered devices that are flat, that the laptop rests on. Fans inside the cooling bed blow air up into the laptop from below, offering better ventilation and cooling. This is also handy if you like to use your laptop actually on your lap, as the heat won’t be uncomfortable on your legs.

When you are handling any of your computer’s inside components and parts, exercise caution against electrostatic discharge, which can damage parts easily. Wear an anti static wrist band and clip it to the case to prevent static damage. You should also make sure your hands are clean, especially when removing and replacing parts like RAM sticks, as skin oils can damage the parts, as well.

When you are learning how to repair computer parts, cooling, cleaning and safety are the top tips to be aware of so that everything goes well.

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This commonly happens with adware and spyware. These files appear to be undeleteable by any normal method of deletion. So if the file is in use and you can’t delete it, how do you get rid of it? Fortunately, there are a few ways you can go about getting rid of that nasty piece of work, and you do not need an IT degree or to pay an expensive computer technician down at the computer shop to do it!

If you are running Windows XP, you can remove the file manually. To do this, you first need to find the exact location to the file and its path. To find it, type the name of the undelete-able file into your Search box. To get to the Search box, go to the Start button, then Search, then All Files and Folders. Make sure the the “Look in” box shows the right drive, then click on Search to let your computer track the file down for you. Once it is located, right click on it and choose Properties. Make a note of the file location for your reference by writing it down somewhere.

Then close the search box. Click on Start, then Run, and type “CMD” without the quotation marks into the Run field. Hit Enter and wait for Command Prompt to open up. If you have any other programs open at this point, shut them all down, leaving Command Prompt open. Go back to Start, then Run, and type “taskmgr.exe” into the field, without the quotation marks. This will open your task manager. Click on the Proccesses tab, and then click on the process called Explorer.exe and end it.

Now head back to Command Prompt. Change to the directory where the offending file is located. To delete the file, type DEL <the filename>, where <the filename> is actually the file you want to get rid of. Now go back to the Task Manager, and click File, then New Task, then type “explorer.exe” without the quotation marks to start your Windows shell back up. Offending file is now gone and you have deleted the undelete-able!

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Technibble, the Australian site for aspiring computer techies, recently released the second version of its popular Computer Repair Utility Kit, a collection of 57 hand picked tools to help you diagnose and repair your Windows machine.

While all of the utilities are freely available online, this all-in-one kit saves you the trouble of searching for and downloading them individually. Most of the applications don’t require installation and the kit can be run directly from your thumb drive.

Technibble, the Australian site for aspiring computer techies, recently released the second version of its popular Computer Repair Utility Kit, a collection of 57 hand picked tools to help you diagnose and repair your Windows machine.

While all of the utilities are freely available online, this all-in-one kit saves you the trouble of searching for and downloading them individually. Most of the applications don’t require installation and the kit can be run directly from your thumb drive.

In this article, you’ll find 12 wonderful websites that’s worth a bookmark if you’re looking into sharpening your Flash development skills. For each entry, you’ll find three tutorials from the website so that you can see what’s in store for you.

1. kirupa.com

kirupa.com is a site that features excellent Flash tutorials (as well as Silverlight, ASP.net, PHP, and Photoshop). There are plenty of well-written, detailed tutorials and articles pertaining to Flash sectioned into seven categories including Basic Drawing, Special Effects, Server-side Flash, and Game Development.

Tutorial examples:
Simple Page Transitions
Creating and Animating Clouds
Falling Text

2. gotoandlearn.com

Some people learn best by visualization and following along with the instructor step-by-step in real-time. If you’re the type that prefers to learn by watching instructional videos, check out gotoandlearn.com – a website by Lee Brimelow that offers free Flash video tutorials.

Tutorial examples:
ActionScript 3 Sound Basics
Creating 3D Carousels
Creating Flash Tooltips

3. gotoAndPlay()

gotoAndPlay() is dedicated to providing resources for Flash game developers. It’s a community that has a forum, interviews from professional developers, and reviews of books and resources. It also has tutorials and articles about Flash game development that can be filtered by topic, expertise, and type.

Tutorial examples:
Developing a space shooter game
Skeletal Animations
How to protect SWFs from decompilers?

4. Adobe – Flash Developer Center

Adobe’s Flash Developer Center is a community for Flash developers. Here, you’ll find tutorials, articles, and related resources about Flash. You should also check out the ActionScript Technology Center for articles on specifically about ActionScript.

Tutorial examples:
Using ActionScript to pause and loop the timeline in Flash
Drawing with the Pen tool
Creating a 3D button animation for Flash

5. Flash Kit

Flash Kit is one of the biggest and oldest community dedicated to Flash development. With over 600,000 members, you won’t have a hard time finding people with a similar interest in Flash. There’s a forums section, free resources that you can download and use in your Flash projects, and a large tutorials section that includes 18 categories.

Tutorial examples:
Making movieclips point at the mouse
Move a sprite with the keyboard
How to use hitTest in a simple game

6. ActionScript.org

ActionScript.org is a site that provides resources and information pertaining to Flash, Flex, and ActionScript. They have a fairly active Forums section as well as an ActionScript Library that currently has over 700 objects you can download.

Tutorial examples:
Drawing Shapes with AS3
Simple reflection effect with AS2
Physics in ActionScript 3.0

7. Flash and Math ActionScript 3 Tutorials

Flash and Math has a great collection of tutorials on AS3. They cover basic to advanced topics so that Flash developers of any level can find something they can read and learn from. Many of the tutorials include the source files for download.

Tutorial examples:
Drag-and-Drop in Flash CS3
Tween Tricks in Flash CS3 and ActionScript 3
Simple 3D Drawing in Flash CS3 and ActionScript 3

8. Flash Tutorials on Pixel2Life

Pixel2Life, according to the site, is the “largest tutorial index catering to graphic designers, webmasters and programmers”. With over 40,000 indexed tutorials, you’ll find many links to tutorials in their Flash Tutorials section.

Indexed tutorial examples:
Creating a Basic Flash Website (AS3 Version)
Actionscript 3 Timer Class
Stars animation above the city

9. Flash Perfection

Flash Perfection is a website with a large collection of Flash tutorials, tips, and tricks from various websites. Flash Perfection has 23 categories to help you find information more quickly.

Indexed tutorial examples:
Atmospheric Steam
Optimizing your Flash SWFs
Quick and Easy Zoom Effect in Flash

10. metah.ch

metah.ch has some awesome video tutorials on Flash, ActionScript, Flex, and AIR. Files associated with the tutorials can be downloaded and used in your own projects.

Tutorial examples:
Introduction to Loop and Event in AS3
Connecting AS3 with a Database
Interaction between AS3 and JavaScript

11. LukaMaras.com

LukaMaras.com offers detailed Flash tutorials and resources designed to help you learn Flash. There’s also a small forums section with over 3,000 registered users where you can discuss anything related to Flash.

Tutorial examples:
1.ActionScript drop-down menus
2.How to make pixel buttons in Flash the easy way.
3.How to make an amazing dynamic image gallery in Flash 8

12. Flashmagazine

Flashmagazine is an online magazine dedicated to Flash news, reviews, information, and resources. The Tutorials section has some excellent tutorials for Flash developers.

Tutorial examples:
How to make a custom AS3 preloader
AS3 Photo gallery
Rollover effect using masks
I hope you found this article useful! Since there’s so many websites out there dedicated to Flash development, I can’t include them all, so if you didn’t see your favorite – please share it with all of us in the comments.

CSS has become the standard for building websites in today’s industry. Whether you are a hardcore developer or designer, you should be familiar with it. CSS is the bridge between programming and design, and any Web professional must have some general knowledge of it. If you are getting your feet wet with CSS, this is the perfect time to fire up your favorite text editor and follow along in this tutorial as we cover the most common and practical uses of CSS.

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1. Run validations with Font Book

   Launch Font Book and press command-A to select all fonts. Then from the “File” menu select “Validate Fonts” and wait for the results in the font validation window. Keep in mind that even though you may find minor problems with your current fonts, its best to follow the saying “if it’s not broken then don’t fix it”, and leave well-enough alone unless you’re experiencing problems.

2. Clear the font cache

   In OS X, fonts are handled by the Apple Type Server process, which stores commonly used fonts in a cache for quick access. If there is corruption in this cache then you may experience a variety of troubles. To clear the cache, in pre-Leopard versions of OS X go to the /Macintosh HD/Library/Caches/ folder and remove the “com.apple.ATS” file. After doing this, restart the system.

   For OS X 10.5 and later, you cannot easily access the user and global font caches, but you can use Apple’s “atsutil” terminal command to manage the ATS process. Open “Terminal” and enter the following commands to clear the user (or global) databases and restart the server:

   atsutil databases -removeUser
   atsutil server -shutdown
   atsutil server -ping

   NOTE: Use “sudo atsutil databases -remove” instead of the first command to remove the database for all users.

3. Avoid older font formats

   If you can, avoid “.dfont” and “Type 1 PostScript” fonts. This suggestion may depend on the requirements for various programs, but if you have an older font suite that you are thinking about installing, it may run into problems with newer programs so you might consider getting an updated version of the suite before installing. Granted you can always try, but there is the potential that older font formats can cause problems so we recommend you stick to the more modern “.ttf” and “.ttc” fonts.

4. Manually clear out duplicates

Font Book has an option to “Resolve Duplicates” (available in the “Edit” menu), but this is limited in functionality and may not remove the specific font duplicate which you desire to remove. As such, the best approach to managing duplicate fonts is to do it manually (tedious, but effective if done correctly). In Font Book, you can use the “Show Font info” option (command-I) to see information about a selected font, and especially where the font is located on your system. Doing this for your duplicate fonts will allow you to select which one to remove, either by removing it from its font folder, or by right-clicking it and selecting “Disable”.

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