Do the following steps to create the script file and copy the ZIP file to your website:

1. Create a file and name it copy.php
2. Open the file in a text editor and copy the following script:

   <?php
   if(!copy("http://wordpress.org/latest.zip", "wordpress.zip"))
   {
   echo("Failed to copy the file.");
   }
   ;
   ?>
   

3. As you can see in the script, there is a source URL (http://wordpress.org/latest.zip) of the file and a destination path and file name (wordpress.zip , in same directory). Change these according to your input.
4. Then save the file.
5. Upload copy.php using your FTP client to the destination folder.
6. Now, using your web browser, access the copy.php file so that the script runs and copies the file. For example, if you uploaded the file to the root directory, use www.yourdomain.com/copy.php
7. If the script runs successfully, the wordpress.zip file should be there in the destination directory.

Also typically, you might need to extract this file. I’ll show you how to do that if you had a web hosting account that uses cPanel. HostGator has such platform for example. Click here to see how to extract a zip archive file with cPanel

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1. Access your cPanel.
2. In the “Files” section, click “File Manager”.
3. Select the directory where your Zip file is in.
4. Click the “Go” button.
5. Select the Zip archive file.
6. Click the Extract button.
7. You will be prompted to specify the destination path, specify the path or just keep the field as it is if you want to extract the files to the same directory of the Zip archive file.
8. Click the “Extract File(s)” button.

That’s it, you can now delete the archive (.zip) file.

Now, if the extracted files go into a folder such as the case if you had “wordpress.zip” file extracted to a folder called “wordpress”, do the following to take the files that are inside the “wordpress” directory out to the higher level directory:

1. Double click the “wordpress” directory to enter it.
2. Press the “Select all” button.
3. Then click the “Move File” button.
4. You will be prompted to specify the destination path, simply delete the “wordpress” word until you reach the slash “/” character.
5. Then click the “Move File(s)” button.
6. Then click the “Up One level” button to get back to the higher level directory. You will see your moved files and also the empty “wordpress” directory. Since the empty wordpress directory is no longer needed, you can now delete it.

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The fastest way is to have a keyboard shortcut which does just that. What we are going to do is create a Word Macro and assign a shortcut to it. The following instructions were done using Microsoft Word 2010, but really this Word Macro can be used with almost all Word versions being used today.

Before we create the Macro, if the Developer tab is not visible, do the following to make it show up:

1. From the menu, click “File” then select “Options”
2. Select “Customize Ribbon”
3. On the right side under “Customize the Ribbon” section, check the “Developer” checkbox.
4. Then click the “OK” button.

Creating the Paste Unformatted Text Macro,

1. Select the “Developer” tab
2. Click the “Visual Basic” button.
3. On the left, in the Project panel, click the plus sign next to “Normal” to expand
4. Then click the plus sign next to “Modules”
5. Double click “NewMacros”
6. Copy and Paste the following code to the Code window in the Visual Basic editor. (put the mouse cursor at the end of the document before pasting to keep the previously created Macros)

   Sub PasteSpecial()
   Selection.PasteSpecial DataType:=wdPasteText
   End Sub
   

7. Click the “save” button. Once you do that a new Macro has been saved with name “PasteSpecial”
8. Close the Visual Basic window.

Assigning to the Macro a keyboard shortcut,

What we are going to do next is assign a keyboard shortcut to run the macro. We know that to paste text normally, we use ctrl + V keyboard shortcut, so it would be a good idea to assign our macro the alt + V to make it easy for us to remember and differentiate the normal paste from the special paste without formatting.

1. From the menu, click “File” then select  the “Customize Ribbon” tab
2. Look for the “Keyboard Shortcuts” label and click the “Customize” button
3. In the “Categories” section, click anywhere inside it and then press the “M” key so that it gets you to the Macros category.
4. At the right side and under “Macros” look for “PasteSpecial” and select it.
5. Then under “Press new shortcut key” label, put you mouse cursor in the field.
6. Press the keyboard combination alt + V (hold the alt key and then press the “V” key)
7. Then click the “Assign” button.
8. Then click the “Close” button to close the window, and then “Ok” for the “Word Options” window.

That’s it, now you have the keyboard shortcut alt + V to paste text without style or formatting.

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So how could we make one? Microsoft Word provides a feature for developers to create Macros in Visual Basic programming language which we can use to manipulate data easily and in an automated way. Now, you don’t need to know about coding to make the reverse list, I will provide you with step-by-step instructions on what to do to create the Marco and then be able to use it from now and on to create Reverse Numbered Lists. (the Macro code credit goes to Word Tips website)

The code used can work with Microsoft Word 97, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007, and 2010 (by the time of this writing). The interface instructions to create these Macros differ between Word versions. I’ll provide you with instructions on how to do it with Word 2010.

Showing the Developer tab,

If the “Developer” tab in Word is not visible, do the following to  show it up:

1. From the menu, click “File” then select “Options”
2. Select “Customize Ribbon”
3. On the right side under “Customize the Ribbon” section, check the “Developer” checkbox.
4. Then click the “OK” button.

Creating the Macro,

1. Select the “Developer” tab
2. Click the “Visual Basic” button.
3. On the left, in the Project panel, click the plus sign next to “Normal” to expand
4. Then click the plus sign next to “Modules”
5. Double click “NewMacros”
6. Copy and Paste the following code to the Code window in the Visual Basic editor. (put the mouse cursor at the end of the document before pasting to keep the previously created Macros)

   Sub RevList()
   Dim ShowFlag As Boolean
   Dim Numparas As Integer
   Dim Counter As Integer
   
   Numparas = Selection.Paragraphs.Count
   Selection.MoveLeft Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1
   ShowFlag = ActiveWindow.View.ShowFieldCodes
   ActiveWindow.View.ShowFieldCodes = True
   DoList Numparas
   Counter = 1
   While Counter < Numparas
   Selection.Move Unit:=wdParagraph, Count:=1
   DoList Numparas
   Counter = Counter + 1
   Wend
   ActiveWindow.View.ShowFieldCodes = ShowFlag
   ActiveDocument.Select
   ActiveDocument.Fields.Update
   End Sub
   
   Private Sub DoList(Cnt As Integer)
   Selection.Extend
   Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1
   If InStr(Selection.Text, "SEQ") > 0 Then
   Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=2
   Selection.Delete Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1
   Else
   Selection.Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseStart
   End If
   Selection.Fields.Add Range:=Selection.Range, Type:=wdFieldEmpty, _
   PreserveFormatting:=False
   Selection.TypeText Text:="=" & Cnt + 1 & "-"
   Selection.Fields.Add Range:=Selection.Range, Type:=wdFieldEmpty, _
   PreserveFormatting:=False
   Selection.TypeText Text:="SEQ RevList"
   With Selection.ParagraphFormat
   .LeftIndent = InchesToPoints(0.5)
   .FirstLineIndent = InchesToPoints(-0.5)
   End With
   Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=4
   Selection.InsertAfter "." & vbTab
   End Sub
   

7. Click the “save” button. Once you do that a new Macro has been saved with name “RevList”
8. Close the Visual Basic window.

Adding the Macro as a button in Word

1. So back to Word, click “File” from the menu then select “Options”
2. Select  the “Customize Ribbon” tab
3. In the “Choose commands From” section, select “Macros” from the drop down list.
4. In the box below it, look for “Normal.NewMacros.RevList” and select it
5. On the right side and under “Customize the Ribbon”, select “Main Tabs” from the drop down list
6. Select the “Home” tab
7. Click the “New Group” button
8. While the new group tab is selected, click the “Rename” button
9. Name this group whatever you like, if you like, name it “My Buttons”
10. While the “My Buttons” is selected (and that RevList macro selected), click the “Add >>” button
11. Now it will be automatically selected, so click the “Rename” button to rename Normal.NewMacros.RevList and give it the name you like, for example, “Reverse List”. Also it’s a good idea to assign it an icon, for example a down arrow icon.
12. Now click the “Ok” button. Then click the Ok button again for the Word Options dialog to save the changes.

What happened now is that you will see a button for the “Reverse List” macro added under the Home tab at the far right group of it.

Using the Reverse List button,

Write down your list in Word as paragraphs (you press Enter after each list item). For example:

Microsoft Windows 7

Microsoft Windows Vista

Microsoft Windows XP

Select the list and then press the our “Reverse List” button, and here you go, will see that a reverse list has been created like this:

3. Microsoft Windows 7

2. Microsoft Windows Vista

1. Microsoft Windows XP

Now if you wanted to add a new item in the list, anywhere in it (each list item should be a paragraph), do so then select the entire list and click the “Reverse List” button again, it will automatically reassign the numbers in the list. for Example, we added Microsoft Windows 2000 to the list:

3. Microsoft Windows 7

2. Microsoft Windows Vista

1. Microsoft Windows XP

Microsoft Windows 2000

Select the entire list, and then click the button, it becomes:

4. Microsoft Windows 7

3. Microsoft Windows Vista

2. Microsoft Windows XP

1. Microsoft Windows 2000

Advanced instructions,

Now, you are set to go with that, but if you wanted to change the “hanging indent”, you have to edit the Macro code a bit. Change the lines in the DoList macro where you will see the LeftIndent and FirstLineIndent properties which you can set there.

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First off, we have to clear things up. You are here because you have discovered that some people are receiving emails from you (your email address) and you know that you have never sent them those emails. Those could be your friends, your contacts, or people you’ve never knew. This is a problem that may have different causes. Some of the causes you have control over and could be fixed, but others you don’t. However, whatever that cause was, you should act immediately to prevent further damage because it is possible that your email account has been compromised and you could also lose your account.

Basically there are two main reasons why people could receive emails from your email address that you have really never sent.

By forging the “From” field of an email.

It is possible to send emails with a “From” field containing an email address that the sender really have no access to. In such a case, your account or password has not been stolen or compromised. You don’t really have control over this. The sender in the major cases is really a virus and automated bots that have harvested email addresses and used them in the From field to send spam emails to others. This doesn’t mean that your computer is infected with a virus, the sender computer could just be anywhere. Email companies have established methods to fight such type of emails and some of them warn the receiver that the source of such an email may have not come from the source that it claims.

Your account has been compromised.

This means that somebody has access to your account, it could be individuals or even automated bots which have stolen your password and are now using your account to send emails to others especially your contacts. In such a case you might even see those emails in the “Sent” mailbox, but not necessarily. Let’s list the possibilities of who could have access or stolen your password someway or another:

• Someone has access to your computer and you happen to associate access to your account automatically (without the need to enter a password).
• Somebody has access to your computer, and have stolen your password using keylogger software. Similarly if you access your account at an Internet café, someone might steal your password the same way.
• Spyware programs, whether on your computer or at an Internet café can also steal your password and other information.
• Of course it could be that someone just guessed your password.
• There are also other reasons like stealing your password with spoofing the identify of your email provider (through a web page linked in an email); you unknowingly gave them your password by thinking that you’re accessing your account or so.

In any of these situations, what you have to do is pretty similar, and changing your password is not enough. The reason for that is those who gained access to your account also have access to your “secret question”  and other credentials that are used to recover email accounts. They can also change your “alternate account” and even the mobile phone number (if the email service provides such type of methodology to recover accounts).

So, what you have to do is the following:

• Change your password of your email account, and make it hard to guess. Have a password of at least 8 characters and use special characters to make the password harder to crack.
• Change your “Secret Question” and its answer.
• Check the alternate email address if it has been changed, if so restore it to the correct address (if you still have access to that other account).
• Check the stored mobile phone number to see if it is yours and update it accordingly.

Take the following cautions into consideration:

• Avoid accessing your email account at an Internet café, even if you trust them that they might not intentionally install keylogger programs to steal passwords, they might have spyware programs that are installed on their computers without their knowledge.
• Install on your computer good Anti-spyware and Antivirus programs, I recommend Avira.
• Make sure that no one can access your account at your computer.
• Be ware of phishing emails and don’t follow the links provided in it.

If you do all that and some people are still receiving spam emails from your email address, then the problem is probably that computer bots are sending emails with a forged “From” field. In such a case, there is nothing that you can do further. But at least you may have solved the most important cause that you should handle. And you might actually were having the 2 problems, well in such a case you solved one and saved your account!

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What is RSS useful for?

To put it simply, if there is a blog that publishes posts considered interesting by you, how would you be able to stay up-to-date with that blog? How would you know that the blog has published a new post? For sure you can go that blog (or website) on a daily basis, or even several times during the day, but as you can see this takes time and that blog may have not published a new post (or article). And if you have many sites or blogs that you need to keep up with, the process may just get cumbersome and wastes a lot of your time. RSS, which stands for Really Simple Syndication, gives you the ability to get updates for a number of blogs that you subscribe to without the need to visit those sites / blogs. This keeps you up-to-date with those blogs and saves a lot of valuable time.

What is an RSS Feed?

An “RSS Feed” is what a blog generates to syndicate the blog content with “RSS Feed Readers”.

What is an RSS Feed URL?

You are probably familiar with what URL or Link usually means. A URL that you enter in a web browser address bar takes you to a specific page. For an RSS feed reader to get the content from a specific blog, it needs an RSS Feed URL so that it can access and show you the content.
For example, the RSS Feed URL of my website that lets you get blog post updates is http://feeds.itfall.com/itfall

This is what an RSS Feed Reader needs to get from you so that it can read the blog content.

How to identify an RSS Feed URL on a website?

You would usually find the URL as a link with an icon that looks like this (it can have different sizes, however):

Or it can simply be a link that contains text like RSS feed or RSS. In any case of these, all you need to do to get the URL copied is right click over it and select “Copy Shortcut” (Internet Explorer) or “Copy Link Location” (Mozilla Firefox) or “Copy link address” (Google Chrome). And then you have to paste the URL to an “RSS Feed Reader”.

RSS Feed Readers

Now, there are many RSS Feed Readers out there and some may be web based, others are software. In this tutorial, I am just going to show you one RSS Reader which you can download and install. It is called “RSS Bandit”.

Subscribing to RSS Feeds with RSS Bandit (the version installed in this tutorial is 1.9.0.1002)

1. Get RSS Bandit from their website and see the software Prerequisites. You need the .Net Framework v3.5 installed.
2. Run the installer file, then click “Next” on the Welcome dialog.
3. Choose “Just me” or “Everyone” then click “Next”.
4. Then click “Next” again to start installation.
5. Once finished, click the “close” button.
6. You should now see the shortcut of the program on the desktop, double click it to start the program.
7. On the left pane, you will see a section called “My Feeds”. As you can see it already contains feeds that were added by the program when it was installed. These folders are meant to categorize your feeds, you can add or delete folders as you wish. Suppose we want to add a feed to the “Blogs” folder, tick the small triangle next to it to see what it contains.
8. Then click over the “Blogs” folder to select it. Then right click over it, and select “New Feed Subscription”.
9. Click “Next”on the Wizard Welcome Page.
10. Enter the URL of the feed. For example, if you want to subscribe to my blog, enter this URL: http://feeds.itfall.com/itfall
11. Then click the “Next” button.
12. It will automatically fill in the title of the feed as detected, but you change that title as you like.
13. Since we have previously right clicked over the Blogs folder, it has been selected automatically. But you can change it here if you want.
14. On the Subscription Credentials page you can enter the user name and password of the feed (if any). In our case, and like most cases with blogs, you don’t need to. So just leave them empty and click “Next”.
15. On the Feed/Item Control page, you can select the “Update Frequency”. 60 minutes is the default. Click “Next” thereafter.
16. On the Feed/Item Display, just click “Next” as we don’t need to use a custom formatter.
17. Then click “Finish”

After that, to get to see the content, select the Feed in the left pane. Then look at the right pane in the “Feed Details” section to see the blog posts. When you select one, you will see the content in the lower section.
Also, if you see a plus sign next to a feed item, it means that the post has comments, and if you click it, you will see those comment items, and then when you click on one, you will see the content of that comment in the lower section.

If you want the RSS Bandit program to start automatically after logon to Windows, do the following:

1. From the menu bar select “Tools”, and then click “Options”
2. In the “Startup” section, check the “Start application after logon to Windows” checkbox then click “OK”

So that’s it, it is really that simple.

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To make the taskbar buttons always separated, you have to set the settings for them in Taskbar properties and use a small utility to tweak the Windows Taskbar buttons behavior.

Setting Windows 7 taskbar properties,

1. Right click the taskbar then click “properties”
2. For the Taskbar buttons drop down menu, select “Never Combine”
3. This part is optional, but I also like to check the “Use small icons” checkbox. Just to make it more like our beloved Windows XP :)
4. Click the “OK” button

Making the taskbar buttons never “group”,

1. Go to this page to download “7 Taskbar Tweaker”
2. If you have 32-bit version of Windows 7, choose “7_Taskbar_Tweaker.rar” as your download. If you have 64-bit Windows 7, choose 7_Taskbar_Tweaker_x64.rar
3. Extract the RAR archive file. The download is a RAR archive file, you should have WinRAR program to extract its content.
4. Move the program directory to any place you want, I prefer to put it in “Program Files”
5. start the program by double clicking its file
6. In the grouping section, select “Don’t Group”
7. click the “Apply” button
8. Now, click the “settings” button
9. The settings apply while the program is running, so you should check the “Run at startup” checkbox
10. then click the “OK” button (you could also hide the tray icon if you check the “Hide tray icon” checkbox)
11. click the “x” (close) button to close the window (the program will remain running)

(it should be noted that after you setup the utility as instructed above, you should close opened windows and open them again for the new taskbar behavior to be in effect)

That’s it, another Windows 7 annoyance defeated :)

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After searching for a solution, it just seemed that the only way to replace the missing feature is by using a third-party software. And with all the docking programs and software out there, one program was able to impress me. It allowed me to create just what that lost windows feature would allow me to. The presented image in this post just shows you what “True Launch Bar” software can do; it was just what I wanted!

So here are step-by-step instructions for creating a Windows 7 side toolbar:

1. Download True Launch Bar
2. During installation and when you reach the “Quick Start Guide” page, click “Next”. For the purpose of this tutorial, you don’t need to apply the steps they mention to add the toolbar using that way.
3. Uncheck the checkbox for updates button and click the “Finish” button.
4. To launch the application we need, click the Windows “Start” button and then type “Standalone True Launch Bar” in the search bar until you see it under Programs, then press “Enter” to launch it.
5. When the “Standalone True Launch Bar” dialog opens, look at the “Dock” section and for the “Dock side” drop down button, select where you want it to appear, I like to put it on the right side, so I select “Right”.
6. For the “Full Row” checkbox, I prefer to leave it unchecked (and later I drag its bottom side to set its length)
7. For the “Toolbar style” section, hit the “Taskbar” radio button.
8. At the bottom left, check the “Run on system startup” checkbox, so that you can have the toolbar always load when your computer starts
9. and then click the “Ok” button

You will notice that a bar appears on the top right of your desktop. It will contain links of what is in the Windows (actually Internet Explorer) Quick launch toolbar. Windows 7 by default has removed the Quick Launch from the taskbar, but with a tweak you can add that taskbar to it again. For this tutorial, we don’t need it at all.

Now, do the following to setup the folder of your choice as a toolbar to make it contain your links and shortcuts:

1. Create a folder. As an example, I have created a folder in “My Documents” and named it “My Links”
2. Right click over the toolbar, and select “Switch toolbar”, then click “Manage Toolbars…”
3. With the Toolbars tab selected, click the “New” button
4. Browse to your folder. In our Case, it’s in My Documents > My Links
5. click the “OK” button. Then click “Ok” again for the “True Launch Bar settings” dialog
6. Now, right click again over the True Launch Bar toolbar, and select “Switch toolbar” then click “My Links”

Few more steps to have the toolbar satisfy my needs!

When you right click over the “True Launch Bar” toolbar you will see a set of options, the following was done after right clicking…

1. click “Show Text” so that we can see the actual shortcut name next to its icon.
2. “Taskbar mode” , if checked , the bar will act like a sidebar in a way that when you maxmize a window, it cannot ovelap with it. Note: You might not see this behavior directly, but when you restart the PC it will act like that. If you uncheck it, which I like to set, a window can be maximized to its full. And also, it will allow you to put desktop icons below the toolbar.
3. click “Always On Top” to uncheck it so that you can see the full window when maximized.

And now, drag and drop whatever shortcuts you want to the toolbar, or go to its folder directly and add them there.

Final tips:

• You can expand the size of the toolbar by hovering the mouse cursor over its free borders (bottom for example in our case) and drag it.
• when you finish setting it up, it’s good to lock it by right clicking over it and selecting “Lock the toolbar”

That’s it. Enjoy!

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One essential need when you use virtualization software is to have the ability to share folders between the main Operating System and the Guest OS. VirtualBox has a neat feature to do just that. However, when Windows 7 is the guest OS, you won’t find the shared folder in Network Places. When you add a shared folder using the VirtualBox interface, it has indeed been added but you just have to do one more step to be able to access it.

For completion purpose, I’ll show you how to add a folder to the shared folders using VirualBox and the small trick to actually access it.

Adding a VirtualBox Shared folder,

1. Select “Devices” from the the VirtualBox menu bar, then click “Shared Folders…”
2. In the “Shared Folders” dialog, click the “Add Shared Folder” button
3. For the “Folder path” click the down arrow, then select “Other…”
4. Browse to the folder you want to share, then click the “OK” button to select it. Assume that the name of the folder is “VBShare”
5. Click the “OK” button for the “Add Share” dialog
6. then click the “OK” button to close the “Shared folders” dialog

Accessing the Shared Folder,

1. Go to “Computer”, (Start, Computer)
2. From the toolbar, click the “Map network drive” button
3. For the “Folder” field, copy and paste “\\vboxsrv\VBShare” to it (without the quotes). Where “VBShare” is the shared folder that has been added in this article (use the name of what you have actually added)
4. Click the “Finish” button

You will see that the shared folder has opened immediately, but also look to the “Computer” window and notice the New drive added under the “Network Location” section. So, now you can access the shared folder from here or you can take a shortcut of it to your desktop (the guest OS desktop) for convenient access.

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1. From the menu, click “Tools”, then click “Preferences”
2. In the “Preferences” dialog, look to the bottom left where you will see “Show Settings” label, hit the “All” radio button
3. Select “Advanced” from the left pane
4. Look for the “Performance options” section, and uncheck “One instance when started from file” checkbox
5. then click the “Save” button”

With that setting, when you open another VLC file from your Windows explorer, a new instance of VLC will start and show your video in a new window.

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