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Please Post GameCenter Friend Request Here - Page 59. How can i back up my contacts from my iphone to my pc???? Apple iOS 5 Release: A Guide to the 200 New Features. Apple plans to release its most advanced mobile operating system, iOS 5, on Oct. 12 at midnight.

Apple iOS 5 Release: A Guide to the 200 New Features

The company did not respond to initial inquiry whether the update will be released globally on this date, or if it will be rolled it out over a period of time. Every new iOS device sold after Oct. 12 will have iOS 5 pre-loaded, but current iOS owners will be able to download the free upgrade from the iTunes Store. To install iOS 5 on current hardware, users will need to connect to their Mac or PC and follow a set of instructions in iTunes. Once the update is complete, users will thankfully never need to plug into their computers ever again.

One of the key features of iOS 5 is total device independence. iOS 5 is Apple's most comprehensive and complete system upgrade ever with over 200 new features. Like us on Facebook Must Read : iOS 5 Launched: Top 10 Features that Makes iOS 5 the Best Mobile OS of 2011 (PHOTOS) New Lifestyle Apps: iOS 5 is all about making life easier for the user. Junction. Introduction Windows 2000 and higher supports directory symbolic links, where a directory serves as a symbolic link to another directory on the computer.

Junction

For example, if the directory D:\SYMLINK specified C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32 as its target, then an application accessing D:\SYMLINK\DRIVERS would in reality be accessing C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS. Directory symbolic links are known as NTFS junctions in Windows. Unfortunately, Windows comes with no tools for creating junctions—you have to purchase the Win2K Resource Kit, which comes with the linkd program for creating junctions. I therefore decided to write my own junction-creating tool: Junction. Please read this Microsoft KB article for tips on using junctions. Notethat Windows does not support junctions to directories on remote shares. If you want to view reparse information, the usage for Junction is the following: Changing backup location. You can't change the iTunes behavior, as far as I can tell.

Changing backup location.

Close your website temporarily with Apache htaccess. The Leading Provider of Vulnerability Management and Vulnerability Intelligence Solutions. How to Move the iPhone & iPad iTunes Backup folder to an External Hard Drive. If you have a Mac with an SSD or otherwise limited disk space (like the MacBook Air 11″ with a 64GB drive), you might consider moving your iPhone backup folder to another drive to save some of that precious SSD space. Before proceeding you might want to determine if this is necessary for you.

Do this by checking the size of the iTunes “Backup” folder that we reference below, just click on it and select “Get Info” to calculate it’s size. In my case, the Backup folder is 6GB, so with the small MacBook Air SSD I could immediately save 10% of disk space by relocating the backup elsewhere. With this in mind, here’s how to move the often large iTunes backup to an external drive. Note: Moving the iTunes iPhone/iPad/iPod backup folder to another drive requires that external drive to be connected in order to backup or sync future iOS devices properly. From the Mac OS X Finder, hit Command+Shift+G to bring up the “Go To” window, type the following directory in: That’s it!

Protect Your Admin folder in WordPress by Limiting Access in .htaccess. As we mentioned while using WordPress 2.8.3, our site was attacked in an attempt to hack into our WP-Admin folder.

Protect Your Admin folder in WordPress by Limiting Access in .htaccess

Thankfully WordPress has found the bug and released a security patch in WordPress 2.8.4, but this attack made us take extra security measures with our site. How to prevent your website from getting hacked. Repair damaged site. HZ Dashboard 2.1.0. Three tips to protect your WordPress installation. Here are three easy but important ways to protect yourself if you run a WordPress blog: Secure your /wp-admin/ directory.

Three tips to protect your WordPress installation

What I’ve done is lock down /wp-admin/ so that only certain IP addresses can access that directory. Fantastico shows error 'You cannot install more than one script in the root directory of a domain' The Fantastico automated installer is no longer included in our cPanel configuration and you won’t be able to use it with your account.

Fantastico shows error 'You cannot install more than one script in the root directory of a domain'

We have switched to a similar automated installer called Softaculous. More detailed information about it can be found in our Softaculous tutorial. However, if you experience the problem on another hosting company’s server, you can check the following instructions in order to see how you can avoid the error message: If there is no script installed in the web root folder of your hosting account but you still get this error message it means that a previously installed script was not properly removed.

Linksys by Cisco - BEFSR41. How to Bulletproof (or Unf*ck) Your Mac. (Photo: Small Dog Electronics) Macs are easy to use.

How to Bulletproof (or Unf*ck) Your Mac

Intuitive! Viruses? Never heard of ‘em! Well, perhaps. It displayed “Indexing Spotlight,” with an estimated finish time of several MILLION hours. I’m no computer scientist, but that seemed like an abnormally long time. So, I put a notice out on the Internets asking for help and learned a lot about Macs in the process. But what if your Mac crashes or is stolen? My hope is that this post somehow helps you to do exactly that. We’ll start with an e-mail thread from Jared Cocken, Creative Director of The Wonderfactory, then we’ll lead into personal suggestions. If you have alternative solutions or more elegant fixes, please let me know in the comments! Enter Jared Most software glitches on OS X are permissions-based. Below are a few steps that will (A) Fix common issues on Macs, and (B) Keep your Mac running smoothly. Step 1: Backup Data and Repair Permissions 1) Backup your data using one of the following methods:

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