Tech Dreamer

If you get the following error when you are trying to burn a DVD using Nero Burning ROM or Nero Express,

‘File is larger than 2GB and cannot be stored in an ISO file system. Please use the UDF file system to write large files. This can be done by selecting another compilation type.’

most likely you are trying to burn an image. Here is what you need to do to solve this problem…

Click on Recorder on the top menu, then click on Burn Image, select your ISO file and then Burn It!

Recorder –> Burn Image –> Select your ISO file

Your DVD should begin burning without a hitch!

The solution to this problem is simple. If you have already enabled the Roads Layer in Google Earth and you are not seeing the street names, then you need to follow these steps.

Open the Tools menu, select Options and in the 3D View Tab under Graphics Mode, - (Tools > Options > 3D View tab > Graphics Mode) - switch whatever to you have to the other option which would be either OpenGL or DirectX.

If this does not work, you may need to upgrade your graphics card driver.

WARNING: The battery cannot be identified. This system will be unable to charge this battery.

If you have gotten that message on your Dell laptop and you are wondering how to fix it then you are in the right place.

Some users with Dell laptops like the Dell Inspiron 1501 and the Dell Vostro 1000 have been seeing the above error message at boot up.

THE FIX: The easiest way that I have found to fix this problem is by downloading the BIOS driver for you system from the Dell website. There is an option to add/edit your service tag. I recommend that you use that feature, as it will help you to locate the correct BIOS driver for your laptop.

DOESN’T WORK: I’ve seen some sites that advise users to replace the battery, but that will not fix the problem. Running down the battery and then restarting the system also does not fix this issue.

I hope that this information helps anyone with this problem. Feel free to leave a comment if you have tried it and it worked (or didn’t work as the case may be).

One of the most talked about laptops of 2009 has finally been released to the public today (March 17th, 2009) and is currently available for purchase online. The laptop in question is the Dell Adamo. Billed as the thinnest laptop, it now competes directly with Apple’s Macbook Air and HP’s Voodoo Envy 133 for thinnest laptop honors.

The Adamo comes in two colors, Pearl and Onyx. It boasts an ultra-slim .65 inch (16.51mm) profile, 13.4-inch widescreen, HD display, with edge to edge glass. The keyboard is backlit and the hard drive is the very cool and quiet solid-state type. They are equipped with Intel Core 2 Duo processors with Centrino technology and DDR3 RAM. It also comes with built in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

By now I am sure you are wondering what is the price of this fine machine. Well they start off at US$1,999 for the ADMIRE version that comes with a 1.2 GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM and a 128GB solid state hard drive. The higher end of the spectrum is called the DESIRE, and that boasts a 1.4 GHz Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM and a 128 GB solid state hard drive, all for US$2699. These are the starting prices and you can end up paying a lot more depending on what additional features you may want add.

Not wanting to sound critical, but at that price, it will be hard to compete. Especially with the general economic downturn that most countries have been experiencing and with the popularity of the cheaper mini-laptops. I would appreciate your comments seeing as how the current economic downturn in my budget doesn’t allow me to purchase one.

Google has launched a new service that will allow you to track the location of friends and family via their mobile phone.

Dubbed Latitude, the service is an add-on to the latest version of the Google Maps mobile software.

Video available here.

The service automatically detects your location - either via mobile base station triangulation or the vastly more accurate GPS (if available on your smartphone) - and then broadcasts your position to people on your Google contacts list.

In a careful attempt to avoid the mother of all privacy rows, Latitude is opt-in and you can chooose which friends you wish to share your location with.

It’s also possible to tell a little white lie and manually set your location to elsewhere: handy if a spouse decides to check whether you’re actually stuck on the train or getting stuck in at the bar.

Latitude works with a decent range of smartphones, including Blackberry, Symbian S60, and Windows Mobile devices, although the Apple iPhone and Google’s own Android OS are notable absentees - Google says both will be supported soon.

Latitude is also available as an iGoogle Gadget on the PC, so you can set your location from your computer as well as keep an eye on the location of your friends.

Source: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/246613/google-launches-mobile-tracking-service.html

Most webmasters looking to make some cash through their websites have probably heard of Google AdSense. According to Google Adsense:

It offers a contextual advertising solution to web publishers and delivers text-based Google AdWords ads that are relevant to site content pages.

It’s not an easy task to make it as one of the top earners, but for those who have made it, let’s just say they don’t really have to think about ever going to work in the morning again. The top earners make more than enough “dough” for a decent living. And now, without further delay, I give you, the top Google AdSense earners:

1: Markus Frind: PlentyOfFish.com - $300,000 per month

2: Kevin Rose: Digg.com - $250,000 per month

3: Jeremy Schoemaker aka ShoeMoney - $140,000 per month

4: Jason Calacanis: Weblogs, Inc. - $120,000 per month

5: David Miles Jr. & Kato Leonard: FreeWebLayouts.net - $100,000 per month

6: Tim Carter: AskTheBuilder.com - $30,000 per month

7: Joel Comm - $24,000 per month

8: Shawn Hogan – DigitalPoint.com $10,000 per month

Thanks for reading. I will expand on the details later on. Please feel free to let us know if you are one of the internet’s top Google AdSense Whores.

Good news for free users of Rapidshare.com. You only have to wait 45 seconds between downloads and you no longer have to enter a Captcha Code. The downside to all of this is that you are limited to a download speed of 500 kilobits per second which works out to about 62.5 kilobytes per second download speed. Not bad for those of you with a 512kbps connection. Another added benefit for free users is that you can now download files as large as 200 megabytes. So what are you waiting for? Start sharing those files…the ones you have rights to that is.

When you log into Hotmail with the latest version of Firefox 3, I’m sure that you encounter the following error:

“You are temporarily on the classic version of Windows Live Hotmail due to an error encountered during login. Before trying again, please clear your cache and cookies.”

I know this must be very frustrating, especially if you are accustomed to using the Full Version of Hotmail that utilises AJAX technology, which makes it so much faster than the Classic Version.

Now there isn’t an official fix at the moment but I’ve come across something that would at least solve the problem in the short term, until the good folks at Mozilla or at Microsoft can officially make all Firefox 3/Hotmail users happy.

Fix: Download and install the IE Tab which is available from the link below

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419

Open Hotmail and then click on the Firefox Icon near the bottom right side of your Firefox window to switch to “IE mode” and you will see the Firefox icon change to an IE icon .

Once this is done, the page should reload/refresh and you may be required to login once more. After you get logged in, you will notice that you can now access the Full Version of Windows Live Hotmail. Hope this helps. Leave comments and suggestions and let me know what you all think.

First off let me apologize for my absence on the blog but I’m back now. Since I’ve started using Mozilla Firefox with my Windows Live Hotmail account, I’ve noticed that horizontal white lines have been appearing on in-line images in my e-mails while scrolling down. The slower that I would scroll, the more white lines would appear. If I scroll really fast then there would be less lines. Now it seems there is either a bug in Firefox or the scripts being used by Windows Live Hotmail have some rendering issues.

I use Windows Live Hotmail “Full Version” and in “Full Message View”, ie. with the Reading Pane off, so I’m not sure if the same problem occurs if the reading pane is on. The solution that I have found to this problem with Firefox and Windows Live Hotmail is quite simple and just involves installing a Free Extension or Add-on for Mozilla Firefox.

The extension is called Stylish and can be downloaded from the link below.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108

Once you have downloaded and installed the Add-on, you will have to restart Firefox. After restarting, you will see a new icon near the bottom-right side of your Firefox window. The icon looks like this

Open Windows Live Hotmail and then right click the Stylish icon. From the menu that comes up choose Write Style > For mail.live.com

In the new window that pops up, enter the following:

Here is the code for easy selection. Just select it, copy and paste.

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);

@-moz-document domain(”mail.live.com”) {
.ReadMessagePane {overflow-y:scroll !important; overflow-x:scroll !important}

}

The Description could be anything you want actually, but I’ve use the description above as it most suits the situation. Click Save when you are finished entering the information above and scroll through some images. There should not be any more of those pesky lines.

RapidShare.com has put a new CAPTCHA system in place that asks for free users to solve an extraordinary new CAPTCHA image.

In order to download the file, you will need to decipher which letter has the image of a cat on it and input those into the box. The other image used by RapidShare.com is that of a dog. Personally I find this CAPTCHA quite tedious but I guess it’s one way of preventing free users from using those automated download scripts to beat the system.