Just as an update:

1. We will be moving our blogging to our new blog site, fully dedicated to our blogging : http://tech-fyi.net
2. We are currently in the process of moving the already built Tech-FYI site to a home server.
3. This may take 2 or  more weeks to complete so please bare with us during this transfer.

Updated: 10/25/09 - 10:57am - CDT

After a while of debate and criticism directed to AT&T they finally
have decided to announce the launch date for picture(MMS) messaging on
the IPhone 3G and 3GS. The lucky date in which is going to be
"September 25", least that is what AT&T's Twitter and Web Site have
said.

One section that comes to my mind when I think of AT&T releasing this,
is the limits they will put on it, plus the fact that most likely Apple
will have to put out a new update for the Iphone in order for this to
work(predicted it will be called 3.1). This is great for most users
but that means your going to need to hook your Iphone up to the
computer soon, so be ready.

This feature should have personally been added way before now, but I
can't exactly persuade their minds. It's taken lots of debate on Apple
and AT&T's side to come up with the release date for this (quote on
quote)" Major Update" to the Iphone.

I think this is a sad excuse for Apple not being able to get their
hardware on the Iphone good enough to take a picture and send it... To
me this won't be a big update anyways because all it will give me is
another reason to get mad at my Phone...

"It Froze Again!!" I yell franticly

Hopefully this update will make the Iphone a better contender for
Verizon and Sprint... if only every wireless carrier could use SIM
cards.

I was over at Codegeeks viewing one of their posts about an widget you can place in your blog or any html file that would show a Silverlight box with a count down time in days till windows 7 final release comes out. I got really excited to see this and copied the code(which happen to be an IFrame) eminently. With out a though about it not working in my mind I logged-in to my blog and began to add a new textbox widget to the sidebar. After adding it I clicked the edit button like any normal person would, and navigated to the HTML view of the textbox. I pasted the code inside and saved the widget but when I reloaded my blogs page, the new sidebar widget was there but no silverlight box inside showing the count down. I quickly recognized the simple HTML code as an IFrame and began to investigate. This is my simple solution:

1. Go ahead and open your favorite FTP program and login to your site.
2. When at the blog navigate to the admin folder and find the file called “tinyMCE.ascx”, and download it.
3. Open it inside of notepad or your favorite text editor and add this 1 line of code in the tinyMCE.init section.

extended_valid_elements: "iframe[name|id|src|frameborder|width|height|scrolling|style]",

Thats it! Save the file and reupload and replace that old one. Then clear your browsers cashe and reload the page. All should work well when you try to re-add any IFrame to your sidebar, maybe even posts. ;)

Today is a special day. Not only is it 100 W.P.D. ‘s Creation day, but it’s also the web masters B-Day as well. His name is Taylor Brazelton and we are happy to have him here for the celebration. We are planning on giving away an invite tonight to a certain site were not at libertay to say right now. But if you would like to enter all you have to do is :

1. Must be following the twitter account Ryanb58.
2. Must have at lest 1 approved comment on his blog(can be on this post), but must be helpful, or informational. Can not be just a “Good Job” or an “Wow that’s awesome” comment.
3. Must tweet this text: “I am entering @Ryanb58 and #100wpd ‘s twitter contest to win a #Demonoid account invite!! http://bit.ly/4oen0G”

That’s all you have to do. There will be 3 winners and they will be chosen by random on 8/19/09 at 5:00PM 9:00PM CDT :D!! Also don’t forget to make you username on the comment the same as your twitter username;) Have fun!!

(can not live in Evansville, Indiana)

Things I liked; mainly about the new windows 7 RC build 7100:

1. When you right click it on the desktops background it gives you an option to directly adjust the screens resolution.
2. Drag any windows to the top of the screen to maximize it.
3. Shake any windows and all the other ones will disappear. When your done just shake the window again and the others will magically come back.
4. By dragging a windows to the left of right side of the screen it will automatically make the window the width of half of the screen. This is a very good feature when you need to view 2 windows on the same screen.
5. Right click on your programs that are running and you get a very nice and feature filled pop-up menu.
6. A whole lot less UAC pop-ups when installing software and running executables.
7. Nice new interface to WordPad with ribbons and contextual tabs. Plus new features to view and edit any Office Open XML Document(.docx) and Open Document Text(.odt) files.
8. You can right click and hold shift down on the keyboard while selecting a folder and it comes up with several options. (A picture is worth a thousand words)

   

9. By hitting your windows key + the spacebar it will give you a simple peek at your desktop.

10. Now you can natively burn ISO files by just clicking on the .iso file you have and using the built in Disk Images Utility now integrated into windows 7.

If you have any favorite features on your windows 7 machine or any that you’d like to hopefully see in future Microsoft Operating Systems. Go ahead and comment below telling us what you want or like. =D

Today I have upgraded to Windows 7 RC ultimate Build 7100 and the Upgrade process from my Windows Vista Home Premium SP2 OS was fairly Smooth and I didn’t and can’t notice anything wrong with it so far. The speed is amazing compared to Windows previous release. Now the taskbar being twice as big helps me manage my running applications a lot better.

Here is a screenshot of my specs. I will put a new post up on some of the top features of this new OS soon. :)

Sorry for the bad quality. I didn’t have time to upload in the 720. :) enjoy:

Please comment:)

Over the past few day’s I have been wondering how to detect the users browsers type and then depending on what browser type the user is using select the appropriate master page or style sheet for the page/site. Then tonight I was up late at one of the local book stores when I stumbled on this book in the back called “Programming Microsoft ASP.net 3.5 : Dino Esposito”, in this book I found several helpful tips on working with ASP.net and C# that I had not known before now. One of which is, well just read the title. Ha! Anyways lets get started.

First off you need to have your master pages/files already created. This is the most important step, yet there has to be a page that you can use are your default master page in case the user is using a browser that you do not have a fixed master page for. Also, just a small tip if your a beginner. It helps to include the name or initials of the browser type in the master pages file name so that you can identify which master page can support which browser.

Next, err last is to simply specify in the content pages which master page is for which browser by simply adding this extra code to the head of the page:

<%@ masterpagefile="Default.master"
	ie:masterpagefile="IE.master"
	netscape6to9:masterpagefile="NS6to9.master" %>

As you can tell this simply tells that the Default page is Default.master, the Internet Explorer Page is IE.master, and the Netscape 6 to 9 page is called NS6to9.master. Now don’t get me wrong there are way more browser types you can use so you don’t have to worry, I will post below a table of the ones I know of that work.

I hope this has helped or netherless informed you somewhat. Enjoy your life and remember to rate and comment on how well you liked this small tip. Thank You.

Over the past few days I had noticed that my blogs theme was getting pretty lame. Plus the theme before is a very common one that I had been running into on several other blogs and sites. I like to be different, so knowing my self I knew I had to find a new better theme. Welcome to the new theme ha :D!

This theme was originally created by Sapienworks, but since their disappearance I decided to adapt and adopt it from them. I have made some small changes in it and so far I love the results. I hope you do too, so enjoy my site and blog and have great day,week,month,year, or life :D!!

Be sure to comment and rate based on weather you like my new theme or not.

Today I was downloading Backtrack 3 USB edition on a different laptop of mine, in which i was going to run on my main laptop for anonymous reasons. I wasn’t sure how to put backtrack on the USB I had ready so I went for help on YouTube. I found some videos and some other tutorials but none of them helped me because I am on vista and they were all shown in XP, and when i tried to run the batch file that was provided in the boot folder of the OS on the USB it would always deny access to the F: or E: ‘s drive of the USB that i wanted to make bootable. After a little bit of testing I also tried running the batch file as an Administrator by right clicking on the file and selecting “Run as Administrator”. But when I did so it came up with the C: drive, which you do NOT want to change the MBR of. I found that out from experience. I did so and ended up having to have one of my friends bring over their Windows Vista installation CD’s and I had to run the Repair program provided by Microsoft, which by the way does fix the problem in case you do accidently press the enter button when the drive is set to the wrong one.

So finally I remembered one of my past video’s I had made when I was really young about how to unlock the Super Admin account in windows vista. I wondered if running the batch file from this account would let me access the USB and set it as bootable. Here is how to do so if you don’t already know:

1. Open the CMD from an regular Admin account by going to Start>All Programs>Accessories>Command Prompt  and right clicking and selecting “Run as Administrator” then accept the UAC pop-up.
2. Next you need to type this in to activate the Super admin account:

   net user Administrator /active:yes

3. Then you should see some text saying “The command has been completed successfully “ at this point you should sign out of the current account and go into the new Administrator account which should not have a password as long as it hasn’t been tampered with before.
4. Next go into the USB drive and run the batch file and it should be corrected by saying that it wants to make the USB drive bootable. At this point you no longer need my help.

Be sure to run this code afterwards so that you deactivate the Super Administrator account after your done(from the regular admin account).

net user Administrator /active:no

And that’s it. The drive should be bootable and you should be ready to use your new backtrack 3 live distro on any computer that’s compatible.

To download backtrack:
http://www.remote-exploit.org/backtrack_download.html 

Also another good link about fixing the MBR:
http://www.tomstricks.com/how-to-repair-and-restore-windows-vista-master-boot-record-mbr/
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392