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Firstly I would like to applogise to all the readers of  Technix Update, This blog had been getting down frequently for long times in last 24 hours.

Time Stamp: 11:00 pm 1st April 2009 ( Night)

This all started when I wrote a post on 40+ computer pranks you can play on your friend computer,  and send the post to stumbleupon and digg and with in one hour traffic start building up and make the situtaion worse by flooding the site with more traffic.

Time Stamp: 10:00 am 2nd april 2009

I also had some other sites on the same account which were also getting good amount of traffic with Technix Update, due to which site server went down. I got a notice from the hosting account that your site has caused our shared server to get down twice a day, please remove your site from this shared account or upgrade to $40 VPS account.

As per the revenue in overall I generate I can afford the VPS account charges, but as I have never tried or used VPS servers till now I was quite not sure to move to VPS. So, I decided to move the blog to a good bandwidth account at hostgator. By this time my hosting has suspended TechnixUpdate.com on my account, but all other sites on my account were up and running

Time Stamp: 12:00 pm 2nd april 2009

Now, the next thing was to request my hosting to unsuspend So, that I can take the backup which they responsded quickly. I started taking the backup of database first with PhpMyAdmin as my host did not support SSH access with which backing the database could have been simple.

I took the database backup through PhpMyAdmin by exporting the current db by exporting the my sql db as long Insert query, which i tested many times and failed to import. I was making a mistake by not selecting the final sql file as gzipped due to which size of the sql exported every time was high and not all the queries added for creating all the previous tables, I am planning to make a post on the same soon then i would tell the problem and solution in detail.

We have the names for all the winners of the Merry Christmas Giveaway Contest at Technix Update. Contest ran for 5 days and collected around 60 comments and Firstly I would like to thank all the readers for participating and subscribing with us. 🙂

The contest prizes includes the following softwares, I used The Hat for deciding the names of the winners.

1. Demo Creator – Demo Creator is a screen recording software to create software tutorials, demos and online help video for web sharing and technical support by screen recording and screen capture.

Winner Of Demo Creator – Raj 

2. A Squared Anti Malware – It Keeps your PC free from Trojans,  Bots, Viruses/Worms, Keyloggers, Dialer and  Spyware/Adware with the power of two major scan engines

Winner Of A Squared Anti Malware – Herman Schouten

3. Mamutu Anti Malware – Monitors live all active programs for dangerous behavior (Behavior Blocking).Recognizes new and unknown Trojans, Worms and Viruses (Zero-Day attacks), without daily updates.Small but very powerful. Saves resources and does not slow the PC down.

Winner Of Mamutu Anti Malware – Jude008

4. Winner Of Bumper Prize

Windows Vista Business Edition License – Harshad

Congrats to all the winners of the competition and thanks to all others readers who participated better luck next time. 🙂 Will be mailing the license key and download link to the softwares shortly

Year 2008 has been a wonderful year here on Technix Update, we welcome year 2009 with all our readers.

This is abhishek bhatnagar author and admin of Technix Update wish a very happy new year to all the readers, may god bless all of us with more happiness and money.

In this first post of year 2009 we would like share the best post from all the categories, here they are.

How To Tutorials

• How to Locate your stolen laptop computer with LocatePC
• Change the default files save format from .docx to .doc in word 2007
• View your Local Photos on Your Hard disk using Piclens [ Tweak ]
• Enable aero effect on unsupported Graphic cards in windows vista with Tweak Vista
• How to Remove Hacked by godzilla virus in 5 minutes
• No need to remember or enter username and password hack or trick for yahoo mail!

Tips and Tricks 

• Some useful tips and tricks for virtual pc
• Remove ads from windows live messenger with Live Advert Remover
• Extract Pictures from Power Point Presentations
• Create huge fake file 10 TB maximum with Huge fake file creator
• Recover or Reveal email passwords with Mail Pass View

Internet Hacks and Tips

• Download Youtube Videos In FireFox With Add-ons
• Watch YouTube Videos Wide Screen In Your Browser
• Catch Phishing Sites With Hostname in Title bar [ For FireFox ]
• Be Invisible In Gtalk
• Download YouTube video via bookmark with All-In-One Video Bookmarklet

Vista Tips and Tricks

• Increase your laptop battery power with vista battery saver
• Open any Folder on C Drive from run prompt in vista and xp
• Enable aero effect on unsupported Graphic cards in windows vista with Tweak Vista
• 5 most usefull software to speed up and make windows Vista
• How to remove green progress bar and make vista boot screen similar as linux.

XP Tips and Tricks

• Rename My computer, Recycle Bin, My Documents and My Network Places with Desktop Renamer
• Top 4 applications for Flip 3D and aero effect on XP
• Make desktop icons background colour as transparent in windows xp and vista
• How to eject cd drives automatically with a keyboard shortcut in windows xp
• Disable auto reboot in windows XP and Home editions

Proxy Tips and Tricks

• Download UltraSurf Full Setup for Anonymous Browsing
• Access blocked orkut, gmail through opera mini simulator and WebToMail | Access banned sites without proxies
• By pass download limit restrictions and access any blocked site with ultrasurf
• How to access blocked or restricted orkut or any site with proxy but without using any proxy servers for free.

Useful Softwares

• Hide a Process with BlindBossKey to run the Application In Background
• Download free pdf to word doc converter
• Convert your images to pdf for with free Graphics2PDF
• How to delete files which are locked by windows program with remove on reboot
• Safely Remove your pen drive with USB Safely Remove application

Ubuntu Tips

• Install Google Chrome In Ubuntu
• Configure Wi Fi In Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex With Broadcom Network Adapter
• Install TweetDeck On Ubuntu Linux
• Stop Display Brightness Goes Dim In Ubuntu On Battery

Windows Seven

• Download windows 7 circle dock bar for free
• Create your own Windows Seven Login Screen with Vista LoginStudio
• Download Windows Seven Transformation Pack

Firefox Tips and Tricks

• Fast and Quick Downloads in FireFox
• Export and Import your firefox bookmarks to internet explorer
• Tweak firefox to consume less memory [ Tweak Firefox Part2 ]
• Save the entire web page as single .htm file with firefox 3
• How to make font render smoothly in firefox just like safari and IE7

Offline Installers [ Full Setup ]

• Download Windows Live Essentials Pack Beta Full Setup [ Offline Installer ]
• Download Windows Live Messenger 2009 Full Setup [offline installer]
• Download Yahoo Messenger 9 Full Setup [ Offline Installer ]
• Download Google Chrome Full Setup [ Offline Installer ]

These are some of the best articles from different categories we hope you like them. 🙂

Please leave your comments if you have anything to say or any suggestions on what you would like to read on technixupdate.com in 2009.

Firstly, Merry Christmas to all the readers of Technix Update, I would also like to thank all the readers of Technix Update for reading those computer tips and tricks here, I hope you like them. 🙂

At this wonderful occasion we would like to give some softwares licenses for free to our readers.

1. Demo Creator – Demo Creator is a screen recording software to create software tutorials, demos and online help video for web sharing and technical support by screen recording and screen capture.

2. A Squared Anti Malware – It Keeps your PC free from Trojans,  Bots, Viruses/Worms, Keyloggers, Dialer and  Spyware/Adware with the power of two major scan engines

3. Mamutu Anti Malware – Monitors live all active programs for dangerous behavior (Behavior Blocking).Recognizes new and unknown Trojans, Worms and Viruses (Zero-Day attacks), without daily updates.Small but very powerful. Saves resources and does not slow the PC down.

and…

Bumper Prize Software ( Windows Vista )

One Lucky Reader will get a FREE Windows Vista Business Edition License purchased by me and gifted to you. 🙂

The competition is open for all till 30 December 2008 12pm IST, Winners will be declared on 31 December 2008. Winners will be selected randomly from all the participants.

How To Participate and Win

Only thing you need to participate and win above softwares including windows vista business edition license is to subscribe Technix Update feeds via email and leave a comment at the end of this post with the same email id which you used to subscribe with Technix Update.

If you are already subscribed to Technix Update via email then leave a comment at the end of this post with the email id on which you are subscribed.

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Hi, to all the readers of technixupdate.com, I would like again announce that TechnixUpdate.com was selected in Best Windows Customization Website competition on Windows Guides

The semi finals are now over and Technix Update is now in the Finals all because of your votes. Please vote for technixupdate in the finals and make us win the Finals 

Note: You can find technixupdate in the Final Match -TechnoSpot vs Technix Update and You can vote multiple times but once in an hour means you can vote one time in an hour

Please support Technix Update in the finals and make us Win the Competition

You can vote at this URL given below:

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Hi, to all the readers of technixupdate.com, I would like to announce that TechnixUpdate.com has been selected in Best Windows Customization Website competition on Windows Guides

TechnixUpdate is selected to be among the 8 selected sites by the judges out of approximately 30 entries.

The quarter finals are now open. There are four ‘matches’ running with eight (8) applicants. We would request to all the readers of technixupdate to vote for us and make technixupdate win the competition.

Note: You can find technixupdate in the Match 2.

You can vote at this URL given below:

http://vote.mintywhite.com/

Or click the image below to vote for us

Hi guys

I am on a vacation right now till 15 jun, writing this post from a internet cafe in aligarh. I won’t be able to blog so, would like to invite all the fellow bloggers who would like to write for TechnixUpdate.com

TechnixUpdate.com is about computer tips and tricks so we can accept any article on computer tips and tricks. In return you will get a link back at the end of the post and the winner whoese post recieves highest amount of traffic will get a 125* 125 banner ad in the sidebar for one month for free.

If you are interested, mail us  your entries at abhishek.bhatnagars@gmail.com .We hope to receive lot more entries. Cheers !