PC Tips & Tricks

Ever wanted to extract text from a Microsoft Word document with PHP and COM? It’s not so hard as it seems. Create a Word document on your computer and use this piece of code:
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After less than a month since the PC version of GTA4 was released, Rockstar presented at the Spike TV Video Games Awards a trailer with a new episode of GTA4: Lost and Damned.
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The hottest thing in the digital camera market is undoubtedly the digital SLR, which is better known as a dSLR. While dSLRs are flying off dealer shelves, many new users are confused about the terminology. Most people know that SLR stands for “single lens reflex.” Since nearly all SLRs accept interchangeable lenses, it would appear they should be known as multiple lens reflex (MLR) cameras.

If you want to understand how the SLR received it’s name, you have to dip into the history of the camera. Early cameras were similar to the view cameras used today. The photographer looked through the lens, focused, composed and then inserted a single film plate behind the optics to make an image. While the entire process was crude by modern standards, the photographer enjoyed great control, since he looked directly through the actual imaging lens to compose the shot.
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Here is a snippet of MS Office source code, leaked some time ago:
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On Windows, Firefox 3 uses the installed antivirus software to scan the fully downloaded files. This might be a good idea, but it can be the source of some annoying complications: freezes, delays an so on.
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If you are using Codeigniter for developing PHP applications you noticed the “index.php” part of the URL of your application.

You can remove it by doing two simple things:

1. Edit the config.php from .system/application/config/ and change the $config['index_page'] like this: $config['index_page'] = “”;

2. Create a .htaccess page in the root of the Codeigniter application:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /CIapplication
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^system.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]


Edit line two in order to suit your setup.

Now you will be able to use: http://server.com/CIapplication/controller instead of: http://server.com/CIapplication/index.php/controller
In case this is not working, modify this line in config.php:

$config['uri_protocol'] = "AUTO";

and change it to:

$config['uri_protocol'] = "REQUEST_URI";


By: Amy Nutt

VoIP, or voice over internet protocol, simply put, is a way to make phone calls over the internet with the use of an analog telephone adapter. In making “phone calls” in this manner, the user can often avoid the high charges from the phone company, especially in the case of long distance calls.

How does it Happen?

A VoIP provider converts the audio message (your voice) from analog form into digital form with an ATA (analog telephone adapter) so that the media can be sent over the internet. On the other end, the digital media is then converted back into an analog form as would be heard on a regular phone call.
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By: Dustin Baker

Small businesses face numerous pressures. The few employees of the business are responsible for trying to get orders, organizing deliveries, billing for the deliveries, paying bills and manage the incidentals involved in these key activities.

Good document management software can take over much of the work and free the small businessperson to focus on the business. We look at this issue in more detail below.
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By: Christa Kowalczyk

With the help of laser cartridges, you can save important raw materials, waste and energy. There are a lot of ways you can do this and even recycle laser cartridges.

The environmental battle cry is to “reduce, reuse and recycle!”

You can save important raw materials, waste and energy by using your laser cartridges again. In fact, there are approximately 44 million laser cartridges that are bought every year in Europe. 95% of these laser cartridges in the UK are thrown out after only one usage. Every cartridge has 1 to 2 liters of oil. It also has aluminum and steel. Every time you repeat using these cartridges, you will save these important, non-renewable resources and energy.
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By: Mukul Gupta

MySQL is a rock solid, lighting fast database server which has been designed for two factors speed and performance. It is the Ferrari of databases: Light weight, fast and Built for the high speed tracks!

I still hear an awful lot of stories from owners whose databases are running two slow. In my experience, the three main places to look for problems are:
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