Moving incomplete µTorrent downloads to a different computer

If you use µTorrent, you might have wondered how to move your download to a different computer, without losing the progress of the downloads which have started but have not completed. Now, here is how you can do it.

Prepare the files for transfer:

1. Shutdown µTorrent
2. Copy the contents of %appdata%\utorrent folder to a portable storage device (USB drive, etc). Actualy, the most important file which is required is resume.dat. But I would suggest copying the entire folder, just for simplicity's sake.
3. Copy the folder/files in which the partial downloads of the in-progress downloads are to the portable storage.
4. Copy the files from (2) to %appdata%\utorrent on the second computer
5. Copy all the files from step (3) to the second computer
6. Download BEncode Editor from https://sites.google.com/site/ultimasites/bencode-editor
7. Using BEncode Editor, edit the resume.dat in %appdata%\utorrent by using the function 'find/replace' to change the path or drive letter if the destination path of the partially downloaded file has changed.
8. Start up µTorrent and the download should continue from where it left off on the older computer.

Enjoy!!!

Changing the Windows 7 Logon Screen image

There are numerous ways to change the background of the Logon Screen in Windows 7. All possible methods, including the steps, can be found in the tutorial below:

How to Change the Windows 7 Log On Screen Background

From the tutorial in the link above, the easiest way IMHO is to use Julien Manici's Windows 7 Logon Background Changer. The application's title speak for itself - it does exactly what it says it does - and it is really simple and hassle-free. And to top it off, it is FREE!!!

PC Hardware Review websites

Here is a list of some websites which contain PC hardware reviews:

• Tom’s Hardware Reviews
• Overclockers Club
• Legion Hardware
• Hardware Canucks
• HardOCP

Fixing problem of NFS mounts specified in /etc/fstab not being mounted at boot

When using SUSE11 (and possibly other flavours of Linux), there could be issues in nfs mount to successfulyl get mounted at boot up time, even though already specified in /etc/fstab.

There is a basic workaround for this, where the command "mount -a" can be manually entered when you log into the system the first time after each boot up.

However, if you wanted to fix this once and for all, there here's the solution. Open the file /etc/init.d/nfs, and change the following lines (the text in green are the additions that need to be made):

if test "$nfs" = yes ; then

sleep 10 && mount -at nfs,nfs4 > /dev/null 2>&1

sleep 2

fi

The value of "10" for the first sleep could be changed to a lower number, e.g. 5, but I decided to choose 10 just to be sure that the network was up and running for the nfs mount to succeed. This sleep period value could be increased/decreased to suit your needs.

Some "Must-Have" general plugins for Eclipse

As a fairly new Eclipse user, primarily focusing on C/C++ development, besides the Eclipse CDT plugin, I found that there are a couple of plugins which I would recommend to anyone using Eclipse:

• AnyEdit (http://andrei.gmxhome.de/anyedit/)- AnyEdit is a "swiss army knife" for all Eclipse editors, where it adds several new tools to the context menu of text- based Eclipse editors, to output consoles, to Eclipse main menu and editor toolbar
• StartExplorer (http://startexplorer.sourceforge.net/) - offers a convenient integration of the Windows Explorer, the Windows command line, Windows default system applications and the clipboard into Eclipse

Both these plugins can be found on the Marketplace in Eclipse. So, if you require "express" setup, it does not require manual downloading and installation of the packages.

AnyEdit features

- tabs <-> spaces convertion on multiple files or entire directories and supports also file exclusion filter for tabs <-> spaces action

- automatically remove trailing whitespaces and/or perform tabs<->spaces conversion on a "save" action

- automatically create a new line at the end of the file if the last line was not terminated by new line (useful for Linux development)

- adds "Save All", "Open File" and "Show whitespace in editor" buttons to the global Eclipse toolbar

- adds "Open File", "Open Type" and "Save to file..." actions to supported output consoles and "Save to file..." toolbar button to the Console view

StartExplorer features

It adds a context menu with the following operations:

- Show resource(s) in Windows Explorer

- Start this (these) file(s) with system editor

- Start cmd.exe here

- Copy resource path to clipboard

- Custom Commands

MP3 tagging tool

TagScanner is a great free MP3 tagging tool. It has an extensive set of tools providing the ability to modify/edit tags on music files (batch and individual files), batch renaming of files using the tags, etc.

The website hosting this software:

http://www.xdlab.ru/en/index.htm

Keeping notes online and accessing them from anywhere

A great tool to keep notes online:

Evernote: http://www.evernote.com

It allows for creation of personal notes, saving of URLs, webpages, and pictures from web pages.

It allows synchronization of notes between various PCs, and so you can view your notes from any PC, even when offline.