Unlock the locked!

You wanna delete or rename or move a file (or a directory), and stubborn Windows doesn't let you, because -it says!- some program is blocking it?

No problem! Use LockHunter! It will tell you which program is blocking the access to your file, and unlock it for you, or delete it directly if you need to ;-)

Infected or not infected, that's the question

Your antivirus goes nuts because of a specific file, and you have doubts about it being really infected?
Go to https://www.virustotal.com/ and check it there. It will be scanned by more than 40 antiviruses at once. You'll sure have no doubts afterwards! ;-D

Access the Task Manager even if a malware blocks it!

Your PC is infected, and you can't access your task manager anymore?
Didier Stevens, the security expert, has a solution for you!
He programmed an excel file that can list all processes and let you terminate or suspend/resume them... for example the virus process :p

You can download it from his website HERE.

Search for synonyms in Google

To widen a search for a specific term, use the tilde before the seached word to include its synonyms in the search.

For example, enter

~PC

and Google will also search for related words like "Computer".

New Firmware for the ADATA SX900 SSD

If you're one of the lucky owners of this fast and reliable SSD, ADATA thought of you, and brought last week a new firmware for it, going by the number 5.0.7a, fixing following issues:

1) Fixed a power management condition where the device failed to respond to COMWAKE, which might have resulted in the SSD not responding without being reset by the host.
2) Fixed the normalized value calculation for SMART Attribute 9 (Power-On Hours)
3) Fixed a SATA error recovery sequence coming out of PS1.
4) Fixed an issue during SMART self-test extended that could cause an unexpected read error.
5) Fixed an issue that could have caused the read thresholds to be artificially low during read disturb operations.
6) Fixed an issue that could have caused the drive to be unresponsive based on a flash program failure.
7) Fixed a theoretically possible instance where an UECC on the flash media while processing unaligned write commands that cannot be corrected by the ECC engine and RAISETM causes invalid data to be returned.


Download, Upgrade Guide and Upgrade Tool available by ADATA.

PS: this firmware upgrade should also work on the following SSDs:
SX910/SP900/SP800/S511/S510/S396

Load videos into your CASIO EXILIM EX-Z600 Camera

If you were always wondering how you could load your own videos into this beautiful digital camera, you came to the right place!
This camera accepts AVI-files with the following specifications:

• Video-Codec: MJPEG
• Audio-Codec: IMA ADPCM

Unfortunately, not every application can produce compatible files, even if the codecs used are correct.
One that does is the SUPER Media File Converter from eRightSoft.

For this tutorial, I use a Flash video file (.flv) downloaded from YouTube as source, but it should work with every other popular video file format as well, such as MP4, MKV or good old AVI of course.

Here we go:

1. Drag and drop your file into the box in the lower part of the converter.
2. In the upper part of the application, choose "AVI" as your output container, "M-JPEG" as your output video codec, and "ADPCM IMA" as your output audio codec.
3. Choose "FFmpeg" right underneath, as encoder engine.
4. In the "VIDEO" part, if your video is standard 4:3, choose 320:240 as your video scale size, and 4:3 as aspect; else if it is 16:9 widescreen, choose 320:176 and 16:9, then click on "Crop / Pad" to the right, check the "Pad ON" option, make sure you have 32 in the upper and lower boxes, then click on the color picker and choose black. This will make sure your vertical resolution attains 240 again, with black bars at the top and bottom of the video. This is important, since the camera doesn't handle widescreen files. Either case, resolutions beyond 320x make no sense here, since the camera screen is small, and the used disk space would be too big. Adapt the "Frame/Sec" value according to your source. Mine has 25fps, so I choose 25. But it could be anything else. To check the framerate of the source, use a tool like MediaInfo.
5. In the "AUDIO" part, choose a sampling frequency of "11025", and "1" under Channels. Higher values make little sense here, since the speaker of the camera is not Hi-Fi-Stereo anyway.
6. Launch the encoding process with the "Encode (Active Files)" button at the bottom.
7. After the encoding is done, you should find the new file in the same directory as your source file. Copy that file to your SD-card under "DCIM/100CASIO" (where your camera saves the photos anyway) and rename it to CIMGxxxx.AVI, where "xxxx" is a number lower than your current index on the camera. Mine is beyond 2500 (the latest photo I shot got the file name CIMG2517.JPG), so I can use numbers in the 1000 range safely. Sizes vary between 15 and 20MB/min most of the time. This means, you should be able to put about 4 hours of video on a 4GB SD-card.

Enjoy! :-)