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Here is an easy tip to spruce up your end of day windows shut down. Have it perform some simple tasks before shutting down your system for the day. I’ve made a simple batch file to run a system defrag, then make a registry backup before shutting down the system.

Here is what the batch file looks like:

defrag C:
regedit /e c:\regbackup.reg
shutdown -s

Save the file as myshutdown.cmd (or anything you want), save it somewhere on your drive, then you can make a shortcut to the file on the desktop.

Then right click on the new shortcut on your desktop and change the icon to look like the shutdown icon.

So now at the end of the day, activate your new shutdown command and it will  defrag your drive, create a registry backup and shutdown your computer.

If you can think of any other maintenance tasks to add to the shutdown script, leave a comment and maybe it can be added in to make the ultimate shutdown command.

I have created an export for Cube Cart, which imports into Paypal’s multiorder shipping module. This will enable you to import your order information into Paypal for printing shipping labels. Avoid re-typing the information into Paypal, saving time and preventing data entry errors. This will not make any changes to your database.

There are 2 options, export all orders with the status of “processing”, or export all orders for a certain date.

I am looking for a few people to test before I release, please contact me if this is something you would be interested in trying.

I hate to use the cliche, but this is the video converter swiss army knife. I am truely amazed at how often I find myself opening up this program.  Any video converter has been able to convert everything I have thrown at it. Here are the conversions that it supports. Ten different types of media! Very impressive.

• DVD Video NTSC (mpg)
• DVD Video PAL (mpg)
• MPEG-I (mpg)
• MPED-II (mpg)
• Flash Video Movie (flv)
• Mobile Phone MPEG-4 (mp4)
• AVI Movie (avi)
• Windows Media WMV (wmv)
• MP4 Movie (mp4)
• Wave Audio (wav)

The most important one to me is the FLV conversion. Just about any video you wish to put on the web works great in FLV.  Or if you have an FLV and want to edit the file in Windows Movie Maker, just convert it to AVI, or WMV, bingo.

Look at the screen shot below to see all the options you have when converting. (this is the flash file options)

There is a free version and a paid version of the Any Video Converter software. So far the free version has been able to do everything I need without any problems. I would highly recommend this program for your video conversion needs.

Also did I mention that you can pull out video directly from You Tube? Yes, it will do that as well.

Simple. Elementary, and not involved or complicated windows calendar application.

Sometimes, you just want to see a calendar, and clicking on the time in the tray can be cumbersome, and there is the possibility you may accidentally change your system date and time. So here is a free windows calendar app that could not be more simple and easy. A 16k file, that just opens up a calendar.

2008 year calendar and download.

Download Windows Calendar

You have 2 network cards, and are connected to 2 networks.

You want to specify which one is used to surf the internet.

Here is how you do it on Windows.

It’s comes down to an “Interface Metric”.

First, right click on the network card/item that you wish to use for the internet. In this case it is the “wireless network connection 2″

Here I left click once on the connection to select it, then right click to get the dialog box below. Choose properties.

Then scroll down until you see Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), select it (make it blue), then click on the Properties button.

Then you will see the screen below, click on the Advanced button.

On the bottom of the next screen as shown below, you will uncheck the Automatic Metric check box and place a 1 in the metric box.

Now your first Network Card is setup with a Metric of 1. Repeat the exact same process with your other network card, except give it an Interface Metric of 2.

That should do it, now when you surf the internet you should see the IP of the network card with a interface metric of 1. (visit here to see your IP). And all your other network activities should work as normal.

Linux and Free BSD, how to zip a folder. This is useful for backups, or moving to a new webhost.

zip -9 -r zipname folder

example: zip -9 -r myfolder.zip examplefoldername

-9 = best compression
-r = recursive

1. All in One SEO Pack- This nice plugin does all the little SEO tasks that used to take manual updating. Fixes your titles, and helps prevent duplicate content issues.
2. Word press database backup -Backup your database, nothing more to say. This one makes it real easy to do. The latest version allows you to have the process automated and sent to email. (Perfect for today’s large storage gmail or yahoo accounts!)
3. Break out of frames – About the easiest one to use. Prevents your site from being framed by other sites. Takes all of 8 seconds to install and activate. No other configuration is needed.
4. wp-cache – Prepare for the best, avoid database hits each time your blog is hit, wp-cache creates static copies of your pages on the fly. This one takes a small amount of work to get setup, but it will be worth the effort now if you need it later.
5. Akismet -You will need this soon after setting up any blog, the comment spam will flow in. Akismet will stop it. Only downfall is a short registration to get a free API key. Simple enough though.

original wordpress plugin art!

Did you know that Windows XP comes with a free command line defrag tool? It sure does, it is really easy to use. Simply get to a command prompt (click on Start ->� Run, and type cmd in the box.). Then to defragment the C: drive you would type defrag C:

Now if you want to schedule it to run, make a quick batch file by opening up notepad.exe (Start -> run -> notepad.exe). Type your command into notepad defrag C: save the file as mydefrag.bat

Then go into your task scheduler and choose your batch file as the item to schedule.

Very neat tool to create nice looking logos. Enter your text and choose from a large variety of options to customize your logo. Here is one I made in only a few seconds. Pretty cool!

Now you can easily download youtube videos.

Very cool page rank checking tool. Enter a website and it will display pagerank, alexa rank, dmoz status, google backlinks, yahoo backlinks, and more.