How to Delete a Single Saved Form Data Entry in Mozilla Firefox

Have you ever mistyped and saved something in a form while using Firefox? How about submitting something on a form that you’ll never need to use again? When you go to enter information in a form, does it gives you a long list of suggestions, when you regularly only use one entry? As a regular user of products like Google Calendar I often have this problem. Here is a simple trick that will let you clear out the bad or outdated form entries, without clearing all of your form data.

• Go to the form where the mistake is.

• Put your cursor in the text entry widget and hit down until the incorrect entry is highlighted.

• Now press shift + delete

It’s that simple. I hope this helps. Kevin

The Office (US) The Best of Jim’s Prank’s on Dwight

The Office has long been Marlain and myself favourite comedy shows, here is collection of some of our favourite moments involving Jim Halpert (John Krasinski) and Dwight Shrute (Rainn Wilson).

How To Get The Most Out Of Your Playstation 3 (PS3) Part 3 – How To Upgrade Your PS3’s Hard Drive

How To Get The Most Out Of Your Playstation 3 (PS3)

Part 1 – File Sharing with Windows Media Player 11

Part 2 – Adding External Storage

It doesn’t matter if you have the 20GB, 60GB, or even the new 80GB PlayStation 3 — you can always use more storage space. All that available hard-disk space quickly disappears once you start downloading games, demos, and HD videos. Fortunately, Sony has designed the PS3 to allow console owners to perform their own hard-drive upgrades. You can go out and select your own hard drive instead of being forced to buy an official first-party hard-disk accessory. However, giving console owners that freedom means that aspiring upgraders will need to know how to select the right hard-drive upgrade and the proper installation technique.

Hard-disk manufacturer Seagate supplied us with a 160GB Momentus 5400.3 for our upgrade.

The first step to replacing the hard disk is going to the store or visiting an online retailer to pick up a new hard disk. The PS3 is compatible with just about any 2.5-inch SATA notebook hard disk. Both 5400-RPM and 7200-RPM drives should work fine. The physical size of the hard disk is important because it has to fit the PS3’s 2.5-inch drive tray. As far as storage capacity goes, it doesn’t make sense to go through the trouble of upgrading unless you go big: We’re talking 120GB, 160GB, or even 250GB.

Once you have your upgrade drive, the next step is to back up the data on your current PS3 hard drive to an external storage unit. You can skip this step if you aren’t attached to your music, videos, and game saves, but most of us will probably want to save all that information. The PS3 has a built-in software backup utility that can copy the PS3’s hard-drive contents to an external storage device, such as a USB thumb drive or a memory stick. The removable storage device must use the FAT32 file system in order for the PS3 to recognise it. If you have an external hard drive that’s formatted in NTFS, you can use the Disk Management utility in Windows to reformat the drive, but you’ll need to create partitions on large external hard drives because Windows can only do FAT32 on drives 32GB or smaller.

Save your data using the PS3’s backup utility.

If your storage device isn’t large enough to handle a full system backup, you can selectively copy data over through the various music, photo, and game menus in the XMB. Your PlayStation Network login and system settings will remain safe on the system during the entire process. After you have your data safely backed up, you can move on to the actual hard-drive swap.

You will need a Phillips-head screwdriver to complete this part of the installation process. The PS3 owner’s manual also includes step-by-step details on how to replace the hard drive, in case you need more instructions.

Turn off and unplug the system. Remove the plastic HD side-panel, and remove the blue screw.

Open the metal latch, move the drive tray to the right, and slide out the drive.

Remove the four screws that hold the hard drive to the tray. Use a screwdriver that fits snugly because the screws are extremely tight and easy to strip.

Swap in the new drive, and replace the screws.

Put the drive tray back into the system and slide it into place. Then replace the blue screw and snap the side panel back onto the system.

Turn on the console and let the system format the new drive. Then load up the PS3 backup utility to restore data from your external storage device back onto the PS3 hard drive.

At this point you should have a newly upgraded PS3 and the leftover hard drive. You could try selling the old drive, but small-capacity used drives might not fetch enough money to be worth the hassle of finding a buyer. If you still want to make the drive useful, you can buy an external drive enclosure to make it into a portable storage device.

Noosa Holiday Photos 2008 – Music Video

So once again I have used of my favourite editing tools Animoto to edit our holiday photos. The pictures were taken at the Chinese Garden in Toowoomba, the swimming pool at our resort in Noosaville, and at the Australian Zoo in Beerwah.

The music for the video is Beautiful Reasons by Zach Gill which is available for download here.

Please Note – As this is a high resolution video it may be necessary to press the pause button and allow the video to buffer before playing.

To view the regular photo gallery click here.

Automatically Backup your Computer with SyncToy 2.0

While we all know that it is important to backup our computer files, how many of us ever really do it. Even with the best of intentions it often gets forgotten, that’s why the process needs to be automated. After experimenting with a few different types of backup software I have found the most reliable to be Microsoft SyncToy 2.0, and the good news is it’s completely free.

Schedule SyncToy 2.0

While you do not have to schedule SyncToy to use it, some users may find it helpful to schedule recurrent SyncToy runs. Perhaps you have a folder pair that takes a long time to sync and you want to run SyncToy in the middle of the night, for example.

SyncToy does not provide a user interface to schedule folder pairs to run at designated times. However, there is a method to schedule tasks using the Microsoft Windows operating system.

Windows Vista

To schedule a task using the operating system:

1. From the Start menu, search for Task Scheduler.
2. Select Create Basic Task in the Actions pane on the right.
3. Add a Name and Description and select Next.
4. Choose when you want the task to start and select Next.
5. Choose date/times (if applicable) to run task and select Next.
6. Choose Start a Program option and select Next.
7. Select Browse and locate the SyncToyCmd.exe. (Programs, SyncToy)
8. Type “-R” in the Add Arguments textbox. –R all by itself will run all folder pairs that are active for run all. If you want to run just a single folder pair, add –R “My Pair” to the end of the command line.Note: If the folder pair name contains a space, surround it with quotation marks, as the example above shows. For another example, assume that SyncToy is in the folder named C:\Program Files\SyncToy 2.0\ and that you want to run a folder pair named “My folder pair.” Enter the command line as follows, including the quotation marks: “C:\Program Files\SyncToy 2.0\SyncToyCmd.exe” -R “My folder pair.” Note that there are two sets of quotation marks in this case: one is around the path to the SyncToy program file and the other surrounds the folder pair name.

Windows XP

To schedule a task using the operating system:

1. From the Start menu, select All Programs – Accessories – System Tools – Scheduled Tasks.
2. Select Add scheduled task to start the Scheduled Task Wizard. You will see a list of possible programs to run.
3. Select Browse and locate the SyncToyCmd.exe.
4. The wizard will next prompt you to enter how often you want to run the scheduled SyncToy (for example, daily, weekly, et cetera). Select a frequency.
5. The next page asks when to start the task. Select a start time.
6. The next page asks for the user name and password to run the program under. Enter your user name and password.
7. The final page contains an option to open the properties dialog when the wizard ends. Select this checkbox.
8. Modify the Run textbox to include the –R command line option. –R all by itself will run all folder pairs that are active for run all. If you want to run just a single folder pair, add –R “My Pair” to the end of the command line.Note: If the folder pair name contains a space, surround it with quotation marks, as the example above shows. For another example, assume that SyncToy is in the folder named C:\Program Files\SyncToy 2.0 and that you want to run a folder pair named “My folder pair.” Enter the command line as follows, including the quotation marks: “C:\Program Files\SyncToy 2.0\SyncToyCmd.exe” -R “My folder pair.” Note that there are two sets of quotation marks in this case: one is around the path to the SyncToy program file and the other surrounds the folder pair name.

Note: With this version of SyncToy, it is now possible to schedule execution of a folder pair in the following scenarios:

1. No one is currently logged into the machine.
2. A different user is logged into the machine.

How To Get The Most Out Of Your Playstation 3 (PS3) Part 2 – Adding External Storage

How To Get The Most Out Of Your Playstation 3 (PS3)

Part 1 – File Sharing with Windows Media Player 11

Part 3 – How To Upgrade Your PS3’s Hard Drive

The Playstation 3 is available with several different hard drive sizes, but quite often you may want or need a bigger one. You can replace the internal hard drive using a standard laptop hard drive, but this tends to be expensive. An easier and cheaper method is to add an external hard drive to your Playstation.

1. Connect the hard drive to your computer using a USB cord.
2. Check what the drives  "File System" type is by going to Start, Computer, Right click on the USB drive, and select Properties.
3. The file system type must be "FAT32" in order for the Playstation 3 to recognize it. If it is a different format please read this article explain how to format a large USB drive.  
4. Once you have confirmed the file format you need to create a folder system identical to that on the Playstation 3.
5. Please create four folders labelled "Picture" (not Photo), "Music", "Video" and "Game".
6. Load all the music you want into your music folder, all the video you want into your video folder, and all the photos you want into your picture folder. Your game folder should still be empty.
7. Disconnect the hard drive by clicking the green arrow in the icon list and the bottom right hand corner of the screen and select "Safely remove…"
8. Once your computer tells you "XXX drive can now be safely removed", unplug the hard drive from your computer.
9. Connect the hard drive to your Playstation 3 and use the extra space to save information and access all your extra content saved on your external hard drive.

 

Tips

Alternatively to the "prebuilt" folder system, you can press triangle on your hard drive and click "Display All", but you still need to select Video to see video files.

Folder system works as follows – Dir/files* or Dir/folder/files – example: Video/files* or Video/Home Movies/files* – Dir/folder/folder/files doesn’t work without "Display All" explained above – example: Video/TV Shows/Simpson’s/files*

You can copy files to and from HDD & PS3 but you cannot edit files/folders on the HDD from the PS3 – you must copy to PS3 or do it from your computer.

If you lay your Playstation horizontally, do not place the external hard drive on the right side where the exhaust fans are aimed. The air coming out of the Playstation is very hot and will cause your external hard drive to malfunction.

DO NOT PLAY WITH YOUR PS3 VERTICALLY! IT WILL SLOWLY RUIN THE LASER READER AND WILL NO LONGER RECOGNIZE ANY DISCS YOU PUT INSIDE…

How to Convert a Large External USB Hard Drive to FAT32

When working from a Windows environment (particularly Windows XP), you may experience difficulty using the default Windows format tool to format your large external USB hard drive as Fat32.

This is due in part to the fact that the Windows format tool can only format a drive using the Fat32 if the drive is 32GB or smaller.

While a great number of external hard drives are being manufactured with capacities in excess of 40GB we indeed need another method of formatting these devices using a single Fat32 partition.

After dabbling a bit with a few different free software formatting tools that are launchable from within Windows, I have come to a nice solution. The utility is called CompuApps SwissKnife and works great for those that need to format their USB hard drives from a Windows XP environment.

SwissKnife is a stand alone solution that will allow you to format your external USB devices as Fat32 so that the information you put on the device can be read across multiple operating platforms. This is great since some of us are using Linux, Unix and other operating environments along with Windows and wish to access our data via these platforms.

Below is a simple screenshot of the application:

The application is easy to navigate and straightforward to use.

It is completely free to use and you can grab it from HERE

The product website is HERE