ZizziBaddi.com – El Friki Playero

Hello people, ZizziBaddi staff is travelling and we have been given some USB 3g Internet Keys for our Asus Eee PC 1000H so since we are always geeking around we challenged ourselves to share our 3G Internet connection via USB Key by Momo Design to our iPhones and here goes the tutorial.

Requirements:

- Computer with Windows XP SP2, we have used the Asus EEE PC 1000H

- USB 3G Internet Key, we have used the 3 Momo Design 7,2Megabit

- 3G Internet Account attached to our SIM Card, much better a flat rate with no limited traffic

Step by Step

1- Connect the USB, get it recognized and install its drivers and application. We won’t cover here how to set it up but do it before following this tutorial

2- Start/Settings/Network Connection. Among the Dial Up connections you will find the profile used by the USB Key, right click on it, choose properties and then the Advanced label:

On Windows Firewall – Click on Setting, then set it OFF to disable it
On Internet Connection Sharing – Enable it by ticking the box
On Home Networking Connection choose the WLAN adapter

3- On the same window, below the Dial Ups you will see LAN or High Speed Internet, locate your WLAN, right click on it, select properties and on “This connection uses the following items” locate the last one “Internet Protocol (TPC/IP), select it and click properties.

4- Click on “Use the following IP Address” and configure it as follows:

IP Address 192.168.1.1
Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway 192.168.1.1
Use the followding DNS Server
Preferred DNS Server 192.168.1.1

4- Click now on Wireless Networks and on Preferred Networks click on Add and configure it as follows:

Network Name SSSID zizzibaddi3g
Tick the box to Enable even if this network is not broadcasting
On Wireless Network Key
Network Authentication Open
Data Encryption Disable (You can enable it later)
Tick to enable This is a Computer-to-Computer (Ad Hoc) network. Wireless Access points are not used

5- On iPhone (or any other WiFi device) tap Settings then Wi-Fi and enable it

6- On Computer, right click on WLAN icon on the tray area, next to the clock and click on View Available Wireless Networks. The new zizzibaddi3g will be listed, select it and click Connect.

7- On iPhone the new WLAN will be listed as zizzibaddi3g, tap it to connect to it, then tap the > arrow to configure it as follows:

IP Address Static
IP Address 192.168.1.2
Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0
Router 192.168.1.1
DNS 192.168.1.1

8- The WLAN on computer should say Connected and the iPhone should connect as well.

9- Close “Settings” on iPhone and launch Safari or any other Internet Application and there you go online with your 3g Internet USB Connection!

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Shame on me when I have installed the Delicious.com Firefox Plugin!

It imported around 800 Bookmarks and fortunately it did not set them as Public, they were all Private but I did not want to use Delicious for my private Bookmarks!

So I was looking for a quick way to get tip of them all and then import only the ones I wanted to.

Googling “delete delicious bookmarks” resulted in several pages teaching some “hacking” ways to achieve such thing: exporting them into MySQL, then emptying the database and exporting them..and other odd things.

Maybe Delicious itself has made this thing much easier but I have done this:

- Login on Delicious.com with your account

- Click on the down arrow next to Bookmarks and select My Bookmarks and you will land to some URL just like http://delicious.com/username where “username” is your account name

- Go at the end lower right of the list where it says “Showing 10 Bookmarks per page” and change it to 100 Bookmarks, the page will refresh showing 100 from your bookmarks

- Click on Bulk Edit on the upper right of the page and the blue padlock next to each bookmark will disappear. An empty box will appear to replace the padlock, click on Select All and in one click you will select those 100 bookmarks

- Click Delete, then OK to confirm and then Yes to confirm again the action. You have just deleted 100 bookmarks in 3 clicks

- Repeat the action for all of your bookmarks. As said I had 800 bookmarks there and in a couple of minutes I got rip of them all out of Delicious

- At the end of the process you will see again the You have no bookmarks … yet!

- Another mission completed!

Comment out your experience with this method!

The URL showing up when you change the number of bookmarks to show is something like:

http://delicious.com/username?setcount=100

I have tried to alter the value of the get parameter “setcount” for example, for 800 bookmarks:

http://delicious.com/username?setcount=800

But it did not work, it seems the higher number of shown bookmarks is 100

Toshiba Satellite U300

HiYap Guys! Just got a old Customer, you can call it PacMan, with issues with his Toshiba Satellite U300 Running Windows Vista Home so I am fixing it.

Hooked a Trascend USB Drive 8Gb and done a backup of his 4Gb of pictures.

Entering the Bios has been pretty tricky. The right key is F2 but you have to be very quick since Windows Vista tries to show his f*cking Restoring Procedure which I obviously want to jump.

The Optical Drive is broken so I have connected my external USB DVD Drive, the same one I have uses for the Compaq Mini and the Asus EeePC 1000H.

The object is remove the original Windows Vista Home and install a fresh Windows XP Pro Last XP 1.6 on C drive and something else (Windows 7 maybe) on D drive.

Entering the Bios I have disabled Lan Boot and the internal Optical, and set the external Optical as first boot device, then the internal drive.

Booted Last XP 1.6 and started the deleted the 2 original C and D partitions while I have left untouched the original EFI partition (1,5Gigabyte).

Created a new C for 30 Giga, D for 30 Giga and E for 90 Giga, formated in NTFS the C drive then the copy-files started.

Rebooted with Last XP 1.6 DVD and pressed ESC key to boot from HD, the setup follows til the end.

The precise model is: Toshiba – Satellite U300 – PSU30E and the drivers are downloadable from this URL: http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/download_drivers_bios.jsp?service=EN where I have chosen the following info:

- Product Type: Notebook
- Family: Satellite
- Product Series: Satellite U Series
- Model: Satellite U300
- Short Model Number: PSU30E
- Operating System: Windows XP
- Driver Type: All
- Country: Spain
- Language: English

The search gives a result page with several drivers and I have installed the VGA, Audio Card, Flash Card Reader, Hotkey Utility, Lan Driver, Modem Driver, Touch Pad Driver, Webcam and Wireless Card.

Rebooted and started the OS configuration!

Next mission is install Windows 7 on D drive…crossing fingers…