SmarterMail – mail server to small biz

SmarterMail – At A Glance – Reviews by PC Magazine.

This email server could actually be handy for many small campagnies. 10 email accounts in the free version, and active-sync to mobile devices.

Opera Mini 5 Beta, free to download now

http://www.opera.com/mini/next/

This is a nice install on my Nokia 5800 XM, but the keyboard lack the ability to copy/paste with the native clipboard in the S60. Some Java scripts does not format well like the iPhone google reader site, but this is not different from the official 4.2 version. Other than that, the browser looks a lot better and still runs smooth. The password save feature is a really nice add-on and feels a lot like a desktop experience. Also the tab browsing makes the flow easier to swallow. Bottom line: it’s a good step toward a better experience.

Twitter client with Facebook support: Seesmic DESKTOP

Seesmic DESKTOP

This is one of the best twitter clients I have used for my windows desktop, and then again, I have not used twitter that long. I tried just a few (round 5 clients on windows 4 on S60), and I must say that Seesmic was the winner for me at the windows platform. This was because it scales nice and intergrade facebook notifications and other features.

It also support mutiple twitter accounts and userlists mixed on both services, save searches with new post notifications and more.

It has some normal, but nice features like add (tiny) URL, image and shrink text. Also the facebook status can be updated like the twitter tweets.

The column look does look like the one known from TweetDeck, but I like this more, and one of the reasons is that twitter and facebook timelines can be mixed together in one timeline or it can be seperated into 2 columns. Also the twitter replies can be mixed and seperated.

Seesmic has also made some footage of the feature updates/changelog

Ovi Store… now open all over!

Ovi Store.

Ovi Store is now open in all countries. This store can be accessed by web browser on the phone or desktop computer or the S60 Ovi Store application. I have tried all and I’m quite happy about them. I have also tries to buy applications and the experience was nice and streamlined. There are tabs like Recommended, Featured, Latest, Video & Audio, Games, Application and so on adn of cause you can filter by payed and free also. There are also categories like Entertainment, Business, Social Network, Utility ect.

I would like more applications in the store. Most of the stuff is wallpapers and videos, but many of the applications I’m use to are also there.

All in all the experiance was quite good after the first crash but Nokia quickly fixed this with adding more servers and soon the service was running smooth again.

StarCraft II Now Accepting Beta Signups!

StarCraft II Now Accepting Beta Signups!

This Sign up is hard to resist <(O.o)>

Huxley: The Dystopia Now Accepting Closed Beta Signups

Huxley: The Dystopia Now Accepting Closed Beta Signups

This upcoming MMOFPS is about to get tested. Sign up to test the happy trigger fingers in a massive ‘Ureal’-graphic-engine

Aion : Daeva Interview – Aion for PC at MMORPG.COM

Aion : Daeva Interview – Aion for PC at MMORPG.COM.

The interview is all about the upcoming MMORPG Aionand its features like flying, skills and yet again wings

There are much new (and old) in this new MMORPG where wings are part of the combat system.

How to Repair Outlook Web Access (OWA) 2003

a. Download and install the IIS 6.0 Resource Kit Tools. To obtain the IIS 6.0 Resource Kit Tools, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=56FC92EE-A71A-4C73-B628-ADE 629C89499&displaylang=en

If you do not want to install all the IIS 6.0 Resource Kit Tools, click the Custom installation option to install only Metabase Explorer 1.6.
b. Start IIS Manager.
c. Back up the metabase. To do this, right-click Default Web Site, click All Tasks, and then click Save Configuration to a File. Type a file name for the file and click OK.
d. Expand Default Web Site, and then delete the following virtual directories:

• Microsoft-Server-Active-Sync
• OMA
• Exadmin
• Exchange
• Public
• ExchWeb

e. Start Metabase Explorer. To do this, click Start, point to All Programs, point to IIS Resources, point to Metabase Explorer, and then click Metabase Explorer.
f. Expand the LM key, right-click the DS2MB key, and then click Delete.
g. Close Metabase Explorer.
h. Restart the Microsoft Exchange System Attendant service to re-create the virtual directories in IIS.

Note If the virtual directories are not re-created after 15 minutes, restart the server.
i. In IIS Manager, expand Default Web Site, right-click Exchweb, and then click Properties.
j. Click the Directory Security tab, and then click Edit under Authentication and access control.
k. Verify that only the Enable anonymous access check box is selected.
l. Right-click Default Web Site, and then click Stop.
m. Right-click Default Web Site, and then click Start.

Now that is a straight copy paste from the KB Article. However.. I immediately had to wonder how the System Attendant service knew what my default website is.. or was. How does IIS flag the ‘ default website’ ?

A rummage though the IIS metabase basically shows that under the W3SVC node, the site with ID 1, is the Default Website. I made a new site, which got a unique identifier, and just renamed it to 1 in the metabase. 5 minutes later the System Attendant service had rebuild my Exchange virtual folders!

How to Kill a Windows NT Service in command prompt

Go to the command-prompt and query the service (e.g. the SMTP service) by using sc:

sc queryex SMTPSvc
This will give you the following information:

SERVICE_NAME: SMTPSvc
TYPE : 20 WIN32_SHARE_PROCESS
STATE : 4 RUNNING
(STOPPABLE, PAUSABLE, ACCEPTS_SHUTDOWN)
WIN32_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0×0)
SERVICE_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0×0)
CHECKPOINT : 0×0
WAIT_HINT : 0×0
PID : 388
FLAGS :

or something like this (the “state” will mention stopping).
Over here you can find the process identifier (PID), so it’s pretty easy to kill the associated process either by using the task manager or by using taskkill:

taskkill /PID 388 /F

where the /F flag is needed to force the process kill (first try without the flag).

Installing uTorrent as windows service with webUI

this is the solution, and almost any program can be run as a windows service this way.

http://www.geekzilla.co.uk/View838302ED-E806-4314-AC3A-89872D6F8C9B.htm