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Where do you download your free mp3 files? Honestly I just know we actually can use Windows Media Player to get free mp3 download. The steps are pretty simple, first you use the search feature to find a song that you want to listen and keep, then you go to the temporarily internet files directory, from there you can copy the song and paste to the folder that you want to keep the song.

I found a tip that teaches you how to increase your broadband speed in 3 minutes, this 3 minutes simple tweak only for Windows XP Pro. It is too bad to me, I’m using Windows XP Home edition now, may be it doesn’t work in my Windows operating system. Never mind, let me read the steps later and check whether I can do some configuration to increase my broadband speed.

My old laptop cannot support Windows Vista due to the high requirement is required, so I’m not sure whether the following Top 10 Windows Vista Speed Tweaks can really make a huge different in Vista performance or not. Anyway, there is no harm to give it a try, just hope it really can help.

1. Turn off Windows Search Indexing
2. Turn off Remote Differential Compression
3. Turn off Automatic Windows Defender Operation
4. Turn off Automatic Disk Defragmentation
5. Add a 2GB or higher USB Flash drive to take advantage of Windows Ready Boost (Additional Memory Cache)
6. Turn off Windows Hibernation
7. Turn off System Restore
8. Disable User Access Control (UAC)
9. Disable excess Windows Services that Auto-Launch at Startup
10. Disable Excess Windows Features

I stumble upon a site where you can learn 24 ways to impress your friends at 24ways.org. To me, I’m more interested to learn Rounded Corner Boxes the CSS3 way tutorial by Andy Budd. Anyway, 24ways.org is all about the web development tips in neat batches of 24, I hope these tips are useful for you.

Follow the steps below to change the size and location of your Windows swap/paging files:-

1. Right click My Computer, choose properties.
2. Select Advanced tab, click on Performance Setting button.
3. Performance Options dialog box is displayed, select Advanced tab, click on Change button for virtual memory.
4. Change the Initial Size and Maximum Size (NOTE: This number should be 2.0 times the amount of RAM in your machine. For example, if you have 512mb of RAM, please change both Initial Size and Maximum Size to 1024.
5. Restart the machine.

My friend requested me to blog about how to create a new blog using WordPress platform. I assumed you already configure your domain name and web hosting. First, you have to download two things, there are Filezilla and WordPress.

What is Filezilla? FileZilla is a fast and reliable FTP client and server with lots of useful features and an intuitive interface.

What is WordPress? WordPress is a semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.

After finished download of Filezilla and WordPress, install Filezilla and unzip WordPress. After installed filezilla, look at the top area of filezilla (below the menu bar), can you see Host, User Name, Password and Port? Yes, that’s right. Type the following:-

1. Host: www.abc.com (your domain name)
2. User: eric (your domain name’s login name)
3. Password: 1234 (your domain name’s password)
4. Port: Leave it blank

And then click QuickConnect button to connect to your host server. After connected, can you see public_html folder? Yes, double click to enter to this folder. Now it is time to upload your wordpress under this folder, but you have to configure the database name, user name and password before uploading. So, how to configure? See below:-

1. Open the WordPress folder (just now you have unzip wordpress, right? That’s the folder which you need to open it)
2. Can you see wp-config-sample.php? Yes, rename to wp-config.php (eliminate the –sample this word)
3. Right click wp-config.php, open with notepad.
4. Configure your database name, MYSQL user name and password that I highlighted in red color. (note: you have to create your database name and MYSQL user name first before you can change the following details, this can be done under cpanel, for example: http://www.abc.com/cpanel)

define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘abc_wordpress‘); // The name of the database
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘abc_eric‘); // Your MySQL username
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘1234‘); // …and password
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value
define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8′);
define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);

After done the configuration, then you can start upload WordPress to your hosting. If you finished upload WordPress to your hosting, locate wp-content/themes (this is a place where you can install your WordPress theme(s)). How about plugin installation? Same thing, locate wp-content/plugins where you can install your WordPress plugin(s) here.

That’s all, you can start accessing your blog now, congratulation. Please let me know if you have any question, you can leave comment here. Thank you.

If you are still using Windows XP, perhaps you are interested in this list of Windows XP tips and tricks. For example, you can learn how to speed up the network browsing; easy way to share multi folder; speed up the display of Start Menu; increasing file system caching and many others.