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Restore your iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch Firmware

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Warning: Following this method will erase all your data including Contacts & Photos

  1. First you need to download your iPhone/iPod Touch firmware. Click “here” to download the firmware.
  2. Once the download has been completed – Open iTunes
  3. Click on your iPhone/iPod Touch (if using older version of ituneswdsMisc; on the left if not it is top right)
  4. Hold down SHIFT and left click the Restore button.
  5. A Browse for dialog will open – locate and select the downloaded iPhone/iPod firmware.
  6. Click Open
  7. iTunes will now verify the consistency and authenticity of the firmware file to verify it is a valid Apple firmware. Then start the restore process.
  8. Once completed your iPhone/iPod Touch should restart and you should now have a freshly reset iPhone/iPod Touch.

Using phpmyadmin to remove WordPress posts

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Warning:  This will remove all posts on your wordpress installation. Make sure you have a backup or simply don’t want them anymore… when they are gone they are gone!

  1. Login to PHPMyAdmin
  2. On the left hand side – select your wordpress database
  3. Click on the Posts stable
  4. Click Operations (top menu bar)
  5. Click Empty the table (TRUNCATE)
  6. Click Ok

Note: Clearing the postsmeta table will delete the references to your images and post tags.

Windows Vista Memory Management Blue Screen of Death

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The Windows Vista Memory Management BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death) is usually caused by a faulty RAM (Random Access Memory) module or a RAM module that has an incorrect or different speed then the other module which might be in the computer.

  • Download memtestx86 and burn to a CD
  • Boot from the CD and allow the scan to go – any red lines indicate bad RAM. I suggest allowing the scan to go for 2 passes.

Booting into Recovery Partition instead of Operating System

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Having issues with your computer booting into the Recovery Partition instead of the Windows operating system? Try the guide below to repair.

  1. First download Gparted and burn it to a CD
  2. Boot from the Gparted CD (F12 or Esc are common hotkeys to bring up the boot menu during system startup)
  3. Just press Enter through the default options to boot into the user interface.
  4. You should see several partitions on your computer – this usually consists of System, Operating System (C:) and Data.
  5. Right click the Operating System partition
  6. Left click Flags
  7. Left click Boot (the boot flag will set the OS partition to bootable – it is probably set to System or the Recovery partition at the moment)
  8. Click ok
  9. Now shutdown gparted and restart your computer. It should now boot into the operating system.