How to format an external drive to work seamlessly with Macs and PCs without third party software

External drives allow you to quickly moves large files between computers. If you want yours to seamlessly work with both Macs and PCs, your external drive needs to use a filesystem that is supported by both platforms. The problem is that by default Windows uses NFTS, and Macs use HFS. Out of the box, Windows can not read or write HFS drives, and Macs are unable to write to NTFS drives.

There are free and paid third party solutions to get Macs to work with NTFS, and Windows to understand HFS. But these often cost money, are slow/buggy, or you may simply not have permissions to install software on the computer. Below I’ve outlined how you can use FAT or exFAT filesystems to make your external drive is compatible with Macs and PCs out of the box, for free.

Warning: Following this guide includes re-formatting your external drive, this will erase the data from your drive. Make a backup copy of files you don’t want to lose before starting.

Option 1: FAT

Pros: Works natively with all Macs and all PCs.

Cons: Can’t handle files that are larger then 4GB in size.

How to format using FAT:

1. Open disk Utility on your Mac. (Find it quickly with Spotlight, click on Magnifying glass and start typing Disk Utility.)

2. Select the drive you wish to format.

3. Select the “Erase” tab in Disk Utility.

4. Select MS-DOS (FAT) from the drop down box.

5. Click Erase and follow the prompts.

6. Let it finish, and you’re done.

Option 2: exFAT

Pros: Can work with large files.

Cons: Not compatible with older operating systems. You must have Mac OS X 10.6.5 or newer, and PCs need to be Windows Vista SP1, Windows 7, or newer.

Although it is possible to format a drive as exFAT from Disk Utility on the Mac, that drive will not work with Windows PCs, and that’s not what we’re after. To format the drive to work with both platforms you will need use a Windows computer to format the disk as exFAT.

Update: At the time of the original posting in 2011, there were some problems getting a Mac formatted exFAT drive working with Windows, it had trouble recognizing those drives. It appears the issue has since been fixed and disks formatted exFAT on OS X 10.7 (Lion) and 10.8 (Mountain Lion) are working with Windows. Mac instructions above will now work for exFAT. I will leave Windows instructions below for the benefit of Windows users.

How to format using exFAT (on Windows):

• Plug the disk into a Windows Vista SP1 or Windows 7 computer.
• Open the Computer window.
• Right click on the drive, and select Format.
• Select exFAT from the drop down box, and click on Start.
• Done! Now this drive will work with Macs and PCs.
• Although FAT is more compatible with older systems, the maximum 4GB filesize is very limiting. You would not be able to use this disk for long HD videos and large disk images, for example. For this reason I would recommend exFAT. By this point in time, most computers you encounter will work fine with exFAT.

Original Source : mactip.net

Best 40 website programmings languages..

Hi friendz,

There is a lot web programming languages available. Based on some research, here we listed some top web programming languages. I got some information from other reference sources in searching and then i have made some list here..

This results are in no way definitive and may even be wrong, but the results are from HTTP Header information, Request for file types (.php for example), Searches on forums, presentations and Google Educated guesses ;)

It is purly the programming languages that are serving through HTML.

Results

– Website — Programming Language Used
————————————————————-

Google – C, C++, PHP*, Ajax

facebook.com — PHP

youtube.com — Python

yahoo.com — PHP*

live.com — ASP.NET
wikipedia.org — PHP

msn.com — ASP.NET
blogspot.com — Python*

baidu.com — PHP

microsoft.com — ASP.NET
qq.com — PHP

bing.com — ASP.NET
ask.com — SSI

taobao.com — PHP

twitter.com — Ruby on Rails

adobe.com — ColdFusion

youku.com — PHP

soso.com — CGI*

wordpress.com — PHP

sohu.com — PHP

163.com — JSP

windows.com — ASP.NET
hao123.com — PHP

amazon.com — CGI

tudou.com — PHP

apple.com — PHP

ebay.com — CGI

linkedin.com — Scala/Java

yahoo.co.jp — PHP*

sogou.com — PHP

go.com — CGI

4399.com — PHP

paypal.com — CGI

mozilla.com — PHP/Python

aol.com — JSP

about.com — unknown

xunlei.com — PHP

56.com — PHP

flickr.com — PHP

craigslist.org — Perl

tmall.com — PHP

*guesses

Notes,

Based on the above results we see that PHP is the dominant language claming 50% of the top 40 websites. Also, ASP.NET seems to be only used in Microsoft properties.

If you see an error in the results I would love to hear from you. please leave a comment stating the correction. Thanks for reading.

Sources : Google, Yahoo, rogchap.com etc.

jQuery Validation submitHandler issue in Safari and Chrome

There is an odd issue with the jQuery Validation plugin’s submitHandler callback with Chrome. To validate the form I had my function setup as follows:

$("#signup_form").validate({
submitHandler: function(form) {
alert("Test");
form.submit();
}
});

The alert box and form submitted correctly in Firefox. However in Chrome, the alert box worked, but after that the form refused to submit. I narrowed down the issue to be with the actual name of the submit input on the form. I had named the submit input “submit”, which had some sort of conflict with the plugin. Renaming the submit input to anything else, like “newname” fixes the issue.
In short, to fix this, change:

<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Sign Up" />

to

<input type="submit" name="newname" value="Sign Up" />x

5 Must Have Free WordPress Plugins for WordPress Website

WordPress is undoubtedly one of the best publishing platforms available on the web today. The best part about WordPress -its ability to customize websites through plugins.

WordPress currently lists more than 30,000 plugins in its directory and for a novice WordPress user, it’s a bit hard to determine which of these 30k+ plugins they need. Here is a list of 5 must have, well-build WordPress plugins every WordPress website could use. These are extremely helpful if you are planning for a long-healthy-fast site administration.

Jetpack by WordPress.com

Jetpack is a free bundle from worpress community.More than 30 tools which are extremely helpful for every WordPress website out there.

Installing and configuring Jetpack is a simple process. You will have to connect with your WordPress.com account and you are ready to use all the tools. Some tools are activated by default and you can activate the rest as per your choice.

Some Jetpack inbuild options are:

WordPress.com Stats, Jetpack Comments, Contact Form, Publicize etc..

Akismet

Akismet is your ultimate spam assassin. Spam comments will be your greatest head-ache once you start running a WordPresss website. Akismet is a one stop solution to spam handling, It is developed by Automattic as well.

USB drive don't show your files

Hi friendz, my pen drive was affected by virus, then i cleared the virus using anti virus program. After that my usb files do not show to me when i try to load. But which gives the properties and sizes of the files.

Then i googled and find out the followin solution,

open command prompt and type the following

attrib -s -h -r G:*.* /s /d

Above I used G drive as my pen drive location. Change according yours.

try the trick buddies...