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Recently, frequent exceptional rebooting happened to my PC, say every hour. I did spend some to figure it out because that I know that kind of problem could be very complicated. It may happen to software and hardware also.

At first, I was trying to uninstall the newly installed software, such as AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition, one of my favorite utility for my PC. The process of uninstallation is conducted through  Revo Uninstaller, another my preferable free tool. Once uninstallation is done, I did registry cleaning by using Wise Registry Cleaner. (It’s also free and wonderful.)

Unfortunately, the above works didn’t fix that problem and the rebooting happened as frequently as before. I ever heard that the rebooting with Windows XP is a smart replacement of blue-screen, an famous windows flaw which is well known. I did a try to disable the automatic rebooting once the error occurs in control panel. As expected, the system crashed again about an hour later and, instead of rebooting, a familiar blue screen shows up. By examining the error displayed, I doubted that there may have problem on my memory stick.

Then, I downloaded ”Microsoft Windows Memory Diagnostic” and burned a boot CD. That tool is smoothly loaded to do thoroughly checking on my memory stick. Shortly, the problem is addressed. A checking (LRAND) can not go through successfully. In order to isolate the incorrect one from two memory sticks, I tried to have each on them plugged separately. The very strange thing is that the two individual memory sticks are all passed the checking on memory. Is that the answer? Two working memory sticks can not working together.

The last try helped me to have those two memory sticks working properly. What I did is to switch the slot for those two memory sticks. Eventually, the problem is solved and now my PC can last working over 12 hours (After the problem is addressed.) It seems that there is unfitting issue on the slot with memory stick.

Thanks to the free utilities I’m working with, I have my PC back to working well.

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Recently, I was working on a commercial web site creating. We have a page which is required to display current business news. The request asks us to find a solution to implement that objective.

Google search easily guides us to source “Feed2JS Build JavaScript and Preview”, which is free web service offered by Alan Levine. The source code also can be got and implemented easily. This Java Script application is real good to meet my requirement.

Feed2JS offers multiple options to format the RSS feeding entry including:

• Number of items to display
• Show/Hide item description
• Use HTML in item display?
• Show item posting date
• Time Zone Offset
• Target links in the new windows?

Possibly, the only disadvantage is that the RSS feeding entry can not be crawled by search engine. That’s sort of reasonable because the RSS entry are not original source if we include them from other source with this technology.

It’s highly recommended about this tool if you have similar application like me.

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