Camera Mouse lets you control your mouse pointer by moving your head

Camera Mouse is a free program, made at Boston College, that enables you to control the mouse pointer on your Windows computer screen just by moving your head.

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Access Control List Repair Utility for Windows 7

November 9th, 2010. Filed under:Windows. Tags: Repair
An access control list (ACL), with respect to a computer file system, is a list of permissions attached to an object. An ACL specifies which users or system processes are granted access to objects, as well as what operations are allowed on given objects.

Each entry in a typical ACL specifies a subject and an operation. Sometimes, your ACLs can become corrupted for one reason or another. Since these are tied into your registry on Windows based systems, system instability and crashes may result.

Important services may fail to launch as well at startup. One particular service is the Windows Event Log, which is responsible for maintaining records of all activity on your PC in the event of an error.

These logs are accessible through the Event Viewer, which can be opened through the search dialog on your start menu. Not having access to these logs may make it difficult and more time consuming to correct problems with your PC.

If you are facing such issues, you may want to try Access Control List Repair Utility for Windows 7 & Windows Vista.

To run this repair utility, please follow these instructions.

1. Create a system restore point first.

2. Download the Access Control List Repair Utility from this page.

3. Double click on the subinacl.msi file provided with the download. If it does not work for some reason, you can find the download from Microsoft.

3. Right click on the reset.cmd file and Run it as Administrator. This Operation can take anywhere from several minutes to half an hour or more, depending on the speed of your system.

4. Run the enclosed command.cmd file as administrator.

5. Restart your computer.

This will reset your ACL’s.

If you do not like the results, you can always restore your PC back to the created restore point!

The Commands used in this utility have been take from this MSDN Forum thread.

Anand aka HappyAndyK is an end-user Windows enthusiast, a Microsoft MVP in Windows Desktop Experience since 2007, and the Admin of TheWindowsClub.com & WinVistaClub.com. Creating a System Restore Point before trying out a new software or a tweak is always recommended.

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Has Facebook lost control of the Platform?

Sun, 2010-11-07 14:02 by admin

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This time around, Facebook may actually have seen its privacy Watergate: A report in The Wall Street Journal on Monday found that the phenomenal amount of personal information that Facebook members put in their profiles may indeed have been sold extensively to marketers, advertisers, and data collectors. The big question, appropriately enough, is what did Facebook know and when did it know it?

Here's what happened: When Facebook members agree to connect their Facebook credentials to any of the hundreds of thousands of applications that implement its third-party developer application programming interface (API), they are giving those developers access to their Facebook member ID numbers and in turn all publicly available information about them on Facebook (which includes names and lists of friends).

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Control Flash Content in Google Chromes With FlashControl

Many designers tend to insert some flash animation contents such as flash intro, flash advertisements, flash fun games, etc to make their website more attractive and interesting. However, many visitors to the website might not buy the idea. Users might find the flash contents on the site annoying and disturbing. To get rid of the flash element from appearing in the website, Google Chrome offers users a filtering option via its flash content filtering extension, namely FlashControl.

FlashControl is a free browser extension for Google Chrome that allows users to have control over the flash contents by blocking the Adobe Flash players from loading the contents. With this extension installed, users will find there is a control panel to each flash player embedded in a website. Users can turn on/off the buttons on the control panel to allow/disallow the flash player from functioning. By default, FlashControl blocks all flash contents from running on a site. Users can control manually using the control panel to enable the flash contents. FlashControl also offer users the option to identify certain websites that allow flash contents. Users can add these websites address to a whitelist so that the browser extension will not block the flash content from these sites.

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