If you upgraded recently, automatically or not, and you can’t see anything in cameras added to Blue Iris you might have connectivity issues.

To debug this, telnet to the ip and port you have using in the camera settings.

If telnet is not working stop the firewall to be sure you are not  limited by it.  And try again in blue iris.

If still no luck, open tcpview, reset camera and quickly check the ports blue iris is accessing.

Compare the port actually used to the one you have setup on the camera. You may find that after the upgrade the ports were changed in blue iris.

I have found that my video port was replaced with default video port (port 554) and web port was changed to my custom video port.

After upgrading from Windows Vista or from Windows XP you will find out that the sound doesn’t work.

Like me, you have tried all the drivers available on the internet: XP sound drivers, Vista 32bit or Vista 64bit sound drivers. Still, no luck.

On a forum, I have found a post about a tool that enables the sound for Vista.

The name, obviously, is “Sound Utility to Turn Mute Off”.

The link to the tool:

http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/downloadDetail.jsp?soid=1671893&pf=true

Let me know if this helped you, it did worked for me in Windows 7 x64.

EDIT: The step was required only when I have first time installed Windows 7. Second time I have installed Windows 7, the sound was working from the first boot.

USB stopped working, suddenly! F#uck! Nothing on USB is working, but it did! WTF can you do?

On MS support the KB articles are not offering a straight to the point solution for this.

So, I have searched the internet and after a few searches I have found this article (Google PR 3 page):

http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/usb-device-not-recognized/

The answer is:

UNPLUG YOUR COMPUTER FROM THE POWER SUPPLY!!! and wait a few minutes to have all residual power consumed.

So, I did it.

And, it worked.

I had a 3 m USB cable extension for a USB WIFI adapter and, after removing it, is all good. It works!!!

Later edit:

This is a bit extreme, it still works if you shutdown the computer, unplug the power cord, push the buttons of the computer a few times, plug-in USB devices and wait for a minute or so.

One cause of this may be the grounding of the appliances, high density of wireless devices, unshielded USB cable, or, a combination of these.

My buddy with the gmail account problems in Outlook 2007 said today that the Word’s behavior is odd and the mouse cursor is switching fast between edit vertical line (text select) and the hour glass.

Investigating and applying different solutions including complete reinstall, rename Normal.dot or delete Data and Options sections from registry, uninstalling using revo uninstaller didn’t fixed the problem.

So, I went back to forums and after half an hour of reading I have found that the default printer may cause this problem.

Setting (the) other printer as default one or uninstalling it fixed the problem.

Now I have to find other/better drivers because each time when he will need to print something from Word he will need to select another printer.

Of course OpenOffice has no problems at all

I had to configure a gmail imap account for a friend on Outlook 2007.
Using settings from google’s page for Outlook configuration did not work for me.
I was getting “Error message-IMAP server closed connection Error Code: 0x800CCCDD”. I have tried almost anything, the connection to the imap server didn’t worked.

I have used thunderbird to test and it worked from the first attempt.

After a while I have noticed that the image with the account details has the password entered and the “Remember password” option checked.
So, I have filled the password field, checked to remember the password and , IT WORKEED.

Idiots!