Ray.MY: Tech, Web, Blogging Tips and PC Freewares stuffs

If you are trying to upgrade to WordPress 2.8.2 recently you may encounter the error below, which doesn’t indicate much except that it relates to some insufficient memory error.

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 2355395 bytes) in /public_html/wp-includes/http.php on line xx

If you searched around Google you may find remedial steps which includes either upgrading manually (downloading the .zip installation file and uploading via ftp) or by disabling all of the current used WordPress plugin and then perform the upgrading. I was not keen on performing the upgrade via those two methods, so I did a search around and found the following steps which were much simpler and most importantly, works like a charm.

Here’s how to do the trick:

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I saw the review of the UbitMenu add-on for the Microsoft’s Office 2007 on FreewareGenius and thought, “Hey! This was just what I needed!”.

This small application add-on enables the drop down menu from the Office 2003 to be “added” into the current Office 2007 ribbon type menu, enabling me to use the back the Office 2003 menu style which I was more accustomed to.

The nice bit here is that the add-on is merely that, it only adds a “menu” tab within the ribbon menu, so you can still use the new ribbon menu style whenever you like.

The add-on works on Word, Excel and Powerpoint, only 360KB in size and does not add significant memory usage at all. Oh, and its free (for non-commercial use).

Download .exe format | .zip format

Giveaway Of The Day

Games Giveaway Of The Day

As the name suggests, both the sites offers provides licensed software and games as free downloads daily. Each software/game of the day comes with a time ticker (24 hours) where you have to download and activate the application before the end of each day (in US hours).

What I like is that the software/games offered is presented with full functionality and without any limitations (according to the software’s own T & C). You do not have to worry about virus/adwares/spywares as the site authors ensures the programs are free from these threats.

There is usually some review on the software/games for the day, and you can also read the comments from the users before downloading them to try. I suggests to add both the websites to your RSS feeds so that you can easily see the new software/games being offered everyday.

Click on the pictures above for the links.

The PStart application from PegTop is a portable application launcher that launches portable application through a menu system. As I use a lot of portable applications on my USB flash memory disk, I found it a hassle to launch each application using shortcuts and it gets real messy too with so many shortcut icon. I was quite impressed with this freeware application and wasted no time in installing and using on all my USB flash memory disks. The PStart portable application launcher can be installed either as a standalone portable app or locally on your PC, and when not in use it can be minimized to the tray icon.

Some of the notable features:

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