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Being a server administrator requires some good tech skills as you face various scenarios requiring not-so-commonly used solutions, few days ago I faced a similar situation where a certain directory was needed to be skipped from regular WHM/cPanel backups. Luckily WHM/cPanel do provide a simple cpbackup-exclude.conf file which can be edited to exclude files and directories from the backup job, all that needs to be done is to input and save paths to items to be excluded via Shell/WinSCP.

Majority of mobile-phones support their storage to be used as an Mass Storage Device from a computer when plugged-in, unfortunately if you own an Apple iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch this is not possible. We have shared various utilities and hacks to enable this functionality on iDevices, Phone Disk is another such paid application allowing users to directly access files from Apple iPhone, iPad and iTouch like a regular removable disk on both PC and Mac. The good news is "Phone Disk" is being given-away for free to everyone until December 1st 2010, if the software is activated (using the free registration serial number shared ahead) before that date users can enjoy a fully-functional version with all future updates and no expiration date.

Keeping your PC perform at optimal level needs help of computer maintenance and optimization utilities, and if you are looking for one such professional utility our TuneUp Utilities 2011 free key giveaway is still open for participation.

IObit offers some great free PC tune-up software's like IObit Toolbox and IObit Advanced SystemCare, the company also offers another useful utility for PC optimization specially targeted at gamers. Named "IObit Game Booster 2" the free utility for windows help optimize PC for an overall smoother and more responsive game play. "Game Booster 2" achieves it's goal by updating hardware-drivers, downloading essential gaming tools, tweaking system settings, defragmenting game directories, temporarily shutting down background processes, cleaning RAM, and prioritizing processor performance.

Preparing bootable USB drives has always been a not so easy task requiring a combination of tricks, hacks and tools, thanks to freeware utility WinToFlash this won't be the case any longer as it allows users to create bootable USB disk drives having Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 2008, Windows 7 installation or any other BartPE compatible environment from CD/DVD to USB in a fast and automated way.

Apart from preparing bootable Windows installation and BartPE USB disk drivers WinToFlash also supports making of bootable MS-DOS disks.