Logitech SetPoint not showing Keyboard K400r

Hey all,

I bought a new wireless keyboard! How cool is that?
Ok, don't worry, its not the subject matter anyway.

I bought this keyboard knowing that it can pair with my existing Logitech M310 Wireless Mouse whereas both supports Unifying (means we can just use 1 Nano receive to get both Keyboard and Mouse working).

I guess, most of you know landed to this page knows already what is Unifying and you guys already do the Unifying but to your own surprise the SetPoint (Logitech's software for these keyboard and mouse) did not detect one of your device (mostly Keyboard is the victim).

When this first happened to me, I thought it is Logitech's software limitation that the SetPoint cannot show two device in it. And I was somehow not worried about it since both keyboard and mouse is working fine although cannot configure in SetPoint.

But I don't enjoy the keyboard much because it was designed for Windows 8 while I am using Windows 7. The main reason is the Function Keys (F1, F2, F3,...) will not work unless I press them together with the new extra key "FN". So to get the F2 function (shortcut to rename files), I need to press "FN" + "F2", how lame is that? I couldn't tolerate it much longer and I decided to try Uninstall SetPoint and Reinstall it again because I was thinking SetPoint supports only 1 device and was hoping to get luck in detecting the Keyboard as main device instead of Mouse.

Just before I do that, I googled to see if there are anyone having same problem. And yes, there was many people and they easily solved this issue by Un-Pair & Re-Pair (I purposely used this spelling instead of unpair and repair).

I found people having problem and kind user "elmoputz" shared the solution in this page: http://forums.logitech.com/t5/Keyboards-and-Keyboard-Mice/K400R-not-showing-mouse-amp-keyboard-settings/td-p/927908

But since it do not have screenshot or detailed instruction of Un-Pair and Re-Pair, I decided to write here and hope people who face same problem like mine will see these helpful screenshots and get their SetPoint issues resolved.

So, basically what you need to do is "Open the Unifying Reciever software, and click the advanced tab (bottom left). Highlight the Keyboard k400 entry (left) and click Un-pair button (right). Then turn the keyboard switch off and back on to Re-pair. " {quoted from "elmoputz" original statement}

But take important note that when you Un-Pair, you cannot use your mouse until you Re-Pair, so plugin any secondary (or old) mouse to your PC and do the steps below;

My original SetPoint was like this, it do not have "My Keyboard" tab.

Steps (follow my mouse cursor/pointer),

1. Click on the Unifying icon

2. Click on Open Unifying Software button

3. Click Advanced button

4. Select your Mouse and click Un-Pair button

5. Select your Keyboard and click Un-Pair button

(Note: I purposely Un-Pair all device to make clean Re-Pair)

6. Click Pair a New Device button

7. Off and On your Keyboard, wait for few seconds

8. Keyboard was detected, click Pair a New Device button again

9. Off and On your Mouse, wait for few seconds

10. Mouse also detected, now click Close button

After closed the Unifying sofware, "My Keyboard" tab appeared in SetPoint.
Finally, all of the steps was worth it!

Extra note, if you guys are also using K400r with Windows 7 and wish to get back your Function Keys (F1, F2, F3...) back normal, as per the screenshot below, 

1. Click on "My Keyboard" Tab

2. Click on "F" icon

3. Untick/Uncheck the "Swap F key functions"

Now my helpful F2 key is back on action again to dominate the world!

~ My Love for Logitech remains undestroyed ~

How to create Screenshots?

Hi,

Making screenshots has never been easy. Previously, in old days, when you want to take a screenshot of your existing screen and send to other person as image/picture file in JPG format, it was never easy unless you have imaging softwares like Photoshop or at least the MS Paint.

Now, things getting more simple, to take your screenshot, you can just open the capturing software, and straight away you can cut the screen selecting which position you want to make the screenshot (not necessary for you to capture the whole screen), and what ever you are capturing, immediately get saved into JPG image. Multiple screen you capture, multiple JPG, this makes life totally easy.

I will first tell you the classic way of capturing screenshots (printscreen),
In your keyboard, look for ‘Print Screen’ button. Normally they use short form like ‘PrtSc’ which means the same. Click on the button, then open MS Words or Powerpoint, straight away click on the ‘Paste’ button, you will see the screenshot that you captured being put there as a image/picture. You can capture as many screen as you want through the 'Print Screen' button and every time after capturing, you must Paste them into the MS Words or Powerpoint.

To make things more easy, the modern way of capturing screenshots, just download and install any screen capturing software. I personally suggest ScreenHunter since it is free and it works fine for me even in Windows 7. Everytime you need to capture screenshot, just open this software and click on the Capture button, straight away it will create the JPG file and save to your desired folder. You can set the default folder in the settings.

There is an option in the ScreenHunter which lets you to capture 'Rectangle Area'. This means, when you capturing using this option, instead of capturing the whole screen, the software will give you selector cursor to simply select any part of your screen. This is wonderful way of making anything visible on your screen to be in JPG picture format.

Have fun guys!

Create PDF from almost any format document

Hi guys,

Do you have MS Document or MS Excel that you want to make it PDF and send over to your client/customers?

I had few clients ask me this question and I advised them the steps. But, when new customers keep on asking the same, I eventually get tired. The right manner, I should have Blog about it which I decide to do it now rather than 'another' later.

Direct to point, making or converting your documents to PDF is completely easy. There are few softwares that can do this work easily.

I would personally suggest CutePDF since I have test it.

Steps,

1. Download and install CutePDF, link: http://www.cutepdf.com/download/CuteWriter.exe
2. Open your the document that you want to make PDF (can be any document format DOC, DOCX, ...)
3. Click to File > Print. 
4. When the print screen shows up, you will notice the 'Printer' set to your existing default Printer. Click on the printer list and change it to CutePDF (this is a new printer which will appear after you installed CutePDF)
5. Go ahead and print with CutePDF, it will immediately ask you for the PDF filename.
6. Your document is now in PDF format as the filename you saved.

Have fun! Blast the PDF to your customers. Spam their mailbox as much as possible with all your promotion stuffs.

View PDF within MS Outlook 2007

Hi all,

Interesting that Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 able to view common office document and images within the application itself. But too sad that they do not support to view PDF.

That wasn't sad after I found that there is external plugin which developed by Foxit capable to do such. I installed and tried out myself, it works cool.

The idea and download are shared by the original poster here:
http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2007/02/27/14001.aspx

Hope it would be useful for you guys too!

Windows 7, this copy of windows is not genuine...

Hi all,

Have you ever come across the windows error message "this copy of windows is not genuine"?

I had experienced it in Windows XP last time when my PC accidentally executed the Windows Updates to install the latest Internet Explorer. I was totally annoyed with that message and I found a patch which cleaned up my machine pretty good.

Due to Windows XP's weak file-systems protection which leaves the file-systems open for hackers and viruses, my Windows XP was being continuously attacked. Getting tired of it, I had installed Windows 7.

Like I mentioned in my previous post, Windows 7 is wonderful piece of Windows ever! I loved the way it works. Furthermore, new applications such as Adobe Photoshop CS4 and others works pretty fast and smooth compared to Windows XP last time. Although its the same machine I am using it. I can feel that the new softwares are being written for newer version of Windows and making it sometime lack if used in older version of Windows.

But anyway, lets cut this short. I installed Windows 7 Ultimate RTM (OEM Edition). It requires no CD key. Just install it with blank cd key and it would automatically assign the copy of windows to OEM key and activates it. Pretty good. I was enjoying it for about a 2 weeks. I left the Windows Updates open thinking that OEM edition will never be blocked by Microsoft. I was so wrong! I left my PC running all night while I sleep (I always do this because lazy to close the machine), and the next day when I woke up, I saw the machine showing "this copy of windows is not genuine" error. So annoyed.

Started my search again for patch and found "Windows 7 Build 7600 RTM (x86/x64) Release 10.0 (03/03/2010)" patch. I had no luck. (Maybe because I did not run it as administrator)

Next I found a bunch of patches (contain 6 type patches) for Windows 7. The file was removed by many File Hosting website but continuous search lead me to download the copy from Rapidshare which was uploaded 2 weeks ago and the link is still alive.

Among the 6 type of patch, I selected "Chew-WGA 0.9 - The Windows 7 Patch". It has nothing complicated. Just one single executable file, I run it as administrator. It opened nice GUI and I clicked the "Apply" button. It installed the patch and restarted my machine.

The Windows annoying error was gone! And the status of Windows shows "Activated."

So if your copy of Windows 7 experience the same problem, all you need to do is google for that Chew-WGA and download the latest version. I cannot provide the URL because File Hosting website normally will trace the file and delete it within 1 month. So you must google for the latest one and download it on your own.

Have fun guys!

Windows 7, a new chapter

Hi,

As you all already know, Windows 7 is in town! I believe most of you could have experienced it already. How do you guys find it so far?

In my case, XP's weakness of defending its own system files has cause a major problem to me and rather than keep fighting with those viruses and spyware, I jumped to Windows 7.

Windows 7 is the best Windows experience I has so far. I know Windows 7 has similar interface to Vista, but previously Vista was lacking in term of capturing high memory and unwanted services. Windows 7 on the other hand, has more simplified system. It does not bite the memory that bad.

If you guys could have notice, now days the Netbook is getting popular. You guys can find the Netbook comes with 2 different OS options which are Windows XP and Windows 7. My question is where is Windows Vista? Like I said, Vista is heavy and it doesn't suite the Netbook which is low specs. But Windows 7 is smart, it can tweak in nicely to fit itself based on the machine's specs.

The minimum requirement for Windows 7 is 1GB RAM and 1Ghz processor. Some claim that Windows 7 works fine with 512KB RAM itself. Pretty good right?

But anyway, I can feel that Windows 7 has just win over Windows XP's market share. And I bet its the best of Microsoft so far!

One best feature of Windows 7 that I love is the TaskBar (SuperBar) has been given new energy whereas we can store the application shortcuts in the TaskBar. Later when we are using the application, it will not consume any extra space in the TaskBar, instead just putting a rectangle box around the application icon to mention that the application is currently opened. Wow, this saved a lot of space in the TaskBar. Besides, we can pin our favorite files/shortcuts to this application. And when we right-click on the application icon in the taskbar, it will show the shortcuts that we have pinned to that particular application. If you pressed Shift button on keyboard and clicked on the application icon, then it will open the same application in another window. For example, if we have calculator and already open 1 to do some calculations, middle of the way, if we need another calculator to count something else, just press Shift and click the calculator icon, another calculator would be displayed.

I still find it slightly difficult to navigate the file explorer because its all being grouped together in one icon, but I believe the way the taskbar is programmed is very good. I would get used to this taskbar and will extremely contribute to efficiency in handling files and doing my daily pc work.

I agree Windows 7 is pretty good, therefore Regan Rajan recommends Windows 7 to all.

Have a nice day guys!

MySQL Strict-Mode need to be not so strict!

Hi,

The best part of PHP or MySQL is their flexibility. MySQL by default has Strict-Mode which will hold you tight to follow the standard rules.

It is a great thing that we all can follow the appropriate standard rules and we have the discipline. But somehow, when you come across scripts that require "not so strict" mode, then we need to work flexible with that script instead of changing all over again.

Just assume that we are freelance programmer and thrown into a large project which has its mysql commands all generated without any strict discipline. We got to work and follow the same instead of keep being standard coder.

The common 2 problems when you are running Strict-Mode:
1) Cannot insert '' (empty string) into Integer Field.
2) Cannot automatically insert NULL if a field is required field.

If you running your MySQL database locally and you need to turn off the Strict-Mode, then look for my.ini file in your MySQL installation folder. For me it was default install, so the file was at: C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\my.ini

Search/Find for "SQL mode". Then you will see the lines;
# Set the SQL mode to strict
sql-mode="STRICT_TRANS_TABLES,NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION"

Just remove the "STRICT_TRANS_TABLES," from the second line and leave it like this;
# Set the SQL mode to strict
sql-mode="NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION"

That's it!

Restart your MySQL service and you will be running the MySQL without rules. Follow the project standard although it is not so standard ;)

Be flexible! 
Have fun!

====== Update as on 7th January 2013 ======

I noticed the sql-mode is no longer in latest MySQL installations's my.ini configuration file. They made it even easier.

First, execute this SQL command:
SELECT @@global.sql_mode;

You should see the MySQL answers you:
STRICT_TRANS_TABLES,NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION

As you can see, its running strict-mode, so we need to reset the mode, execute this SQL command:
SET @@global.sql_mode='NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION';

Walaaa! You are done! But if you want to re-confirm that you are no longer running script mode, then execute again this SQL command:

SELECT @@global.sql_mode;

You will see the MySQL answered you:

NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION

Far easier than messing about with the configuration file right? Cool!