I just stumbled upon a nice little utility. It’s called ATF Cleaner. What it does? What you always do when you clean up a computer or remove a virus: it cleans temporary folders, temporary internet files and so on. It’s what you basically do manually every time you start working on a computer with...
I had some time last night and I wanted to listen to some music. I have a pc hooked to my tv and my surround system. I realized that I can only hear music in the front speakers. It took some time to find how to enable 5.1 sound using winamp and my creative...
Like I mentioned in my previous post Firefox 3.5 is still not supported by google gears. I don’t need it for Gmail but I use the turbo feature of WordPress. Well, a good soul over at the Google Gears User Group made a custom build. You should treat it as beta quality. It works...
Easy way to always have a hibernate button when shutting windows xp down. Just a quick registry hack and you are set !
In a fight for the megapixel count, marketing departments forced manufacturers to forget about picture quality. What to check if you buy a new camera instead of the megapixels.
Nokia started the Ovi online suite and I saw a bit of light. It works very well, you can send the configuration automatically to your phone and is all nicely integrated. I use Ovi to update my notes, calendar and contacts directly from a web browser. The only problem left was automatisation.
Ever since I post pictures on the internet I searched for a way to watermark them. I am not paranoiac but I want others to respect my work. I used to use The GiMP but that was slow, so I searched and discovered Fast Stone Image Viewer. It’s fast, free for personal use and...
My main workstation has a dual (sometimes tri) boot configuration: some flavour of linux (usually slackware) and some flavour of windows (usually xp). I have small partitions for the operating systems and one – two big ones for data. In the past, the data ones used to be FAT32 so they would be readable...
This was simple: I used The Gimp to create a file 16 x 16 pixels and saved it as favicon.ico Upload it to the root of your website Added the following to header.php: View Code HTML1 <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico"> Fast and easy !
My wife erased by mistake the Show Desktop shortcut from the Quick Launch toolbar. So I needed to recreate it. Here are the needed steps: Start notepad Copy and paste this text in notepad: View Code DOS1 2 3 4 5 [Shell] Command=2 IconFile=explorer.exe,3 [Taskbar] Command=ToggleDesktop Save as Show Desktop.scf. Now move the shortcut...
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