Backup your Firefox Passwords

Friday, December 5th, 2008 Posted in linux, web, windows | Comments Off

There are only 2 files you need to backup: signons.sqlite key3.db You can find those in your Firefox profile: Linux ~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxxx.default/ Windows Click the Windows Start button, and select Run.... Type in %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ then click OK. You can then ... Read more..

Autocad: PDF plot drawing’s text as text w/ PDFCreator

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 Posted in cad, windows | Comments Off

Autocad plot pdf text as text with PDFCreator (instead of images of text): File - Page Setup Manager - Manage Page Setups - Page Setup Manager - Modify - Printer/Plotter, PDFCreator.pc3, ... Read more..

Compare four columns in Open Office or Excel

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 Posted in linux, productivity, windows | Comments Off

For example, you have 2 sheets, Sheet1 and Sheet2: they both have a list of part numbers in column A and a list of prices in column B. You ... Read more..

Perl’s KinoSearch vs Plucene

Thursday, July 17th, 2008 Posted in linux, perl, programming, windows | Comments Off

KinoSearch is the winner The following perl scripts index *.txt in the current folder and search for "TEST". The first one is using Perl's KinoSearch module and the other one ... Read more..

Easy Mass-Rename (Windows)

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 Posted in productivity, windows | Comments Off

Batch renaming made easy with Renamer "ReNamer is a very powerful and flexible file renaming tool, which offers all the standard renaming procedures, including prefixes, suffixes, replacements, case changes, as well ... Read more..

UMPC Laptops Comparison (Open Office Spread Sheet)

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 Posted in hardware, linux, windows | Comments Off

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PDFCreator Virtual Printer nostringval Error Fix

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 Posted in pdf, windows | Comments Off

Sometimes, when you print to PDF using PDFCreator, you can get the following error on the last page of your PDF output: "ERROR: undefined [...] OFFENDING COMMAND:_ [...] STACK: ... Read more..

AutoCAD: Publishing (Batch plot) to single-sheet PDFs

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 Posted in cad | Comments Off

How to have AutoCAD publish to multiple PDF files instead of one PDF file with multiple pages: The following variables need to be set to "0": PUBLISHCOLLATE = 0 BACKGROUNDPLOT = 0 In Sheet Set ... Read more..

InfraRecorder: CD/DVD burning software for Windows

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 Posted in free | Comments Off

InfraRecorder is another free open-source CD/DVD burning solution for Microsoft Windows. Features Create custom data, audio and mixed-mode projects and record them to physical discs as well as disc images. Supports recording to dual-layer ... Read more..

Recording a skype conversation

Saturday, September 8th, 2007 Posted in internet, windows | Comments Off

First, download and install Audacity. Then, to be able to record both the microphone input and the sound card output at the same time using Audacity, you have to un-mute the ... Read more..

Fix Folder Double-Click Default Action in Windows Explorer

Friday, June 8th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

Click Start - Run Type: regedit<enter> Go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Directory\shell Change (Default) value to: open I had to use the registry to reset the double-click action to it's default value because when I added the ... Read more..

Change Windows Command Prompt Default Folder

Friday, April 27th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

Example: changing default directory to C:\ Right click on command prompt shortcut and choose properties Change the Target to: %SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe /K cd ..\.. Click OK and your shortcut is ready. Note: type ... Read more..

Batch Convertion from PDF to jpg

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

Programs needed for batch converting PDFs to an image file (pdf2jpg, pdf2jpeg, pdf2png): ImageMagick Windows version Unix/Linux Download Tutorial by examples Ghostscript Download Note: Once Ghostscript is installed, you might need to add it to your ... Read more..

Path Too Deep Error Message

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

Update: it could also be that you have too many sub-directories. For example, move a file located at: X:\dir1\dir2\dir3\dir4\file.ext to X:\dir1\file.ext. Where X would possibly be a network ... Read more..

Home Camera Security System

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007 Posted in linux, security, windows | Comments Off

Resources for setting up a motion-detection camera security system controlled from your PC using an analog camera. Tutorials Using your PC and a Webcam as a security camera MythTV and a Security Camera Setting ... Read more..

Spyware Tips

Friday, January 19th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

Spywares, viruses and trojans are everywhere on the Internet, you have to be very careful to avoid them. Prevention Keep Windows up-to-date, check for updates at least once a week using ... Read more..

Screenshot from a Microsoft’s CSS file

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

A picture is worth a thousand words. Yes, this is real. This screenshot was taken on 2006-03-29 @ 5:02PM. Read more..