Hooking up your Android phone with a USB cable to your computer is so cumbersome isn’t it? So with that WiFi network you have around the house you might as well fire up a FTP server and transfer your files using FileZilla or WinSCP right? Of course! But what android FTP server app is good, [...]
While cleaning up an old machine I was first using CCleaner from Windows to wipe some partitions because DBAN crashed for some reason on it. To clean some of the Linux partitions on the drive which Windows can’t access, I dropped them so I could re-add them as NTFS partitions for further wiping. Problem was [...]
Google Reader is quitting on us and there doesn’t seem to be an alternative if you don’t want something that tries to make your feeds look all fancy and shiny eye-candy-ish like Feedly or most of the alternatives I saw. The things I loved in Google Reader are: 1. Accessible from anywhere (which means web-based [...]
Well if DBAN doesn’t cut it for some reason there’s always a more native Linux way to do this. Step one is getting a Linux live CD, DVD or USB stick and boot from that. I used the Debian Live CD myself, which boots into character mode so you don’t end up with XServer not [...]
PowerShell truly is powerful. A few lines of script is all you need to perform an HTTP request in a PowerShell script. If the native commands don’t cut it, it’s pretty easy to reach out and harness the power of the .NET framework instead like in the sample below. As a .NET developer this allows [...]
If you’re like me and you have a big fat internet pipe entering your home then you probably have a lot of unused upload bandwidth at the end of the month. In fact, if you have one of those flat-rate unlimited bandwidth kind of packages which you lucky foreigners seem to have in abundance, then [...]
This been bugging me for a few days now so I’m glad I found a fix and thought I’d publish that to the world-wide web. Recently my old external HD started making these really annoying clicking sounds after I accidentally dropped it on its head. Oops. A check-disk showed the clicking noises where indeed indicating [...]
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