Category Archives: geek

how to resize or reallocate space on disk partitions

August 25, 2008 – 20:34

When initially setting up my PC I decided I’d go with the trusty old formula of keeping my operating system, my installed software and my data separated. So my C became my OS partition, D is where the software goes and E holds all my precious data like mp3’s, pictures, code etc.
This works fine, until [...]

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getting gmail notifier to work over https

August 20, 2008 – 21:22

A while ago over at the GMail Blog they announced that from now on you could start using GMail more securely than ever. Awesome! All you have to do is follow the instructions on their blog post, and enable https mode for all your GMail actions in your options, ét voila, you where so much [...]

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new theme! finally! yay!

August 10, 2008 – 21:38

For a while now I was getting pretty tired with my old blogging theme, and wanted to restyle the whole thing. For the new theme I wanted to be able to use widgets, which makes changing your layout so much easier. I also wanted to use the extra screen real estate everybody has nowadays by [...]

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changing your photo’s exif data

July 27, 2008 – 21:42

If you have one of those digital camera’s that forgets what day it is after you’ve replaced the AA batteries you might end up with a lot of pictures with bad EXIF data tags.
As a geek and nitpicker I sort of dislike that. In fact, in Picasa all of those pictures ended up being cataloged [...]

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