Category Archives: software

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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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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how to fix GRUB problems

July 21, 2008 – 19:56

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how to change flash player privacy and security settings

April 30, 2008 – 20:43

Photo by Simon Pais-Thomas,
cc-licensed
Okay, this is a bit silly, but when I came across that Adobe page that allows you to clear your flash cookies I didn’t really bother looking into what other interesting options that little applet might allow you to alter.
Turns out you can change a shitload of security and privacy related options [...]

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