January 4, 2010
For some strange reason there is no way to specify a company name in XCode.
Most source code templates include __MyCompanyName__ in the comments. To change it, open terminal and type this command replacing __MyCompanyName__ with whatever you want:
October 27, 2009
Microsoft offers a tool to create a bootable USB stick (thumb drive? flash drive? floppy disk?) using a Windows7 ISO image, but if you purchased an educational/student copy of Windows7, it won’t work for you.
October 18, 2009
Adobe Photoshop CS4 comes with a script that exports layers to files, but it adds layer numbers to the file names by default. After lots of manual renaming I decided to add an option to suppress the layer numbers.
October 17, 2009
I’ve recently replaced the network card in my Acer Aspire One 250 netbook with a Dell DW1510.I had some trouble finding the drivers on Dell’s site, so I’m posting the info here.
May 21, 2009
Mercurial is awesome. Mercurial over SSH is even awesomer. Here’s a way to set it up on Windows using PuTTY.
February 5, 2009
You want to play and convert .mts files on Vista64 for free? Here’s how, using Windows Media Player and Windows Media Encoder. I’ll also show you how to batch encode multiple files.
Not only is this totally free, but the quality is amazing. Truly.
It will take a couple minutes to setup, but it’s totally worth it.
January 31, 2009
If you have to login to your server using ssh, typing the password every time gets annoying pretty fast. You also need to get around the password check for automating scp.
It’s very easy to setup ssh so that it works without typing in your password. It works by creating a DSA key on your machine [...]
January 21, 2009
One of the coolest features of Vista is the ability to search right from the start menu. You can quickly find programs and documents (similar to the spotlight search on the mac).