Category Archives: HowTo

Convert Videos and Create DVDs for Free

By Jed | Published: March 30, 2012

Impressive and simple (as in Keep It Simple, Stupid) video conversion tools from the opensource camp. WinFF is a GUI frontend to the powerful ffmpeg set of tools. Conversion is fast and easy. I needed to convert some .MP4 vids to .AVI and .MPG and it did without any issues. Another good tool is DVDStyler. [...]

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Sharepoint 2010: Display Quick Launch in a Web Part Page

By Jed | Published: March 14, 2012

Go into Sharepoint Designer 2010 and remove the following lines of code: These 2 groups of lines: 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 <style type="text/css"> body #s4-leftpanel { display:none; } .s4-ca { margin-left:0px; } </style> and these: 60 61 <asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderNavSpacer" runat="server"></asp:Content> <asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderLeftNavBar" runat="server"></asp:Content>

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Remove Recently Modified List in Sharepoint 2010′s Quick Launch

By Jed | Published: March 1, 2012

If you’re just editing one page then a CEWP with these CSS styles will do the trick: <style> .s4-recentchanges { DISPLAY:none; } </style> But if you’re editing it site-wide then edit the v4.master page and look for the line: <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderLeftActions" runat="server"> Just add this: Visible="false" So it should look like: <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderLeftActions" runat="server" Visible="false"> [...]

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Clear all your Google / Youtube search histories before March 1

By Jed | Published: February 29, 2012

Google is going to unify all your privacy data from your various Google accounts (Google search, Youtube, Gmail, etc) starting March 1, which is only a few hours from now. When you signed up for your Google account and you checked the option to save all web searches, then all your search history is saved. [...]

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Automatic intranet Sharepoint site authentication using Firefox

By Jed | Published: February 9, 2012

Because you don’t like entering your domain user/login:password everytime you try to check your Sharepoint site… 1. Open Firefox. 2. Type “about:config” on the address bar. 3. Enter “network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris” on the filter bar. 4. Double-click on “network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris” and add the url for your sharepoint site (can be comma delimited for multiple sites, eg: “mysharepoint.company.com,home.company.com” 5. [...]

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Configure Outlook for GMX

By Jed | Published: January 14, 2012

Just follow the pictures, please. I’m too lazy to type right now. The important thing is to get the ports and settings right. 1. Tools > Account Settings, click New. 2. Choose Microsoft Echange, POP3, IMAP or HTTP 3. Tick “Manually configure server settings or additional server types” 4. Choose Internet E-mail 5. Fill up [...]

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Coloring my code

By Jed | Published: December 28, 2011

Been using Windows for coding a lot lately. My editors of choice are Programmer’s Notepad and Notepad++. Used to do the whole Emacs thing back then but that’s getting heavy with all the different machines I use. So if you code a lot you should also take the time to adjust the color scheme of [...]

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How to access GMX on Android

By Jed | Published: November 29, 2011

You have probably heard that GMX has an Android app. That’s good. Sad thing is it doesn’t work for me. While checking for Truecrypt on Android (it does not exist, time to wake up Truecrypt developers), I didn’t like all the file encryption offerings on the Android Market. So I reasearched for my one true [...]

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XP unable to eject USB drive error “The device ‘Generic Volume’ cannot be stopped right now.”

By Jed | Published: November 14, 2011

Here’s the error: That’s because explorer.exe has locked a handle on the drive letter and won’t let go for some reason even if all explorer windows are closed (technically speaking, explorer.exe is still running in the background because it’s responsible for your Start menu bar and desktop icons).

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How to delete LILO or GRUB from a dual boot XP without a CD Drive

By Jed | Published: October 11, 2011

Background and the solution that did not work I have another machine dedicated to OpenBSD now and I’m not using the Slackware that is dual-booted with XP on our family computer and wish to delete the Linux partition and merge it back to Windows. First thing I did was create a bootable XP USB drive [...]

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