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How to recover ext4 from GPT partitioned disk
Hard drive sizes had increased dramatically in last several years, but block device drivers are still outdated. For hard drives more than 1TB currently seems to be an advantage to use GPT instead of legacy MBR partition table. You can see more details at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table . One of the inevitable disadvantage of GPT is the … Read more
Clear DNS cache windows
Operating systems affected: MicrosoftTM Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 To clear dns cache: ipconfig /flushdns To restart dnscache service: net stop dnscache net start dnscache You can also do this visually from MMC. Just type services.msc in run/search and use appropriate command in order to restart dnscache service. Benefits: could solve web browsing problems … Read more
Wipe free space on Mac with CCleaner
The well known Piriform’s PC Optimization software CCleaner it is now available on Mac for Leopard, Snow Leopard and Lion. It this post I will show You how to use “Wipe Free Space” feature of CCleaner. But why should I wipe the free space on a hard disk? When you create any sort of file … Read more
Free Online Photo and Image Editor – IMAGEBOT
We are often use online editors, like webmail as an email editor, Google Docs as Office suite replacement for simple Word and Excel documents. Even photo manipulation web tools are popular. Recently I found out that the first free vector art library OpenClipart is using a online web editor to edit their .svg files. Even … Read more
Quick print high resolution coloring page using Illustrator
You have a Mac, Illustrator and some kids. You need to print quickly few coloring pages for them. The only problem is that most of images are low res. With newest versions of Illustrator we can easily convert any bitmap image in a vector image, using Live Trace 3 easy steps: Search in Google Images … Read more
Google Wave Funeral – April 30, 2012
As of 2009 Martin Seibert wrote an excelent article about Google Wave, “Why Google Wave Sucks, And Why You Will Use It Anyway” (http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/26/why-google-wave-sucks/). Recently I tried to clean up in my google account using Dashboard https://www.google.com/dashboard/ I found out that Google Wave it is in read-only mode, and there is no way to delete wave … Read more
Mac OS X – Romanian Keyboard Layout
Romanian – Standard keboard layout on Lion it is the most close to the PC Layout. In order to add a new keyboard layout, in System Preferences click Language & Text, then check Romanian – Standard Layout.
Speed up file tranfer between MAC OS X and Linux Samba Server
After scratching my head few weeks, tweaking a lot smb.conf on my linux box, I found a Finder workaround, based on turning off display of server in sidebar. Symptom: Slow file transfer over the network, between a MAC OS X Lion machine and a Linux machine (archlinux, currnet version). Also slow transfer between MAC and … Read more
TIPIT INFO RELOADED
In more than 5 years of existence, this website was constantly upgraded as back-end software (WordPress) and as a content. Subsequently updates of WordPress engine left some bugs in the admin area over the time. Even after I erased full website, except the content and database, I was unable to make it work properly the … Read more