In Windows 7 there is a great little tool that can be used to take a snapshot of all or part of your screen. Snipping Tool captures a screen shot of anything on your desktop, like a picture or a section of webpage. Snip a whole window, a rectangular section of the screen, or draw…
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Until 2004 the encryption used in Microsoft Office was flawed. The “protect document” option was only useful to prevent accidental editing. From Office 2007 on the encryption algorithm used is actually a good one (128- or 256-bit AES), but they can still be cracked by a brute force attacks, especially if your password sucks. How…
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Watching a movie and the dialogue is too quiet and the action too loud? You can use VLC’s built in Dynamic Compression tool to normalize video audio. The following is some starter settings, however you might want to experiment with different settings depending on your audio setup and input format. Normalize video audio, some starter…
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So you’ve just downloaded the latest Windows updates and now you’re being prompted to reboot. This is problematic since you are currently downloading some files that you cannot pause, but this annoying Windows Update comes up the whole time. You can postpone this update box for 10 minutes, 1 or 4 hours, but then the…
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I wanted a way to set-up WordPress in such a way so that when your website homepage or an article is shared, the relevant title, description and image shows up on Facebook. When you normal share a website page, Facebook will automatically scrape the content for the relevant information. This is a precise way to…
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