I recently had an employee whose AutoCAD was playing up. Clicking file open didn’t load the usual windows file browser, the command was asking you to type the file name you wanted, not exactly the most productive way to open a file. Fortunately there is a very quick and simple fix, you just need to [...]

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Strange and unexplained behaviour from Lion’s Safari which seems to be adding [SP] at the end of all page titles.

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Some YouTube users, myself included, are having issues when they upload a video to YouTube. Once the video has been processed the first few seconds are just grey/pixelated. Fortunately there is a simple solution…just add audio! I only get this problem with videos I upload to YouTube with no audio so I tried just adding [...]

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Create HTML newsletter in PS without body text. Slice this up using Photoshop’s slice tool. Right click to promote any autocreated (grey) slices to user (blue) slices. File->Save for web and devices. Select gif or jpg depending if graphics or photo based (respectively). Saves images and html file. Open html file in Dreamweaver, even though [...]

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Windows Server 2003 [Appliance Edition] showed a blank active desktop and was unable to restore the desktop so a quick regedit was needed.

Filed under: Fixes, Technology, Windows, 2003, active, dell, desktop, fix, nas, powervault, recovery, server, Windows | Post a comment