Category Archives: Software

How to remove Acrobat from Outlook

Posted on 11 May, 2009 by Roman

I’ve been very frustrated trying to disable Acrobat’s Outlook plugin (toolbars, additional menu) and since google found no solution I’m posting what worked for me. Find the location of your PDFMOutlook.dll library. This will be presumably “C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 9.0\PDFMaker\Mail\Outlook\”. Unregister … Continue reading →

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Verify MD5 Checksums in Windows

Posted on 3 February, 2009 by Roman

MD5 checksum is a number used to verify integrity of files. Let’s say you download a file from the internet and want to make sure it is the same as the one you intended to download (i.e. there was no … Continue reading →

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jEdit Font Settings

Posted on 9 January, 2008 by Roman

Courier may not be the easiest on the eyes when staring into code all day long. The default font setting in jEdit can be found in global options > text area > text font. I suggest a mono spaced font … Continue reading →

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jEdit: maybe the best and free PHP editor

Posted on 8 January, 2008 by Roman

Many people still ask me what I use for website design on the coding side with a thought that “Dreamweaver is better than Frontpage” on the tip of their tongue. Since they are usually quite new to the world of … Continue reading →

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Removing “SeaMonkey” from window title bar

Posted on 11 June, 2007 by Roman

Let’s continue our polishing of SeaMonkey, the best browser the Windows platform has ever seen. Intro When installed the SeaMonkey browser, like many others, shows the word SeaMonkey on each browser window. This may be a good practice for some … Continue reading →

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Browser cookies – improving privacy with SeaMonkey

Posted on 25 May, 2007 by Roman

SeaMonkey browser offers users a cookie management system. Whywould you want to ‘manage’ your cookies? For sites requiring cookies use “session cookies”. After your browsing session is over, these cookies are removed. For sites working without cookies, use the default … Continue reading →

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MacGourmet

Posted on 4 March, 2007 by Roman

MacGourmet, my favorite for managing recipes.

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iPhoto 6 White Balance

Posted on 20 February, 2007 by Roman

By mistake I held Command Key (the key with an Apple on it) while in edit mode in iphoto 6 and this automatically brought up the edit controls and adjusted the white point to match the point where I clicked. … Continue reading →

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Disable default folders on Nokia E-61

Posted on 23 January, 2007 by Roman

The folders “Sheets”, “Others”, “Preesentations”, which Symbian S60 3rd on the Nokia E-61 and other such “Smart”phones creates and irritatingly prevents their deletion can be removed by going into “Connections”, “Data cable”, selecting “Data transfer”. Connect to PC or whatever … Continue reading →

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Adobe Acrobat Hand tool text selection preference grayed out

Posted on 17 January, 2007 by Roman

Finally at Adobe forums a guy with an alias WRFan posted a solution to this long pending bug in Adobe Acrobat 7. Description of the problem: Running Adobe Acrobat 7.0.0 and the Edit/Preferences/General/Enable text selection for the Hand Tool is … Continue reading →

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