Category Archives: Software

Eliminating Throbber Button in Mozilla SeaMonkey

Posted on 30 October, 2006 by Roman

As firefox keeps crashing more often and demands more resources, it’s time to move back and simplify by reverting to SeaMonkey, the old-new Netscape-Mozilla Suite branch. Less extensions cause less clutter and installer properly presents an option to install just … Continue reading →

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DPP 2 keyboard shortcuts

Posted on 27 September, 2006 by Roman

Canon’s Digital Photo Professional has a few unpublished shortcuts, I’ve recently found out, which are very handy. I’ll list a few below. In the quick check tool hit the SPACE key to switch between the fit to screen and the … Continue reading →

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Spotlight indexing inside DMG files

Posted on 24 June, 2006 by Roman

In Mac OS Tiger when files are copied to a disk image (virtual disk , extension .dmg) Spotlight doesn’t index the files. In order to turn indexing for these virtual drives run Terminal and enter: sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/volume_name … Continue reading →

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RAW Workflow (Canon+Mac)

Posted on 31 December, 2005 by Roman

Finally after months of experimenting with settings, color profiles, photo management and manipulation software (including, of course, Adobe Camera Raw as well as Phase Capture ONE Pro) I realized all of this is unnecessary. Shoot in RAW. Then use Canon’s … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Word just doesn’t get it

Posted on 25 August, 2005 by Roman

I mean, I love Word, but heck, their help assistant, no matter how cute and beautiful, just doesn’t get it! Explanation: There doesn’t seem to be a way to delete a single full page from an MS Word document…

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Mac OS on Intel?!

Posted on 7 June, 2005 by Roman

The news on Mac OS being developed in parallel to run on Intel in addition to the PowerPC processor stunned me. I can’t even be ashamed for not foretelling that despite the rumors, because a completely different processor architecture supported … Continue reading →

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BlogThis one click publishing

Posted on 7 June, 2005 by Roman

Finally I found the link to BlogThis. It’s bookmarklet, a pretty active bookmark that can be added to any browser. Click Blogger Help : What is BlogThis! ? to find out how to ‘install’ it. Yesterday I found PimpMySafari, a … Continue reading →

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Mac .txt files, windows compatible.

Posted on 9 January, 2005 by Roman

You can write plain text files on a mac in a format readable on windows. Mac, Unix, Windows, all use different HEX code to end the lines. Therefore a line ending on a Mac will show on Windows as an … Continue reading →

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Mac OS X, MySQL :)

Posted on 19 November, 2004 by Roman

MacDevCenter.com: Apache Web-Serving With Mac OS X, Part 5: “Along with the bosses abhorred, benefits scored, and welcome awards, mouths floored and derision ignored, nothing deplored and happiness poured, computer love has been restored, and with no principles discord! Hail … Continue reading →

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Icon for FreeMind

Posted on 27 October, 2004 by Roman

Freemind is a fantastic mind mapping program. It is free and open source. I created a small document icon (.ico) for Windows users to associate their Freemind documents (.mm) with. To associate a specifi icon with a document type you … Continue reading →

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