The versatility and quality of RAW format images comes at a cost of convenience. The standard JPEG is viewable by almost everything these days, but support for higher quality images in RAW format like JPEG2000 or NEF is limited. Adobe's Camera RAW can handle most of these formats, but with some formats things can get complicated or require tricking the software into … [Read more...]
My Keyboard Is Making the Wrong Symbols!
If you have multiple languages or keyboards configured through the Windows Keyboard and you find yourself pressing characters on the keyboard but having different characters display on the monitor, check the language bar. Sometimes it can be very subtle. If you entered a different language letter, it would catch your eye immediately. A lot of times, however, the letters will be … [Read more...]
USB Drive Letter Manager
My Computer can get to be a little over-crowded very easily. When you plug-in a jump drive Windows will automatically assign that drive a letter somewhere between D and H. Well, let's say you have a: Floppy Drive (A) Hard drive (C) CD-Burner (D) DVD-Burner (E) Then you also have some mapped drives to server shares: Group files (G) Home directory (H) That pretty much leaves F: … [Read more...]
What I’m looking for in a Knowledge Base
I am looking for a Knowledge Base infrastructure for our IT department for a few reasons. 1.) Our documentation is all over the place: FAQs, forums, documents on a server share, this blog, and people's brains. I'd really like to unify it in one location. 2.) FAQs are going the way of the past. They only highlight the frequently asked questions. We all know there are plenty … [Read more...]
Simple Tip: Organize Start Menu alphabetically
Tired of newly installed programs being added randomly to the Start Menu and being difficult to find? Open the Registry Editor (Start, Run... regedit) and browse to: \HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerMenuOrderStart Menu2Programs and delete the Order key. It should be a REG_Binary with pairs of Hexadecimal numbers following. Log off and log back … [Read more...]