I use a little tool to manage my MP3s called “MP3 tag tools“. It’s quite powerful, it allows you to mass edit some or all ID3 tag fields, fill them from a file name scheme and vice versa (create folder structures and/or file names from the ID3 tag fields). Now when I recently cleaned up…
Continue reading →Recently, I had a support query where a colleague had three “Flash Player” items in the open with menu when he right clicked onto a .swf file and I was asked to remove them. I learnt that it’s not as easy as it often is with Windows, where every file extension has an entry in…
Continue reading →Today I experienced one of these problems: My colleague in Berlin had that external hard disk drive. It was connected to a Buffalo TeraStation (that’s a NAS, sort of, with a super small linux). It was used as a backup drive there. Now the TeraStation was horribly, almost hilariously damaged. It couldn’t be accessed from…
Continue reading →If you ever need to change the user name or the serial number of your Mac Office… remove these two files: Office 2001: HD/System Folder/Preferences/Microsoft/Microsoft Office Settings (9) HD/Applications (Mac OS 9)/Microsoft Office 2001/Office/OfficePID Office v.X: ~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Microsoft Office Settings (10) HD/Applications/Microsoft Office X/Office/OfficePID Office 2004 (SP1): ~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Microsoft Office Settings (11) HD/Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Office/OfficePID (~ is…
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