Sunday, March 23, 2014

Thumbnails do not show in windows 8 explorer

Method 1: Follow the suggested steps:

Step1:

a) Open Windows Explorer and then click on Options and Change folder and search options.

b) Click on the View tab and uncheck the box that says Always show icons, never thumbnails.

c) Once you get rid of that checked option, you should now get thumbnails for all your pictures, videos and even documents.


Step2: There is one other place that you can adjust the setting for showing icons or thumbnails in Windows Explorer.


Follow steps:

a) Type Computer on the Start Screen

b) Right Click Computer and click Properties.

c) Click on Advanced System Settings on the left side.

d) This will open up the System Properties dialog.

e) Click on the Advanced tab and then click on Settings.

f) Make sure Show thumbnails instead of icons is checked


With these two settings, you should now be seeing thumbnail previews for pictures, videos, documents, and other file types in Explorer on Windows 8. If you’re still seeing just icons perform the below suggested methods.



Method 2: Change View Settings:

a)    Navigate to My Documents – Pictures folder.

b)    Right click on the window and choose View – Large Icons.

c)    Let's see if thumbnails are available now.




Method 3: To Enable or Disable Thumbnail Previews in Visual Effects:

a)    Press Windows key + X.

b)    Click Control Panel.

c)    Click Performance Information and Tools.

d)   Click Adjust Visual Effects.

e)    Check Show thumbnails instead of icons, and click/tap on OK.





Method 4: To Enable or Disable Thumbnail Previews in Group Policy.

a)    Open Start Screen

b)    Type Group Policy and click Settings

c)    Click Edit Group Policy

d)   Click User Configuration.

e)    Click Administrative Templates

f)     Click All Settings.

g)    Double click/tap on Turn off the display of thumbnails and only display icons to edit it.

h)    Select Not Configured or Disabled.

i)     Click Apply and then OK.


Sunday, March 16, 2014

Install PS3Media Server on Debian based Linux OS

Install from PPA (Best Option)

Note that the repository might not contain the very latest version. You can install PS3 Media Server (and keep it up to date) with these commands: 

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:happy-neko/ps3mediaserver
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ps3mediaserver
 
Now you can run PS3 Media Server from Applications -> Audio and Video. Don't forget to restart GUI server after update.

How to cleanly remove (Uninstall) Apache OpenOffice 4.0 Released

You may be aware of some guides on the internet telling you how to do this, mainly using one of the following commands,

sudo apt-get purge openoffice.org*
sudo apt-get purge openoffice.org-* 

If you run either of the above commands the following packages will be REMOVED:

aspell* aspell-en* dictionaries-common* hunspell-en-ca* hunspell-en-us* language-support-en* language-support-writing-en* myspell-en-au* myspell-en-gb* myspell-en-za* openoffice.org-base-core* openoffice.org-calc* openoffice.org-common* openoffice.org-core* openoffice.org-draw* openoffice.org-emailmerge* openoffice.org-gnome* openoffice.org-gtk* openoffice.org-help-en-us* openoffice.org-impress* openoffice.org-math* openoffice.org-style-human* openoffice.org-writer* python-uno* wbritish*
Now if you did, just reinstall these packages:
sudo apt-get install aspell aspell-en dictionaries-common hunspell-en-ca hunspell-en-us language-support-en language-support-writing-en myspell-en-au myspell-en-gb myspell-en-za wbritish
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 To remove OpenOffice
sudo apt-get purge openoffice*.* && sudo apt-get autoremove
 
 
 To reinstall libreOffice
 sudo apt-get install libreoffice libreoffice-gnome
 
 
 

PS3 media server lagging problem with videos even with fast connection?

go to Playstation media server -> Click the "transcoding settings" tab -> Look for the bold print "Video Quality Setting" and in the pull-down box and select "Good Quality for HD wifi transcoding" OR "Medium Quality for HD wifi transcoding" and see if that helps.
PS make sure to restart the media server after making changes.

How to Play MKV Files Without A Conversion PS3 or XBox

Go to DivX.com and download the DivX Plus Codec Pack. Install it to windows 7. And voila

Saturday, March 15, 2014

How to Upgrade LinuxMint 14.1 to 15 in Terminal

So i am trying to upgrade from Linux Mint 14, to Linux Mint 15, by following these steps.
1.) sudo sed -i 's/quantal/raring/' /etc/apt/sources.list
2.) sudo sed -i 's/nadia/olivia/' /etc/apt/sources.list
3.) sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
4.) sudo apt-get upgrade
5.) When ask, Keep new config files. Press Yes for all three.

a: Configuration file `/etc/issue'
b: Configuration file `/etc/issue.net'
c: Configuration file `/etc/lsb-release'
6.) Restart your system

Top Free Online Apps & Services (Part 3)

Summary
Online applications (also known as SaaS or web apps or webware) are getting more popular, particularly since broadband Internet access has become more common and readily available to more users. With online applications and services, you do not need to download and install them into your computer for using them—you just need to open up a browser and access them online.

Free Cloud Apps & Services
Top Cloud Services
Besides, you don't have to worry about different operating systems as these applications and services are cross-platform, running in your browser as a client. Neither do you need to keep updating your software versions, as you will get any new software updates and bug fixes automatically whenever you access them.
Part 3
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 Top Free Online Image Generator
  • PhotoFunia , select a template from more than 100 fun effects such as billboards, magazines or stamps, upload your photo and click "Go" to create your masterpiece with auto face recognition technology. You can then save it to your computer or share with your friends and family.
     
  • FunPhotoBox generates funny pictures from your photos with useful tools, either photo effects, animations, cards, magazine covers or face in hole, choose one then upload your photo, see the result and save it.
     
  • 3DPackage , a 3d-box graphic creator—just find some photos on your PC to use for the front and sides of the box shot, upload them and in a couple of seconds you'll have your box ready for download in JPG, GIF or PNG format.
     
  • Says-It.com , create your own funny photos and graphics in seals, badges, posters, tickets and other various signs—simply choose a design, type in some text, change colors or outlines, insert your own image, then click Go to get one.
     
  • Cool Text , an easy way to generate cool and impressive text logos or buttons without a lot of design work—choose a style, fill up the form with text and adjust the settings, then click the Render button. 
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 Top Free Online Photo Management and Sharing
  • Flickr a popular web service for users to upload their photos, edit and organize their collections and share them with groups and privacy controls. Uploading video is an added feature.
     
  • Dropico , an exciting service that allows you to manage and organize your photo collection across social networks, including Facebook, Flickr, Twitter and more, or edit a photo with Pixlr or other editors, all in one place.
     
  • Minus , one of the easiest photo-sharing sites—just drag some photos to the Minus workspace in your browser to upload and you're ready to share your pictures with family, friends and colleagues. It gives you 10 GB of online storage free and allows large files up to 2 GB each. 
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 Top Free Online Web Desktop
  • Glide "looks to be the best developed to date, with 30GB free online storage and a selection of basic applications such as simple word processor, presentations, image editor, website creator, collaboration, file sharing and more."
     
Top Free Online Desktop Wallpaper Tool
  • Desktop Wallpaper Tool allows you to quickly create desktop wallpapers auto-adapted to your screen resolution by cropping or scaling images from your collection or from Art Galleries, with supports for modern HTML5 capabilities.
     
Top Free Online Icon Converter
  • iConvert converts an image into an icon for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux in one step, or converts Windows icons to Mac OS X icons, svg icons to Windows icons, png icons to Mac OS X icons and so on. 
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 Top Free Online Private Note
  • Privnote allows you to write a confidential note and send a link to someone for reading it. The note is destroyed after reading once, no more worrying about your message being forwarded to and read by others.
     
Top Free Online Disposable Email Address
  • Spamgourmet forwards only a limited number of mails to your protected email address and eats the rest. Just register your username and protected email address, then give out any disposable email addresses in this form someword.username@spamgourmet.com. Adding trusted senders and more settings are available.
     
Top Free Online Email Address Converter
  • Scrim converts your email address into a short and safe link (for instance http://scr.im/joe) so that you can share it on the web to avoid spam robots and get less spam. 
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Top Free Online Email Tracking  
  • SpyPig lets you find out if your email has been read by the recipient. It works with web based email and desktop email clients so long as both you and the recipient use an HTML-formatted email. 
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Top Free Online News Reader or Feed Aggregator
  • Pulse, manage and read your news sources and RSS feeds in visual mosaics, click or tap one to read the story in a clean reader and slide to the next. What's more, you can share the stories with your friends via Facebook, Twitter and email easily, or mark them as your favorites. 
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Top Free Online Poll and Survey  
  • Micropoll , create a simple poll with a question and multiple-choice answers in live preview, and use it wherever you want to post the poll. Features include enable or disable visitors from viewing reports, IP blocking and more. 
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 Top Free Online Bookmark Manager
  • Delicious allows you to keep your personal bookmarks online for access from anywhere, or share and discover web bookmarks. You can search bookmarks by tags, transfer bookmarks inside your browser to your Delicious account or download a copy of bookmarks for backup.
     
  • Diigo gives you more powerful bookmark service with additional research tools featuring highlights, sticking notes, comments and more. You can also drag its bookmarklet Diigolet to your bookmark bar for direct access to the service.
     
  • Pocket (formerly Read It Later) , never miss a page you want to read later, just one click to save it to your list, or after your are done reading a page, remove it from the list. A bookmarklet is supported. 
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 Top Free Online Password Manager  
  • LastPass "stores more than usernames and passwords, it stores webform information in a similar manner to Roboform's Passcards. It also securely stores your notes." [You can use LastPass Bookmarklets as an alternative to the program or extension when you can't install it somewhere or when you're travelling.] 
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 Top Free Online Website Template Designer
  • Cool Template "is really very clever indeed. You can change the number of columns, the menus, text, colours, position of content blocks, and just about everything else. When you're done, choose whether you want your finished page downloaded as HTML/CSS files or other templates."
Top Free Online Web Hosting
  • Byet provides you with a free hosting service for your web sites without forced advertisements. It features 5.5 GB disk space, 200 GB monthly traffic and a useful control panel to add domains, upload files via an online file manager, create databases, check websites usage, etc. 
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 Top Free Online Compiler and Debugger
  • Ideone , a handy compiler and debugging tool in more than 40 programming languages—choose one of them, paste your source code, share it, or run it and see the results.
     
Top Free Online Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
  • CodeRun Studio , create projects in multiple languages including C#/.NET, PHP, JavaScript, HTML and CSS—Just upload or type your code into the editor, build and run it to get the output straight away, then download the finished program when it works.
     
Top Free Online Source Code Formatter
  • Pretty Printer , a quick tool to format your source code. You can add new lines or remove empty lines, reduce white spaces, add comment lines before a function, etc. It supports PHP, Java, C++, C, Perl, JavaScript and CSS. 
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 Top Free Online Talks
  • TED , talks at TED events, which usually last around 30 minutes, cover everything from technology to art to medicine to music. Almost all of the talks are online for you to watch at your leisure, free of charge.
     
Top Free Online Articles and Answers
  • HowStuffWorks gives you thousands of comprehensive articles and answers with helpful graphics and informative videos, covering many areas including adventure, animals, auto, culture, entertainment, health, home and garden, lifestyle, money, science and tech. Other than Questions of the Day, you can also type your own question and search for the answers which are made simple and easy to understand.
     
Top Free Online Publishing and Reading
  • Wattpad connects writers to readers instantly and has a huge library of millions of books and stories available for free. Writers can easily publish their work, build a fan base and receive feedback, while readers can collect stories into reading lists, post comments, vote for their favorites and share with friends.
     
  • Lucidpress , choose a template from the layouts designed for flyers, invitations, newsletters, magazines, presentations or other categories, and create beautiful print and digital documents for publishing, sharing or download as a PDF to keep forever. Certain features may require a paid-for subscription.
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Top Free Online Apps & Services (Part 4)

Summary
Online applications (also known as SaaS or web apps or webware) are getting more popular, particularly since broadband Internet access has become more common and readily available to more users. With online applications and services, you do not need to download and install them into your computer for using them—you just need to open up a browser and access them online.

Free Cloud Apps & Services
Top Cloud Services
Besides, you don't have to worry about different operating systems as these applications and services are cross-platform, running in your browser as a client. Neither do you need to keep updating your software versions, as you will get any new software updates and bug fixes automatically whenever you access them.
Part 4
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Top Free Online GIF Animator
  • Picasion creates an animated GIF image file comprises up to 10 frames with optional size and speed adjustments. In just a few minutes, you can then post it to the website or save it to your computer. 
     
Top Free Online Poster / Tiled Printing
  • Block Posters , create a large-size poster from a small-size image for printing in three simple steps: upload an image, slice it and download the pdf file. You can then print and assemble the pages into a big poster.
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Top Free Online Image Search
  • TinEye , submit an image to discover the source of the image, where it is being used and check out its modified or higher resolution versions if they exist on the web.
     
  • RGBStock.com , a good place to search for high quality and royalty-free photos and choose the ones you like to download. Type a keyword to search for the photos or check out what are the most downloaded photos.
     
  • Findicons , browse through a large collection of over 300,000 free icons, search them easily by keywords, and choose one in the size and format you want to download to your computer. You can also convert your icons online or upload an icon pack for sharing. 
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 Top Free Clip Art Library  
  • Open Clip Art Library contains more than 30,000 images of clip art that can be used for free for any use. You can check out the most popular clipart of the week, newly added, top 10 downloads and search by category, or even create and upload yours for sharing.
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 Top Free Online YouTube Audio Extractor  
  • FullRip.net , paste a YouTube video link and extract audio from the video in a fast speed on the server before downloading it to your computer, with mp3 quality up to 256 kbps bit rate, optional filename and tag info editing features. Video downloads are also available. 
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 Top Free Online Text to MP3 Converter
  • Yakitome "requires you to set up an account and the site is free to use. If the only thing that counts is the voice quality regardless of time delays, Yakitome wins hands-down."
     
  • vozMe , "simple to use and requires no registration, just type or paste some text into the box, choose a male or female voice, then click the Create mp3 button. The conversion takes just seconds."
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 Top Free Online Comic Builder  
  • Bitstrips , create your own cartoon characters and comic strips using the items included in the drag-and-drop builders, with quite a bit of flexibility in what you can make, i.e. scenes, facial expressions, body langauge, cartoon panels, etc. 
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 Top Free Online eBook Converter
  • Online eBook Converter provided by Online-Convert.com supports a variety of input formats like PDF, ePub, mobi, HTML, LIT, LRF and more—choose the target format you need for your eBook reader and start converting. 
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Top Free Online File Encryption Utility
  • Encryptur, enter a password to encrypt or decrypt your file up to a max file size at 30 MB using the Advanced Encryption Standard with 256 bit keys derived from your password. An encrypted file is appended with a .simp file extension. 
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Top Free Online Apps & Services (Part 2)

Summary
Online applications (also known as SaaS or web apps or webware) are getting more popular, particularly since broadband Internet access has become more common and readily available to more users. With online applications and services, you do not need to download and install them into your computer for using them—you just need to open up a browser and access them online.

Free Cloud Apps & Services
Top Cloud Services
Besides, you don't have to worry about different operating systems as these applications and services are cross-platform, running in your browser as a client. Neither do you need to keep updating your software versions, as you will get any new software updates and bug fixes automatically whenever you access them.
Part 2
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 Top Free Online Document Collaboration
  •  Crocodoc , a convenient tool to collaborate on PDFs, Word and Powerpoint documents. You can highlight, add or strike out text, and add a note to a document shared by an URL. Adding password protection is limited to paid-for accounts. 
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 Top Free Online Document Optimizer
  • PocoDoc shrinks the Office files for you while retaining the original file formats in Word, Excel or PowerPoint. In some cases, the service claims that a compression of up to 95% can be achieved.
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 Top Free Online Calendar
  •  Google Calendar lets you quickly schedule events and keep track of appointments. You can share your schedule with your co-workers, family and friends, sync to your mobile phone's built-in calendar, get notified by email or have a text message sent right to your mobile phone.
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Top Free Online Multiple Timezone World Clock
  •  Time.is, find out the exact time at any locations around the world, check the accuracy of your clock, and compare time at different locations. Find also calendar, sunrise and sunset times, time zone offset, daylight saving time, latitude, longitude and other info of your chosen location. Mobile browser friendly. 
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Top Free Online Timesheet / Timer / Alarm Clock
  • Time Online "offers Time Sheet recording, reporting and invoicing with no restrictions on the number of projects or users. Invoicing is built in so there's no need to have Excel installed."
     
  • SlimTimer makes time tracking easier on your tasks or sharing them with your co-workers. You can print reports with selected report type, date range and other options, or save reports to your computer in csv format.
     
  • Online-Stopwatch , a simple yet powerful timer for stopping watch and counting down, featuring full screen, split lap timer, egg timer, and even Custom Countdown to make your own countdown timer.
     
  • Kuku Klok , a well designed alarm clock to wake you up with the sound of Classic Clock, Cockerel or other choices. Once loaded, it will work even if the Internet connection goes down.
     
  • Klokoo wakes you up at the alarm time you set for today or tomorrow. Easy to set up—just select a time, click set or stop the alarm clock with a selectable sound. 
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Top Free Online Meeting Scheduler
  • Doodle , a brilliant way to organize a meeting that suits everyone to get together to celebrate a birthday, anniversary or new job with a group of close friends and family, or to get together with a few colleagues.
     
  • ScheduleOnce , mark with green to propose times for your meeting for a fixed duration and send a link to your invitees for feedback. Better still, it allows for checking out your free time and scheduling a meeting in your Google Calendar after connecting to it. 
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 Top Free Online Project Manager 
  •  ClockingIT , manage your projects with timelines and assigning tasks, view the overall progress with an interactive gantt chart and scheduling, run flexible reports or get notifications via email and more. 
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Top Free Online Cooking Tools
  • Epicurious , search top-rated or other delicious recipes from Bon Appetit, Gourmet, Self, renowned chefs and cookbooks, print a combined shopping list for selected recipes, or share your recipes with friends and family. A resourceful tool for all kitchen lovers. 
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Top Free Online Answer Engine
  • Wolfram Alpha answers your queries submitted in a text box by doing computations from its own knowledge base. See what you get from, for example
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Top Free Online Calculator
  • Instacalc gives you instant answers as you type and allows you to embed a live calc in your website. It also has other modules to calculate home loan, hourly pay, unit conversions and more.  
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 Top Free Online Grammar and Spell-Checker
  • SpellCheckPlus , paste text up to 2,000 charaters into the box, click Check Text for any grammar and spelling errors which are then highlighted with explanations for you. When tested and compared with others, this tool was quite impressive and the clear winner for detecting grammatical problems.
     
  • PaperRater checks your document for grammar and spelling errors. On top of that, it helps you to improve the document's readability, word choice and style by an in-depth analysis.
     
  • After the Deadline , check your writing in a text box and get feedback on spelling errors, grammar and style suggestions. You can also drag the bookmarklet Add Proofreader to your browser's bookmark bar so that you can use it on any webpage with a text box.
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Top Free Online Unit and Currency Converter
  • Digital Dutch Unit Converter "comes with a cleaner web page, instant response and ease of use, with commonly used units available and divided into 16 categories."
     
  • OANDA Currency Converter , "one of the popular web tools for currency conversion with daily and historical rates for over 164 currencies, available in multi languages."  
Top Free Online Optical Character Recognition
  • Free-OCR , upload an image up to 2 MB in pdf, jpg, gif, tiff or bmp format for optical character recognition and get the real text result right on your screen. No registration or email address is required.
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