Ok, also with the new Windows 8.1 release, I’m experiencing serious problems with my external USB3 drive. I have found this excellent guide, explaining how to replace the broken “Intel(R) USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller – 0100 (Microsoft)” with the Intel driver: Windows 8 and Intel USB 3.0 Host Controllers Read more…
I use often lftp to move data from server to server/client. I like this FTP client because is small, very powerful to use and present in every Linux distribution. Plus, I can run lftp from the shell (maybe from a screen session) and forget it until the job is done Read more…
This is a very fast and great program to undelete files for Windows. It’s powered by a nice wizard (easy even for the average user) and it simply make the job. You can easily recover photos from a formatted SD/CF card. Plus: the base version is also free. Surely you Read more…
You can bind a specific IP address from the router, but if you are not the network administrator (eg: you work with your laptop) you can try to request your “preferred” IP address editing your dhclient.conf like the following example (append this config to the bottom of the file): interface Read more…
Remove Image Backgrounds: nicely done with this simple and slick HTML5 application! via Easily Remove Image Backgrounds Online – Clipping Magic.
Sometimes I have to find what kind of font is used in an image. This really useful web service may help you too if you have the same problem! WhatTheFont! « MyFonts.
I’m playing with a new laptop (DELL Inspiron) and after the initial Windows 8 setup it’s time to create the recovery DVD. After some confusion with the new Metro Interface to locate the Dell Backup and Recovery application, all went smooth until the second DVD. When you have to burn Read more…
Boxcar is a very interesting free application for iPhone/iPad. You can send to your device push notifications when something happens (Boxcar in short is: Instant Notifications for Facebook, Twitter, Email and More!). After installing the app on your device you have to create an account to the Boxcar service; then Read more…
Recently I had to clean a website infected by the c3284d virus. I don’t have found much documentation about this virus, however it’s seems to me much a trojan infecting websites through grabbed FTP accounts instead a virus. In my case I had only HTML files infected, with the javascript Read more…
I’m a huge fan of CheckGmail, a small and elegant perl script to check your Gmail mailbox. This piece of software is awesome: it’s lightweight, works with KDE/Gnome/Whatever, it’s multi account, supports Gmail hosted domains, it’s multi language, etc… But (there is always a “but” in this imperfect world) this Read more…