Tuesday, April 4, 2017
How To Print From an iPad
How To Print From an iPad
Having trouble printing from your iPad? This is the easiest way to print from and Apple iPad. Its so simple a caveman could to it.
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Tuesday, March 28, 2017
How to Install or Replace an Optical Drive
How to Install or Replace an Optical Drive
Has your desktop pc stopped reading CDs and DVDs and you want to replace it? Do you want to add Blu-ray disc support to your PC? These types of drives, known collectively as optical drives, are extremely easy to upgrade or install. As far as PC components go and depending on functionality, they can be very inexpensive as well.
In this TechTip, I’ll show you how to install or replace an optical drive.
What you need:
? Optical drive (The CD/DVD drive or Blu-ray drive you want to install)
? A Philips-head screwdriver
? An available Serial ATA or IDE cable connection (depending on your drive’s interface type)
? An available 5.25-inch drive bay
? Antistatic wrist strap (optional)
The first thing you want to do is unplug your pc computer tower completely. You especially do not want the power cord plugged in during this or any time you open the case. Remove both side panels, since you’ll need to access the left and right sides of the case. If your drive bay has a plastic insert or a metal punch-out panel, go ahead and remove both of those to make room for the new optical drive.
If you’re removing an existing drive, unplug the cables connected to the back of the drive. There should be one interface cable (IDE ribbon or SATA cable) and one power connector leading from the case power supply. Once disconnected, you can remove the screws on the side of the drive, or if you have a screwless case, go ahead and unfasten those, too. Slide the drive out of the front of the case and set it aside.
With your drive bay empty and your new drive in hand, slide it into the bay with the front panel facing outward. Push it all the way in until it becomes flush with the front bezel of your case. It should also line up with the eyelets already punched in. If the holes don’t match up, just slide it in or out to line up the drive’s screw holes with the eyelets and insert one screw and screw it in only partially to hold the drive in place for the next step. Now you want to try connecting your interface and power connectors to make sure they will reach your drive.
More than once I’ve screwed a drive all the way in before realizing my cables will not reach, leaving me to start all over again.Both types of interface connectors and power connectors are keyed to prevent improper insertion, so if it’s not sliding in place easily, check the orientation of the connector to be sure it’s supposed to go there. Remember, Serial ATA or IDE, even if your drive has two power connectors, only connect one to the drive. Once you are sure your interface and power connectors reach, screw in the rest of the screws (or make sure whatever knobs, buttons, or levers in your screwless case are fastened). Reattach your side panels and plug everything back in.
A side note for IDE users: If you are using an IDE cable that already has a hard drive attached to it, make sure the jumpers for the hard drive are set to primary and it’s connected to the primary IDE connector. You always want the optical drive to be a slave in these situations since you use it much less than a hard drive and it generally operates with lower data transfer rates. If there are no other drives on the IDE cable, this step is not required.Once your case is all sealed up and you have everything plugged back in, turn your PC on and, if applicable, insert any included CD/DVD disc(s) into the drive once you’ve booted all the way up so you can install any included software that came with the drive. Once your software is installed (or you didn’t install any), you’re all set. Your new drive should be ready to go.
Another tip: if there is a red stripe on your IDE cable, it should be on the right side of the cable when it’s plugged in.
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Tuesday, March 7, 2017
How to Make Sure You Sound Like a Person Not a Robot in an Interview
How to Make Sure You Sound Like a Person Not a Robot in an Interview
How to Make Sure You Sound Like a Person (Not a Robot) in an Interview
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Arriving prepared for an interview is everything. But, you know what’s more likely to clinch it for you?
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Monday, February 20, 2017
How to Edit the Contents of an ISO Disk Image in Ubuntu
How to Edit the Contents of an ISO Disk Image in Ubuntu
As many knows already, you dont need any other application other than an archive manager if all you want is to view the contents (+ even changing the contents) of an ISO disk image file. But if you want more than that, such as mounting the content or changing it without loosing the boot-able core files (if any) then you will have to use a dedicate tool nonetheless.
And when concerning the contents of an ISO file that holds an operating system for instance then yes, you can still use an archive manager to add/delete files from it ... but if you do so, them most of the time after doing your changes, youll have an un-bootable ISO disk image.
The reason is simple. An archive manager is simply an archive manager thus (most of the time) it wont be able to edit the content without destroying the "Boot Record" portion that includes all the information needed for making it boot-able.
In that case, if you happened to use Ubuntu ;-), then theres an excellent Utility called "ISO Master" that lets you do exactly that.
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| Welcome to the master of the "ISO", kiyahooooooooooooo! ;) |
*. Add/Edit/Rename and delete the contents of an ISO file.
*. Only supports the ISO disk image extension (although you can read other extensions such as NRG and MDF, more later).
*. Has the ability to view certain types of files such as HTML and Text related ones.
*. Extract the contents (since a disk image is a sort of an archive).
*. Save/Delete or manually change the Boot-record according to your own preferences... are its main features.
You can install IsoMaster in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal, 11.10, 10.10 and 10.04 by using the below command in your Terminal window.
sudo apt-get install isomasterRemember if you want to view some of the contents of the disk image file, say a configuration file or a Text file for instance. Then if you use a desktop other than Xfce, then make sure to go to its "Options" window and change the "viewer" command to "gedit" if you use Gnome classic desktop or with whatever your preferred editors name.
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| By default it uses the Editor "mousepad" (Xfces text editor). But I replaced with my own... |
Another thing, ISO Master also supports reading ISO, NRG and MDF files as well. But it can only save files the .iso format only.
Anyhow, if you want to create a bootable ISO disk image (CD/DVD, etc) file using files in your HDD from scratch or modify the content of an existing disk image (without destroying its core-properties such as above mentioned boot-entries) then ISO Master is certainly one of the best without a doubt. Its also free and even supports MS Windows too (Windows version is not free though :/).
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Wednesday, January 25, 2017
How to Add an Apple Touch Icon for your Website or Blog
How to Add an Apple Touch Icon for your Website or Blog
Designing your blog includes everything from designing your blog and rectifying its design on daily basis. As of today responsive design is taken all over the internet and people are shifting to it to bypass all those needs of creating an Android app and iOS application for your website that serves your RSS Feed in a form of content to your readers. Well another way is to include an Apple Touch Icon that will serve as your app logo in iOS Devices.
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Wednesday, January 11, 2017
How to make an image look like an artistic illustration in Photoshop
How to make an image look like an artistic illustration in Photoshop
Full Tutorial
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Thursday, November 24, 2016
How to Mount an ISO Disk Image in Ubuntu
How to Mount an ISO Disk Image in Ubuntu
ISO image file is actually a form of an archive. Thats why if we have an archive manager installed in whatever your OS is, we can read the content of an ISO disk image file with ease.
Although unlike other standard archive formats such as .tar.gz, .rar, .zip, etc the data inside an ISO disk image is not compressed thus we can make an ISO image out of any CD/DVD or even Blu-Ray disk by using a disc authorizing software on-the-fly, without having to wait till the data get compressed.
It has many benefits such as, say that you have a disk thats filled with thousands of image files and you want to copy that disk to your HDD to be burned to another disk at later times. If you however follow the usual copy-paste method in this instance, it should take some considerable amount of time to copy the whole disk content because the OS has to carefully copy and paste hundreds or thousands of individual files into your HDD, one by one.
However, if you went with the "create an ISO image" using your burning software, then itll only take extremely less amount of time which is somewhat closer to copying a single file thats equal to the size of the CD/DVDs data that youre trying to copy!.
Another benefit of an ISO disk image is its ability to mount itself as a "virtual disk drive". Its just like burning an ISO disk to a CD/DVD and then after the burning process is over, when you open the disk, you no longer see a single ISO file but the true content of ISO file itself.
Anyhow, if all you need is to mount the ISO file just so you could access its content with your file manager (without the use of any archive manager whatsoever) just like with accessing a partition, etc... in Ubuntu, then theres a small yet extremely useful tool called "Gmount-iso".
This is actually GTK written GUI aimed at the Gnome desktop but you can use it in the latest Unity desktop + many others without any problems whatsoever as well.
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| After mounted, you can browse/open the ISO image just like a normal CD/DVD drive, using the file manager... |
*. Extremely simple GUI.
*. Mount/Unmount ISO images.
*. Manually assign the mount location.
*. Mount more than one image.
Yep... thats about it. You can install Gmount-iso in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal, 10.10 and 10.04 (perhaps in the latter version too) by entering the below command in your terminal window.
sudo apt-get install gmountisoI dont think anyone needs a guide on how to use it :). But if youre having troubles, just throw in some comments!.
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Thursday, October 20, 2016
How to Delete an Undeletable File or Folder in Windows
How to Delete an Undeletable File or Folder in Windows
Many times you face some issues in deleting some file or folder as it says the file is being used or any other error. Well at that time it gets a lot difficult situation for you, well there are many tools and 3rd party software's that you can use to remove an unwanted files or folders from your PC in a secure manner, but what if you want to go bare handed.
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