Articles with practical solutions to common tech problems, from software issues to hardware fixes and more.
I already posted a step-by-step guide on how to delete old backups from your Time Machine drive in order to free up space. What I did not mention in that article was how you can delete single files & folders… Continue reading » “OS X: Delete single objects from Time Machine backups”
Microsoft didn’t spend too much time on the “Status Reports” module in Project Server 2010, leaving it with many disadvantages and even a somewhat not so intuitive handling. This affects especially the extraction of Responses to Status Reports. That’s why I developed my own SQL-Query to export these responses to an Excel Pivot-Table.
Unfortunately Microsoft’s Project Server 2010 doesn’t allow an administrator to set default settings for Notifications for all Users. So I had to figure out a way how I can “force” my Users to receive certain Notifications – and I dug into the Database for that.
Recently I struggled a little with un-publishing my public Wordpress Blog to a local MAMP environment, for local testing purposes, before I apply big changes (as it should be). There are actually some minor things to consider, so you can properly get your Wordpress installation running locally.
On my new corporate computer installed with Windows 7 OS, these two things bugged me from the very beginning: how can I remove this unnecessary “Libraries” folder from the desktop (still didn’t figure out what it is for) and how… Continue reading » “Windows 7: How-to Hide the Libraries Icon and Window-Previews”
Since some weeks my iPhone 4 started to act strange in terms of showing a popup message whenever it lost the cellular network. I figured out how to solve this behavior.
Searching through the web I did not find any up-to-date help on how to properly remove old Time Machine backups, in order to have more space available. But when trying the most easy and obvious way, I figured out that’s how Apple intended to do it…
My list of favourite console commands to simplify the quality in Quake III Arena (= optimize performance on slower machines)
I just upgraded to OS X Lion and put together a post-upgrade checklist with more or less important things I had to take care of.
This is the best solution I found in the world wide web to overcome the missing feature, to use Front Row on a secondary display screen.