My Personal Tech Blog
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I don’t know who is in charge over at MediaFire, but the last couple days have seen some scary messages. Firs this: Then a few days later I started getting a more “official” notice. “On July 30th, 2016, MediaFire will stop supporting desktop syncing through MediaFire Desktop.” I took a
Continue readingThis is a handy little command I found recently. I was testing something on my CentOS server and needed to look at a particular folder to wait for a file to appear. I quickly tired of typing ll over and over to see if the folder changed. After a little
Continue readingIf you find that mysqld.exe in Windows with WAMPSERVER is using a lot of RAM, this may help. I have WAMPSERVER 2.4 installed with MySQL 5.6.12 as you can see here: The mysqld.exe process is taking almost 500MB of RAM! This has to do with a high default
Continue readingHere is a quick tip for those of you with Chrome who often use webpages and wish there was a Desktop version. Or basically, if you are annoyed with having to run a website in a tab all day, or whatever! Anyway, Chrome has a feature to create an “Application
Continue readingI’ll make this quick, if you are getting tired of the licensing and cost issues of Microsoft Office, there are other fish in the sea. And these fish are free! The latest and greatest MS Office is 2013 and then Office 365. They may well be wonderful pieces of software
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I have been a long time Windows user, coming from 3.1 through 95, 98, XP, and Win7. I skipped Vista on purpose. I have some but minimum regular use of Mac OS’s and Linux Desktops. That said, I’ve just purchased a small Sony E Series laptop and want to share
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I wanted to share this little application with anybody who has an MP3 player that does not use proprietary software to manage files. If you can plug in your MP3 player and browse it like a hard drive, this is for you. This program should be copied into whatever your
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