Say No To 0870 Numbers

This site lists many well known companies, and their equivalent geographical numbers.

Alternatives listed for 0500, 0800, 0808, 0842, 0843, 0844, 0845, 0870, 0871, 0872 and 0873 numbers.

Link: http://www.saynoto0870.com/

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BurnAware Free 7

BurnAware Free 7

BurnAware is a family of free and affordable easy-to-use disc burning software to create CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs of all types. Home users can easily burn bootable discs, multisession discs, high-quality audio CDs and video DVDs, and image collections. Business users can back up files from their hard drives, extract files and folders from damaged discs or sessions, and burn multiple discs simultaneously.

Link: http://www.burnaware.com/

Samsung NC110 Boot Priority

If you'e having problems recognising a boot device on a Samsung NC110 Notebook (Windows 7) try the following:

During boot up, Press F10 to enter boot device menu, (or you can enter bios by clicking on F2 during boot up)

Click on advanced settings

find "fast bios mode", this is usually set on enabled so you will need to disable this,

Save and exit (F10)

Re-boot machine, press F10 to get into boot device menu, select your USB device or drive and hit enter.

If USB device or drive is not recognised try again but ensure USB device/drive is plugged into the USB port.

Disabling Automatic Wireless Connection in Linux Mint

This action is particularly useful when you are formatting a machine for someone else as the installation is best done with wifi connected, you don't want to hand back the machine with your wifi network set to auto connect.

To disable an automatic wireless connection in Linux Mint

From the network menu page
click on the arrow (->) next to the connected wifi name
click on forget network
accept forget network

Done, the next time you or anyone tries to connect to the same network you will be prompted for a password.

Error Code 0 (on Mac)

If you come across this error message while you are trying to copy a file for example to a SD card, it's because the SD card is formatted to FAT32 and this does not allow single large files to be copied to it.

From disk utility re-format to ExFAT.

If you get message: "could not unmount disk" then select zero out data before formatting. (Be warned, depending on size of your SD card memory, this can take a long time)

Useful table of file systems / formats: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems

  

Viewing or Disabling Thumbnails

Navigate to folder and search options

To enable tick "always show icons..." 

To disable, un click "always show icons..."

Disabling Internet Explorer (Dead Proxy Address Method)

Open IE
Tools
Internet Options
Connections tab
LAN setting
Tick "Use a proxy server for your LAN
In address box type 0.0.0.0
In port box type 80 (if not already there)

Disc Inventory X (for Mac)

Disk Inventory X is a disk usage utility for Mac OS X 10.3 (and later). It shows the sizes of files and folders in a special graphical way.

If you've ever wondered where all your disk space has gone, Disk Inventory X will help you to answer this question.

Disk Inventory (free at time of posting this blog) can be downloaded from: http://www.derlien.com/

Moving iPhoto Library To External Hard Drive

Ensure the external hard drive is connected.
In finder, select the iPhoto library and move to hard drive folder.

Depending on how large the library is this could take some time. Once completed you need to let iPhoto know where the library is. You can select this by holding down the option key, otherwise known as the 'alt' key on a MacBook, and opening iPhoto, you will be prompted to choose which library to use. You only need to do this once.