Category Archives: Technical

My TimothyAMD 500GB Seagate HDD has finally died...sort of. It doesn't stay alive for more than a few minutes. So I decided it's time to replace the Hard Drive. I ordered a different brand (Toshiba) 500GB HDD 7,200 rpm 32mb. … Continue reading →

A bubble stick-on for smartphone camera for 15x magnification. Good idea. May be a little steep for $15.

To hide the User's Button from Windows Welcome Logon screen, create such in the registry. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList Select UserList, and in the right pane, right click on any blank space, and point to New -> DWORD (32-bit) Value. Name the … Continue reading →

Just use the serial numbers in the About window: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4132   For example: MacBook Pro 13-inch   Model Model Identifier Model number Configuration MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2013) MacBookPro10,2 MD212xx/A ME662xx/A 13.3"/2.5 i5/8GB/128-Flash 13.3"/2.6 i5/8GB/256-Flash MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, … Continue reading →

It would appear that AntiWPA is the only effective cure for the limited public key problem. I'm sure one can still obtain a student free version via Microsoft's site.

Forget about Sandboxie or VMWare. Thus far, I find Faronics' Deep Freeze the best. Standard edition has only the freezer. Enterprise edition has remote console with more configurations. (Took a while for me to figure out how to start the … Continue reading →

This hashtag or a pound "#" sign is symbol prefixed to one word. It is culturally associated with Twitter. But generally used in most social media. A metadata tag. When clicked, it lists all posts that contain this hashtag, thereby … Continue reading →