Tag Archives: Windows

more EXIF metadata manipulation

Posted on 09/09/2010 by Ricardo

I went on vacations and took my new GPS (Garmin eTrex Legend HCX) with me and let it record a track for the whole trip because I was planning to geotag all images. We took two cameras with us and, … Continue reading →

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Namexif: Rename Photos by EXIF date

Posted on 06/09/2010 by Ricardo

Namexif - I have to recommend this great little app for Windows that renames a set of pictures according to the date they where taken. It’s freeware.

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Stuff after Windows install

Posted on 17/08/2010 by Ricardo

My Windows 7 install got compromised with a root-kit or something, the symptom being that I couldn’t access Windows Update. No Anti-Malware/Virus was capable of correcting it so I had to format and re-install Windows. Doing that is a PITA … Continue reading →

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Switch Windows 7 Aero On / Off

Posted on 17/05/2010 by Ricardo

I use this in a .bat to switch the Windows 7 Aero theme On / Off. @echo off sc interrogate uxsms | find “1062″ if %errorlevel%==0 goto :sc_start sc stop uxsms exit :sc_start sc start uxsms exit

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w32tm – Check if your clock is accurate

Posted on 27/04/2010 by Ricardo

My system is having clock drift problems and I discover this Windows command to check the difference between your system clock and a time server: w32tm /stripchart /computer:0.pool.ntp.org /dataonly /samples:10

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Downgrade de Vista para Xp

Posted on 06/12/2007 by Ricardo

Vou fazer o downgrade do Vista para o XP porque estou farto de não me conseguir ligar a rede wireless da faculdade, sem perceber porquê, para após um reboot já conseguir. Aproveito e deixo aqui o que consegui apurar: Em … Continue reading →

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