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The problem: my new gift, the Logitech M720 (yes, I know, I’m a nerd 🙂 ) has the middle click wheel with 3 click (one, the actual middle click and the wheel slightly left and right). So, using the middle click to paste from the clipboard is nearly impossible.
The solution: I have installed “xev” to record the click generated by the wheel slightly left and right and (more…)
The new OSX version, El Captain is a faster new OS. But, after the update, my trusted MenuMeters application stopped working. 🙁 I have found a solution! Here you can download a new unofficial version of MenuMeters with a patch making the software working again. Great work Yuji! PS: if Read more…
Today I have to fix a bugged program developed with Apple Xcode. Fixing broken code and replacing deprecated functions is a very energy consuming job and having a version control service can relieve the pain. Luckily Apple Xcode can natively work with GIT but this feature is not simple to enable. Read more…
Sometimes opening a big PDF file with your favourite image editor (maybe GIMP?) only to extract a JPG of the first page is a waste of time. Using the convert command (from the ImageMagick suite) you can do this task in less time needed to launch the image editor itself Read more…
This is a very fast and great program to undelete files for Windows. It’s powered by a nice wizard (easy even for the average user) and it simply make the job. You can easily recover photos from a formatted SD/CF card. Plus: the base version is also free. Surely you Read more…
I’m using for my personal cloud Sparkleshare and I’m very happy with it. The 26 of May they released a new version (the 1.1) but for Linux you can get only the source code. I have built for myself the binary package (using checkinstall) for Ubuntu and I put the Read more…
Sometimes I have to find what kind of font is used in an image. This really useful web service may help you too if you have the same problem! WhatTheFont! « MyFonts.
Nice idea. Only for Windows and Mac (no Linux ;( ). Screenhero | Collaborative Screen Sharing.
Boxcar is a very interesting free application for iPhone/iPad. You can send to your device push notifications when something happens (Boxcar in short is: Instant Notifications for Facebook, Twitter, Email and More!). After installing the app on your device you have to create an account to the Boxcar service; then Read more…
Recently using VirtualBox on Mac, I enabled the Remote Desktop Extension but no way to get it working. After a little research I have discovered you must install also the Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack to get the RDP working. Apparently, the Extension Pack must be installed every time you Read more…