Force Nextgen Gallery To Crop Thumbnails From The Top Of The Image... **Updated**

In our orig­i­nal post, we sim­ply deleted a line to change the start­ing posi­tion of NextGEN’s thumb­nail crop. With the most recent ver­sion of NextGEN Gallery,1.4.3 as of this post­ings date, this was gen­er­at­ing errors. So we dug around in the code a bit, and here’s our fix.

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Dec 18, 2009 | Wordpress | 2 Comments »

Vista Won’t Remember My Folder Views

*** Update ***
This fix is no longer valid. After a month of smooth sail­ing, we’re back to the same prob­lem. To our knowl­edge, there is cur­rently no fix that lasts longer than a month. This fix will last at least that long, but you’ll be back to the same prob­lem a month later. If you’ve tried some­thing that seems to show promise, please let us know with a com­ment. Thanks for reading.

Vista has made huge strides in becom­ing a bet­ter OS. If you’ve read any­thing we’ve writ­ten to date about Vista, it’s all bad. But since the release of Ser­vice Pack 1 and 2, Vista has really come into its own. Rarely do you see the dreaded Blue Screen of Death. This due to Vista’s abil­ity to selec­tively shut down and restart ser­vices before caus­ing crit­i­cal errors. The user inter­face is beau­ti­ful and some­what famil­iar to XP users. The abil­ity of Vista to repair itself has made leaps and bounds. But there is still one thing that is an absolute annoy­ance and frus­tra­tion, and that is Vista’s abil­ity to remem­ber folder views.

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Jul 10, 2009 | Computer Repair and Networks, Windows Vista | Leave A Comment »

After I Uninstall Norton 360 I Can Ping Websites, But Not Browse The Web

I’ve never been a big fan of Nor­ton. Their prod­ucts always seem to slow sys­tems down, and seem to cause more prob­lems then they resolve. This sys­tem was no dif­fer­ent. Nor­ton 360 had been unin­stalled through add remove pro­grams. Nor­ton ended up leav­ing bits and pieces of itself all over the com­puter. Which left the machine in an unus­able state. Using a com­mand prompt we could ping google.com, which means DNS is ok. We then attempted to rebuild the Winsock, which again didn’t work. It was at this point we knew the prob­lem had to be Nor­ton. After a bit of google­ing we found “The Nor­ton Removal Tool” After we ran this lit­tle gem the com­puter restarted, and we were back in business.

After the repair we loaded on Avast Pro­fes­sional. Avast is an excel­lent anti-virus that’s uses far fewer resources than Nor­ton. We also rec­om­mend AVG anti-virus.

Nov 22, 2008 | Computer Repair and Networks | Leave A Comment »