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July 8

Image information utility

Does anyone know of any utility which is a perfect analogy to pictures/images as gspot is to media files? Is there a handy little app which will quickly scan a picture and display all relevant info (type of picture, resolution, dimensions, metadata (if any), etc.) about the image? Thanks!--76.79.202.34 (talk) 01:48, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

It's not quite a utility in the same way as GSpot, but IrfanView can open pretty much every image format out there, and its "properties" (Image -> Information) displays a lot of information about the image, including EXIF data (if any). Hope that helps! — QuantumEleven 13:03, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Windows Vista (and perhaps XP too) lets you add more columns to the display in explorer, including columns for thedata such as resolution, dimensions, colour depth etc. In detailed view, right-click on one of the existing column headings and choose "more..." Astronaut (talk) 17:59, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Looks like IrfanView is what I needed. Thanks--A Real Kaiser (talk) 04:27, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Broken track ball on Blackberry Curve 8310

I dropped my Blackberry Curve phone one too many times. Each time I dropped it, it literally broke in three pieces but I was able to put in back together and everything worked fine. But after this last drop, the track ball light does not work. How do you fix it? I already called the AT&T store where I bought the phone and they said that they don't do repairs. --Anthonygiroux (talk) 13:42, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

I doubt if you can repair it. Does the device allow an external mouse ? If so, that may be a much cheaper alternative to replacing the blackberry. PS: Why do you drop it so much ? Are you trying to make blackberry juice ? :-) StuRat (talk) 02:17, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

From live CD to HDD

I have a working live CD with Puppy Linux and a non-working hdd (NTFS) with Windows. If I copy the files of the live CD on my Windows HDD, will my computer start from them? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.128.154.226 (talk) 17:38, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Only if you set up your boot loader so it knows where the Puppy Linux OS is. Every computer I've built uses grub as the bootloader. I tell grub how to boot (where the OS is). I can have multiple OSs and grub will ask me which one to boot from. Just copying the OS to a harddrive is half of it. -- kainaw™ 17:50, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

If you boot Puppy from the Live-CD, you should be able to mount a NTFS partition using the disk mounter application. See http://www.puppylinux.com/faq.htm ("Q: NTFS partition") for more help. Astronaut (talk) 18:04, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Netgear

Can I use a Netgear "54mbps Wireless ADSL modem router" hub like a wireless card and connect to another wireless networks, like for example a hotspot, and use their internet? Or is the hub only an outgoing device? User:Rhodopsin drinker (talk • contribs) 20:30, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

I don't know for sure, but most likely, it's outgoing only. If you're talking about a desktop PC, though, there are cards you can install to receive wireless. JeremyMcCracken (talk) (contribs) 21:17, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Round buttons in web pages: FireFox 3.0 on a Mac

I've recently downloaded FireFox 3.0 on my Mac, and while I don't mind the Mac-like UI for the browser shell (the address bar shape and such) I hate hate hate the addition of a Mac-like UI in the web-pages themselves (all form buttons being rounded, in particular).

Is there a setting or theme or something that will return the web-page rendering UI to the way it was before, or the way it is in FF on a PC?

Thanks! — Sam 21:00, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:2/cat:all?sort=name has the different themes. If you look at it using Firefox 3 you should be able to pick a theme and then add it to Firefox. Just check the theme you want works with Firefox 3. AJHW (talk) 19:46, 9 July 2008 (UTC)