Some time ago I had designed a brochure called Earth Charter ( in Chinese! ) and it would be printed and distributed in China.. Well, that’s done and (almost) all of the 50.000 copies are distributed to people but one! Yes.. I have to have one for my portfolio off course! Anyway, making something is one thing, but seeing that people are holding your piece of work is another thing! The Earth Charter was an assignment from my internship boss, and it was he how had taken …

As the size of hard drives increase, more people are using partitions to separate and store groups of files. XP uses the C:\Program Files directory as the default base directory into which new programs are installed. However, you can change the default installation drive and / or directory by using a registry hack.

Start
Run
Type regedit
Go to this directory:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

Look for the value named ProgramFilesDir. by default,this value will be C:\Program Files.
Edit the value to any valid drive or folder and XP will use that new location as the default installation directory …

If your working with a lot of pictures then you probably have a huge collection of pictures. But do you know if you have some duplicate images? You probably don’t know, but you might have it! Duplicate images often find their way into collections, even commercial stock collections. Now you can clean them of duplicates and near duplicates. Search a folder (including subfolders) for duplicate and near duplicate images. Match all images or restrict match to same size or same aspect ratio. Dup Detector creates a data file by opening …

GMail Drive is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual filesystem around your Google Mail account, allowing you to use Gmail as a storage medium.
GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google Gmail account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your Gmail account directly from inside Windows Explorer. GMail Drive literally adds a new drive to your computer under the My Computer folder, where you can create new folders, copy and drag’n’drop files to.
Ever since Google started to offer users a Gmail …

In a lot of my previous posts you can find a lot of registry “hacks”. Every time you change something in the Windows registry you have to reboot to re-initialize the new registry settings! But I found a tip from IT Tech Talk, which let’s you reinitialize the registry without reboot the computer!

Open task manager by CTRL+SHIFT+ESC
Locate explorer.exe
Kill this process
Now go to task manager, click on File–>New Task
Type ‘explorer‘ to start new instance of windows explorer.

And that’s it!