OSX Finder: Sort Folder Before File

Here the trick to change this behavior under Finder. Open Terminal. Open InfoPlist.strings file using vi text editor as a root. sudo vi /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/InfoPlist.strings (change English.lproj to your language) Find below line: /\* General kind strings */ “Folder” = “Folder”; Do following change (by adding space before " Folder" word after equal sign). “Folder” = " Folder"; Save the InfoPlist.strings file by press [esc], type wq (mean write and quit vi) then press [return]. Close Terminal Restart your Finder, right click on Finder icon while pressing the key[option] and select Relaunch your Finder. Open Finder and order by Kind.

April 26, 2011 · 1 min · thomasf

How to identify your SQL Server version and edition

SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('productversion'), SERVERPROPERTY ('productlevel'), SERVERPROPERTY ('edition')

April 22, 2011 · 1 min · thomasf

Android 2.2: Install all apps to SD (even the unsupported apps)

Because a lot of android phones have a really small disk (NAND) you must move all the apps manually to SD. You can automate this with an tool on the marked (easy way). Search for modinstalllocation in the marked download and install this. Start the tool and set the value on 2 external The hard way: Connect the phone using the android SDK. (If you don’t know how, you can use my tutorial /2011/03/windows-7-x64-android-sdk-example-connect-htc-desire/) Now start cmd change folder to C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools Now run the following command: adb shell pm setInstallLocation 2 ...

March 19, 2011 · 1 min · thomasf

Windows 7 x64 Android SDK - Example: Connect HTC Desire

I had some troubles with the Android SDK so I will explain the steps you must take to connect your phone from your pc Preparation: Download the Android SDK Turn on your USB debugging mode (On the device, go to the home screen, press MENU, select Applications > Development, then enable USB debugging) Steps: Install the Android SDK During the install ask to download and install the Java SDK Continue the installation when you have installed the Java SDK Start the (Android) SDK Manager and download all the default packages. Note: when you start the SDK Manager in the future always start the shortcut with administrator permissions. (right click > runas admin) Now download the USB drivers with the SDK Manager Now start notepad as administrator and open “C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\extras\google\usb_driver\android_winusb.inf” Now add some x64 code to the 32bits inf file [Google.NTamd64] ; HTC Desire %SingleAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_0BB4&PID_0C87 %CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_0BB4&PID_0C87&MI_01 ...

March 19, 2011 · 2 min · thomasf

Create Acer custom recovery CD

My neighbour give me his old laptop because he have a lot of problems with it. But he gives me only one crappy unbooteble XP cd. After some searching I found on a CD2 Recover image file but the IMG / ghost file was password protected. I will write down the steps here to create a new recovery cd. What do you need: Nlite (google) Ghost explorer (Google) Steps to extract the I386 ...

March 17, 2011 · 1 min · thomasf

Image Resizer Powertoy for Windows 7

Unfortunately the XP powertoy “Image Resizer” don’t work @ Windows 7. But now you can resize the picture as easy it was before :) Check: http://imageresizer.codeplex.com/

February 28, 2011 · 1 min · thomasf

Renew Self-Signed SSL Exchange 2007

I had to renew an expired self signed SSL certificate that i have on Exchange 2007 box today, and found the SSL clone trick interesting and did the job for me. So here’s the howto: Using the Exchange Management Shell run the following commands: Get-ExchangeCertificate -DomainName server.yourdomain.com (copy the thumbprint of the expired SSL) Get-ExchangeCertificate -Thumbprint | New-ExchangeCertificate Now you can go to IIS and select your new created SSL certificate (this SSL have the same name as the old SSL one) ...

February 8, 2011 · 1 min · thomasf

Softmod your Wii (Dutch)

This is best softmod tutorial for all Wii firmwares: http://www.wii-media.nl/forum/53-wii-tutorials/40520-tutorial-intercity-softmod-tm-fw43.html The file you can use: http://www.mediafire.com/?uo3hlkk5727tlaq Happy hacking :)

January 16, 2011 · 1 min · thomasf

Download DJ Live sets

Here you can download all the latest DJ sets of the most populair DJ’s http://www.livesets.us/ Some DJ sets:

January 3, 2011 · 1 min · thomasf

QR Code Generator

Nice QR code generator: http://zxing.appspot.com/generator/ You can download a “barcode scanner” on you’re phone to read the QR codes from your display.

January 2, 2011 · 1 min · thomasf