One popular post on my site is about the Windows XP drivers for Dell Vostro 260. There is a new model: Vostro 470. I do not have this machine, but here are the drivers for Windows XP based upon the spec. Please let me know if they do not work for you. Network Realtek PCIe [...]
Movie Maker on Windows 8 Error: Movie Maker Can’t Start
I have used Windows Movie Maker on Windows 7 to make photo slideshows. It worked quite well. With a few clicks, you can produce professional quality slideshows that you can burn to DVDs. When I tried to run the program the first time, I got this error message: Sorry, Movie Maker can’t start. Make sure [...]
Angry Birds on Windows 8: OpenGL 1.4 Renderer Not Supported
I had trouble running Angry Birds on Windows 7 a few years ago. After my workstation was upgraded to Windows 8, I have not tried to install the game until today. The game was installed using Intel AppUp. I first installed Intel AppUp and that went well. The installation of Angry Birds also went smoothly. [...]
Android: Mobile Data Got Enabled Automatically
I recently purchased a Pantech Burst Android phone. It’s a nice budget phone with LTE capability. When I set it up initially, I noticed a strange thing about it. I disabled mobile data at home because I have Wifi access. However, the mobile data feature got enabled automatically when the phone woke from sleep mode. [...]
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Windows
Boot to Mac OS from Windows on a Dual Boot Mac
I set up a dual boot MacMini to be used with a projector in our conference room. There was a compatibility problem with this combination. Users could not hold down the option key during system bootup and select which OS to boot to. They could only change the default OS after the computer booted up [...]
Mac OS
Boot to Windows from Mac OS on a Dual Boot Mac
This article is the counterpart of my previous article, in which I created a small Windows application for users to boot to Mac OS from Windows on a dual boot Mac. In this article, I am going to show you how to create a Mac application for users to boot to Windows from Mac OS. The [...]
Software
How to Change Color Temperature (White Balance) of Photos in JPEG Format
I recently took quite a lot of photos with wrong color temperature (white balance) settings. It is easy to correct the color temperature if the photos are in RAW format. However, all my photos were shot in JPEG format and they are not easy to change. Most image editing tools allow you to adjust the [...]
Android
Low-Cost Android 4.0 7 inch Tablets Comparison
I use an Asus Transformer at work. It is one of the company’s higher end models. It has a Tegra 2 3D processor, which is great for gaming. However, I do not use it for gaming that much. I found that, because of the mini-HDMI output, it is easy to use it as a media [...]
Mac OS
Password Protecting Apache Web Pages on Mac OS X Server
I previously configured Apache server on Linux to use a password to protect some pages. However, when I tried it on a Mac server, I had a lot of trouble when trying to get it to work. I double-checked the .htaccess file and made sure the syntax was right. I later discovered that the problem [...]
Linux
Automatic DNS Registration for Samba Server on Linux
I configured our Linux servers to offer Samba service. The Samba servers were joined to our Active Directory, so that users could use the Windows machines to access the Samba servers without authentication. This worked quite well for several weeks, until the day my users reported that they could no longer access the Samba servers. [...]
Mac OS
How to Fix Remote Desktop Authorization Failed Problem on Mac OS X
We recently replaced a failing hard drive on an iMac. After the drive was replaced, we had problems connecting to it through Remote Desktop. We always got an error message about authorization failure. I am pretty sure the username and password were entered correctly. The problem persisted even though I restarted the Remote Management several [...]
Mac OS
COMPUTERNAME Environment Variable Under Mac OS X
We use ScreenConnect to provide remote support for our users. It has clients for Windows and Mac, which you can pre-install on the machines. When you create the clients, you can specify the client to retrieve COMPUTERNAME when run. That way, you can easily identify the machine when you work with ScreenConnect’s Host page. While [...]
Windows
How to Update Video Card Driver on Windows
The most popular post on kombitz is how to fix the OpenGL error when running Angry Birds. The fix is to simply update the driver for the video card. However, a lot of readers do not know how to do so. I decided to write this post to provide some pointers. Here is a list [...]
