Category: Computers & Co.

  • “Atlantis: The Lost Tales” on Windows 7

    We’re writing the year 1997. Small Ginchen is about fifteen years old, when “Cryo Interactive” release the first game of the “Atlantis” series. We had a PlayStation 1, and someone gave us a few games for it – including “Atlantis”. It wasn’t particularly comfortable to play an adventure game with the control pad, but I…

  • Photoshop thumbnails in Windows Explorer, part II

    Shortly after my last post, in which I showed how to activate Photoshop thumbnails in Windows Explorer, I was made aware of the PSD Codec by Ardfry Imaging, which promises similar and better results. For $ 19.95, it will display Photoshop preview images not only in the Explorer, but also in the Windows Photo Gallery, Windows Live Photo…

  • Photoshop thumbnails in Windows Explorer

    Those who regularly work with Photoshop are perhaps also annoyed of Windows Explorer’s inability to support .psd files in thumbnail view: While bitmaps, JPEGs and other common image formats all appear as a small thumbnail, you only get to see the blue Photoshop icon for PSDs. Now, if you own an image management program anyway…

  • Sort files on USB flash drives with DriveSort

    Sorry, this entry is only available in German.

  • External hard drive as “USB flash drive” (FAT32 larger than 32GB)

    Recently I got myself an external hard drive enclosure, so I could browse through my old discarded hard disks from time to time. Then I had the idea to use one of those disks as a USB flash drive and connect it, for example, to a DVD player, a car radio or a digital picture frame. So…

  • Broken Link Checker and other great WordPress Plugins

    Actually, I just wanted to write a short post about my newly discovered WordPress Plugin: Broken Link Checker. It allows you to scan through and test all links on your site. It will then list all links that don’t work anymore or are now being redirected to a different address. Since the Internet is a…