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If you have ABBYY Finereader installed on your system, the Word and Excel add-ons that come with this program may cause Word or Excel to crash at every startup. Starting in safe mode and then removing the add-ons, a commonly suggested fix, only worked for Word. For Excel I was unable to start the program, … Continued
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code.aidanmontare.net is back! My fault for this one: I ran into some issues renewing the certificate a while back and didn’t have time to figure out the issue. Now the site is back, and hopefully for good.
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Stereotypical “Its been a while since I last posted but I want to get back to things” post. The only thing of note is that I rearranged the website so all the content is in posts not pages. This may be less convenient for now, but it should look nice once I finish the new … Continued
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Ripping Rip with Exact Audio Copy https://xiph.org/flac/download.html#extras_gui_windows For more explanation on how to rip and input metadata http://www.head-fi.org/t/674216/no-detailed-song-data-when-i-rip-flac-using-exact-audio-copy Playing Install the Directshow Filter to allow Windows Media Player to play flac files https://www.xiph.org/dshow/ Install the WMP Tag Plus, which allows Windows Media Player to recognize and tag flac files http://bmproductions.fixnum.org/index.htm?http://bmproductions.fixnum.org/wmptagplus/
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Bookmark organization for power users. ## The Basics There are two workspaces: – the browser’s open tab groups – saved bookmarks Bookmarks are organized by the following properties, in order: 1. topic 2. status ### Topic A folder is created for each topic (or project) containing related bookmarks. A topic should not contain more bookmarks … Continued
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Merging Profiles Sometimes you may have multiple Thunderbird profiles that you want to merge into a single profile. I recently wanted to move one of the accounts from one installation of Thunderbird to another computer. However, this computer already had an active Thunderbird profile with several accounts configured. I only wanted to add the account … Continued
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General have deadlines Am I having fun? if something doesn’t feel right, stop and think My goal is to transfer their performance to an audio file. I need to learn the things that can go in between those two points, but before doing something I have to ask: is this going to convey the musical … Continued
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. – Henri Nouwen
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People are stupid until proven otherwise. – The Jenna Postulate
Lampshade! – An anonymous friend