HOWTO: Help! I upgrade my iPhone 4 to iOS 5 and now my music won'tplay on my phone!

Recently upgrade to iOS 5? Are you having fun exploring the new features but are not concern about other features still working? I recently upgraded and I found that my music did not restore properly. Some songs would play, others won't!

Don't worry. There is a solution.

Following the following steps:

1. Plug in your iOS device in iTunes and select the device. Under Summary uncheck "Sync with this.....". Under "Music" uncheck the "Sync Music"

2. Apply changes and let iTunes remove all the songs, don't worry!

3. Once that is all done all the music on the iOS device should be gone.

4. Now go back and check "Sync with this....." and Under "Music" check "Sync Music".

5. Let it sync and everything should be back to normal!

Cheers,

Source:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16358617#16358617

HOWTO: Put Newsstand in a folder in iOS 5

Updated to iOS 5? Enjoying the new features? Do you see Newsstand?

That's a new Apple app that allows you to subscribe to newspapers and magazines.

If your not interested in using Newsstand and want some extra space, you can put Newsstand in a folder.

Have you tried putting Newsstand in the folder? You can go ahead an try again. Still nothing eh?

Apple created Newsstand as a style app that is impossible to put in a folder. But if there is a will, there is a way.

Simply follow these steps:

1. Take two apps and create a folder

2. The second the apps are in the folder and it’s doing the folder creation animation, drag Newsstand into the folder

3. If you’re quick enough, Newsstand will go into the folder! It's that easy!

Now if you open Newsstand while it’s in a folder your springboard will crash. If you want to use Newsstand, take it out of the folder and you’re good to go!

Cheers,

Source:
http://thecodingmassacre.wordpress.com/2011/10/13/newsstand-folder-no-jailbreak-ios-5/

HOWTO: Keep Windows On Top in Mac OS X

Funny thing, natively QuickTime does not support an "Always On Top" feature like in Windows. Let's say you want to watch a video using QuickTime while surfing the web. Yes I do that!

You would like to keep the QuickTime window on top of your web browser right? Well, here is a way to achieve that.

Afloat is a add-on to Mac OS X where once installed, give you better window management in Mac OS X for most applications.

You can download Afloat for Mac OS X here http://infinite-labs.net/afloat/

Just mount, follow the instructions, and enjoy!

cheers,

HOWTO: Build Increment Add-on for Visual Studio 2010

Tired of manually incrementing major, minor, build and revision numbers for your software application?

There is another way! I've found a great add-on where the major, minor, build and revision numbers can be incremented or set to a predefine value whenever a build or rebuild of the application source code occurs.

BuildVersionIncrement is an add-on you can download and install in the Visual Studio IDE and setup how you want the major, minor, build and revision numbers to change whenever a build or rebuild event occurs for Debug or Release solutions.

The add-on adds a GUI element where many BuildVersionIncrement parameters can be changed.

I've installed BuildVersionIncrement on Visual Studio 2010 Professional for Windows 7 and thus far experienced no stability issues. Works like a charm.

Thanks BuildVersionIncrement!

You can download the latest version of BuildVersionIncrement here http://autobuildversion.codeplex.com/

cheers,

HOWTO: Codec Pack for Mac OS X

Looking for K-Lite Codec Pack for Mac OS X? Sorry to say there is no such thing. But don't worry, there is another way. Perian "A Swiss-Army Knife for QuickTime", enhances QuickTime to play other popular video and audio encoding formats available on the net.

Perian supports:

• File formats: AVI, DIVX, FLV, MKV, GVI, VP6, and VFW
• Video types: MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivx, H.264, Sorenson H.263, FLV/Sorenson Spark, FSV1, VP6, H263i, VP3, HuffYUV, FFVHuff, MPEG1 & MPEG2 Video, Fraps, Snow, NuppelVideo, Techsmith Screen Capture, DosBox Capture
• Audio types: Windows Media Audio v1 & v2, Flash ADPCM, Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska), and MPEG Layer I & II Audio, True Audio, DTS Coherent Acoustics, Nellymoser ASAO
• AVI support for: AAC, AC3 Audio, H.264, MPEG4, and VBR MP3
• Subtitle support for SSA/ASS and SRT

You can download Perian directly from http://perian.org/ or http://download.cnet.com/Perian/3000-2139_4-100532.html

Just mount, follow the instructions and enjoy!

Source: http://www.coderetard.com/2008/10/22/where-to-download-k-lite-codec-pack-for-mac-os/

cheers,

HOWTO: Select Columns in Notepad++

Notepad++ is a great text editor for any sort of file. You name it, it can handle it. For engineering related files, Notepad++ allows you to select columns of text within the file. This is great for captures defines!

Here is how to do it:

“Alt + Left Mouse Click”

Hold the Alt key and then with the Left Mouse Click, select your column text. A tip, if you still want the text to retain its column structure, then first paste the select text in a new file and then copy that text into your destination file. If not, then when you paste the copied text from Notepad++, it will be pasted as a single line.

cheers,

HOWTO: Disable Annoying Content Preparation Progress in Acrobat 9

Are you using the new Acrobat 9 reader from Adobe? Have you realized that whenever you open a PDF, a window pops up showing the content preparation progress? This is a annoying window that pops up every time you open a PDF file and it does not prepare the content fast enough. So you are waiting for this window to disappear before you start view the PDF file.

There is a workaround! In Adobe Acrobat 9, do the following:

1. From the top toolbar, click Edit and then select Preferences or Ctrl+K.
2. From the left pane, select Reading.
3. Under the Screen Reader Options group box, under Page vs Document, select Only read the currently visible pages.
4. Click OK.

Now you will never see the content preparation progress window ever again!

Source: http://www.zerohacks.com/2009/02/how-to-stop-the-annoying-content-preparation-progress-in-adobe-reader-8/

cheers,