Author Archives: Stephen

Automating renaming files

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Stephen

Heres a frequent problem l encounter, and l’m sure a lot of others may encounter. You have a series of files, say animation sequence files or pictures, and you need to rename them all in some sort of order, sequence, … Continue reading →

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Newegg.com “Phishing” emails

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Stephen

Got a couple of these today, all claiming l bought something through newegg, confirming an amount charged to “my visa” and also confirming “order has shipped” If you browse carefully on the hyperlinks in the email [never a good idea … Continue reading →

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Getting Powershell Command-line Working on Windows 7

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Stephen

If you try to run powershell initially from the command prompt and get: Windows PowerShell Copyright (C) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. File C:\Users\Steve\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\profile.ps1 cannot be loaded be cause the execution of scripts is disabled on this system. Please … Continue reading →

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Kenya prepares the way for a technology-based future

Posted on August 21, 2010 by Stephen
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In pictures: Nigeria’s colourful masquerades

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Stephen

You can always count on the BBC for excellent world news and photo journalism. Heres a link to a good set of pictures of masquerades in Nigeria/Enugu etc. My home town in Nigeria is Enugu State. Heres the Google map … Continue reading →

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Memories of Post Colonial Africa

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Stephen

Heres an interesting link to a webpage by Philip Emeagwali on Memories of Post Colonial Africa with very good pictures of past people, money etc. 

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HD Content Encoding

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Stephen

Heres the process and tools l use for preparing HD content for uploading to youtube. I copy the video file from my HD Canon camcorder’s internal 8Gb in-built flash memory to a folder on my PC as shown below – … Continue reading →

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External USB Drive

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Stephen

Bought this compact external usb drive for media backup. The shock resistant, fast rpm, interfaces are an additional plus as the video link below shows, especially 320Gb for $44. Other backup drives l use/own for diffferent backup purposes are a … Continue reading →

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CG Graphics Card Review

Posted on August 1, 2010 by Stephen

Interesting independent review of professional video cards vs. “gaming” cards from ATI, Nvidia. Click here for the review - CGarchitect Graphics Card Review Roundup by CGarchitect and Renderstream Heres a link to the NVIDIA CPU Programming Guide in PDF format.

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SQL Server 2008 R2 Express

Posted on July 29, 2010 by Stephen

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 now has a maximum database size limit of 10Gb as opposed to the former limit of 4Gb. Small organizations and Microsoft Access migration will find this useful. Heres a link for downloading SQL 2008 R2 … Continue reading →

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