Spinning the Web: Retrieving "Date Taken" EXIF Metadata From a JPG

Processing EXIF data from jpegs. A how to with the date taken.

Spinning the Web: Retrieving "Date Taken" EXIF Metadata From a JPG

Spinning the Web: The C# Coalesce Operator

Spinning the Web: The C# Coalesce Operator
Interesting feature... The ?? mark. Dropped here to remember.

Change searchbar width in FireFox

Change the width of the Search Bar

By default, the Search bar on the toolbar is relatively small. To
specify your own width in pixels, add the following code to your userChrome.css file:

/* Make the Search box flex wider
  (in this case 400 pixels wide) */
#search-container, #searchbar {
  -moz-box-flex: 400 !important;
}

WebChart Control for ASP.NET

Finaly found a simple and easy to use charting control.

Read more at www.carlosag.net/Tools/...

Popular Firefox extensions leak memory - Lifehacker

Just stumbled upon a Lifehacker post about memory leaks of Firefox. So I ditched my SessionSaver and ForecastFox and installed Tab Mix Plus .

Read more at www.lifehacker.com/soft...

LaTeX label-ref confusion

In a part of my thesis, my references were mixed up... after an hour digging it is pretty simple: use the \label statement after your caption statement in a table, otherwise you'll reference the section instead.

Greasemonkeyed Postbank Girotel Zakelijk

I've got fed up with the online banking client for buisiness customers of Postbank. I'm working with more persons on this account, with different bank accounts. I only use one of them, but the website always assumes an other account as default (and an error is quick made with selecting the which account to transfer from). Therefor, I builded a greasemonkey script for firefox to select my prefered account.

Just edit the voorkeurNummer variable.

var selBox = document.getElementsByName('selRekNummer').item(0);
var voorkeurNummer = '123456';

if (selBox.hasChildNodes())
// So, first we check if the object is not empty,
//   if the object has child nodes
{
var children = selBox.childNodes;

//run only if selBox has no onChange attribute
if ((selBox.getAttribute('onChange') == null ))
{
  for (var i = 0; i < chilatt =" children[i].attributes;" tagname ="=" j =" 0;" name ="=" value ="=" selectedindex =" i">

Monad Dir Highlighting

I'm currently experimenting with the new microsoft shell monad. I always liked the directory en executable highlighting in the linux shell, so I just build a quick script to highlight the directories in an ls query.

$colItems = dir
foreach ($objItem in $colItems)
{
if ($objItem.MshIsContainer )
{ write-host $objItem.Name -foregroundcolor "Blue"}
elseif ( ($objItem.Extension -eq ".exe") -or ($objItem.Extension -eq ".msh") )
{ write-host $objItem.Name -foregroundcolor "Green" }
else
{write-host $objItem.Name}
}

Update linux distro

Installed some more packages:
* yum install yumex
* yum install alacarte
* yum install gstreamer-plugins-mp3
* rpm -ihv http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/apt/redhat/en/i386/fc3/RPMS.newrpms/xmms-status-plugin-1.0-2.rhfc3.nr.i386.rpm
* yum install mplayer mplayer-skins mplayer-fonts

Remove Monad for .net 2.0 beta

I installed a beta for monad, the new Microsoft Shell, that needed the asp.net 2.0 beta. But after going live for Visual Studio, I couldn't remove monad, and it didn't run either because the .net beta wasn't available.

How to correct this problem? I figured this out:

So I deleted the Monad folders by hand and all the registry settings, and it worked :D

Basic Date Picker

Working on a couple of different .net web applications, i needed a good date picker. But since time is more a problem, i was looking for a good pre-build one. I think i found one:

See www.basicdatepicker.com...

Folder Size for Windows Explorer

it looks like you never have to right click on a folder to learn its size. With this little explorer extension, you've directly the size of the folder.

Program at foldersize.sourceforge....

MSN Personal Messages in MSN 7

Bart De Smet has a good story about setting the MSN Personal Messages with the current appointment in your Outlook calendar.
It is a well documented page

Read more at http://community.bartdesmet.net/...

FoxPro hell

I'm looking for a friend for some FoxPro 7 books, but it looks like in Holland you can only get "What's new in FoxPro 9". For some reason (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, anyone...) FoxPro isn't used much.
Somebody a clue where to lookfor some nice manuals?

Flickr: The Wallpaper Exchange Pool

Another wallpapersite, this one is a section on flickr. There are some diamonds in here!

Read more at www.flickr.com/groups/w...

Firefox Extensions

A short list of which FF extensions I use:

• Image Zoom
  
• AdBlock
• SessionSaver
• Web Developer
• Disable Targets for Downloads
• IE View
• BookMarksHome
• Link Toolbar
• Blogger Web Comments

Especially SessionSaver and the Link Toolbar are very handy. I can't already live without it.

Desktop Wallpapers

A nice site with good looking wallpapers.

Read more at www.desktopwallpapers.c...

Firefox 1.5

Altough there is a new Firefox browser, sometimes things can go wrong. Look at the installation of a new theme:
Some WTF moments:

CSS Frames | 456 Berea Street

A very nice website on how to workout static headers and footers with css. It works great, so its on the way to the DZ website soon. Keep in mind to use the standard compliance mode of your browser to let this work!.

Read more at www.456bereastreet.com/...

First Post

My First BlogPost here... 2B continued