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This post is about fixing a problem with the screen brightness adjustment. On Win7, hibernation causes the screen brightness adjustment to not function, thus, staying stuck in the last brightness set. Using the keyboard brightnes key’s doesn’t do a thing. Also going directly via the control panel > power options doesn’t help. In the later, […]

As far as I remember Google is the default address bar search. But sometimes a software you install, changes this value without your consent or by mistake (to Conduit, or whatever). To switch back to the good old Google do the following: Open firefox Type about:config in the address bar and hit the Enter key […]

The Bialetti Venus stainless steel espresso maker is an old fashioned home alternative to coffee machines, nonetheless, the way it’s built assures buildup of pressure of about 1.5 bar.The bialetti maker is made from 3 main parts: The Bialetti is a stainless steel, stove top espresso maker , that produces 4 cups of rich, authentic […]

In November 2012 me and my wife were in south France. We rented a Citroen c4 Picasso, a Diesel EGS6 (electronic auto gearbox). We drove about 1000 km on it, throughout a week. We had one rainy day but the rest were sunny. We drove in town and outside and on a few unpaved trails […]

Here is a video guide on how to sharpen a chainsaw chain using the best method, with a rotary tool.

The other day I was cleaning up my desktop and I erased an important folder containing stuff I needed. Luckily, Win7 has the ability to restore previous versions of the folder. I also tried using the “System Restore” option, but it wasn’t able to restore the deleted folder. So what  I’m about to describe is […]

Ceramic knives are a good alternative to premium priced knives. These knives are made of extremely hard ceramic material , and their main advantages are being: Ceramic knives can come in various colors, off white, black, etc. Just to be fair, the disadvantages of this knife is it being fragile compared to steel. If you […]

I’ve noticed my printer having trouble with large files, especially long word documents. It would print pages with paragraphs missing or some other parts missing, while it did print short documents ok. My guess was that there was a spool problem or communication problem. What’s stranger, is that documents printed in best quality (instead of […]

If you use this great add-on, use the following link to reinstall a patched version automatically. Clicking this link will then make firefox ask if you want to install. Click yes and that’s about it. Firefox will have to be restarted for the change to take place. https://github.com/downloads/athomas/mozilla-firefox-addons/gmail_manager-0.6.4.1.4-fx+sm.xpi If you want to do it manually, […]

My brother sent me this camera after I showed him a Youtube video some driver have posted. In this video, you can see the car coming to a full stop at an intersection. None the less, it was stopped by a policeman who gave the driver a ticket for not stopping. The policeman ignored the […]