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Despite having been shutdown for good some years ago, the Microsoft Jet Data Access Objects interface (better known as DAO) is still up and running, as it's still being used …
Using DAO from Excel VBA VBS Without MS Access installed Read More
If you've stumbled upon this post, it probably means that you're struggling against an old .BKF archive/backup file of some sort. As you might already know these are the files …
Open BKF files in Windows 10 without NTBackup with NT5Backup Read More
If you're working a lot with MySQL you're most certainly aware of MySQL Workbench, the official administration & management framework for MySQL DBAs and operators: that suite comes shipped with a …
SQLyog - The best freeware MySQL Administration GUI for Windows Read More
If you are looking for an alternative who will allow you to avoid teaching your friends & colleagues how to properly use Skype, Hangouts or other similar softwares to host or partecipate video-conferences, …
Zoom, the new leader among cloud-based video conference softwares Read More
Any decent After Effects user most certainly know how to create masks from text or add silhouette alpha to make a text layer (or any other layer) "dig" into another layer. This …
Text Masking in Adobe Photoshop: How to dig through a Layer with Text Read More
Today I decided that, in order to get out of the office before night, I just had to bring home some work. Among the various things I needed to do …
Scan both sides of a front-back document into a single PDF with PDFsam Read More
A little more than a year has passed since the post where we explained how to get rid of OS X BeamSync, the cancer that utterly cripples the user experience …
OS X El Capitan 10.11 and VMware: how to improve performance Read More
A bunch of years after the launch of the native mobile apps for Android and iOS, Ookla choose to revamp his premium network performance measurement tool known as SpeedTest.net by publishing a lightweight, yet fully functional version on …
Speed Test by Ookla switches to HTML5 and launches a Chrome Extension Read More
This is not the first time we're talking about Mercurial, one of the best Distribuited Source Code Control Manager for Windows, also known as HG. In the unlikely chance you never heard about it, …
Using Mercurial HG in Visual Studio 2015 with VisualHG or HgSccPackage Read More
Among the things I love the most in Visual Studio 2015 is the seamless integrations of some of the most advanced community-driven, modern development tools such as Node.js, NPM and Bower. …
Visual Studio 2015 - How to update NodeJS and/or NPM to their latest version Read More