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Find Canon G10 Actual Actuation or Shutter Count

Posted in howto on June 13th, 2011 by Aditya – 2 Comments

Many people mistakenly believe the name of the last photo (e.g. 101-4511 is 14511st pic) is the indication of the shutter count of the camera. While it might be true most of the time, those number is not accurate as the software can be modified. Finding the REAL actual actuation or shutter count from Canon G10 can be done with a bit of effort.
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How to Solve GWT IncompatibleRemoteServiceException Error

Posted in gwt, howto, java on February 27th, 2011 by Aditya – 3 Comments

I started GWT development few days ago and encounters these rather unfortunate stack trace error.

com.google.gwt.user.client.rpc.IncompatibleRemoteServiceException: This application is out of date, please click the refresh button on your browser. ( Expecting version 6 from server, got 5.)

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Setting up DTAC SIM Card on any HSDPA USB Modem

Posted in howto on December 18th, 2010 by Aditya – 1 Comment

These settings should be pretty much the same across any self-respected USB based HSDPA modem.
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Simple git steps

Posted in howto, programming on October 15th, 2010 by Aditya – Be the first to comment

Clone
//create clone
$ git clone git@github.com:whatever

//create a clone in specific folder * is optional
$ git clone git@github.com:whatever *folder-name

//create clone in current empty folder
$ git clone git@github.com:whatever .

//update clone
$ git remote update

General Ops
// ensure that you start with master
$ git checkout master

// move to new branch
$ git checkout -b name-of-the-branch

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Effective WordPress Ping Services List

Posted in howto on October 14th, 2010 by Aditya – 1 Comment

Just want to share the Ping site that I use for my wordpress site. My rule of thumb is that: DO NOT Over Ping!! You will notice that my list below isn’t very long since most of the Ping Services listed will Ping other Update Services. In short, I will actually Ping a lot of services without spamming those services.

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Convert .NRG to .ISO for free on Windows 7

Posted in howto on October 3rd, 2010 by Aditya – Be the first to comment

This will explain how to convert proprietary .NRG Nero files into .ISO files on the cheap (free). This should be working on windows later than 98. I am using windows 7. read more »

How to know which application is using which port on Mac

Posted in howto on August 4th, 2010 by Aditya – Be the first to comment

Mac:  lsof -i -P | grep -i “listen”

Note down the pid in order to kill it through activity monitor.