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2Apr/120

Windows 7 Search File Contents

Posted by Paul

Windows 7 Search Options

I quite regularly want to search a folder of code for a specific use of a function or feature. In Windows 7 search this functionality to search file contents is not often possible by default. There is a simple way to enable this however...

Click on the Organise button in a Windows folder:

25Dec/100

Dropbox

Posted by Paul

Dropbox

Use Dropbox Dropbox to get free cloud space to store important files, documents, photos, etc and be confident that they are automatically backed up on both your computer and securely on the internet. Install Dropbox on multiple PC's and have the files automatically sync'd between the two.

I use Dropbox to automatically sync my documents between my two computers. This works seamlessly and no sooner have I saved a document on one computer is it ready and updated on the other. Dropbox works faultlessly in all tests I have put it through, simply Excellent.

20Sep/1015

Delete all Picasa Web Albums

Posted by Paul

picasa

I started to import all of my photos into Picasa but then wanted to rearrange how they were organised and needed to delete all of my albums that had been created (some 200+ folders). The only way to do this normally is to go into each album, drop down the menu, select delete and confirm the deletion. This was going to take a long time! I searched about and found that this can be done using the Google CL tool.

  • Download the CL Tool from Google: Google CL Tool
  • Extract the zip file to a suitable location
  • Open up the command prompt
  • Navigate to where the CL tool was downloaded to
  • Run 'google.exe' to display the cl promt '>'
  • Run the following command (this will delete any albums starting with these characters):
  • picasa delete --title a|b|c|d|e|f|g|h|i|j|k|l|m|n|o|p|q|r|s|t|u|v|w|x|y|z|A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M|N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z|0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9

  • Enter your email address for picasa, this will open up a browser window to enable you to auth with google. Login using your email address / password.
  • If Google tries to get you to login using a Google Apps for Domains account, then manually type in the link shown in the command prompt into your browser, excluding everything after (and including) the '&hc=' towards the end of the link
  • You can setup cl tool to not prompt for deleting an album by altering the config file found in 'C:\Users\yourusername\.googlecl\'
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