Photoshop – Drawing Arrows
KB ID 0000204 Problem I wrote a walkthough on drawing box’s earlier, the second thing I tend to do, is put arrows on my diagrams to point things out. Solution 1. OK, so I’ve got my graphic, and I know something about it thats not obvious at first glance. 2. So I’ll open it with Photoshop and put an arrow on it. Firstly Select the “Line tool”. 3. On the toolbar at the top select the drop down arrow next to...
Batch Resizing and Batch Renaming Images in Photoshop
KB ID 0000597 Problem I have to do this quite a lot, I take a lot of screen-shots for the site, and have to resize them down, (usually to 550 pixels) so that, they fit with the layout. In addition I scale the larger screenshots down to 900 pixels for the images I Hyperlink to. This means I spend a long time in Photoshop messing about with image sizes. The smaller of the two images you see on the site nearly always has the same name,...
Adobe Photoshop CS6 – Change the Dark ‘Theme’
KB ID 0000648 Problem Either I’m half blind or the default colours in Photoshop CS6 are a bit to dark for me to work with. Solution It’s easy to fix, there are four settings. Windows: Press SHIFT+F2 to ‘lighten’, and SHIFT+F1 to ‘darken’. MAC: Press SHIFT+FUNCTION+F2 to ‘lighten’, and SHIFT_FUNCTION+F1 to ‘darken’. Related Articles, References, Credits, or External Links...
Dreamweaver CS6 – Backup and Restore Site Settings
KB ID 0000672 Problem If you are like me and struggle to remember settings, passwords etc. Then being able to back up all your website settings in Dreamweaver so you can restore them back again, (after a rebuild on a new PC) can save you some heartache. Solution 1. On the SOURCE machine, Launch Dreamweaver > Site > Manage Sites > Select the site in question > Select the ‘Export Site’ Icon. 2. Choose whether to...
Photoshop CS6 Flickers and Images Go Black When Cropping
KB ID 0000747 Problem I am in the process of moving all my stuff to a new laptop, I installed CS6 and was doing some work when every time I used the cropping tool my images simply went black. Also, for no reason images I was working on would flicker black as well? Solution Turns out it’s just a problem with the graphics drivers on this particular machine and the way Photoshop interacts with the graphics processor. The first...
Dreamweaver CS6 – Migrate or Edit the Private Dictionary
KB ID 0000748 Problem If you want to migrate your dictionary to a new machine, or you have mistakenly added a word to the dictionary and need to delete that word, then you need to locate and edit the private dictionary. With older versions of Dreamweaver the private/personal dictionary was a file with a .tlx extension, and it was in a completely different location! I spent a LONG TIME searching the net for the correct location for...
HP / 3COM – Setup the V1910-24G Switch
KB ID 0000495 Dtd 20/08/11 Problem I was surprised this week when I went to fit one of these switches, I know HP bought 3Com some time ago but when I popped open the HP box I did not expect to see a 3Com switch. Anyway, heres a very quick run down on initial setup (assign IP and secure the system passwords). Solution 1. On the chassis locate the sticker with the serial number on it, on here it will show you the IP address that its set...
UK – Internet Service Provider – DNS Server Addresses
KB ID 0000834 Problem You require the DNS Server address for your ISP This is by no means a complete list, by all means drop me an email. if you would like me to include any others. Solution AAISP Primary: 217.169.20.20 Secondary: 217.169.20.21 BT British Telecom – confined 22/07/13 Primary: 194.176.65.5 Secondary: 195.97.231.31 Other 194.72.9.34 194.72.9.38 194.74.65.68 194.74.65.69 Bulldog Internet Primary: 83.146.21.5...
Replace an ASA 5505 with an ASA 5506-X
KB ID 0001091 Problem Given the amount of ASA work I do it’s surprising that the first time I saw an ASA 5506-X was last week (I’ve been working on larger firewalls for a while). I’m probably going to have to do a few of these over the next couple of years so I’ll update this article as things surface. Solution Q: Can I just copy the config from an ASA 5505 to an ASA 5506-X? A: No, that would be nice, truth be...
VMware vSphere Client – ‘This product can only be installed on Windows XP SP2 and above’
KB ID 0001092 Problem Quite why each version of the vSphere client does not work with any other version of ESX/vCenter I’ve never really been able to work out. Being a mac owner, I have to run the software in VMware Fusion anyway, (which is also a pain). So when I tried to connect my my own firms vCenter this week from my Windows 8 fusion VM, I got this error message, after having to download yet another version of the vSphere...