Resizing (Shrinking) Drives With VMware Standalone Converter
Jan17

Resizing (Shrinking) Drives With VMware Standalone Converter

KB ID 0000185 Problem Using: vSphere 6.7 and VMware Standalone Converter Version 6.2.0 I’m performing this procedure on vSphere 6.7, back ith the release of vSphere 5, This process changed, with vSphere 4 and VI3, you had to install VMware Converter on the vCenter Server then download and enable the plugin in your VI client software (like this). VMware now only has the “standalone converter”, so now you DONT install...

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Audi – MMI v3 – Showing Album Art With Mp3 Files
Jun25

Audi – MMI v3 – Showing Album Art With Mp3 Files

KB ID 0001116  Problem A few weeks ago I changed cars, I was pleased to see that the entertainment system in my new car could play music from SD card. These are cheap and can hold a Lot of songs, so rather than have my iPod in the car, I could simply drop music onto an SD card. Which I did but, annoyingly non of the ‘album artwork’ was displayed, even though the music played fine. I did some Googling and read a few Audi...

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Resizing Windows Volumes  / Drives in VMware vSphere / ESX
Nov17

Resizing Windows Volumes / Drives in VMware vSphere / ESX

KB ID 0000381  Problem This article is primarily geared towards making your guest virtual machines hard drives LARGER, If you want to SHRINK or make the drive smaller then see the following article. Resizing Guest Hard Drives using the VMware Converter Solution Re sizing a Guests Hard Drive (Make it larger) 1. On the properties of the VM select the hard disk in question and locate its size. 2. Enter the new size and hit OK. Note:...

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Batch Resizing  and Batch Renaming Images in Photoshop
Nov17

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,...

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