Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/June 2014

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June 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 June 1

1. Windows graphical file compare
2. Run S60 apps on Android or PC/Mac?
3. FSX follow-up
4. Wikia admin tool
5. Backups
6. Smithsonian Institution and First digital MP3 player

June 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 June 2

1. Wikipedia article file names
2. Microsoft
3. Simulink
4. JPEG metadata in MS Visual Studio with 'System.Windows.Media.Imaging'
5. Computer mice

June 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 June 3

1. Follow-up about SSD not having a drive letter
2. Chrome's notification bell in the quicklaunch bar of Windows XP
3. transliteration service?
4. gameover zeus
5. Earning money from Internet
6. Saving Usenet

June 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 June 4

1. Excel help
2. OEM Windows question
3. Win8 Problem.
4. Bitter pit

June 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 June 5

1. Memtest but for graphics cards?

June 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 June 6

1. For IT books, how old is too old?
2. How Windows Updates on a computer finds the Windows Updates servers
3. Question involving highly compressing MP4s with Format Factory

June 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 June 7

1. New windows in Windows
2. Problems downloading from Mediafire

June 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 June 8

1. Webpage map with river route

June 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 June 9

1. Fast internet connection, slow torrent, wifi
2. Free, Working eCommerce software?

June 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 June 10

1. 64k intro
2. What is it that makes expensive laptops worth the money?
3. Difference between Unix and Unix-like
4. FSX online activation

June 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 June 11

1. GOOGLE TALK50.13.121.201 (talk) 12:26, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
2. Android app to divert calls to VOIP?
3. sapi5

June 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 June 12

1. How to zoom in on a video?
2. How to convert MPEG-4 into MPEG-2
3. Videographic scene changes

June 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 June 13

1. World of Tanks
2. Simplest algorithm that cannot be reversed easily?
3. Why would he say a corrupt file stopped the scan?
4. What's likely going on here?

June 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 June 14

1. Transfers between Xboxes
2. Setting hostname in Linux

June 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 June 15

1. Retrieve Windows product key

June 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 June 16

1. Disk-spanning/external packages on NSIS installers?
2. Web slideshow or image gallery
3. Facebook notifications
4. Android contacts
5. 4GB or 8GB Upgrade to use Mavericks?
6. iDevice connectivity

June 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 June 17

1. IP Address
2. delete photo from net
3. Further Fedora questions
4. Companies using pre-computer technology
5. Hexadecimal

June 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 June 18

1. Adding memory to HP 250 G2
2. Comments in CSS vs. HTML
3. Google blackmail ?
4. Redirecting a category on MediaWiki software

June 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 June 19

1. IPCONFIG Question
2. Percent encoding
3. 128 GB USB 3.0 flash drives
4. IP address with new format

June 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 June 20

1. Bluetooth refuses to stay shut on Android 4.4.3
2. Eliminating excessive padding created under an image within a text block in HTML
3. Lightweight X11 Window Manager
4. can people who studied business computing claim that they are computer scientists?

June 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 June 21

1. If you are using Tor
2. Creating shortcuts on Android
3. Any way to add .HTML suffix to Blogger pages&posts?

June 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 June 22

1. Using Excel for complex scheduling
2. A Graphics application.
3. Does a website know which directory I download a file to when I download a file?
4. Facebook messages
5. E-reader context sensitive help
6. Stop network sharing
7. Color ink cartridges
8. Occasional glitch with my computer
9. Can I convert a PDF file into a photograph?

June 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 June 23

1. Do I need to restart PC if I Hibernate?
2. Tap water on laptop keyboard
3. Impact of computing power

June 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 June 25

1. list of Virtual Private Server hosts operating in the United States?
2. I could not find the URL to download Base PGM and Data for WikiReader.
3. Category page on Software Defined Application Delivery

June 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 June 26

1. setting up an email service under Windows 8.1
2. Command-Line Text Encryption Program for SuSE Linux
3. Digital frequency multiplication
4. Tool to list Wikipedia editors who have contributed to particular Wikipedia pages
5. Google search results Mozilla Firefox

June 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 June 27

1. PDF
2. How to represent the dot, when you only have 0s and 1s?
3. How would a computer differentiate a baseline dot in different contexts?
4. Avast advertising copyvios ... what's their game?
5. Recovering my XP Machine

June 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 June 28

1. SHARING HP LAPTOP AND IPADMINI
2. Regards Recover my XP Machine
3. What can you use to describe a string (besides regexps)

June 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 June 29

1. Fun ideas for Minecraft.
2. Excel help
3. DLL problem
4. Mistake
5. Youtube
6. iTunes is broken so can't play m4a files
7. Uploading OGV but it's blocking it, saying that it is an OGX extension

June 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 June 30

1. Simple C# printing file from VBA