The problem is the following… I’ve made a nice .htaccess file which takes care of my url. They look nice and friendly but the problem is that in a subdirectory I have a script or something that does not like URL rewriting and throws all kind of errors.
If you want to ignore that directory here are a few ideas:
RewriteRule ^foldertobeignored/.*$ – [PT] (placed in the root .htaccess file)

or
just put “mod_rewrite off” in a .htaccess file placed in the folder you want to ignore.
I am sure that there are many other …

So…you have a bunch of photos (made with your 10+MP camera) and you can to add them to a website, blog or whatever. You want to re-size them, rename them (to something like image01, image02) and also you want to add a small watermark with your name or a website address. And also you don’t want to spend hours doing that…
Than you are at the right place! With Irfan View you can do this with a few clicks! Let me show you how it’s done.
1. First of all, you need …

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is the storage solution in the cloud from Amazon. Amazon S3 can be used for storing data (any amount) and the best part is that you only pay what you use (storage + traffic).
You can use S3 for backup or you can host files for your website there (like Twitter does which stores there images).
Setting up and account is easy but Amazon does not provide any tools to upload your files. So on the market there are many 3rd party clients which will help …

A few days ago I wanted to delete a file (in Windows XP) but an error appeared: ‘File in use’ error.  The classic Windows Task Manager won’t provide any info regarding which file is used by which process.

As I had no idea what process was using my file I’ve googled and I’ve found a neat free program called Process Explorer.
There with just a simple search I’ve found that my file was used by whatever.exe. Killed the process and deleted the file. Simple and easy.

With Google Chart API you can create  a nice looking chart in a few seconds.
Here you can read more about it: http://code.google.com/apis/chart/
Here is a quick example: