I had a few months worth of photos on my phone that needed to be imported and sorted.All I wanted to do was move the photos into monthly folders. So I found exiftool that had some options that did what I wanted.If you have Homebrew on mac you can install it like this. brew install exiftool Here is the command I used to move my photos. exiftool -d %m "-directory

Scientists Discover That Tiny Fractal Trees Could Hold Key to More Efficient Solar CellsHmm sounds familiar. I have heard something like this before. There was a kid called Aidan Dwyer talking about solar cells in a tree pattern last year.It looks like Aidan got some negative articles written about his theory as well. Then again he was 13. But if this is related the kid deserves some credit.

If you are still using CVS and Subversion or moved on to something distributed its a good idea to keep in mind how to commit.Commits and commit messages are pretty important. I’ve had single user repos for years and I still put decent messages and commit sensibly in case I need to go back and figure out something.Here are a ...

MySQL Workbench doesn’t work out of the box in the latest Ubuntu. These steps will get it working until Oracle gets around to updating the official package sudo add-apt-repository ppa:olivier-berten/misc sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install mysql-workbench-gpl Source: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=62347

By: Kate Ter Haar I said cut but I didn’t say how and where to start cutting down your digital clutter. The Downloads folder This is usually a big one. It was about 4GB when I had a look this morning. Using the size and date sorting I figured out the biggest and oldest files and dumped them first. If ...

I was going through some resumes (or CVs) recently and it shocked me back into writing a blog post about them. The CVs posted were for a junior software developer role in Sri Lanka. Hopefully these tips will help you along the way to find a good starter job. Don’t include your personal details like National ID, gender, date of ...

While setting up a test box I came across this issue. The shutdown process hangs and waits.These steps worked for me http://askubuntu.com/a/123287Edit the grub configsudo nano /etc/default/grubAdd acpi=force to this lineGRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi=force"Save and update the grub config.sudo update-grub

Its getting a bit difficult to work with these power cuts. 3 hours in the middle of the day kills a lot of productivity. This is why I got a Macbook (35 watts) instead of a iMac (300 watts).Working with less resources and being offline maybe a good thing as well. Makes you focus on what really matters.

Indi is asking: What kind of taxi do you usually take?I think he is building some kind of social app for taxis. At the moment on his poll meter taxies are winning. Here is what I think about that.I voted for meter taxies too. Its the obvious choice there. If you call for a car or van from a cab ...

By: Keith Williamson Somebody has to say it. Being a professional in Sri Lanka is hard work. Most of the time you have to deal with people who don’t know what they are doing. Without ranting on let me lay down a few cases and try to offer some advice (even though it might not be my job to do ...

When I was compiling my last post I wanted to embed a tweet in my blog post. I found a nice plugin for that called Twitter Embed.Getting a Tweet’s permanent link wasn’t that straightforward, so I made a small video to show how. Also notice I’m picking the short code instead of the link, that’s what Twitter Embed needs.

You know, I’m glad Nokia went the other way.With the crazy colours.Bold accessories.Wireless charging.And Windows. There I said it. I like the new underdog Nokia. I respect the remix.

You would think in 2003 that the Internet would be fast and reliable. Not so much where I live in Sri Lanka. The major and only wired provider Sri Lanka Telecom’s (SLT) ADSL is unusable as I write this. Around the end of the month the SLT ADSL line starts to suffer. Usually when I change packages it seems to ...

Here are a few reasons I won’t be getting an iPhone 5 anytime soon.1. They never officially launched in Sri Lanka.So there is no official support for it. The phones that are here have been brought down in various ways and sold at various prices.I got mine down from Aussie which didn’t have any operator locks on it. Most other ...

I did a small intro to HTML5 at the last Refresh Colombo meetup last week. Here is the main presentation I used from html5rocks.com.Here is a better list of resources as well. I specially like Dive Into HTML5 by Mark Pilgrim.I met @geekaholic and @SeeJay of SinhalenFOSS at Refresh ...

Just last week I was low on RAM.I managed to borrow 8GB from a work mate and here is the new look.Things are buzzing along quite nicely. Firefox just eats it all up if it can. Eclipse and Aptana seem to have the same startup time, but they are more responsive now.

Its hard. If you are not 100% sure you are going to make it, don’t do it, because once you are in there is no going back. Keep your day job, start on the side if possible. No one is going to lend you money at first but when things are picking up investment will come. It depends what you ...

Check your local backups and see if they can be restoredClean out the downloads folderClean out old email (if you are using an offline email client)Make plansCheck your todo listMake callsOrganize your documents, photos and other filesGo outside

So many browser options on Android

The LinkedIn skill tagging feature is catching on. But I think most people are not using it properly. I get endorsements for skills from my friends and contacts. Friends will endorse all my skills even if we haven’t worked on them together. Contacts seem to endorse so that they can get endorsed back. Again not really paying attention to ...