MikeDopp.com: Back From the Dead

Posted on August 23, 2010 by admin

Thanks to some help from Twitter, Yahoo, and Joe Levi, MikeDopp.com lives again!

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Change, Edit, Modify your Network Adapter Config via Command Prompt

Posted on June 9, 2010 by mike

Command Prompt is a very powerful and fast way to do many things on your computer. However most people find it hard to use do to the fact they do not know any of the commands to carry out what they want to do.

We are going to talk about the setting of your network adapter via command prompt:

To View your TCP/IP settings:

“netsh interface ip show config”

Change TCP/IP Settings:

“netsh interface ip set address name=”Local Area Connection” static 192.168.0.100 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.1.1”

Export your current settings to a txt file:

“netsh –c interface dump > C:’locatio1.txt”

Import your IP settings:

“netsh –f c:’location1.txt”

Set your IP address to DHCP:

“netsh interface ip set address “Local Area Connection” dhcp”

Set your DNS and WINS addresses:

“netsh interface ip set dns “Local Area Connection” static 192.168.0.100”

Set your DNS to dynamically obtain it’s DNS settings:

“netsh interface ip set dns “Local Area Connection” dhcp”

As you can tell the “netsh” command is very powerful.

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Open a Photoshop Document without Photoshop being installed

Posted on June 8, 2010 by mike

Adobe Photoshop is a very expensive application (cash and resource). With so many open source Photoshop nock-offs (Gimp, Paint.NET, Paint and a few others) It can be hard to justify the cost if all you need to do is open a PSD from your favorite designer.

What is a PSD you ask?

psd (Photoshop document), the default file extension of the proprietary file format of Adobe System’s Photoshop program.

A file or template that contains all layers and edits and work a designer has put into the design (drawing). The great thing about a PSD is that it can be exchanged (however can be very very large) and you can open it up and take just a layer or an image out of it and create another project or design.

*Of course there is more and because I am not a designer by trade or by hobby this is the best layman’s explanation I have. So if you are a designer please understand this is a layman’s interpretation.*

You could download one of the Photoshop nock-offs and get the custom filters from the community. Which many do (I know I have.) However it does require just another program to be installed just for the ability to open a PSD.

Here is a trick for your Windows environment (because Adobe Photoshop is available for MAC and Windows)

First Create a new folder set under C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Shell\

Download and put psicon.dll in this folder (C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Shell\).

Then add this Registry information to your computer:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SharedDLLs]

“C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Adobe\\Shell\\psicon.dll”=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.psd\ShellEx]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.psd\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]

@=”{0B6DC6EE-C4FD-11d1-819A-00C04FB69B4D}”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{0B6DC6EE-C4FD-11d1-819A-00C04FB69B4D}]

@=”Photoshop Icon Handler”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{0B6DC6EE-C4FD-11d1-819A-00C04FB69B4D}\InProcServer32]

@=”C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Adobe\\Shell\\psicon.dll”

“ThreadingModel”=”Apartment”

Download Registry File.

After you do this go ahead and reboot your Windows PC. Once booted up try to open a PSD. Should open up in a image editor of your choice.

Now because you do not have Adobe Photoshop installed you will not be able to edit or move the pictures in the file. This will essentially just give you the ability to view the contents.

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