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I like to play with computers. So Oracle’s VirtualBox is handy to install different operating systems (Linux, Windows, Mac etc) and try them. But recently when I tried to open any virtual machines I got the following error: I searched and tried
In Mac, you can colorize a folder or file. This is particular useful if you have many files and want to mark important ones for quick access. Unfortunately, Windows does not have such feature natively. Fortunately, FileMarker (free version) allows yo
When I need to free some spaces on my computer, I need to know which folder(s) take most space so I can prioritize removing files in these folders. TreeSize is a free program to do this. It shows you not only the space each folder takes, but also the
I need to create a banner ad for Stork’s advanced feature (NIH grant database English/Chinese bilingual version). I wish the ad has two images showing one after the other, and repeat every 3 seconds. In the end, the image is like this: So how t
If you create a CSV file and the file contains some characters such as ü or ş, then you will find the characters are not displayed correctly in Excel. This is because the default coding of Excel is not UTF-8. To force Excel to use UTF-8, we need to a
Back in August, 2013 I purchased a Dell computer (OptiPlex 9010 Minitower) which has been working very well. It has Windows 7 installed. Recently I got a notification that Windows 7 will reach End of Life (i.e. Microsoft will no longer support it) so
If you decide to abandon a GMail account (not just personal GMail, GSuite included), you might want to save a record of the past emails. Or maybe you simply want to backup your emails. How to do that? Google Takeout will do the work. Go to https://ta
I started blogging in about 2008. At that time I just started to develop my first startup product, a cloud reference manager for researchers called Peaya (then PaperBox) which unfortunately (or fortunately?) failed miserably later. At that time I was
Below is a list of NIH grants in the field of fNIRS in the past 10 years. The list is compiled by Pe