Fix connection error when connecting Samsung Galaxy S2 with Kies

Posted by Raffael on 09/07/2013 Posted in News & Apps, Tutorials, Windows 7, Windows 8 Tagged Connection problem, Driver, Galaxy S, Galaxy S2, Kies, kies connection locked, kies connection problem, MTP Device, Samsung

The Samsung Galaxy S2 is a great device, with which I’m really full and satisfied. What I can’t say of Samsung’s software called Kies, which serves to synchronize and manage the Galaxy S2 with your PC.
There are always problems in connecting the smartphone to the PC or in special with Kies. If one is affected by the problem and googling a bit, so you will quickly find out that this problem does not occur only sporadically.
Therefore, today I want to show you three approaches that have helped me several times already when my Galaxy S2 won’t connect with Kies.
1) Reboot
Even if it sounds too simple. Often it is enough, to turn your Galaxy S2 once off and restart it. This is especially true when Windows indicates that the ‘Device’ could not be started. (Error code 10)
2) […]

XiVerse – Xing reverse search engine

Posted by Raffael on 09/02/201309/02/2013 Posted in Personal stuff, Web Tips Tagged who has visited my xing profile, Xing, Xing reverse search, Xing reverse search engine, Xing visitors without premium, Xing.com

For some days I’m also on Xing. Who is also there, will certainly know the function that displays the last visitors of one’s own profile.
Unfortunately you do not get the names of your visitors, but only small thumbnails of the last visitor appears in the basic membership at Xing. Also a link to their profile is not given.
This feature is dedicated to premium users (~ 7 € / month) only. But that’s only the half truth.
Find out who visited your Xing progile without having premium status
In most cases it is possible to find out who were the last visitors on the own profile without premium membership. Therefore you have to compare the visitors thumbnails against some data.
In order to simplify the search procedure, as an exercise for myself and as a feasibility study in general, I have […]

WordPress2Doc – How to convert WordPress articles into Word and PDF documents

Posted by Raffael on 08/31/201312/04/2017 Posted in C#.Net, Downloads, Wordpress Tagged how to convert wordpress to pdf, Wordpress article converter, Wordpress converter, Wordpress posts to doc, Wordpress to docx, Wordpress to html, Wordpress to PDF, Wordpress2Doc

WordPress2Doc is a small program I developed, that enables you to convert your WordPress articles into Word (docx) documents. In addition to the Word format (.docx) the PDF format (.pdf) is available as a target format. For the conversion, the program makes use of the WordPress export XML file and can convert the items inside the export file in one or both of the aforementioned formats.
Tip: The download link for WordPress2Doc is at the end of this article! Who needs no further information, can now confidently scroll to the bottom of the article.
How to convert WordPress articles into pdf and docx files
To convert your WordPress articles into .docx or .pdf format, the relevant articles must be exported from WordPress at first. This can be done at WordPress’ backend. Therefore open the administration page of your blog and navigate to the “Tools-> Export” menu in the WordPress backend.

How to change the size of a textbox in C#

Posted by Raffael on 08/21/2013 Posted in C#.Net Tagged .NET, bugfix, C#, c# textbox height change, c# textbox height not changing, c# textbox height resize, c# textbox line height, c# textbox set height, c#.net, how to set height of textbox in c#

I admit, the title sounds almost trivial. But on the second sight, it is not so easy to change the size of a TextBox control in C#, because a TextBox does not have the AutoSize property. For other controls you can set the AutoSize property to false and then change the height (height-property). For the TextBox control this is unfortunately not the case.
Nevertheless you can set the height of a TextBox by using a small workaround. The trick is as follows:

textBoxTest.Multiline = true;
textBoxTest.MinimumSize = new Size(150, 24);
textBoxTest.Size = new Size(150, 24);
textBoxTest.Multiline = false;

First you have to set the multiline property to true. Then you can adjust, according to your mood, the minimum-size and the size property to change the size of the TextBox. When you’re done, you set the Multiline property back to false. The TextBox maintains the set size just yet. It’s that simple
Who still wonders, why you should […]

How to re-enable the classic start menu in Windows 8

Posted by Raffael on 08/21/2013 Posted in Tutorials, Windows 8 Tagged classic start menu, classic start menu for windows 8, enable classic shell, enable classic start menu in windows 8, start8, vistart 7, Windows 8

I have already written about how you can enable the classic start menu in Windows 8 again. In the last article I showed you a solution with the help of the program ViStart 7. Today I want to show you another way to re-enable the classic start menu in Windows 8. This time we will make use of the program Start8 by Stardock.
Start8 is, like ViStart, freeware, but does not simulate the classic Windows start menu on the contrary to ViStart 7, but is made up of components of Windows 8. How it looks, you can see in the screenshot below.

You can download Start 8 on the website of Stardock. However, there you have to enter your email address before you […]