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Kindle Root Password Generator
Amazon’s Kindle uses a root password derived from the serial number. This tool will help you calculate your Kindle’s root password.

Enabling Digital Audio S/PDIF Pass –Through Via HDMI On DisplayPort
How to send digital S/PDIF surround sound to an HDMI device via the DisplayPort on a Dell Latitude E6500..

Display Published Date In Google Search Results
Display the Date a Web Page Was Published in Google’s Search Results

Edit A File Without Changing Its Last Modified Timestamp
How to change the created or last modified timestamp of files in Windows

Enable EPG TV Guide In Media Center
How to enable the Electronic Program Guide for TV broadcasts in Vista or XP Media Center for use in Australia.

Ignore Files In Git .gitignore But Keep Directory
How to .gitignore all files in a directory, but keep the directory

“Insufficient Storage Available” When Installing Updates
How to fix a problem where you receive an “Insufficient Storage Available” error when installing or upgrading apps on your Samsung Android mobile.

Remove Folders From Media Center’s Media Library
How to remove folders from Media Center’s Media Library, including those that you can’t normally.

Get An External USB Audio DAC Working On Raspberry Pi
You are using a USB Audio DAC on a Raspberry Pi, and it does not work properly.

Enable S3 Suspend For Media Center
How to enable S3 Suspend for Media Center, to allow a remote control to place the media center computer into an S3 (STR, suspend-to-RAM) state, and unsuspend from that state.

Useful Kodi (XBMC) Things
A few things I have found useful while running Kodi (XBMC)

Why Do Golf Tees Go Backwards?
Why do golf tees go backwards when the ball is hit?

How To Fix Windows Live Messenger For Mobile Problems
How to fix Windows Live Messenger for Mobile problems.

Windows Media Centre Remote Control & Winamp
How do I make my Windows Media Centre remote control work with Winamp?

Perform A Regular Expression Search And Replace
This page lets you perform a PHP perl-compatible regular expression find and replace using preg_replace.