Efficient RAW processing

Don't struggle with RAW any more, there is a solution:

1. Superfast view and choose best RAW shots by ranking: http://www.fastrawviewer.com/. Just download and use all the time. Released 3 days ago, I'm really happy. Very fast.
2. Extract JPEG previews from your RAW: http://www.picurl.org/blog/2009/07/18/ultra-fast-raw-to-jpeg-conversion-with-exiv2/. In short, if you are a Nikon-guy, then get exiv2 and typically run exiv2 -ep3 *.NEF on your folder.

Public transport in Sweden

1. Public transport of Sweden — separate routes collected at one place.
2. Public transport of Stockholm — the same but for Stockholm.
3. "Buss" objects on osm.org — for those which haven't been collected.
4. Kartor över SL-trafiken — sl.se
5. Innerstad dynamic zoom map from sl.se

Permanent history in cmd

This http://mridgers.github.io/clink/ enables permanent history and other useful stuff for Windows command line.

Priority-based project management

So here we have Project 2013, but what do we see:

Exactly, "Hello Windows 3.1"! But why? I remind the same case with having only 16 colors available to style background of a cell until Excel 2007. But, as Joel Spolsky has described, it's intentional. It's a priority-based development: they had this "issue" on the list for years, but got it to be fixed only recently. I suppose that for Project there is the same case.

Is it good or bad? Well, I hope that Microsoft will be capable of finding additional people to fix that minor but disappointing stuff. Certainly, 95% won't notice a problem, but others 5% will, and that can make sense, because those guys/gals are usually early adopters, evangelists and IT decision makers. It's like a debt, but not technical, rather a task-based debt. Sometimes everyone needs to make a cleanup, at least each year before Easter, right? :)

Clean up the marker board photo

A nicely wrapped gist for cleaning whiteboard image: http://api.o2b.ru/whiteboardcleaner.
Upd: this one doesn't work anymore. There is a new review: https://djchuang.wordpress.com/2013/05/22/how-to-clean-up-whiteboard-photos-with-apps/ 

Узнать код бронирования PNR в Аэрофлот

При покупке билетов на рейсы Аэрофлот у лоукостеров (обычно всё же выходит дешевле :) посредник стандартно выдаст вам номер брони, номер заказа, но не внутренний код бронирования Аэрофлота PNR, что надо вводить на сайте http://www.aeroflot.ru/cms/online_registration. Так вот, извлечь этот номер можно на одном из этих сайтов систем резервирования:

• http://classic.checkmytrip.com
• http://www.viewtrip.com
• http://www.virtuallythere.com
• http://www.myairlines.ru
• https://mytripandmore.com
• https://www.tripforyou.net

Так, когда заказ идёт через supersaver.ru, то помогает поискать свою бронь по его номеру брони на первом и втором сайте из списка. Если вы покупаете в долларах, также рекомендую попробовать expedia.com, места в нём можно забронировать сразу, даже на Аэрофлот!

Network Folders work slow in Windows 7

These steps helped in my case.

1. Rename registry folder HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RemoteComputer\NameSpace to something else, like -NameSpace.
2. Run netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled.
3. Restart.