Nerd Boys » Mini How-Tos http://nerdboys.com Tech tips, news and reviews Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:34:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 How to Play Streaming Videos on a Sony Bravia KDL-46W5100 TV http://nerdboys.com/2010/02/03/how-to-play-streaming-videos-on-a-sony-bravia-kdl-46w5100-tv/ http://nerdboys.com/2010/02/03/how-to-play-streaming-videos-on-a-sony-bravia-kdl-46w5100-tv/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:20:50 +0000 Joe Kelly http://nerdboys.com/?p=735 http://nerdboys.com/2010/02/03/how-to-play-streaming-videos-on-a-sony-bravia-kdl-46w5100-tv/feed/ 2 An Implementation of BitConverter.SingleToInt32Bits http://nerdboys.com/2009/12/17/an-implementation-of-bitconverter-singletoint32bits/ http://nerdboys.com/2009/12/17/an-implementation-of-bitconverter-singletoint32bits/#comments Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:41:11 +0000 Joe Kelly http://nerdboys.com/?p=701 Back in the day when I did more Java development, I used Apache’s Commons Lang regularly to do all kinds of things like string manipulations and implementing Object.equals() and Object.hashCode().

Not too long ago, I started working more with C# and the .NET Framework and I found myself wanting some of the functionality of Commons Lang for the .NET platform. The closest thing I could find was Artur Trosin’s port of the EqualsBuilder and HashCodeBuilder classes

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]]> http://nerdboys.com/2009/12/09/sql-server-case-sensitive-queries-with-case-insensitive-collation/feed/ 0 How to Remove Green Eye From Dog Photos http://nerdboys.com/2009/11/17/how-to-remove-green-eye-from-dog-photos/ http://nerdboys.com/2009/11/17/how-to-remove-green-eye-from-dog-photos/#comments Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:27:03 +0000 Joe Kelly http://nerdboys.com/?p=670 Have you ever taken a flash photo of your dog or cat and noticed that the result looked like an alien pet? For example, check out this photo of my Beagle-Jack-Russell:

Dog Before Green Eye Removal

Using the GIMP photo editor and a photo editing tutorial I found this week, I was easily able to remove the green eyes in the above photo. Check out the edited photo:

Dog After Green Eye Removal

Isn’t Milo cute? I

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