Copy and Paste Won’t Work with Text Highlighted

OK, some of the other tips on Geeky Drunk have actual answers, but we’re stuck on this one. It happens on our Vista desktop and Vista laptop / tablet pc. When I copy some text, I first highlight it and then right click and select “copy.” Then I go to the other program I want [...]

Upgrading Wordpress

I just finished upgrading 23 different sites to Wordpress 2.5.1. This was long over due, as many of the sites were running 2.2 or older. It took about 8 hours to backup, delete files, upload new files and upgrade plugins. The new automatic plug in upgrade feature is nice, but man there has to be [...]

See Through Clothes with Photoshop

This clever video shows a true master of geekdom, he is drunk with geekness, and has the Photoshop power to take geekiness to a whole other level. Selecting the shirt of an unsuspecting hot actress with the magic lasso tool, adjusting the image levels, and playing with a little dodge and burn -and you can [...]

Change Vista Default Folder View / Make Folders Same

I finally tried to get organized one night and figure out how to make all my folders have a default “list view.” If I have a lot of files in one directory, I usually prefer the list view versus icons, details or tile views. This was easy to do in Windows XP, but with the [...]