I’m a big fan of Windows 7, it has finally moved me from XP on my work machines. However I still haven’t quite got the locations for the settings stuck in the old memory and find myself hunting for them every now and then. I was going to blog about a piece of software called [...]
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I’ve recently acquired a Netbook (Asus EeePC 1005HA to be precise) and in common with many such devices it came preloaded with XP. Now up until 6 months ago I’d probably have left it at that but having used Windows 7 for those last months I really didn’t want to go back. So I decided [...] When putting together the earlier post I needed to grab some shots of the process and as always I’d forgotton the OS X screen grab shortcut keys so I thought I’d stick them down here. Command-Shift-3 will capture the whole screen and save it Having recently upgraded to Snow Leopard one of the things that stopped working was my Cisco VPN client for access to my work network. From reading around it seems a reinstall should solve this but rather than go down that route I decided to look to the built in VPN features instead. The starting point for [...] For the non-arty one of the hardest things to do when putting together websites is to get just the right colours. For the criminally untalented, like me, there are loads of free css templates but when using these there is always the desire to choose different colours that make the site stand out. Even if [...] I’ve posted before about how big a fan I am of the TED conference videos. I have recently stumbled across a similar source of talks, fora.tv. The breadth and depth of subject matter is very similar to TED, the main difference is that FORA gathers talks from a wide range of different conferences held around the [...] Decisions. They can be tricky. There are lots of techniques to help though, tossing a coin, rolling a dice, eeny, meeny, miny, moe (which bizarrely has a Wikipedia entry!). There must be a better way. Well now there is. Hunch.com is a site that guides you through the decision making process. Whether the decision is life [...] You have to love software developers. If there is a chance for them to use a standard file type for whatever app they’ve developed you can guarantee that they will avoid it completely in favour of a proprietary file format that only their software can create or indeed read. So what do you do when [...] |
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