Archive for the 'Computer' Category
Sunday, May 11th, 2008
This week I’ve been sorting out a pile of CDs that have been been slowly working its way up skywards, like a compact tower of Babel.
They’ve been mostly music CDs from the covers of Metal Hammer, Rock Sound and Terrorizer magazines, but there were also a couple of guitar tuition CDs and the odd DVD […]
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
On Wednesday evening I sat down at my PC and tried to scan a document on my Epson Perfection 1670 Photo scanner.
Troubleshooting
I placed the document on the scanner’s glass, closed the lid and fired up the scanning software (Epson Scan).
Scanning …
Nothing.
I tried again. Again nothing. Every time I tried the scanner appeared to work […]
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Have I shown you my laptop? It’s a Lenovo 3000 C100. Nothing wonderfully spectacular about it.
Until you turn it around:
How cool is that?!
It’s a GelaSkin that I got from Urban Retro. It’s called “Red Robot Leaving The City” by Exploding Dog.
GelaSkins are artistic, protective skins that are easy to both apply (with no […]
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
Ah … the delights of developing websites on a PC with three monitors.
Here I’ve got my code in the middle screen, Firefox 2.0.0.12 on my left and on the right: IE6 (top) and IE7 (bottom).
Of course, if I had four monitors then I could have had my Windows Live Messenger and Twitter windows open too!
The […]
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
The problem
Here’s something that I found annoying a few weeks ago, until I found a hack: when I have particularly long text notes stored in my Outlook tasks and then synchronize them with my Windows Mobile 6-powered O2 Xda Orbit phone/PDA I discover that the notes are truncated. I get this message at the […]
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
The antibiotics appear to be beginning to work, although I’m predictably now feeling a little rougher around the edges and more tired. But nothing that a handful of pills and a month in bed won’t fix!
Sadly, that’s not going to happen though.
Job satisfaction
Work is incredibly busy just now. (When is it not?) But […]
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
You know what it’s like when you’re trying to get your new Windows desktop OCR application to meet the launch deadline, a few things invariably get left undone.
I was installing OmniPage 16 last night and was a little surprised to see ZoneAlarm pop up a message asking if I’d allow
TODO: <File description>
permission to access a […]
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