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Saints and Festivals of the Scottish Episcopal Church for MS Outlook

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

Screenshot of Outlook showing saints’ days and festivals imported into the Calendar.
Better late than never! I’ve finally got around to typing up the Scottish Episcopal Church saints’ days and festivals in a format that can easily be imported into the Microsoft Office Outlook Calendar.
Please feel free to download this file and follow the simple, […]

Testing WordPress 2.0 before I upgrade

Monday, January 2nd, 2006

Screenshot of WordPress 2.0 Write Post page, now with integrated image upload (the blue panel at the bottom of the image).
Today I’ve been checking out WordPress 2.0, the recent major update to the popular blogging and CMS tool, prior to upgrading various WordPress-driven sites that I manage.
The update from WordPress 1.5 to 2.0 has been […]

All I want for Christmas is a new blog …

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

The OpenSourceCMS website will allow you to test-drive any of the blogging tools and content management system tools on offer.
It’s getting to that time of the year again and I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking “Gareth, what’s the best blogging software for me?” Well, have I got good news for you.
I know […]

Tempus fugit

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Time flies by when I’m the driver of an Nvidia2 chipset…
Grrr…! (That’s an indication that I’m slightly irritated, and not my name — Jane and her family call me “Grrr” — with three Rs, if you please.) My PC clock is running fast again.
Although, oddly, not all the time. Sometimes […]

Tip: always use the latest drivers

Friday, December 2nd, 2005

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum
It just goes to show that you should always keep your device drivers up to date! That was my task this lunchtime.
Having installed the drivers that came with my Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum everything appeared to be working fine. Listening to music in WinAmp everything sounded lovely: responsive, […]

What is a graphics card?

Saturday, November 5th, 2005

My old graphics card is lying on the top of the PC case. You can see that the gold bit connects to the computer’s motherboard, while the blue socket is where you plug the monitor.
In response to the person who said to me, “Excuse my ignorance, but what is a graphics card? What […]

A sound problem (easy edition)

Tuesday, November 1st, 2005

My soundcard isn’t working properly. Whenever I play an MP3 it sounds like I’m playing it on an old record player: it pops and crackles while I’m typing. It is very annoying.
I suspect that it’s to do with the hardware drivers — that’s the special software that allows the my soundcard to commuicate […]