View from the Potting Shed

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]