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« Previous EntriesUseability: Linux / Unix v Closed Software
Thursday, August 7th, 2008A tweet from Linda Eastin pointed me at this old blog entry from Daring Fireball on Linux and Spray-on Useability, that takes aim at the Eric Raymond rant on Linux usability (the one where he can’t get CUPS working).
There’s an old engineering adage: “Fast, good, cheap: pick two.” (Where
“fast” regards development time, not performance.) Desktop [...]
Make Gmail the default Firefox 3 Mail Client
Friday, August 1st, 2008If you rely on online mail clients such as Gmail then you might like the following tip coming directly from the official Gmail blog that describes how to to make Gmail the default Firefox 3 Mail client (i.e. the mail client that is loaded whenever a mailto link is clicked in Firefox 3.
You’ll need to [...]
Free online media file conversion
Thursday, July 31st, 2008All-in-one style web-based file and unit converter. Quickly convert between:
- measurement units: size, area, distance, time, velocity, mass, etc.
- file formats: documents (.DOC, .PDF, …), images (..JPG, .GIF, …), audio (.MP3, .WAV, .AAC, … ), and video (.WMV, .3GP, .AVI, …) formats.
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10 Reasons Enterprises Aren’t Ready to Trust the Cloud
Thursday, July 31st, 2008from gigaom…. To summarise,
It’s not secure. Certain companies and industries have to maintain strict watch on their data at all times, either because they’re legally obligated to or because they’re super paranoid.
It can’t be logged, required for compliance purposes.
It’s not platform agnostic. If you need to support multiple platforms, as most enterprises do, then you’re [...]
Portable On-Screen Keyboard
Thursday, July 31st, 2008On-Screen Keyboard Portable is a handy way to bring your settings for the Windows’ built-in On-Screen Keyboard with you from PC to PC. It will remember your hover preferences and other options and provides an easy way to launch it right from the PortableApps.com Menu. For earlier operating systems that lack a built-in on-screen keyboard [...]
Find all your drivers with Double Driver. ~ Ask The Admin
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008If you reformat / reinstall your windows operating system, one of the chores is looking for and downloading drivers….
So what if you had a copy of all your drivers on a USB stick ?
Run Double Driver and copy your drivers off your machine to a USB stick and then restore them right back into your [...]
Work with Office safe modes - Outlook - Microsoft Office Online
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008If you are having problems with a Microsoft Office program, you may be able to use User-Initiated Safe mode to make it possible to run the program. Some situations in which this can be helpful include:
You need to view a file and the Microsoft Office program that you are using is crashing before you can [...]
what is the firefox about: protocol ?
Thursday, July 17th, 2008Many firefox users know that typing about:config in the location bar provides access to user preferences, that can’t be changed any other way.Some fun and useful (occassionally, anyway) Firefox about: links.
about:
about:blank
about:bloat
about:buildconfig
about:cache
about:config
about:crashes (only Firefox 3)
about:credits
about:logo
about:kitchensink
about:license
about:mozilla
about:plugins
about:robots
Either type the links in your firefox location bar or selct the links if you are curious about their purpose.
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Wordpress 2.6 upgrade
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008I’ve upgrade this blog (and several others) to WordPress 2.6. I’ve had no issues, but I only have a small amount of traffic, and a few plugins.
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Searching for Sound Effects
Monday, July 14th, 2008Soungle is an online library for sounds effects that lets you find, preview and download sound files for pretty much
anything starting from car sounds, gun shots and police siren to drums
and phone beeps. Note that Soungle is not an audio sound search engine, it only searches it’s own database
If you can’t find the effect you’re
looking [...]