Year: 2004
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Desklook
Yesterday I downloaded, Desklook – an Outlook plug-in which basically displays the Outlook Today screen over the top of your wallpaper, mainly as a sidebar down the left hand side of your screen. The sidebar is fully interactive – you can click on tasks, and mail etc and it’ll open up Outlook at that item.…
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Google Desktop Search
Google Desktop is the latest thing out of googles beta program, predictably it puts Microsofts Windows searching capabilities in the shade. It’s a small (~400k) download. It operates in a similar fashion to Microsofts search in that it builds up an index and then searches that index. Unlike Microsofts tool, it builds up the index…
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Firefox 1.0-pr
Just installed the new Firefox after putting it off for a while as an extension wouldn’t work. I really like it, a few of the improvements I’ve noticed, in the ten minutes or so I’ve been using it are: The options menu has been cleaned up The practically useless throbber has been made smaller The…
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WordPress upgrade
WordPress (the software that powers this website) released version 1.2 a few weeks ago. I’ve just got around to updating and everything seems good. Just have a problem with all the backslashes going though. You have to enter two to get one to appear, which is kinda annoying but oh well. It seems much faster…
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That’s the last of my assignments in. It feels quite good to know there’s nothing to rush around doing for a couple of days…Well at least not until i have exams in the upcoming weeks. sits back and relaxes. Current plans are to spend my spare time looking into Pocket PC 2003 developing (though haven’t…
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Dedbeat
What a weekend. Got up slightly later than I expected, went up to Matts where Dobbs picked us up, then we travelled to Matlock to get Tom. Then it was off with Dobbs behind the wheel and Matt as the navigator, onwards and southwards as we headed off to probably the best festival in the…
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Ever fancied living in a cold-war era Nuclear Silo? This one is up for a sale at 2.3million USD. Quite a cool place to live.
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I managed to get Firefox to run from my USB Memory Stick. Now I can have my browser setup how I want wherever I go. I’m writing this from it now, it seems a bit slow to start but what do you expect. Here tells you how to setup your folders and here is the…
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I was told that the Algorithmic Results were in today so went and checked them. I had a good feeling as I knew I’d done well in the assignment though wasn’t sure about how well the exam went. The results: Assignment: A, Tutorials: A, Exam: B ! That’s an A overall.
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I got a 93 and 83 on the Introduction to Networking exam + skills test. I’ve got a skills test, exam and two assignments to hand in next semester though.
Dean Sas 