Category: Tech
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Cheap meat
I’ve just checked my mail after a couple of days away from the computer and was greeted by over one hundred new blog comments notifications and around four hundred ‘please check this comment’ messages. All of it spam. This resulted in something like 20 times my usual page hit count and a lot of time…
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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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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…
Dean Sas 