Thoughts on many things

  • Firefox 3 – First impressions

    On June 18th, 2008, some eight and a half million people downloaded the latest version of Mozilla Firefox. A powerful browser, built on the Gecko engine its greatest advantage is the fact that it is so easily expandable and customizable through powerful add-ons.   There are a few new features that are most decidedly practical.…

  • Software I cannot live without

    Almost anyone that works with computers collect a few programs they can’t live without. For me, there are a few of them, and here they are: 1 – Notepad++ I’ve written about Notepad++ earlier, and there’s not much more to say other than the fact that it’s the best simple text editor I’ve encountered, and…

  • Creating a shortcut and hotkey to Windows’ "Safely Remove Hardware" dialog

    In a previous post I talked about using Windows’ “Safely Remove Hardware” dialog to avoid losing data from USB drives. Having done some more research, I’ve found a way to create a shortcut to this dialog. The shortcut is simple to create, and uses a RunDll32.exe command that looks like this: RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll  …

  • Making bullet-point lists in HTML

    I frequently make use of bullet-point lists in my blog, and I usually code these in HTML. I like them to stand out a bit. It’s pretty simple to achieve, and here’s how:  <ul><li>Bulletpoint 1</li><li>Bulletpoint 2</li><li>Bulletpoint 2</li></ul> If you want a numbered list, you substitute the <ul> tag for <ol>

  • Corrupted data, and avoiding it

    I more or less always carry a USB Flash drive with me, for several reasons; They contain EMS information about who I am, my next of kin, important medical history etc. There are a number of documents I like to have with me I run PortableApps off it The habit of carrying a USB Flash…

  • Better Notepad

    I write a lot of different things, from text for my blog, to content for my website to various kinds of code and script. For a long time I simply used notepad, it was most of what I needed, and it did the job. A while back, I discovered a very good alternative. It’s called…

  • Posting code examples rendered like text

    When writing my last post I had a problem that parts of the code was parsed into the page, meaning that the result, instead of the actual code, was seen. As you can see in the post, I solved the problem, and here’s how: By replacing the lesser than symbol (<) with “&lt;“, the greater…

  • Adding an infobox to your wiki

    As you may or may not know, I’m maintaining not one, but two wikis. One of these is my personal website. In both I’ve added an infobox on the right to make some articles stick out. Here’s how it looks:  How have I done this you ask? It is really boxes within a box. Let’s go…

  • Logitech VX Nano – first impressions

    I’d been wanting to get a new mouse for my portable computer for a long time when I actually did. Up until last week, I’ve been using your regular two-buttons-and-a-scroll-wheel kind of mouse, and I wanted a little more functionality when on the road. I’m used to using one of Logitechs larger mouse with my…