Thoughts on many things
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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.…
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Turning off the mail count in the Windows XP login screen – TweakUI
My last post showed us the simple, though fiddly way of turning off the mail count in the Windows XP login screen. As things turn out, there’s a second, more user friendly way of doing this, although it means installing a new program. Let’s start by assuming that you still have the problem, and want…
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Turning off the mail count in the Windows XP login screen – Registry
The other day, my girlfriend had been using my computer, and logged into MSN. When I restarted the computer, I noticed this message: This is both annoying, and it really looks stupid. I mean, sure I get a bit of email, but I rarely have as many as 20 emails in my inbox,…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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 “<“, the greater…
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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…