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The Ultimate Challenge
2007-03-14 00:00:00 This is going to be addictive. Virtual paper aeroplane challenges. Any challengers ??? muffytyrone (at) myfastmail (dot) com More About: Mate , Challenge , Hall , Ultimate , Allen
Google Earth GPS Tracking and Navigation
2007-03-14 00:00:00 Every wanted to track your car journey on Google Earth ? Now you can with GooPs. You can easily integrate your GPS unit with Google Earth and map your journey as you go! Wow! GooPs Features: Fast Real-Time Tracking/Navigation (typically less than 1 second from when received from GPS). Track yourself AND your friends (requires that they ... More About: King
Come in?. no? Go away!
2007-03-14 00:00:00 If you’re after a new door mat for you house, get one of these… from Suck Uk Tags: SuckUk, DoorMat, GoAway , Come In
You?ll never have to clean the toilet again?
2007-03-13 00:00:00 From I Hate My Cubicle!!! Tags: clean, toilet, , anti, microbial More About: Lean , Clean , Toilet , Again , Have
IPv6 URIs in IE7
2007-03-13 00:00:00 Orginally posted by Dave Risney IPv6 URIs in IE7 One of the benefits of creating a new URI parsing API for IE7 was that we were able to more easily add support for IPv6 addresses in URIs throughout IE7. This blog post will describe the use of IPv6 URIs in IE7. IPv6 Syntax One of the advantages of ...
Wampserver package
2007-03-13 00:00:00 The guys from phpteam.net have put together a comprehensive easy to use webserver/database installation package. http://www.wampserver.com/en/download.php The package includes Apache 2.2.4 PHP 5.2.1 + PECL SQLitemanager MySQL 5.0.27 Phpmyadmin Very Cool! More About: Server , Pack , Package , Serve
Queen Mary 2 in Sydney Harbour
2007-03-05 09:19:01 My brother in-law Simon took this photo on 20th Feb 2007. The QM2 was docked at Garden Island Navy Base in Sydney Harbour. The QM2 is too big to fit under the Sydney Harbour bridge! Tags: Queen , Mary , 2, QM2, Sydney, SydneyHarbour, Australia, GardenIsland
Roast pigs in your data centre
2007-03-05 09:19:01 Why not set up some spit roasts in your data centre to use some of that excess heat ?? Roast pigs in your data centre … AMD has just put out the results of a survey estimating the total annual electrical energy consumption of US data centres at 45 billion kilowatt hours. You could roast an awful lot ... More About: Data , Cent , Your , Centre
If The British Royal Navy Ran Windows Vista
2007-03-05 09:19:01 From www.windows-now.com … If The British Royal Navy Ran Wind ows Vista Remember Windows for Workgroups? Try Windows for Warships. You think UAC prompts are bad now? What if you were captain of a British Naval vessel, and were greeted with this: Who needs two missile keys when you have UAC to protect you from usurping your command? Tags: ... More About: Windows Vista
Google Maps now showing Australia Day 2007 hi-res photos
2007-03-05 09:19:01 As reported at Development on a shoestring and MIBAZAAR, hi-res shots of Sydney taken on Australia Day 2007 are now available on Google Maps. The clarity is very good, you can even see people sunbathing on Bondi Beach or a smilely face painted onto one of the navy ships docked in Garden Island Navy base! There is ... More About: Photo , Photos , Show
12 year old kid putting adults to shame?
2007-03-05 09:19:01 CravingIdeas has blogged about a 12 year old kid putting us adults to shame. In the second session in my classroom, this 12 year-old kid did a Visual Studio demo in conjunction with his Dad’s preso where he showed us how to do some things to create a Windows Mobile app. This kid was coding ... More About: Adult , Putting , Year , Sham , Shame
A long time ago in a supermarket far, far away
2007-03-05 09:19:01 Darth Vader is back to the small screen. Tags: DarthVader, StarWars, Super market More About: Market , Time , Long , Erma
Vista Wallpaper from Hamad Darwish now available for download
2007-02-26 03:18:01 I blogged a few weeks ago about Hamad Darwish, a photographer who was commissioned by Microsoft to take some photos that could be used as Vista wallpaper. Hamad has now posted these images for download. Thanks to Long from istartedsomething who has brought Hamad to stardom! These wallpapers even look great on XP! Tags: Vista, Wall paper , XP, Hamad, Darwish, ... More About: Download , Paper
Virtual PC 2007 released
2007-02-25 09:17:02 Microsoft has just released it next version of it’s Virt ual PC software. One great feature is the multi-monitor fullscreen mode compatibility Other features include: Support for x64 Windows as a host operating system Support for hardware virtualization support Support for Windows Vista as a guest and host operating system Support for PXE network booting of virtual machines And it’s free! Go download ... More About: Released , Release , Lease
Change Your Router Password Today
2007-02-25 09:17:02 Change Your Router Password Today !from Windows-Now.com by Robert McLaws While Symantec can’t be trusted on Vista security issues, this is the kind of flaw I consider them more credible on. If you’ve got a home wired or wireless router, and you haven’t changed the default password, stop what you’re doing and change it now. A simple JavaScript ... More About: Change , Word
Designer Action Figures
2007-02-21 03:12:05 I can’t resist posting about this… Grumpy Wookie has blogged about a new concept in action toys. Classic stuff! Tags: grumpywookie, actionfigure, designer More About: Design , Action , Desi , Designer , Sign
Google Earth 4 Released
2007-02-13 15:10:02 For those of you who like to get a ‘bird eye’ view on things, then you need to check out Google Earh 4. It has lots of nice new features such as ‘Textured Buildings…’ Time Animations and Overlay facilities You may ask which one’s better, this and Virtual Earth , well you can make your own mind up. Tags: GoogleEarth, Maps, ... More About: Google Earth , Released , Release
SpeedLinking - 2nd Feb 2007
2007-02-13 15:10:02 Paint 3.0 has been released. Note this version requires at least Windows XP SP2, Windows 2003 or Vista and the .NET Framework 2.0 to be installed Ntwind Software has release a new version on WinSnap. This a great little utility for taking screenshots. It even has a version that is designed to live and run ... More About: Link , Linking , Speed , King , Linkin
Interview with a Vista wallpaper photographer
2007-02-13 15:10:02 IstartedSomething has posted a very inspiring interview with Hamad Darwish, a photographer that Microsoft commissioned to take photographs the Vista wallpaper. Good interview. Tags: IstartedSomething, Vista, Wallpapr, Photo grapher, flickr, inspiring More About: Wallpaper , Inter , Interview
SR71 on Aircraft Carrier ?
2007-02-13 15:10:02 I just came across an interesting post on Brian Pautsch’s blog. Google Maps has photo of a US aircraft carrier with what appears to be an SR-71 (spy aircraft) on the deck. Not sure if it’s a fake, but it’s impressive! Tags: sr-71, More About: Aircraft , Carr , Craft , Arri , Carrie
Google Maps Australia IE7/Firefox plugin
2007-02-13 15:10:02 Glenn Slaven has posted a wonderful plugin for IE/Firefox that allows you to directory search the Australia n version on Google Maps. Go get a copy. Good job Glenn! Tags: GoogleMaps, Ie7, plugin, Slaven, Maps More About: Plugin , Google Maps
SpeedLinking - 6th Feb 2007
2007-02-13 15:10:02 If you’re after a robust text editor, try EditPlus. I have been using this for 5+ years and prefer it over editors such as UltraEdit, TextPad, Notepad or vi…!! Another cool database related utility is SQL Scripter. It great for creating T-SQL scripts for tables in SQL Server 7.0/2000/2005 that can be run in Query Analyser. ... More About: Link , Linking , Speed , King , Linkin
Still waiting for Invirtus VM Optimizer?
2007-02-13 15:10:02 A while ago I wrote about some Virt ual PC tools. On 2006-10-15 2:03:07 pm Muffy Tyrone wrote… Got hold of some compacter tools for Virtual Hard Drives (.vhd) today. First_impressions_of_Invirtus_VM_Opti mize r_25 Looks like I’ll be able to fit more than 320Gb hdd! I have VHD files that are around 10Gb that are going to get the treatment! Well I’m yet to ... More About: Stil , Still , Waiting
SpeedLinking - 10th Feb 2007
2007-02-13 15:10:02 If you’re ever looking a a new windows font, just go to Da Font. They have heaps of free fonts for download! Stickies is a great little utility that I came across one day at work. It’s essentially customised PostIt stickers for your desktop. Very cool and free! If you’ve ever worked on suppport, you need to ... More About: Link , Linking , Speed , King , Linkin
Photos : Dusty Kitchen
2007-02-13 15:10:02 This was taken on 5th Feb 2007 in Kingswood NSW Australia. The sun coming through the kitchen window was incredible. This photo was taken in RAW format and processed directly in Photo shop CS2. There was no post processing performed except in RAW file import. Pretty warm colors hey! Tags: flickr, dustykitchen, sunset, light, warm More About: Photos , Kitchen , Chen
What a whopper
2007-02-13 15:10:02 as reported by New Straits Times A massive 70Kg python ate 11 dogs before being caught by villagers. Talk about a dog’s breakfast! More About: What , Hat , Whopper
Deploy Applications with rBuilder
2007-02-13 15:10:02 rBuild er has some really cool open source project available for download. rBuilder is built on a Linux operating system that has been configured to run all sorts of applications. The end result can be downloaded as a VMWare image, Virtual Server image or ISO images. Downloads are available via BitTorrent (great idea!) Check out http://www.rpath.org/rbuilder/ Tags: OpenSource, Technology, ... More About: Applications , Cat , With , Application
Microsoft Virtual Labs
2007-02-13 15:10:02 Found this the other day. Micro soft has some virtual training labs that has online tutorials from SQL server to Office to C# to Vista. byw, it’s free! Check it out! http://msdn.microsoft.com/virtuallabs/ More About: Labs , Soft , Virtual
C# : SQL Parameters
2007-02-13 15:10:02 I’ve been rewriting some Batch/Perl/COM/SQL code for work as part of our continuos improvement work and have been meaning to post of code detailing some ‘tricky’ code that we’ve written. So here goes. —————— ;—————̵ 2;——- One issue we have encountered has been calling a SQLCommand object to run a stored procedure that you don’t specifically know the type of ... More About: Para , Meters , Meter
Microsoft Update Vs Windows Update
More articles from this author:2007-02-13 15:10:02 Microsoft has a different version of Wind ows Update that actually checks Microsoft Applications (such as MS Office, SQL Server, Visual Studio etc) for update as well as Windows updates. Windows Update only checks Windows components (pretty obvious!) http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftupda te%26ln%3Den-us It takes a bit longer, but well worth it! More About: Microsoft , Soft 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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