Adding a little sparkle
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 4th Apr, 2008
Got a call yesterday to give our friends in Isle of Man Finance a hand with a presentation they were preparing on a memory stick. It wasn’t a difficult problem; they simply wanted the presentation to start up automatically when the USB stick was plugged into a computer. I played around with their autorun.inf for [...]
Giving Zemanta a spin
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 27th Mar, 2008
Sherrilynne sent me a link to a plugin for Firefox called Zemanta. It sits in your browser and waits for you to start typing out a new blog post. Once you have typed in a few sentences it’s supposed to come up with a collection of different links and photos that can be used to [...]
Getting to grips with Twitter
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 21st Nov, 2007
I’ve finally managed to get Twitter ingrained into the way I do things. Have you tried it yet? If so, does it work for me? I originally found it interesting, but could never see myself leaving a browser open on Twitter, or going back to visit the website, so it didn’t really catch on.? [...]
101 Conversion Utilities
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 10th Sep, 2007
The other day I had a frustrating situation where someone sent me an email with a .r file attached. I had no idea what this was and none of the applications I had installed would recognise it. It turned out to be a “resource” file which was pretty specific, but it did raise the issue [...]
Using the tools at your disposal
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 2nd Jul, 2007
I’ve just realise that I’m less of a techie than I used to be last year. I’m on the committee for the local branch of the BCS and the one thing we do every year is send out a survey to measure people’s feedback on the past year and put together a calendar for the [...]
Built a website? Here’s some tools!
Posted by: Owen on Saturday, 26th May, 2007
Building a website gets easier and easier, as more tools make it to the market that make the design process smoother. However, once you have built your website it’s important to make sure it’s accessible to as many people as possible, that it looks good and that it performs well. There are a number of [...]
System Recovery Tools
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 13th Apr, 2007
LifeHacker has a great collection of Top free Computer System Recovery Tools. The post is actually about the top 10 tools, but there’s a wealth of other links in the comments that follow the post. Here’s what they recommend:
SuperDuper! (Mac boot drive maker)
Magical Jelly Bean Key Finder (Windows)
USB PC Repair Kit (Windows)
Undelete Plus (Windows file [...]
