I’ve been using an application called Writerside to create the documentation for LightWave. It’s great. It uses a coding language called Markdown to do things like bold text, inserting images, or creating other page furniture. You can do this without needing to use a mouse, which speeds things up immensely. It has also introduced meContinue reading “A syncing feeling with Dropbox”
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I feel the need, the need for speed!
Picture it. The date is mid-October 2013. I’ve been trying for months to get a faster ADSL signal to no avail – I’m just too far from the exchange. I’m getting this result on Speedtest: Earlier on in the year, I saw a new box go up on a crossroads about 500 m from ourContinue reading “I feel the need, the need for speed!”
BIOS steps when updating
Just as a reminder… When you have flashed the BIOS go in and set the multiplier to 216 (for a clock speed of 3.54 GHz) and make sure you set the RAID mode to AHCI (BIOS -> Integrated Peripherals -> On-Chip ATA mode -> RAID mode -> AHCI) otherwise the SSD won’t be seen.
Quick language post
Okay, no time for any other stuff, just wanted to make a note of how to change the language settings on the CS5 Master Suite. I have a licence from the school I teach at, but obviously it’s all in French, which is great for teaching the students, but not as comfortable for me toContinue reading “Quick language post”
HTPC
Pondering making a Home Theatre PC rather than having umpteen boxes (Sky decoder, Freesat HD decoder, Samsung DVD/HDD recorder) so that we can resell those things. I have a CPU (AMD Athlon X2 BE-2350) and graphics card (NVidia 8500GT) and the motherboard I am currently using (MS-7349) has 7.1 sound and HDMI out. I haveContinue reading “HTPC”
Concatenating files
Had a problem in Thunderbird recently. For whatever reason, my wife lost all the mails in a specific folder. Thanks to our WD World Edition, everything is backed up, so I closed down Thunderbird and restored an older file, that I thought was the right one: afb-movie.msf. Folk who know Thunderbird are going to beContinue reading “Concatenating files”
PortableApps
I was a fan of the U3 portable app standard. I had an Emtec USB key that had it and it worked well. Unfortunately that key is nearly dead now, so I got a new one of the same type expecting the U3 launcher to still be on there. The key I got is picturedContinue reading “PortableApps”
Yay! Greasemonkey’s back
I’ve been without the invaluable Greasemonkey for about three weeks and have finally had time to sit down and work through it methodically. All the solutions proposed to create new profiles etc. did not work for me. The only thing that did in the end was remove extensions one by one, restarting each time andContinue reading “Yay! Greasemonkey’s back”
Replacing hard drives
Last time I changed over hard drives for my machine I did it badly and ended up having to reinstall Windows and all my software, which took a while 🙁 This time I used a piece of software called HDClone by Miray. It comes with an ISO image you can burn to a bootable CDContinue reading “Replacing hard drives”
Quick OS tuning
Don’t search for “Free registry cleaner Vista” on Google. You’ll get about a million results all of which seem slightly dodgy. Instead go here: http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2420597&SiteID=1 and a nice chap with the dubious title of S.P.G. tells about a Microsoft solution that worked just fine for me thanks.