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Category Archives: Software
Masterful thinking – so full of surprises
Seldom do I ask people to watch/listen to things on the internet (knowing that I don’t want too many reciprocal demands) but I can’t help myself here. This is my favourite TED presentation to date: http://vurl.it/captcha (thanks to Keith Edmunds … Continue reading
Top of google – Data recovery done best – Not!
Hard Drive Data Recovery – No Data No fee. 15yrs exp. www.fields-data-recovery.co.uk ISO 9001 Student/Non-Company Discounts. And here’s the link result: Microsoft VBScript runtime error ’800a0005′ Invalid procedure call or argument: ‘left’ /keyword_capture.asp, line 11
Google arithmetic not quite up to scratch
My gmail inbox has this at the top right: 1 – 21 of 20
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Orange (the future may not be so bright)
In the latest personalised email to me (Lee) from Orange, it starts: Dear Gary,
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Tech Support – don’t go for the obvious, it might be a waste
The week before last I had a hardware failure following a power outage and it turned out to be a major saga. My TV Digibox had effectively died and I was going to describe the pains I had to go … Continue reading
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r.ip del.icio.us
If you are rushing to get an export of your delicious bookmarks via the API, beware the functionality for exporting all posts does not appear to be working at this time. I suspect it is a Yahoo! directive (i.e. they … Continue reading
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How long does a backup take?
Acronis 2011 starts off estimating my first partition backup to require 49,710 days (every time I run it), followed a few seconds later by an estimate of 8 minutes. Not exactly scientific then …
Wave goodbye – I can hardly bear the thought
I received the gravest software news possible today that Google is set to abandon Wave Whilst it is certainly true that almost all my personal invitees have failed to even take a look at what Wave offers, those who have … Continue reading
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Google (m)AdSense
I put together a short function in javascript for handling the addition of a bookmark, which worked fine for IE and FF, but needed to support other browsers. So I set to with a search (using google) starting with “javascript … Continue reading
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