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For a while now i've been using an iMate JAMin as my phone/pda. It was pretty good, cept for the lack of buttons. It was all touchscreen. I upgraded a few weeks ago. I wanted something that was pretty much the same, but i wanted to be able to type, not
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I find it fascinating just how much is available for keeping in touch with people. But what really made me laugh was how I talk to a friend of mine in the states. We talk a lot, and finding the easiest way to communicate quickly has been a slowly evolving
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I did some googling. It looks like someone has sorted out the issue! No more bluescreens when trying to play downloaded avis within Media Center! Just download this free plug in for vista media center , and you're away :)
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As I glossed over on my last post, I've been reinstalling my media center pc. So far I've: Formatted C Drive Installed Vista Installed the motherboard, audio, video, tv card, and bluetooth drivers. And that's enough for tonight. I'se tired and sleepy.
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I've just started reinstalling my media center pc (I think that's the cause of my remote control issues). While it's doing it's thing, I thought I'd make a quick note of a problem I remember having (and am about to have again) getting the bluetooth dongle
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Strangely, only a day after Mitch wrote a recent entry about Media Center [ I've just become a Media Centre junkie ], I've got something to say roughly on the same topic. I've been running a "Media Center" for 3 or 4 months now. I say "Media Center" rather
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A friend of mine, Tony, from my old job at Telstra, did up a comic last week. I think he was trying to make some sort of point at work :) So anyway, I promised to blog it when I had the chance. And here it is. Click to see it full size. I love it - looking
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Well, not that much really. Work is flat out, but fun, so I'm happy :) In the off hours, I've mostly been running my net connection downloading tv shows. Last month (12th December-11th Jan) my 40 gig download limit was used up 5 days before the end, so
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Things have been flaky on CrankyGoblin for a while. Some of it has been my fault (dodgy code uploaded to the server :) but a lot had also been flakiness on the part of my provider. I really like having my own web server. I can upload whatever I want (within
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Well, so long as you live in or near Sydney or Melbourne. This is really exciting - I certainly want to go, and if you're interested in WCF, then you should too :) Readify has managed to bring Juval Lowy, a .Net 3.0 specialist and a Microsoft Regional
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I'm a little behind the 8 ball with this (hah! 8, get it? You will...) but a couple of weeks ago Project 8 (see?) came out! I picked it up on the weekend. I got some late nights coming up soon, me think :)
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Biztalk 2006 ships with an out of the box adapter that can talk to Sharepoint Services. The only serves two purposes - posting messages (documents) to Sharepoint as part of an orchestration, or receiving messages (documents) into an orchestration from
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A lot of people have been talking over the weekend about how they've upgraded to Vista and either had it work without a hitch, or with some very big hitches indeed. My story is mostly boring - a couple of little hitches, but nothing too major. Things
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In ASP.net server controls you can specify page addresses using the tilde ( ~ ) character to specify a path from the root of the current web application. Imagine you have a site mounted on your local machine under a virtual directory called ' foo '. To
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So Office 2007 is out. This is good. This is wonderful. This is scary. To install the RTM version of Office 2007, you must uninstall all the beta versions of it first. Not a problem. Uninstall. But what's going to happen to my email? Oh dear. Update 10
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