Strangely Perfect

Windows 8 Developer Preview
I’ve finally decided to test the next Windows edition, probably to be called Windows 8, although things like that are never certain in Microsoft-land.
Virtual Box
I did a Virtual Box install, which is fairly straightforward.  There are many tutorials on-line now which show how to do this, so I won’t do a walk-through. [...]

HTC Desire S – Software Update
Last night, my mobile decided to upgrade itself.  Both Android and HTC Sense got “upgraded”.  It’s now:

Android 2.3.5
HTC Sense 3.0
Software Number 2.10.401.5

It’s now got very pretty icons and even more scary fog sounds on the weather app.!!
It’s a bit slicker and has a ring-pull on the start screen!
Most of the [...]

Testing Firefox 64-bit Right Now!
Actually, I tried the 64 bit installs of Firefox and Internet Explorer soon after I installed this Windows 7 64 bit Operating System.  They were both pants and summarily removed from my hard drives and I haven’t revisited for over 2 years….
But now things seem on the up.
64-bit is now mainstream [...]

Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Install Experience

Windows 7 Ultimate with SP1
I installed Win7 sp1 on my PC last night after spotting it in the Windows Update list.  It’s been out since 16 Feb 2011 but I’ve only just noticed!  That’s the state of my PC in the screenshot.
Hitches
Everything installed really well, actually.  The downloads and [...]

Introduction
These shots are primarily for the benefit of my friend.
Virtual Box
Sun’s (now Oracle’s) VirtualBox application allows computer users to run a variety of Operating Systems (OS) on virtually any computer operating system.  This is the VirtualBox homepage.
For example:

Windows XP on Mac
Solaris on Windows XP
Windows 7 32-bit on Windows 7 64-bit

This latter example is actually the [...]

What is the Best Backup for Windows in a Small Home or Office?
Which Windows Backup?  A History.
Over the years I’ve tried many systems for backing up crucial Windows data.  Currently for small-scale backups I use the ubiquitous and almost bullet-proof flash drives, my current one tipping the scales at 8Gb.  But for major backups, as [...]

One Small Step for Man, one Giant Leap For Mankind
When Armstrong said those words (except I missed out the ‘a’), it looked like men & women would be walking tall on all sorts of astronomical bodies in a continuation of the Apollo programme.  As we no know, things didn’t quite work out like that though, [...]

[pacman]
This guy has made a WordPress Plugin that’s a fully working PacMan game to celebrate 30 years of Pacman….  (link here).  So happy birthday, Pacmen!  I remember it and Space Invaders very well, and the loathing I had for their incessant racket in waiting rooms and taxi booking offices all over the North-East.
(I made it [...]

Introduction
I got a new phone and when synchronised with Microsoft Outlook, the phone numbers don’t dial out properly because of spaces & STD bracketing.  It’s an LG – the previous Nokia was great, as was it’s synchronising software!
Solution
I used VBA in a workaround via Microsoft Excel!  (If you don’t have Excel, this won’t work…).  It [...]

Not an advert for a male enhancement cream
…but more a statement of fact….  yes indeedy, Sony, inventors of the 3.5″ floppy disc, have announced that it’s the end of the production line for them.
Sony Ends Floppy Production
I for one, have spent many a wasted hour listening to the click-click-click as they struggle to synchronise themselves.  [...]

Students die in India as bus plunges into river
The above headline is awful enough for the people involved, but in reality, it’s subject, a road crash, is common enough in my own country, the UK.
What is really bad is how the BBC is reporting this.  They should know better but essentially, they’ve reported verbatim the [...]

For no reason
…other than a try-out and also the current anti-spam plugins miss the odd bit of comment spam, I’ve now switched off TanTanNoodles’ Spam filter and am giving WP-SpamFree another try plus another plugin, AVH.  I’ve left Akismet running regardless.
WP-SpamFree
This now promises a lot, so it’s worth another shot.  Two years ago when I [...]

Introduction
Some time ago I tried out Flickr, ultimately deciding to host my own pictures on-site.  I don’t the idea of someone having MY picture resource at THEIR beck and call…
Whatever.  FlickrHQ sent me an email today (from “The Flickreenos” by gad!) introducing me to something they call,
People in Photos.
As they say,
People in Photos is a [...]

I was staggered to read the contents of this news article today; Vegetative state patients can respond to questions
Apparently, new research shows that people previously thought to be in a vegetative state can respond to questions “in a funny way” by being prompted to think of things as a way of answering the questions.  The [...]