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I think I work too much …..

According to my handy tracking software Wakoopa, I have spent 2 weeks, 4 days, 17 hours at my computer since 12th December 2009, this is a worrying statistic! It means I have spent about 20% of my time at my computer since mid-December. (I’m being optimistic and hoping wakoopa thought I was at my PC a little more [...]

February 23rd, 2010  |  By Oliver  |  Tags: ,   |  Posted in Other Stuff  |  No Comments »

How to stop Skype Toolbar from changing numbers to ‘Skype Buttons’ & ruining your website design

One of the most annoying features of the Skype toolbar is its intrusive ‘button’ injection that hijacks your website, changing phone numbers for buttons and ruining your web sites design. I’ve just installed Skype and it installed the toolbar on my machine by default and was ‘killing’ the look of some of my websites.
I researched how to prevent [...]

February 17th, 2010  |  By Oliver  |  Tags: ,   |  Posted in Web Development  |  1 Comment »

Out with the old, In with the new

I’ve decided to re-think (rather dramatically) the design of the site. I’ve seen loads of cool, more Web 2.0, generally better WordPress driven sites and I I’m going to follow them.
I didn’t really know what I was going to put up here, before here happened, so it was a bit of a guess on how [...]

February 9th, 2010  |  By Oliver  |  Tags: ,   |  Posted in Other Stuff, Windows Gadgets  |  1 Comment »

Netgear WG111T – Windows 7 x32/x64 Driver Installation

I recently needed to use my WG111T on Windows 7 / x64. There seems to be some confusion out there about how to ‘obtain’ / install the drivers in Win 7 so I thought I’d try and help people out there (especially my uncle) with a step by step guide.
*** If you do get stuck, please [...]

January 31st, 2010  |  By Oliver  |  Tags: ,   |  Posted in Other Stuff  |  14 Comments »

TechEd 2010 North America Count Down Gadget

Are you going to TechEd 2010 North America?  Can’t wait to visit New Orleans with all your fellow IT Pros? 
Well, get your geek on with the TechEd 2010 Count Down Gadget for Windows 7 and Windows Vista!
Jeff over at expta.com has re-skined my countdown gadget for the count down to TechEd 2010.
expta.com – Jeffs Blog
Download [...]

January 23rd, 2010  |  By Oliver  |  Tags: ,   |  Posted in Windows Gadgets  |  No Comments »

How to run IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox, Opera & any other browsers side-by-side

(Courtesy of Donavon West – donavon.com)
I have been playing about with the new XP mode feature in Windows 7 Ultimate for a while now and for a developer like myself it has proven to be a god send.
I was asked yesterday by a colleague whether you could set it up to run IE6, 7, 8 & various [...]

January 23rd, 2010  |  By Oliver  |  Tags: , , ,   |  Posted in Web Development  |  No Comments »

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