Other Stuff Archive

UK Car Make / Manufacturer / Marque & Model Databases

I’ve not been able to find a decent source for a UK car manufacture & model database, so I’ve put one together using various sources. I’ve tried to match Autotraders lists, but I cannot guarantee complete accuracy, these databases were last updated on the date of this post.

Lonely Robot CGI – One of the best CGI showreels / scenes I’ve seen

Lonely Robot CGI – This has to be one of the best single producer CGI showreels I’ve seen, you’ve probably seen it by now, reposts don’t hert!

ASUS UL30JT – “Not coming to the UK”

Following on from my last post about the UL30JTs Pre-Release in Taiwan, I have now been advised by one of ASUSs UK resellers – SimplyASUS.com – that the UL30JT won’t actually be coming to the UK.

Asus UL30JT On Pre-Sale!

The UL30JT is one of Asus’s latest range of ultra light & ultra portable notebook range that was unveiled at CES2010. With an estimated 10 hour battery life I have been eagerly awaiting release dates for this new Intel Core i5 powered model that comes loaded with a separate dedicated Nvidia graphics chipset as well [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

VirtualRouter: A rather nifty Windows 7 hack

I’ve just been going through some of my visitors comments / posts and viewing thier blogs & sites. I’ve come across an interesting article regarding another ‘hidden’ feature that MS has embeded into Windows 7 without any management tool. (Typical!)

I quote from the authors site:
“On Windows 7, you may have noticed the Microsoft Virtual WiFi [...]

Flash.ocx , Flash10c.ocx Windows Vista VB & C#.NET Class not registered / HRESULT: 0×80040154

Everyone has they’re off day, mine this month involved spending four hours wondering why I couldn’t get Visual Studio to import the Shockwave Flash library and after I finally did get it to (by re-registering Flash10.ocx) wondering why I was still getting a ‘Class Not Registered’ while trying to compile the app.
The full(ish) error message:
“An [...]

Adobe Captivate 4 – Error encountered while copying audio stream – Vista x64

After installing the trial version of Adobe Captivate 4 I received the error:
“Error encountered while copying audio stream”
After searching high and low I finnaly found a fix that works for my setup (Vista x64):
1. Close Captivate
2. Run ‘command prompt (cmd)’ in Admin mode
3. Go to the directory where Captivate-4 is installed
4. Run ‘regsvr32 NSAudio.dll’
5. You [...]

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