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Common BSOD messages and causes
The infamous Microsoft “Blue Screen Of Death”, or BSOD, can of course have many causes, some of which can be fixed up with a reboot. Other BSOD errors may signify a more serious issue related to Drivers, memory or other factors.
Listed below are a few of the most common Error messages that accompany a BSOD, [...]
Sun makes LWUIT Mobile SDK open source
Sun’s ‘Light-weight UI Toolkit’ (LWUIT) has been made available for download under a version of the GPL2 open-source license, which will make it easier for developers to create applications for the Jave ME mobile/smart phone platform.
According to Sun’s Craig Gering: “We are enabling mobile developers to quickly and easily create rich, portable interfaces for their [...]
Keyboard shortcuts for Vista
Here’s a handy little list of useful Vista keyboard shortcuts:
Win + d - show Desktop
Win + f- search for files
Win + g - cycles through Gadget selections
Win + l - lock your computer
Win + m - minimize windows
Win + t - cycles through Taskbar programs
Win + u - activate the ‘Ease of Use’ Center
Win + x - cycle through the ‘Mobility’ Center
Win [...]
Gizmo’s tech support site
Quick post to tell you about a very useful site (recently ‘wiki-fied’ covering free software for business, development and home use. There seems to be a lot of useful stuff in there and it’s pretty active as well…well worth a look:
It can be found here - Gizmo’s Tech Support Site
Want to email large files? I’ve got a solution for you!
It can get extremely frustrating when trying to send a file via email only to find that it’s too big. Maybe it’s a video, music, or even some images. I’ve come across this problem myself many times before and in the end, you have no choice but to copy your files to CD/DVD or even [...]
Simple Machines Forum
Simple Machines Forum (SMF) is a free, professional grade software package that allows you to set up your own online community within minutes.
Its powerful custom made template engine puts you in full control of the lay-out of your message board and with our unique SSI (Server Side Includes) function you can let your forum and [...]
Free Web Hosting
Some time ago I posted that I was offering free web hosting and cheap .id.au domain names over at IT Resource. At the time of that post, disk space was set at 30MB and data transfer was set at 300MB (monthly). As much as I thought people would jump on the offer, no one did, [...]
Free Vista T-Shirt
Go to: http://www.microsoft.com/australia/vistafacts/fact.aspx
Answer a few obvious questions and you will be sent a free Vista t-shirt at the end of it. You will need to load the site in IE and install Microsoft Silverlight, which takes all of about 20 seconds!
Snap Shots
Every day, hundreds of websites and blogs join the millions that already use Snap Shots to upgrade their user experience billions of times. It’s so popular, that volunteers have already translated it into 43 languages!
With Snap Shots, users can mouse-over links to get the most appropriate shot of content for that link.
With a dozen [...]
Perian
The swiss-army knife for QuickTime
Perian enables QuickTime application support for additional Media Types:
AVI, FLV, and MKV file formats
MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivX, H.264, FLV1, FSV1, VP6, H263I, VP3, HuffYUV, FFVHuff, MPEG1 & MPEG2 Video, Fraps, Windows Media Audio v1 & v2, Flash ADPCM, Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska), MPEG Layer II Audio
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ClockLink
ClickLink provides fashionable clocks that you can easily embed in your web page. All you need to do is simply copy and paste the generated code ClockLink provides into your web page. The clocks will display the city name of your choice if you choose. You can also choose a time zone for your clock [...]
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