Category Archives: Windows

Preventative Battery Maintenance

Posted on September 29, 2010 by neversleepz

Over the last few days, I’ve been putting my aging battery in my ASUS M51SN (now some 2.5+ years old) through some torture of plugin / plugout for watching vids/podcasts that incidentally almost drain the battery whilst I clean the … Continue reading →

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Building Java Applications with Windows Azure

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Kon

Looking for a place to host my own home grown apps, I came across an interesting presentation about using Windows Azure cloud to run Tomcat and a JVM in the Microsoft cloud solution. See Building Java Applications with Windows Azure … Continue reading →

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Windows XP SP3 Activation Issues

Posted on September 12, 2009 by Kon

My father’s PC recently died and needed a new motherboard.  Taking the opportunity to upgrade, we put in new RAM, CPU, but left the old hard drive. Using the old hard-drive, the PC would go to boot and restart half … Continue reading →

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Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts

Posted on August 22, 2009 by Kon

Following my previous post on IDEA keyboard shortcuts, I was inspired to look for the same thing for Firefox.  In particular I use the Copy URL function a fair bit but saddened to learn it doesn’t have a shortcut provided … Continue reading →

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Blank PDF tabs in Firefox

Posted on March 25, 2009 by Kon

If you ever have issues with PDF’s not displaying correctly in your browser then this Adobe support link appears quite helpful. I installed Foxit Reader then uninstalled it on my Windows 7 box and now my Firefox wont open PDF’s.  … Continue reading →

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Easy Peasy ISO burning – Win 7

Posted on March 12, 2009 by Kon

From Lifehacker: How to Burn ISOs in Windows 7 Supposedly, if I couldn’t get the damn thing to work It keeps saying my disks aren’t blank! Edit: After a reboot, aok.

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Easily Unhide an NTFS partition with included Windows Tools

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Kon

Make sure you the hidden partition is NTFS!!!!  No responsibility taken if you follow these instructions and you fubar your disk.  If in doubt, use a graphical tool like Partition Magic to help you out. Open a cmd window Type … Continue reading →

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Its all Greek to me

Posted on March 4, 2009 by Kon

Ok, so I’m learning Greek right now.  When venturing onto a colleagues PC, I noticed he was running Firefox in French.  So I thought what a great opportunity to expose myself to the Greek language by running my apps in … Continue reading →

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RSA Client Downloads

Posted on June 10, 2008 by Kon

RSA clients for windows from 5.2 -> 7.0 Both 64 bit and 32 bit versions. Am using the remote agent with 6.1 on Vista Ultimate and everything is hunky dory. What prompted me to upgrade was a recent Vista SP1 … Continue reading →

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MediaPortal

Posted on May 1, 2008 by Kon

A free media center app for Windows. http://www.team-mediaportal.com/features.html

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