Productivity

November 4, 2007

I am not, when it comes to computers, a model power user. Like a lot of people I have my idiosyncratic ways of using Windows XP and the software I have running on it. I am rarely one for stopping how I do something to see if I can do it more efficiently, I’d much [...]

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On Podcasting

August 11, 2007

As one of the unwashed, or one of those without an iPod, Shuffle, iPod mini, iPod nano, etc, I feel like I get the short stick of podcasting. Whenever a website says download our podcast I read that as “download our .mp3 which is probably huge, served from a slow server and then put it [...]

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New Windows XP Themes

August 5, 2007

Zune Theme (.msi) [microsoft.com] Double-clicking the .msi will install this theme. You might want to change that wallpaper though… Royale Noir Theme – Download .rar file [istartedsomething.com] Extract the .rar into the Themes folder usually found in the following location on standard Windows XP installs: C:\WINDOWS\Resources\Themes

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The anatomy of Google

April 9, 2007

Only nine years late, via Speaking Freely, I am reading the paper ‘The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine‘ (a.k.a Google) by Sergey Brin and Larry Page. I liked this bit about the Google crawler interrupting an online game: It turns out that running a crawler which connects to more than half a [...]

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On Blogging

December 26, 2006

I used to be a blogger. I had a LiveJournal to put the details of my day, my thoughts and my life in hypertext somewhere on the web. It coincided like it does for a lot of the emo set with my late teenage and university years. Blogging was cathartic, it was good, it felt [...]

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Problems downloading large compressed files on Xtra Broadband

November 30, 2006

Where I live we get our broadband via Xtra who are probably New Zealand’s largest ISP. In the past three or four weeks we have noticed problems downloading large compressed files. This started with trying to download the EVE client and later just trying to download and run any large compressed files: .zip, .exe, .rar. [...]

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Recommended Free Software List

July 5, 2006

My machine is overdue for a format and with that in mind I have put together my list of free software that I use daily. As a Windows user of many years I am still a creature of habit, but some of this software is Mac OS X/Linux compatible. Ad-Aware SE Personal (Windows) Still the [...]

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Web stat tools and pinging

July 5, 2006

I’ve been looking for ping services and free web statistics tools for DaveUnderwood.com, below is what I’ve come across… Free web statistics tools via contentious.com (updated): http://www.google.com/analytics/ http://www.sitemeter.com http://awstats.sourceforge.net/ http://www.webtrends.com http://mach5.com/products/analyzer/index.php http://www.tracewatch.com/ http://www.addfreestats.com/ http://bbclone.de/ http://www.trafficfile.com/ http://www.haveamint.com/ http://www.summary.net/ http://www.reinvigorate.net/ http://statcounter.com new Unfortunately Google Analytics is invite only at the moment, sign up here. XML-RPC Ping Services [...]

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Blake Ross on open source marketing of Firefox

July 4, 2006

Sounds like an interesting Firefox session at Gnomedex. Wired.com: The conference espouses a bottom-up, audience-driven approach, making it an unpredictable if not outright chaotic affair… Discussion leaders included Blake Ross, of Firefox fame, whose presentation was upstaged by audience member… ZDNet.com: Blake then referenced the Firefox flicks project – and played a video called “Wheee!” [...]

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Syndication and OpenOffice 2.0

June 28, 2006

On Web Culture has a RSS link which you can subscribe to. We also do Feedburner if you’re into that. I started using OpenOffice 2.0.2 today and I am happy to report OpenOffice.org Writer now gives me an option to ‘remember this decision’ when I choose to save as .doc instead of the native Writer [...]

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