Internet Explorer 7 & Autodesk Viewers Update
Scott has an update on the “IE7 breaks Autodesk Viewers” situation: Beyond the Paper: Internet Explorer 7: Hot Fix Under Consideration We are investigating issues regarding Autodesk DWF Viewer 7....
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IE7, Watch it grow...
Not original but interesting to see how the new browser fares. Probably slowed in this communtity by it’s tendancy to “ break ” Autodesk Viewers. Remember, if you don’t block it you’ll get it...
IE7, Watch it grow...
Not original but interesting to see how the new browser goes ~ 3% of my visitors today. Remember, if you don’t block it, you’ll get it by November as a Windows Update with a choice to proceed or ab...
Pat Metheny's Flash New Home Page
Pat Metheny Group have a new homepage and it’s great. Loads of content but by far the best feature: Pat Metheny Radio – All Pat Metheny music, Streaming all day! Pat Metheny: Home Page - w...
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IE7 Is Coming... is it ready?
The Internet Explorer Blog question: IE7 Is Coming This Month...Are you Ready? I thought better see what this site looks like so installed IE7 RC1 to check it out. My Reply: I’m ready, but is...
XtraMSN have a new Homepage + it has RSS Feeds
XtraMSN have a new homepage design. That’s not big news but they now offer RSS feeds which is a nice way to keep up to date with the content. I’m not sure if these arrived with the updated webpage or...
Functions where you least expect them...
I was reading Nelson Minar’s blog about how someone smart resorted to doing something the hard way because the easy way wasn’t obvious. The task was copying Favorites from one PC to another & the solution was re-creating the shortcuts by hand! Nelson showed an easier way(!) which
Kiwi Foo Report
Russell Brown reports from the Foo conference; Foo Report | Public Address | Hard News Well, that's it. Been there, got the t-shirt - a number of t-shirts, in fact - and am now down to processing it all. Foo Camp was very cool, and quite unlike any conference I&
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New Zealand Tech·Ed Presentations
Microsoft have posted the NZ Tech-Ed presentations. Microsoft New Zealand: Tech·Ed Presentation Downloads Microsoft New Zealand: Tech·Ed Presentation Downloads via scrappad via scrappad
Dealing with an infected PC
This is here, as a reference for me, next time someone says; “I was on the Internet last night and something popped up saying I might have spyware and to click “here” to remove it. So I clicked “here” and it did something then said I had spyware and to
Windows Briefcase and your USB Flash Drive
It can’t just be me, doesn’t everyone do this? JK’s posts a reminder you can use Windows Briefcase to keep files/folder copies on your USB Drive in sync with their source files on your machine. I use Briefcase for this all the time as, although basic,
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Experimenting with image formats for screenshots
Today at work someone asked why I sent them a Portable Network Graphics, PNG format screencapture image rather than JPEG. JPEG rules for photos but try other formats for images with limited colours or large areas of flat colour, like screenshots. For that type of image PNG, even 24 bit,