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Archive for May, 2007

Facebook Friend Visualization

May 22nd, 2007

I have been looking for a tool like this for a while. I even suggested it to FB to create such a feat but it never happened. But now you can see how all your friends interconnect.
You sit at the middle and then the tool uses the Facebook API to poll all your “Friends in […]

Windows Vista Forces you to use UAC to Add a Printer

May 15th, 2007

Vista has once again annoyed me. My post on how to turn off UAC is all well and good until you need to add a network printer…
You cannot add a network printer in Windows Vista unless you have UAC turned on, not even with the administrator account. And for more added fun, the error […]

Blog and Gallery are reskinned

May 14th, 2007

This evening I decided to update the software that ran my photo gallery and once that had gone through successfully I started to look at the themes available for it.
After trying, and rejecting, the Ocadia theme I looked at one which allowed me to change the colour and style. I liked the layout and feel […]

Names on Urban Dictionary

May 13th, 2007

I have known for a long time that across the world different words mean different things depending on where you are when you use them - HSBC’s ad campaign has clearly sunk in. This combined with my love for the website urbandictionary.com which which is maintained by the general public to give insight into words […]

Install Vista without a CD key

May 3rd, 2007

Daniel Petri comes up with another great tip and insight into the way Microsoft’s software can be manipulated to do things you want to do. In this case how to trial different versions of Windows Vista. Once the activation deadline is reached you must put your legal key in for the version you installed to […]

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