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Winamp Global Hotkeys and Microsoft Digital Media Pro keyboard

Posted on Sunday 16 November 2008 by

I’ve just spent, on and off, about 2 hours trying to work out why the media keys on my Microsoft Digital Media Pro keyboard weren’t working properly with Winamp 5.541 Pro.  I’ve finally managed to solve the problem by rolling … Continue reading →

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Free accounting software from Microsoft

Posted on Saturday 11 October 2008 by

This has been sitting in my “To blog” folder for months: Office Accounting Express 2008 (U.K. version). Microsoft® Office Accounting Express 2008 is an essential, easy-to-use tool for managing your home-based business. With the look and feel of familiar Microsoft … Continue reading →

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Microsoft and Nokia adopt jQuery

Posted on Monday 29 September 2008 by

Exiting news on the jQuery blog yesterday: Both Microsoft and Nokia are taking the major step of adopting jQuery as part of their official application development platform. Not only will they be using it for their corporate development but they … Continue reading →

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Windows 7

Posted on Saturday 27 September 2008 by

Catching up with news on the CustomPC website and there’s an interesting article entitled: Microsoft strips email and photo apps from Windows 7. Next version of Windows will come without the clutter of extra software as standard, although you’ll be … Continue reading →

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Woohoo! I’ve just installed Ubuntu

Posted on Monday 31 December 2007 by

I’ve just updated the previous post, but I’ll say it again: Woohoo! I’ve just successfully installed Ubuntu 6.06 LTS. Here’s how: Updated the BIOS to the latest version (08 August 2003) Ran the Live CD Used GParted to manually delete … Continue reading →

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Why is ActiveSync so slow?

Posted on Tuesday 11 December 2007 by

I’ve probably said it before, I’ll say it again: Why does Microsoft ActiveSync take such an inordinate length of time to synchronize Outlook 2003 with Outlook Mobile? My Xda Orbit is currently doing an initial sync with Outlook. It has … Continue reading →

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