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Crayon Physics Deluxe – Draw your own solution

April 3rd, 2008 by Bill Hutchison · No Comments

This is one of the coolest games that I have seen for a long time, and lately I don’t have much time for games. The game that you see in the video is called Crayon Physics Deluxe, and it is unfortunately not yet available. You can register your interest on their web-site though and be [...]

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Tags: Applications



Xerox Error Code 005-285

March 10th, 2008 by Bill Hutchison · 3 Comments

This morning I went down to pick up some printing and found our Xerox printer flashing a 005-285 error code. The document feeder was not feeding paper, so I had a look and found that this is the error: Xerox Error Code 005-285: An error occurred in the document feeder. Contact the Xerox Welcome Centre [...]

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Tags: Peripherals

Windows Media Player vs Nullsoft Winamp – Memory Usage

February 8th, 2008 by Bill Hutchison · No Comments

For some reason a few weeks ago I loaded Nullsoft Winamp 5.52 on my computer. I think that it might have been to listen to on-line country music radio, but I can’t remember… Last night I was using it to listen to some podcasts and I had a look at the memory usage for Winamp [...]

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Tags: Applications



Mac Preview Can Not Submit PDF Forms

February 7th, 2008 by Bill Hutchison · 2 Comments

We have been using Adobe Acrobat Professional with Adobe LiveCycle Designer to create the downloadable application forms for where I work. We have been having troubles with one of the forms not submitting, so I had a look at it today and fixed it, but then had a closer look at how the forms work [...]

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Tags: Applications

Download Camtasia Studio 3.1.3 for Free

November 23rd, 2007 by Bill Hutchison · No Comments

I usually use Wink 2.0 to create free tutorials on my computer. However this week Techsmith, the makers of Camtasia Studio, are making Camtasia Studio 3.1.3 available for free download. You can download the software at http://download.techsmith.com/camta…amtasiaf.exe You will still need to register for a free registration key when you install the software, as I [...]

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Tags: Applications

Temporarily Block Users from Logging onto Windows Terminal Server

November 22nd, 2007 by Bill Hutchison · No Comments

Put Windows Terminal Server into “Maintenance” Mode I find that quite often if I am having to diagnose a problem on our Windows 2003 Terminal Server my users continue to log on and try to work. If my maintenance requires rebooting the server, or running diagnostics on the server then this can cause problems for [...]

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Tags: OS & Servers