Recently we acquired a nice Tandberg Video Conferencing system, we normally stick with the Sony range as its menu interface is very easy to use, but we decided to give Tandberg a try. What a beast, great slick menu system, loads of options, built in…
Create search plugin for Firefox and IE
By pure curiosity I decided (at 2am last night) to look into creating a search plugin for my Google Adsense Search. Well it was a very successfull adventure. It can be created for any site search, even your personal blog. There are 2 ways of…
Import excel file to Mysql with PHP
Recently I was asked to upload a whole Excell database into an existing Mysql database. Looking online I found several responses and they had most of the answers I needed but also I had to improvise some coding. Here are the steps I took. 1…
Show Control Panel as a Flyout Menu in Vista
Ever wanted to see your control panel as a flyout menu in Vista rather than having to click on it, wait for the whole window to load and then sort though the applets? Fortunately, the solution is very straightforward. First right click on the Orb…
Projector Problems
Tonight at 8:30 I got a call saying that the projector is not displaying the picture, it just continually searches for an input, going through Scart, VGA 1, VGA 2 and USB. There are several things that you need to check that could be causing…
Linux Commands
I did a search on google search for “Linux Commandline” looking for some simple linux commands to do some work on my home Debian based (Kurumin) linux distro, and I came across this list of usefull commands. Interesting fact that a lot of other sites…