With the ability to create your own blogsite using WordPress being so easy these days, the rise of the plugin quickly interests those who want to add that certain amount of ‘polish’ to their site. The little picture you see on your web browser or…
How to access “Open Command Window / Prompt Here” – Vista
For those of us that from time to time need to work at the command prompt, it can really useful to open a command prompt window from exactly where we are in the normal Windows Explorer. In XP, you could install a powertoy that allowed…
Changing the language of your compuer / keyboard
I often get asked how to change the language of a keyboard on a laptop. We have many people who work in our organisation from the US and so they come here with their computers and are unable to put a £ sign on their…
Technology for the greater good
For the first time in a while today I have been impressed by the use of technology for a positive purpose. Amazon together with google earth have come together to search for the Steve Fosset – the pilot that crashed in the Nevada desert several…
Reload (override cache) on Firefox and IE
I came across this very useful shortcut (CTRL+SHIFT+R) by accident. I was working on a ship, where I setup a small network with a Mobile Broadband connection. I noticed that all the graphics where downgraded to a lower resolution, which in some aspect is good…
Skype installation on Suse SLED
I’ve just installed the SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop SLED 10 on my Laptop and had a hard time trying to install Skype on it. It come up with a whole load of dependency problems and even after installing all the required libraries it still didn’t…