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Web site development: University of Bradford Part 1
One of the last projects I was involved in before I left the University of Bradford to join Black Marble was a new design for the external web site of the institution. I'd pretty much finished the construction of the page layouts and styles before I left...

Posted 27 August 2007 19:21 by When software attacks!

Getting HTC Phonepad to work on an Orange SPV M700
Some time ago I upgraded my Orange mobile to an M700. It's a very nice phone indeed, and the ability to be able to use TomTom 6 on it as well saves me having to varry around yet another electronic device. One thing about it did however annoy me - there...

Posted 07 August 2007 16:58 by Andy Dawson

Web development helpers: Redux
After posting yesterday about useful tools for development I stumbled across another little gem of a utility. IE7Pro is much more of a usability-enhancing tool but it has a wonderfully handy tool nestling within - Save Current Tab As Image. If you need...

Posted 26 July 2007 08:59 by When software attacks!

Vista Media Center problems and a solution
I've been meaning to build a Media Center PC for a while and have finally bitten the bullet and bought some components to add to a fairly old socket A Shuttle , which I happened to have lurking around. I bought a Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1300 TV card and an...

Posted 02 July 2007 12:25 by Andy Dawson

Updating firmware on SPV M3100 (HTC TyTN)
Still no Windows Mobile 6 update for my Orange SPV M3100, but they did release an update to WM5 recently. Installing said update turned out to be slightly trickier than I expected. I don't know if anybody else has experienced the same problem, but a word...

Posted 14 May 2007 10:21 by When software attacks!

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Windows Home Server - something for my father
On Saturday I got the email telling me that I'd been accepted onto the Home Server Beta 2. I'm excited about this product in a way that I haven't been about new software solutions for a while. I've taken part in beta programmes before. I've been around...

Posted 19 February 2007 10:06 by When software attacks!

Vista Upgrade - attempts 4, success 0
I have yet to succeed in upgrading from Windows XP to Windows Vista. Each time it runs through to the completing upgrade phase, gets about halfway through that bit whereupon I get stuck in a reboot cycle. I have tried this now on three separate machines...

Posted 19 February 2007 09:49 by When software attacks!

Sick of typos in your Blog
Do you find editing your blog on-line limiting whether it be: awkward to use does not have features you would like to see such as spelling checks you can lost that big blog posting if there is comms failure to your ISP or just that you want to create...

Posted 23 August 2006 08:04 by Richard | 1 comment(s)

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WinFX 3.0 is now .Net Framework 3.0
WinFX 3.0 is now .Net Framework 3.0 With the aim of providing us with consistency Soma has announced that from now on WinFX consisting of Windows Presentation Framework (Avalon) , Windows Communications Framework (Indigo) , Windows Workflow Foundation...

Posted 12 June 2006 12:59 by Robert

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