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NirCmd to the rescue →

This is a little tip that I must remember. Just had a problem with a window appearing off-screen. In most circumstances using the keyboard to bring it back would be easy, as per this How-To Geek post, but in this case it was a toolbar window from my text editor and the keyboard movement commands were being sent to the main window and not the problematic off-screen one. Enter NirCmd. This is a...

Dec 19th

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Find files from the Windows command line →

Another useful little tip, this time from the Daily Cup of Tech. It is a Windows command line to find all the files on the machine that match a pattern and write the results to a text file. Pretty basic but very useful for the upgrade that I’m doing today. dir *.ext /s /b > files.txt

Apr 9th

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Convert bitmaps to transparent PNGs with...

I recently had a large number of bitmaps with magenta backgrounds, you know the old style way of indicating the transparent parts of an icon, that I needed to convert to PNGs with transparency. I was preparing myself for the serious tedium of converting them by hand, when I thought that there must be another way to do it and fortunately for me, there was: ImageMagick (Wikipedia link). I had used...

Mar 28th

Vintage InfoPorn No.1 →

Shared by Dom ISOTYPE and Gerd Arntz’s huge number of icons and pictograms are incredible. My conceit, when I started making infographics, was simple. I believed this was a *new way* of…

Mar 8th

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Feb 21st

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Let Go →

Feb 18th

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Feb 13th

Good Code →

Jan 7th

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F1 2011 Technical Regulations – Detailed and... →

Excellent breakdown of the regs for 2011, including illustrative diagrams.

Dec 17th

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Nov 13th

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BBC News - How ID card database will be destroyed →

Interesting article about how the national identity database will be decommissioned. I didn’t know that one of the data centres is located in my original home town of Doncaster.

Nov 10th

Larry Page's Business Card →

A Reddit user writes: I met both Carl Page and Larry Page at a party hosted by a Stanford friend of mine in 1998. Carl gave me his card for eGroups and said “we’re hiring”. Larry gave me his card…

Oct 25th

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Tech Support →

Oct 16th

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OMG. Look at that picture over there! →

Being in space can change the way you view the Earth. It was on the Apollo 8 mission that the famous “Earthrise” image was acquired That was certainly the case for the Apollo 8 crew…

Oct 14th

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Video Exclusive: Inside an F1 team’s driving... →

This is something a little bit special, something I’ve wanted to bring you for a while. On a recent visit to Wirth Research in Bicester, technical HQ of the Virgin Racing team, I was allowed to film… Fantastic article from James Allen.

Oct 12th

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Who’s Suing Whom In The Telecoms Trade? →

See the image on its own Hangbags away boys! Who’s suing whom in the telecoms trade? Based on these diagrams from Guardian Tech and the NY Times. I thought those charts generated more…

Oct 7th

Online Communities 2 →

Oct 6th

Robotic eye surgery controlled with magnets →

Shared by Dom Wow. Really, just wow. If you’re in need of eye surgery you might just find yourself strapped into this contraption. It’s a magnetic field generator used to manipulate a…

Sep 15th

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“The engines on a French Concorde are to be examined as the first move in a £15m...”

– BBC News - Work starts in £15m plan to get Concorde flying

May 29th

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Apr 18th

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Apr 7th

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“The “father of the personal computer” who kick-started the careers...”

– BBC News - Microsoft founders lead tributes to ‘father of the PC’

Apr 2nd

“Mapping agency Ordnance Survey (OS) has launched a service offering free and...”

– BBC News - Ordnance Survey offers free data access Further good news.

Apr 1st

“A science writer has won the right to rely on the defence of fair comment in a...”

– BBC News - Science writer Simon Singh wins libel appeal This is good news.

Apr 1st

Mar 31st

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FIA parc ferme relies on Big Brother camera... →

Parc Ferme has gone virtual it seems.

Mar 25th

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Mar 22nd

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autosport.com - F1 News: Whitmarsh: Rivals will... →

Clever. I wonder when we will see versions from the other teams?

Mar 12th

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Outlook Mobile Team Blog : The infamous Messaging... →

How to stop your address being added to the recipients list when replying to all on a Windows Mobile phone, in my case at HTC Touch Pro 2. Godsend.

Mar 8th

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Mar 4th

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Coding Horror: What's Wrong With Turkey? →

Researching a problem with CSV output in a German locale (they use ; to delimit columns rather than commas), I stumbled across this interesting post by Jeff Atwood and the linked posts are also worth a read. The solution to the CSV output problem in C# is to use: CurrentCulture.TextInfo.ListSeparator

Mar 3rd

Off to Ikea Southampton. Colour draining from our faces at the prospect. The Verve Urban Hymns on car stereo as a nostalgic treat.

Feb 20th

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Feb 14th

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“Newsnight reveals a serious flaw in the chip and pin system uncovered by...”

– BBC News - Newsnight - Flaw ‘calls entire architecture’ of chip and pin into question Oops. Is this the same technology that is supposed to protecting the identity cards?

Feb 11th

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“Ferrari have introduced a major innovation into the new F10 by inclining the...”

– BBC Sport - F1 - Formula 1 gossip and rumours from the world’s media Original article: Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). Google Translate gives this translation but it’s not exactly clear. What a clever idea. I wonder what compromises having the engine inclined like that has on the...

Feb 11th

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“New teams have a three-race grace period for joining the 2010 Formula 1 season,...”

– BBC Sport - F1 - Jean Todt says new Formula 1 teams can miss three races I wonder what the grid will look like in Bahrain. 31 days or so to go…

Feb 10th

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– LiveLeak.com - How To Film a News Report - LMAO! (language warning)

Feb 8th

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“Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Racing Formula 1 team has become the first of...”

– BBC Sport - F1 - Virgin ‘virtual’ Formula 1 challenger becomes reality It is going to be a fascinating year.

Feb 4th

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“Named HipHop, its described as a source code transformer, changing PHP into...”

– PHP runtime rewritten, by Facebook? - Hack a Day Clever. More info on the Facebook Developers blog.

Feb 4th

Playing the annual game of hide and seek with the paperwork that I need to complete my Self Assessment form. #HMRC

Jan 28th

A very fine line indeed! - http://eepurl.com/gShD #gapingvoid

Jan 20th

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“According to the country’s farmers union and top chefs it seems that...”

– BBC News - Italian chefs campaign for better spaghetti bolognese

Jan 19th

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“An insolvency firm has warned that company collapses could shoot up later this...”

– Company collapses? We’ve only just begun, warn accountants • The Register Is there any good news any more?

Jan 18th

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“Former Ferrari driver Eddie Irvine has dismissed Bernie Ecclestone’s...”

– BBC Sport - F1 - Eddie Irvine criticises Bernie Ecclestone shortcut plan Got to agree with “Irv the Swerve”, the idea of adding shortcuts is a real stinker.

Jan 15th

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“A simple eye test might be able to detect Alzheimer’s and other diseases...”

– BBC News - Alzheimer’s disease ‘could be detected by eye test’ Impressive research. As the article goes on to say: ”It is entirely possible that in the future a visit to a high-street optician to check on your eyesight will also be a check on the state of your brain.”

Jan 14th

“A man from Bradford has constructed a homemade wooden plough to help clear snow...”

– BBC News - Joiner makes homemade snow plough for Bradford street Clever.

Jan 10th

Wonder why the light coloured carpet in my flat is such a magnet for tea spills.

Jan 7th

Happy New Year. Enjoyed the way that BBC1 welcomed 2010 after New Year Live ended; trailer for Survivors (post-apocalypse drama).

Dec 31st

Happy Christmas, one and all. Hope that the “Santa Special” brings you what you wish for. http://brizzly.com/pic/U3R

Dec 24th