December 2011
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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...
April 2011
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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
March 2011
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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...
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…
February 2011
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Let Go →
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January 2011
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Good Code →
December 2010
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F1 2011 Technical Regulations – Detailed and... →
Excellent breakdown of the regs for 2011, including illustrative diagrams.
November 2010
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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.
October 2010
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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…
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Tech Support →
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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…
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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.
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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…
Online Communities 2 →
September 2010
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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…
May 2010
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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
April 2010
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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’
Mapping agency Ordnance Survey (OS) has launched a service offering free and...
– BBC News - Ordnance Survey offers free data access
Further good news.
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.
March 2010
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FIA parc ferme relies on Big Brother camera... →
Parc Ferme has gone virtual it seems.
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autosport.com - F1 News: Whitmarsh: Rivals will... →
Clever. I wonder when we will see versions from the other teams?
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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.
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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
February 2010
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Off to Ikea Southampton. Colour draining from our faces at the prospect. The Verve Urban Hymns on car stereo as a nostalgic treat.
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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?
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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...
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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…
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– LiveLeak.com - How To Film a News Report - LMAO! (language warning)
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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.
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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.
January 2010
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Playing the annual game of hide and seek with the paperwork that I need to complete my Self Assessment form. #HMRC
A very fine line indeed! - http://eepurl.com/gShD #gapingvoid
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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
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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?
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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.
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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.”
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.
Wonder why the light coloured carpet in my flat is such a magnet for tea spills.
December 2009
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Happy New Year. Enjoyed the way that BBC1 welcomed 2010 after New Year Live ended; trailer for Survivors (post-apocalypse drama).
Happy Christmas, one and all. Hope that the “Santa Special” brings you what you wish for. http://brizzly.com/pic/U3R