Jargon overheard at the ICANN conference in Brussels:
Push-back: I’m going to push-back on your suggestion, I don’t think it’ll stand up to scrutiny.
On-boarding: We’re not seeing much on-boarding of that new feature so it might get dropped.
I recently met the creator of the ‘crabble’ at a business seminar and he had some examples of his product with him which caught my eye.
The ‘Crabble’ is a mobile phone stand which suits most smartphone types. Unlike most desktop stands it’s very portable – it fold flat and will fit inside most wallets.
Pros
Simple and [...]
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Having searched for webcam drivers for the Sony CMR-PC2 without success, I finally found the original CD. Here are the drivers. As even the Sony Europe website does not provide these drivers, only the manual, I am proving a link to download the drivers for Sony CMR-PC2.
Download Drivers-Sony-CMR-PC2.zip (13MB)
I have no idea if these drivers [...]
if you’re using Evolution on a small pc like a notebook, you might find that the preview email pane has very little space to display the message because the message headers take up too much space.
To reduce or hide the headers shown in the Evolution Preview Pane, you can go:
Edit – Preferences – Mail Preferences [...]
Recently I’ve been playing with a mapping app on the iPhone called Waze. This allows you to do free turn by turn routing on a smartphone (at time of writing Android and iPhone’s supported), with the added bonus of up to date traffic reporting by fellow users of the service.
Waze started in Israel, and they’ve [...]
I’ve used Thunderbird for a couple of years and recently moved to TB3. It’s not been without pain though, and here a couple of the issues and my workarounds
Indexing – lots of talk about this on the web. Despite leaving it going for over 24 hours, Thunderbird 3 had not finished indexing all my folders. [...]
Dead Nintendo DS – slight rattle.
First step – buy a tri-wing screwdriver – about £1.50 on ebay.
Step 2: Check fuses
Step 3: Resolder small black thing that turned out to be an inductor
Carrying power plugs – especially Britain’s big ones – can be the bugbear of any gadget-laden traveller. But one designer may have come up with a solution: a folding plug.
Read the full story on TheRegister
In the recent Digital Britain report (out for consultation), the government makes clear it is looking to regulate the .uk domain industry.
“In view of this, the Government has decided that on a precautionary basis it will seek reserve powers in any appropriate forthcoming legislation to regulate against the risk that the entry into the sector [...]
Are you suffering from:
Warning: Compilation failed: characters with values > 255 are not yet supported in classes at offset 16 in /path/to/website/blog/wp-includes/shortcodes.php on line xxx.
Fix it by changing a line in /wp-includes/shortcodes.php. Look for the section headed “function shortcode_parse_atts($text)” and change the preg_replace line with
$text = preg_replace(“/[\x{00a0}\x{ff}]+/u”, ” “, $text);
This maintains the functionality but only [...]
