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Got myself a shiny new HTC Snap phone. first thing it did was to start shitting SMS’s without my control. Fortunately there’s a fix for it (http://www.htc.com/ www/SupportViewNews. aspx?dl_id=638& news_id=225), but I didn’t know about it until after some of my friends probably thought that I was desperate for their attention.
Been awhile since I did some desktop stuff.Wallpaper is a mix between this and this.Visual Style: Soft7 1.8 for Windows 7Icons: VichyDisplay board area powered by Rainmeter, displays text from a txt file. It’s meant to be a ToDo list of sorts (only displays one task at a time, I think it’ll help keep me ...
As 2010 approaches, it’s interesting to see what has happened in the last 10 years of my life. Here’s also a shout out to all the people that I’ve met over these years. Now let’s get to it, shall we? I wonder how much of it I can remember, beginning way back from the year ...
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The new Zune 4.0 software was released recently, and I love it. It looks pretty damn sexy and is very functional (especially the Quickplay and Smart DJ options). However there’s one thing that still pisses me off – the Zune is completely in its own world, despite being from Microsoft.To point out a few things…1. ...
A couple of weeks ago during my block leave after passing out from BMT, I got somewhat bored so decided to do something I’ve been wanting to do since secondary 3 – build a spud cannon.Why since then? During that year, we were tasked with building a tennis ball launcher as a physics project. Most ...
A week after I first finished setting up the EPG, I noticed that it wasn’t working properly. I’ve been busy since then, but finally got the time to do some maintenance this weekend. I foun …
Finally got around to finish setting up TVxb with BladeRunner Pro to get EPG data. Seems to work fine, but I will have to continue monitoring it to make sure it automatically stays up to date (depends on whether or not the scheduled task was created with the correct settings).On the channel changing side, site ...
Switched to using Composite input from the Starhub HD box. No significant improvements, unfortunately.The poor quality can be primarily described as having a lot of significant scanlines. …
Tested sleeping with hybrid sleep enabled and Media Center running. No problems. Not sure what happened the last time.Waited 5 minutes after recording ended, did not go back to sleep.Switc …
I’ve been using Windows Live Writer to manage my posts. It’s great.Lightweight enough for me to launch at will, and plays well with Wordpress (and many other CMS/blogs, apparently). It’s s …
(Quick Specs: an old shuttle PC running Vista. ok, I can’t remember the specs. will update later)Attempting to get S3 sleep state to work.Had to change power settings in BIOS - ACPI Standb …
Today we’re trying to get to the official Windows 7 page (hosted off microsoft.com).The results are so abysmal there’s no point taking screenshots. What’s that? You want …
Dropbox doesn’t allow you to sync folders outside of the “My Dropbox” folder, so here’s a workaround to have your Documents folder (and any other user folder) automatically synced using Dropbox.(This guide written for Vista, but it works the same in XP)Motivation/Background: I first did this a few months back when my Macbook Pro had ...
from the search box in Vista’s start menu, hit ctrl+shift+enter to run your selection as Adminstrator.
Ok, seriously?Live Search, keywords: Live Messenger Google Search, keywords: Live MessengerGoal: to download Windows Live Messenger.With minimal keywords, Live Search failed to give me sat …
Just did some maintenence for my family PC and reinstalled WinXP. Wanted to give it a quick makeover, so went looking for the Zune desktop theme. Decided that I’ll give Live Search a shot, since that box was there in my IE7.Attempt #1, keywords: Zune ThemeNote that the first link, zune.net, while it’s the official ...
Wow, I just freed up 5 GB of space, ~3GB of which were duplicate files.Thanks, Easy Duplicate Finder !(The mass duplicate files are due to me having used to often format my computer, and just simply copy and paste files to be backed up into separate folders each time)Besides that, here are some common useless ...
Recently I’ve been using OS X Leopard a lot more than my Windows, mainly because I was playing around (messing with registry, startup services) and did something stupid that starting causing various problems. Note to self: before screwing around as such, always set a restore point. As a result of using Leopard more often, I’ve ...



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