Archive for October, 2008
Phone list test
fter my recent post about making changes to your phone line to improve broadband performance, I thought I’d mention a helpful test facility that allows you to hear a quiet line (and hence check if there is any interference). To access… Unplug anything that plugs into your BT master socket. Plug a normal touch tone [...]
Firefox and blank tags
Firefox 3 is great. Particularly the new tag facility for bookmarks. However, it would appear that this initial version is, possibly, a bit buggy. I say “possibly” because after reading some of the forums it would seem that these may not be bugs but intentionally done to “save the user from themselves”. Let me explain. [...]
SyncToy – the end of an era!
I’ve mentioned more than once before in my blogs about SyncToy – the free backup and synchronisation tool from Microsoft. I use it, by default, as a simple but reliable backup tool – with a command line version running in the background it keeps my PC synced with my NAS drive. The only problem with it [...]
Spray away
If you ever get the chance to try an aerated shower, do – they really are good. I came across a replacement shower head on the Eco Camel a website, so I ordered one at a cost of £26.99. The idea is that they add air to the water, giving a “fuller” feel to the shower. This means [...]
Recording video from a Nintendo DS
My daughter asked me last night if there’s a way to record quality video from a Nintendo DS. After some digging I found that the only way to connect a DS to a video camera properly involves taking the DS apart, soldering and a general high-knowledge of electronics. My hope was that there some sort [...]
Webpage language translation
Google provide some excellent tools for adding translation facilities to your website. They also provide browser tools so that you can quickly translate a page that you might be on. With that in mind they’ve taken the appropriate step of adding facilities for web developers to override this. For example, to stop translation on a section of your site [...]
Finding the number of users online
I often wondered how sites detected the number of users online. After some digging I’ll admit to be no closer to the answer. The problem is that once a page is delivered to someone you have no idea what they’re doing unless, and if, they then do something – go to another page of yours, [...]
Create new useful links for your site
Google have announced a new feature in their Webmaster Tools . In a nutshell it will display all pages that link to a missing page on your site – you have a chance to fix it or take advantage of it. So, if a site was linking to an erroneously spelt page then you could create a redirect for this [...]
PHP image thumbnails
I mentioned in a post yesterday that I also use PHP to generate image thumbnails. The idea is that any new photos I simply upload to the BMTG site, with a Picasa caption attached, and the site should do the rest. Thumbnails are generated on-the-fly but only once as, once created, they are saved and re-used. if (!file_exists($thumb_filename)) [...]
Router fixed!
My earlier issues with my router have been fixed! But I’m not quite sure what it was. Last night, after having done some research on the ‘net, I decided to try and sort the problem out. First of all I removed the WEP security (yes, WEP) and tried the Wii… still not connecting. So I turned WEP back on, but [...]
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