Category: Tips
Another useful Netbook application
AltDrag allows you to drag windows with the mouse when pressing the alt key.
Practising what I preach
Having said that I would recommend a rebuild of your PC every year, it’s a bit galling that it’s nearly 2 years since I’ve done it myself. In fact that’s as long as I’ve had my Mesh PC, and I’ve never got around to it. The reasons, though, are simple – I was afraid to. [...]
Changing the USB polling rate
Scripts to activate and deactivate the idle polling interval of USB devices. This can ensure laptops enter an adequate power saving state.
Changing Windows Wallpaper
Craig’s Random Wallpaper Changer is a great piece of software, particularly for Netbooks, to randomly change your Windows wallpaper.
Useful Netbook Software
With short battery lives and small resolution screens Netbooks, unlike many other computers on the market, could so with some specific software for their use. This post lists useful software, mainly free, for Windows XP.
Internet Monitoring
When you have young children it’s important to monitor their online activity. As my daughter has got older, however, I have reduced the amount of such monitoring I do, giving her more privacy. At first I used CyberPatrol , which is a paid-for product that will do everything from barring particular websites to time restricting program [...]
Acer Aspire One – Updating the BIOS
The BIOS on my Acer was horribly out of date and the change logs showed that a lot of useful fixes had been implemented since. As much as I hate doing BIOS updates, due to the possibility of catastrophic problems, I decided to give it a go. I couldn’t find anything on the Acer site [...]
Finding a specific sized image in Google
A great tip that I read today is that you can search for specific sizes of images in Google. This would have been ideal a few days ago when I was looking for a feed icon of a certain size. Basically, you add imagesize:1×2 to the beginning of your search, where 1×2 is the width [...]
Running Kubuntu under VirtualBox
I’ve written a number of times on this topic, but thought I’d bring it all up to date and draw all the various, disparate posts together. I use Kubuntu , not as my main OS, but for web development testing, which means I need a broad cross-section of Linux browsers. Therefore I run Kubuntu for it’s [...]
Upgrading Kubuntu
So, I started up my copy of Kubuntu, running under VirtualBox. For ages it’s been saying that there are no updates available for it, which is odd, so I ran it manually. This time I found a version update available – updating to 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex). So I ran it. Now, in the past when [...]
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