Tag: Windows XP
Livewire Bluetooth USB Dongle
This review is part of the 1 Pound Challenge – can you find a decent gadget in a pound shop? So far, it’s been quite a good hit rate with the products I’ve been reviewing as part of my 1 Pound Challenge – the majority have been rather good. And I’m happy to say that the trend is continuing. [...]
Emulating Sticky Notes on Windows XP & Vista
Windows 7 comes with a very nice looking Sticky Notes application, although it is rather lacking in features. Personally, I prefer Stickies , although it looks a little outdated (and I can’t find a “skin” for it that is any better). Instead, I created my own variation simply by changing default options and style. First of all, you’ll [...]
Dell Inspiron Zino HD
After managing to break my home PC (note – don’t mess around with graphics cards when you still have power to your PC!) I found myself suddenly in the market for a new one. I did have a large tower system (an EZ Cool case that looks remarkable like an Apple G5 server, combined with [...]
Removing “My Bluetooth Places” desktop icon
Having just installed some new Bluetooth software, I was left with a “My Bluetooth Places” icon on my desktop. And you can’t delete it as you would with other icons. But there are two methods of getting rid of it (these apply to Windows XP)… Use Tweak UI – under the “Desktop” you can untick the “My [...]
Albums not being added to Windows Media Player
On my home desktop PC, I’m running Windows Media Player 11 under Windows XP. Last night, when attempting to sync some music with my phone, I realised that a couple of recent albums were missing from WMP. However, they were in the My Music folder, along with everything else. Clearing down the library and getting [...]
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The BIOS on my Acer was horribly out of date and the change logs showed that a lot of useful fixes had been implemented since.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 [...]
Speed up Windows XP
Pick up any PC magazine these days and you’ll find it includes an article about speeding up Windows. And because of the popularity of netbooks , they are more often referring to XP in preference to Vista. The only problem is that most of these articles get it wrong. The solution to a slow Windows is [...]
Running VirtualBox from a command line
As I’ve mentioned in the past, VirtualBox is my favourite of all the out there. I use it to run Kubuntu on my Windows XP machine, for web development purposes. Anyway, I have just the one “guest” machine, Kubuntu, so it seems a bit tedious to have to start VirtualBox each time. Naturally, there is another way [...]
My Top 10 Commercial Programs
Ok, I’ll admit it – I don’t have many “commercial” programs on my PC. Not because I’m a software thief, but simply because there are so many good freeware equivalents available. Therefore this bunch is a bit eclectic. So, in alphabetic order… ABBYY FineReader A “lite” version of this came with my scanner and even this is [...]
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Dell Mini 9
Even after my recent problems trying to get a decent price out of Dell for one of these, I’m still interested in getting a Mini 9 . Their £20 off offer has official ended so I was keen to see how they’re selling now. I read earlier today about the imminent release of the Mini 10, so I’m thinking that [...]
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