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PS3 – It Only Does Identity Theft

By on April 28, 2011 in Current Affairs, Gaming, Random Rants

WARNING: There is swearing in this – but it’s also awesome.

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Windows Update Fail

By on April 28, 2011 in Windows 7

Got the Windows Update reboot loop of death this morning. You know, where it fails to install updates and rolls back. To fix…

  • Uncheck KB982018 and install all other updates
  • Reboot
  • Install KB982018 on its own
  • Reboot

And you’re done.

Yes, really, it’s that stupid. Enjoy!

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WTB Photos in the iPhone Simulator?

By on April 20, 2011 in iPad, iPhone

Simple but not obvious.

  1. Load up simulator
  2. Grab a finder window
  3. Drag jpg/png into iPhone Simulator window
  4. It’ll open up Safari
  5. Long click on Image
  6. Save Image
  7. (If this is the first time on this emulator) Long click on Image and Save Image again

This way you can use the picker and everything. Great. Better than the solutions of random folders in ~/Library I think

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Funny cartoon mocks 3DS refund row reports

By on April 9, 2011 in Current Affairs, Gaming, Random Rants

Gotta love Japanese humour.

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Dropbox authentication: insecure by design

By on April 8, 2011 in Linux, Mac / OSX, Operating Systems, Web/Tech, Windows 7

I have tested this, and can back up what Derek is saying. It is more than a little worrying – but also easy for the Dropbox guys to fix.

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PAYG Sim Cards with data the world over

By on April 6, 2011 in Random Rants

I would like to declare this the most useful page on the Internet… EVER – thank you @skr.

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Browser Power Consumption

By on March 30, 2011 in Mac / OSX, Operating Systems, Random Rants, Web/Tech, Windows 7

Ignoring the IE9 propaganda – just for a second… LOOK CHROME REALLY DOES SUCK. Google really have their work cut out there. As more and more people get laptops, the battery usage of the browser needs to be looked at more closely. Also of interest how Safari fairs on Windows there – someone should do the comparison of browsers on Mac.

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Color gets $41m Investment…

By on March 25, 2011 in Current Affairs

This video was linked in the comments on the TechCrunch Story (which makes out Color is an awesome app – it’s not).

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BT, TalkTalk in court seeking axe for Digital Economy Act

By on March 23, 2011 in Current Affairs

Whether you do ‘naughty things’ on the Internet or not – this is important and should be watched more closely than it is. I suspect that it won’t get much media coverage though.

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Staying flashless with Firefox 4

By on March 22, 2011 in Web/Tech

As mentioned previously – I’ve gone flashless. Firefox 4 makes it quite hard to do that. It has an annoying missing plugin nag-bar (another dick-bar). Well, we can get rid of that:

  1. Enter about:config in the URL bar
  2. Heed the warning then press the button if you want to continue
  3. Type ‘missing’ in the search bar within the “page”
  4. Set plugins.hide_infobar_for_missing_plugin to true
  5. Close the tab

Right, that’s that done. Now what about open in Chrome? Well using a slightly modified AppleScript:

set oldClipboard to the clipboard

tell application "Firefox" to activate

tell application "System Events"
    keystroke "l" using {command down}
    keystroke "c" using {command down}
end tell

delay 0.5

tell application "Google Chrome"
    set URL of active tab of window 1 to the clipboard
    activate
end tell

set the clipboard to oldClipboard

Yes it sucks a bit that I had to bounce via the clipboard. Bit of a quick fix, but it does work. I’m definitely open to a better script. Also, Mozilla – please please fix it for me what when I open Firefox after changing my monitor configuration, it doesn’t screw up the window.

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