The Xbox 360 by default lacks the ability to play MKV container video files, which presents a problem if you want to watch those videos in your library that are in the MKV file format using the ‘System Video Player’.
After searching online, I found that there were varying solutions to this problem. Some suggested setting up Windows Media Center while others suggested converting your videos to the MP4 format which the Xbox supports. » Read more…
People You May Know / Suggested Friends
I’ve found Facebook’s People you may know ‘Feature’ a tad annoying to say the least, suggesting people I dont want to befriend because let’s face it, if I had wanted them as friends they would already be friends right? Facebook you’re not that smart yet I’m afraid! Plus you may just get fed up staring at the same old faces!
After searching for a while on Google I found a couple of groups on Facebook (Ironic) and read a few blog articles, however it soon became obvious that most of the workarounds don’t work anymore, so I had a think and here’s my little hack to disable this feature.
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I recently updated my Foxit Reader installation to the latest version (4.3) now during the install it crashed my running version of Google Chrome (10.0.648.114 beta). Then when I tried to re-launch Chrome it crashed instantly, both on launch and if I tried to restore a session.
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I wonder which search engine this page will land on first, Google or Bing?
The greatest ever honeypot, by Google! Thanks to Danny Sullivan for the great article on Bings attempt to con its search results from Google.
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They can’t even do HTTPS correctly. Domains like this won’t even work https://www.hotmail.co.uk/ as the certificate is only valid for the following names:
*.mail.live.com , *.hotmail.com , hotmail.com , hotmail.msn.com , hotmail.co.jp , hotmail.co.uk , hotmail.live.com , www.hotmail.msn.com , mail.live.com , people.live.com
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So today I’ve been on the hunt for a monitor stand for my desk, I finally decided on the one I wanted (A cheap and cheerful Allsop Metal Corner Monitor Stand) Viking Direct seemed to have a pretty good deal going selling the stand for a reasonable £21.89 so I added it to my ‘Shopping Trolly’ as they so nicely put it. So with my virtual cash in my semi-virtual hand I went to pay.
Excellent product found, ready for my purchase!
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Below is a script that will run when when mIRC first starts, and should allow you to auto join IRC servers and their corresponding channels that you specify. You place the script in the Scripts Editor, to access this window press and hold the ALT key along with the letter ‘R’.
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Get a load of this poor guy 😛 and to think being a zombie was bad enough..
Apple Option Key
Want to be able to select multiple iTunes profiles on a mac? Wondering why holding shift isn’t bring the profile selection window up? Well it’s slightly different on mac than on windows, you need to hold down the apple option key instead!
Simples!
