Posts Tagged ‘Tools’

Ancestry, Photography, Property, Tech and Misc

December 5, 2009Matt 2 Comments »

I’ve got a lot of tabs open, and they’ve been open for most of the week for some reason or other. With Firefox crashing at least 4 times a day at the moment, it probably doesn’t hurt to get these listed down and saved. I hope you find something useful amongst them! It’s funny how [...]

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Is Mac Really Better than Windows?

December 3, 2009Matt 2 Comments »

I was just reading a post over at the Global Thoughtz Technology blog about Brian Croll, Apple’s OS X Marketing Vice President, commenting that Windows 7 uses antiquated technology. The post itself I think is valid, Brian Croll’s comments may be fair, they may not be, but either way Windows 7 is a huge improvement [...]

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Who’s Watching?

May 29, 2009Matt 1 Comment »

I noticed an article on IT News Australia this morning about talk of the “Australia Card” identification card/system coming up again.
This got me to thinking a bit today, and also trends I’ve noticed previously and things that people have pointed out to me and that sort of thing. Who really is watching?
Think about it? How [...]

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Accessing & Converting Blindwrite Disk Images

January 9, 2009Matt 3 Comments »

VSO Software’s Blindread and Blindwrite are an excellent set of tools for creating backups of copy protected disks on the Windows operating system, especially when using the Blindwrite disk image formats - .bwt .b5t and .b6t.
Most disk image mounting tools for Windows will read this format, such as Daemon Tools, Alcohol 120% and so on, [...]

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Shrink A Virtual Disk Size With VMWare Fusion

January 6, 2009Matt 8 Comments »

I came up against a problem today whilst working on fixing a design to work correctly in both IE6 and IE7. That problem was, I am running IE6 in a Windows XP virtual machine in VMWare Fusion on my Macbook Pro. Normally, I test IE7 on my Vista desktop and IE6 in the Virtual Machine. [...]

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Feng-GUI Artificial Vision and Website Heatmapping

December 14, 2007Matt No Comments »

I’ve just been visiting the Feng-GUI website after reading about it briefly in SitePoint’s Design View Newsletter #40.
This is really quite an interesting tool. The idea behind it is that using the algorithm they have developed, it can work out what points of the website are the main points that would draw a user’s vision [...]

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