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Have you been happily using all of your third party apps from the AppStore for ages, and then, one day, none of them load? We’ve all had applications which seem to start loading then close instantly.. but what if they are all doing it? The default Apple applications work fine, but your downloaded ones don’t. …
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A new feature in Windows 7 is the ability to “snap” a window to the left or right of the screen, for side by side viewing. You can, of course, just drag the window to the side you want, but what if you don’t want to use the mouse? Well, there’s a keyboard shortcut for …
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So, you’ve just installed Windows 7 and go to add your e-mail account. You go to Start, and look for Mail – it’s not there. You look in All Programs – same story, it’s not there, it’s “missing” – so, what do you do? Microsoft have removed the default e-mail client found in Vista, Windows …
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Microsoft have a growing collection of themes, wallpapers, and gadgets for Windows 7, available as free downloads from microsoft.com. Personalise your desktop today at: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/downloads/personalize
There may be times when you want to read from STDIN to a PHP script you’ve created from the command line. Code below: $in = fopen(‘php://stdin’, ‘r’); while(!feof($in)){ $text = $text . fgets($in, 4096); } What this will do is read from STDIN, and create a $text variable of the contents. It does this …
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Today I installed Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V, to run a few test VMs on. When installing Hyper-V, it warned me that it was a pre-release version, and that it needed an update. I did a Windows Update, to get all of the other updates, but it didn’t seem to upgrade Hyper-V. I didn’t install …
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There may be occasions where you, as the administrator of a machine, may want to see what cron entries your users have. Maybe you have slow downs at a particular time every day, and want to see who’s running what. All crontab’s, for all users, are stored in /var/spool/cron/crontabs on Debian and Ubuntu, as plain …
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There are some icons which aren’t classed as notifications, you may want to remove from the Windows 7 task bar. Items like the clock, volume, network, and power icons are all classed as system icons, and not part of the normal “Desktop Notifications” settings (where you would find icons for Live Messenger, Outlook, etc). If …
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Telnet is missing from the default install of Windows 7, as it was in Windows Vista. The process, though, to install it is exactly the same as before: Start by opening Control Panel and then go to Programs and Features Then once open, down the left-hand side, you’ll see an option Turn Windows Features on …
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With no Quick Launch bar enabled by default, how do you show the desktop in Windows 7? Well, there are two ways – one using the mouse, and one using a keyboard shortcut. The Windows Shortcut is “Windows Key + D” – so if you press those two, then you’ll get to see the desktop. …