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Archive for October 2011
How-to: Seven Windows 7 Tips
Windows 7 is three years old, give or take. Yet there is still a wealth of features that huge numbers of users don’t know exist. Not to mention a few trumpeted ‘highlights’ that fall flat. Here follow seven assorted Windows 7 tips. AJS To open another window of the same program (assuming more than one … Continue reading
Movie Catch-Up: Serenity
Five hundred years in the future, humanity has relocated from Earth-that-Was to a vast solar system of Earth-like planets and moons, under the military dictatorship of the Alliance. Defeated civil war veteran Captain Mal Reynolds evades the Alliance in his decrepit cargo ship, Serenity, until he picks up fugitives River and Simon Tamm and just … Continue reading
Dubai Metro: A Technology Success
No, it’s not another Microsoft code name for a Windows interface. If you visit Dubai, one way to get around with some of the best views is using the Metro network. At US$7.5 billion and counting, it’s proving an expensive way to reduce the number of people using their cars, and cut carbon emissions. However, … Continue reading
How-to: Run Xfce on Ubuntu 11.10 Final
Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment which is designed to be responsive and consume fewer system resources than say, Gnome with Unity, or KDE. It’s also a useful substitute for Unity now that Gnome panel has been removed in 11.10. I am now running it on the regular Ubuntu 11.10 Unity release; that’s not Xubuntu, … Continue reading
Art: The Museum of Everything
“Hidden from view around our world, humble pockets of creativity bustle: dynamic studios where self-taught artists discover, form and make.” “The Museum of Everything presents Exhibition #4, the world’s largest survey of progressive studios for self-taught artists from across the planet, plus Exhibition #4.1, the exclusive Judith Scott retrospective, recently featured on BBC2′s The Culture … Continue reading
Review: The Good, the Bad and the Multiplex
The Good, the Bad and the Multiplex, what’s wrong with Modern Movies by Mark Kermode Paperback and Audio book An endearing and entertaining polemic from the BBC’s most curmudgeonly film critic. Those familiar with BBC TV’s The Culture Show, BBC News’ Screen-time or Radio 5-Live’s Sony award-winning film review show with Simon Mayo, will know … Continue reading
Opinion: Cloud Storage in Trouble?
I don’t mean right away. But consider; Dropbox offers 2Gb free and up to 8Gb for referrers, Minus weighs in with 10Gb free, Box.net just announced the offer of 50Gb free to iOS users and those are just three high profile players. Not to mention SpiderOak and UbuntuOne. Bags of disk space. In perpetuity. I … Continue reading
Movie Catch-Up: Exit Through the Gift Shop
There’s a 1966 Peter Sellars movie, After the Fox, in which Sellars’ master criminal Aldo Vanucci (aka the Fox), posing as a famous director, persuades the entire population of a coastal village that they are the stars of his latest art-house movie, the cover story for smuggling the “gold of Cairo” abroad. Exit Through the … Continue reading
Review: Blekko Search Engine
Google is more than a brand, it’s a by-word. Like Hoover, Google has become verb and a generic term for web search. Sometimes you have to remind yourself that other search engines are available, that even Microsoft’s Bing faces an uphill struggle. With an 80-90% share of searching the web’s trillion-plus pages, with Bing engineering … Continue reading
How-to: Upgrade Dell Mini 10v Memory
Further to our previous article on How-to: Upgrade your own Gadgets, James Rintamaki (jRin.net) shows you how to upgrade the memory in the Dell Mini 10v netbook from 1GB to 2GB. I’ve followed his process with a little modification to perform just this upgrade.
How-to: Back up Using Windows 8 File History
Windows 8 includes a useful File History feature, which can back up your data files according to the schedule and duration you select. This saves files from your user profile folder and sub-folders to your preferred external drive; libraries, desktop, contacts, favourites and other files and folders. Most importantly it holds multiple versions over time … Continue reading
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