The Microsoft Zune has had very limited success so far as a personal media player (PMP) and has had trouble competing with the Apple iPod. With the Microsoft Zune 2.0 however there is one feature that could blow the iPod out of the water and…
WordPress 2.3 released
WordPress have just released version 2.3 and I have been playing with it on my personal blog. I decided to try a test and do the equivalent of ‘non-techie’ install and ignore all their warnings about deactivating plugins and what not before upgrading in an…
Easily insert email addresses in MS outlook
When composing a message in Microsoft Outlook there is an easy way to insert an email address in the to, cc or bc bar. Simply start writing a couple of letters of the email address or name of someone in your address book and then…
Connectivity problem with OLPC
The one laptop per child (OLPC) project should be gathering momentum in the coming months, and while it is without questions a noble cause – there is a rather big piece of the puzzle missing. The laptops have wifi which will enable the children using…
“Record 1 contained too many data fields” error when mail merging
When trying to mail merge a CSV file into Word (that had been exported from Civicrm) I kept running into the error code ‘Record 1 contained too many data fields‘. All I was doing was importing the file and mapping the fields, then once I…
Play DVD on SLED 10 (Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop)
For legal reasons Novell ships the SLED 10 with no DVD support so for my new laptop it was a disapointment. Well, Playing around with it I’ve now installed 3 programs that add DVD and Win32 support to SLED 10. You don’t need to install…