Archive for December, 2007


TechSpot’s frontpage receives the pagination treatment

Published on Dec 28th, 2007 in blog, techspot, the web | 1 Comment »

(This is a reprint from a frontpage news story, reposting for those who missed the annoucement given further news coverage followed shortly after).
To kick off the post-Christmas news coverage let me tell you about a new feature I implemented in the TechSpot frontpage during the break, news pagination.
Although this feature is widely used by blogs […]

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Reboot or Shutdown from Remote Desktop Connection

Published on Dec 24th, 2007 in windows, microsoft, tips & tricks | 2 Comments »

If you have ever feel frustrated because you have been unable to reboot a machine from a remote location (using Microsoft’s own RDC), here’s a solution. While I recall having the option to send a Ctrl+Alt+Del to the remote machine that doesn’t seem to be available in most recent versions of the software, or at […]

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Adobe bloated software, and how to disable automatic updates

Published on Dec 20th, 2007 in blog, interesting links, software, tips & tricks, thumbs down | 1 Comment »

Personally, I hate the trend of software adding bloat in subsequent versions as much as I hate people saying an application is bloated just because it’s no longer a simple one-dimensional kind of program. That said, Adobe current crop of products have to be some of the worst in this sense.
At this point I’m sure […]

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New MacBook Pro owner, joining the dark side?

Published on Dec 14th, 2007 in blog, techspot, windows, the web, software, hardware, apple | 3 Comments »

Depending for how long you’ve been reading TechSpot you may have read a variety of comments about Apple products, from hate to well, less hate :). No, but seriously, despite of being mainly a Windows site we have tried to remain balanced and objective when time has come to report on any product, no matter […]

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Unlike Creative’s SB X-Fi, the Auzentech X-Meridian works fine with 4gb+ RAM

Published on Dec 7th, 2007 in blog, gaming, hardware | 4 Comments »

Just got me a new computer, went with 8GB RAM.
Felt sensible since it costs about as much as a day’s lunch. Put it in my Asus Maximus Formula, along with a Creative SB X-Fi ExtremeGamer.
Took the absolutely latest WinXP x64 drivers off Creative’s site, only over 1 year old.
Launched up Crysis and was greeted with […]

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Firefox 2.0.0.11 crashes, CPU utilization at max

Published on Dec 3rd, 2007 in blog | 15 Comments »

Update #2:  I keep hearing from more people that their Firefox installation is broken but for some reason there’s not much noise around the web about this. Disabling add-ons seems to be a partial solution only, I suggest you go back to 2.0.0.10 or try the recently released Firefox 3.0 Beta 1. You will see […]

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