Monthly Archives: January 2009

DIY Couch

Posted on January 30, 2009 by dale

This is an awesome couch with tons of storage place and you can build it at home, although it doesn’t appear to be the easiest thing to build, its still a rather cool design. Check the site out.

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AJAX – Do I dare code it from scratch?

Posted on January 29, 2009 by dale

When “ajaxyfying” (my new word for when you add AJAX to a site) a website do you code all the java script your self or do you go use one of the many AJAX libraries/frameworks? I’m currently working on something … Continue reading →

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Apple Macintosh – Folklore

Posted on January 27, 2009 by dale

I missed this one, but for those of you who don’t know it was the Apple Macintosh’s 25th Birthday on January 24th. I love reading about the history of computing and in particular about the early days at places like … Continue reading →

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Disk Latency from Shouting

Posted on January 24, 2009 by dale

Some guys from the Fishworks project over at Sun discovered something rather interesting, that shouting at a disk array while the array is in use can cause latency on the disks. This does actually make sense as any vibrations can … Continue reading →

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Sewing machines aren’t what they once were.

Posted on January 24, 2009 by dale

While browsing through the MakeZine blog I came across this sewing machine, the Brother Quattro 6000D. This one impressive machine and I don’t even have any interest in sewing! It’s got high powered lights, an LCD screen and onboard computer. … Continue reading →

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nPOP Mail Client

Posted on January 22, 2009 by dale

I was looking for a mail client that would connect to a POP mail server and pull down the headers and then allow you to delete the messages you no longer wanted straight from the server. (Very useful if you … Continue reading →

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The Price of Piercing

Posted on January 21, 2009 by dale

My girlfriend and I were chatting about piercings a few days ago, sparked by a friend of a friend of a friend mentioning that they have a nipple piercing (on a girl) and the conversation went sortof downhill from there … Continue reading →

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Wordwrapping Crystal Text Fields

Posted on January 21, 2009 by dale

Puting this up so that I don’t have to do as much head scratching next time around. To make a text field in a Crystal report wrap, Right Click the field, Select Format Object then tick the “Can Grow” field … Continue reading →

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Adding Save As PDF into Office 2007

Posted on January 20, 2009 by dale

Microsoft had to remove the ability to save a document as a PDF or XPS file thanks to a legal battle with Adobe. But thanks to a free download from Microsoft you can add this feature back into Office. Download … Continue reading →

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AJAX Loading Gif Creator

Posted on January 20, 2009 by dale

If you use any AJAX based sites you’ve probably seen the spinning “loading” icons people use to indicate something is loading (like the one on the right). I’ve been looking for somewhere I can get one for a website I’m … Continue reading →

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