Software

Error uninstalling VS 2008 Beta 2

Sunday, November 25th, 2007
I’ve just had a bit of a pain uninstalling Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 on Vista. I followed Scott Guthrie’s steps for uninstalling it, but when I tried to uninstall VS 2008 itself I got the following error: Error 1325.’WebDesignerCore’ is not a valid short file name. Needless to say, a brief episode of profanity ensued. ... read more

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Automating Subversion export on Windows

Thursday, November 15th, 2007
I was having problems using the a command line Subversion client on Windows XP to export from the repository. The problem was mainly my own stupidity but I’ll share the "solution" anyway. The Subversion help describes the "export" command as follows: export: Create an unversioned copy of a tree. usage: 1. export ... read more

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Solution: Windows Media Player 11 doesn’t update media information on Vista

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
Technorati Tags: Software , Windows Media Player , Vista I’ve been tearing out what hair I have left, trying to work out why the mp3 files aren’t updated when I change the metadata in Windows Media Player 11 on Vista. I spent hours updating my music metadata, only to find that the metadata ... read more

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Vista doesn’t connect to some websites

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007
I recently re-installed Vista and had this weird problem where I could connect to some websites, but not others. I solved the problem by explicitly setting the DNS addresses to the ones used by the router. If you are having this problem this might work for you too. In the online status page of the router ... read more

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Blogging from Word 2007

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
This is just a test. If this works it’ll mean I can just type my blog posts in word and publish to WordPress. That would be pretty cool – I mean at the rate I post it’ll save me about 2 minutes every three months. It claims it’ll also upload pictures. Now this I’ve got to ... read more

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Microsoft PhotoSynth

Saturday, September 2nd, 2006
I stumbled across this video of Microsoft PhotoSynth from Microsoft’s Live Labs. It’s probably old news for some people, but I was just blown away by this concept. According to Blaise Aguera Y Arcas, an architect at Microsoft Live Labs: You can think about what PhotoSynth does as linking images together. Whenever photographs are taken in ... read more

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