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Watch Cam on Chris Pirillo

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

Just back from lunch with Dr Peter Ellyard and a spontaneous Twitter meetup lunch with Nick Hodge, Garth Kidd, Andew Barnett and Froosh (you’ll hear the show we recorded tomorrow), and I see Chris Pirillo has posted up a podcast of the live video show we did yesterday! Here it is:
Chris | Live Tech Support [...]

How to force Vista to open links in Firefox!

Sunday, July 8th, 2007

Thank Science! I finally found out how to stop Vista opening links in IE instead of Firefox! This has been bugging the hell out of me since I started using Vista months ago. I found the answers on this site. The secret formula is:
Start button > Control Panel > Programs > Default Programs > Set [...]

Thank You Spybot S&D!

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

As you know, I have had a particularly tricky virus on my PC which, apart from popping up sites all the time, had disabled my ability to restart, shutdown or hibernate my PC.
I tried AVG, Windows Defender and Ad-Aware. None of them got rid of it. Tonight I finally installed Spybot S&D and guess [...]

Shutdown, Restart, Run, Hibernate all missing

Friday, April 27th, 2007

I’ve got some serious virus action happening on Vista. Last night I noticed I couldn’t run Task Manager. It had been greyed out. I also don’t have Shutdown, Restart, Run, Hibernate - they are all missing from the ORB. I’ve spent a bit of time today investigating and it seems to be either virus or [...]