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How to set remote control jump keys for MPC-HC 20 Jun 2013 | 01:50 am
As I’ve documented in the past, I have several HTPC’s running Windows Media Center. I also use MediaBrowser for TV series and movies ripped from disk. I’ve found that MediaBrowser works much better ...
Google removes ad blocking apps: Get them here 11 Apr 2013 | 06:02 pm
It seems that the formerly “do no evil” google have decided to remove all ad blocking apps from the Play Store. Fortunately it has always been possible to install apps directly from the APK files — a...
Fixing Rich Snippets Testing Tool for Microdata 10 Mar 2013 | 02:06 pm
Over 2 years ago I published an article on how to fix problems with WordPress themes which didn’t pass the Google Rich Snippets Testing Tool. Since then lots has changed — WordPress and most themes ha...
IE10 for Windows 7 finally arrives 7 Mar 2013 | 09:49 pm
Another item that we’re a bit late to cover is the arrival of Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 (and Server 2008 R2). As with past releases, older OSes are being left behind with no support for Vist...
BBC HD to become BBC2 HD 7 Mar 2013 | 09:43 pm
I’ve been a little slow getting round to updating content on the site recently, and this news was one item that got left behind. The BBC have announced that BBC HD is to be replaced by BBC2 HD. The ...
Adsense ads above the last paragraph of a post 7 Mar 2013 | 01:06 am
You may have noticed that we’ve tweaked how we display our adsense ads. We wanted some small text-only ads near the bottom of each article, which would be added automatically. This took a little bit...
Easily set the parent of a WordPress comment 7 Mar 2013 | 12:00 am
As is documented in the site update log, for a while we had a problem with our theme where it wasn’t possible to reply to a comment so that the reply would appear correctly in a threaded way. We have...
How to burn files to compliant DVD-Video 4 Mar 2013 | 02:37 pm
As I’ve documented well on this blog I run all my TV through a server and Windows Media Center. Occasionally I want to archive some recorded TV to DVD. Not a DVD of data-files, but a standards-complia...
Batch convert old MS Office documents 25 Feb 2013 | 04:45 pm
I’ve been trying to sort out an enormous (100+GB) or teaching resources that I’ve built-up over the years. After the obvious steps (deleting empty, temp and duplicated files) and sorting the big file...
Install a spellchecker for your browser 20 Feb 2013 | 06:38 pm
Let me start with an admission: I’m one of those pedants on Facebook who likes to correct your spelling, punctuation and grammar. Some of you will think this is perfectly reasonable, whilst others wi...
