In Soviet Russia, Domain Registers You...

I’ve been wanting one of these bad boys for a while, but I finally got around to it yesterday; registering a .su domain. Of course you’re thinking, what is .su? It’s the CC-TLD assigned to the Soviet Union on September 19th, 1990, shortly before its collapse a year later. Despite the Soviet Union clearly not existing today, the domain is actually still about, and in 2001, the domain managers started accepting new registrations, which is apparently upsetting ICANN just a teeny bit (who want to get rid of it). Problem is, and I’ve just contributed to the...

HP Slate – not gone just yet...

Despite one of my earlier posts suggesting that HP probably weren’t killing off their Windows powered HP Slate, there’s been a concerning silence from the company regarding it, in contrast to noise being made about a WebOS powered device or ‘Palmpad’. Nonetheless, I stand by my opinion that it just doesn’t make sense to be killing it off just yet, and a little birdy surfaced, on HP’s website today suggesting it’s actually not gone (archived here in case HP make it dissapear). Outed as running Windows 7 Premium (and not Basic/Starter...

How To; Aggregate RSS Feeds in Outlook...

This is one of those things that I guess you either knew, or you didn’t. It struck me as something that I should be able to do, yet seemingly could; getting multiple RSS feeds in Outlook into the same RSS folder. In fact, I’ve since had a good little play with Outlook and found it can do some great stuff with RSS, but anyway, to the task at hand; aggregrating multiple RSS feeds into one folder.

Make Windows Live Photogallery Beta (Bet...

Catchy title. See what I did thar? Couple of interesting tidbits I found out about Photogallery; it uses some nice Windows 7 tech. I just saw it light up the Sensors and Location platform (so it can get your location), but more importantly, and relevant to what this is about, WIC, or Windows Imaging Component. It’s understandable for Microsoft’s own software to support Microsoft’s own technologies, especially when both have Windows in the name, but it’s great to see it there. What Windows Imaging Component is; well honestly, I don’t actually know...

Problem; High CPU Usage, Solution; Elect...

Indeed, wtf. The CPU usage on my laptop had been running high. I’d been wondering what it could be, it didn’t seem to be a specific application, as all apps seemed to spike CPU load, and their individual CPU usage too high. Internet explorer was using 49% CPU doing menial tasks (cue internet exploder jokes), Zune software was using far too much CPU and so on. I was assuming it had to be an interrupt problem, so I started looking at kernel times, and then I looked at Resource Monitor.

HP Slate cancelled? Ich Don’t Thin...

Or is it! Hah? Engadget is reporting on TechCrunch reporting on (and I’m reporting on Engadget, wtf, third-hand much) HP killing their HP Slate product, as demonstrated by Steve Ballmer at CES. Of course, any comment until an official announcement from HP is going to be nothing but speculation, but it’s always fun speculating. For the record, it should be noted that HP’s official comment on the subject at the moment is ‘We don’t comment on rumors or speculation’. Fair enough. Engadget are citing the reason for HP ‘slating’ (hahaha)...

Don’t like Windows Phone 7?...

Well too bad. If you’re whining about Windows Phone 7 not having this, or not having that, it’s not for you.

Why hello there, Toshibacourier?!...

Courier not being manufacturered first-party by Microsoft, to hit earlier than expected?

Informative;...

Text colour changed from #A2 to #5D. Readability massively improved. I had to be beaten with a stick to do this. Time spent arguing and complaining; 20 minutes. Time spent implementing; <20 seconds. Don’t look at me like that.

Multitasking – it’s kind of ...

Complicated. Like relationships