Recent articles (page 9 of 31)
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Feb 5, 2007
SitePoint's Christmas Party Makes The Age
It's official—SitePoint has gone too far. When your office Christmas party makes newspaper headlines, it's time to think about toning it down.
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Feb 4, 2007
In-Car Navigation with a TomTom GO 710 in Australia
In my last post, I introduced the TomTom GO 710 GPS receiver (GPSr). I recently bought this device for car navigation but have since found it to be a surprisingly versatile gadget! With the right collection of tweaks and add-ons, it can become a great device for geocaching, and a lot more besides.
In this post, I'll describe the TomTom GO 710's on-road navigation features, and offer some useful tips on how to make them better!
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Feb 4, 2007
Navigation, Geocaching and More with a TomTom GO 710
If you’ve been watching my Flickr photos lately, you’ll have noticed that Jess and I are getting into geocaching, the world-wide treasure hunt where participants follow GPS coordinates to the locations of hidden caches of goodies.
The one essential tool for geocaching is a GPS receiver (GPSr), which gave me the perfect excuse to add this long-coveted piece of technology to my car. But finding a unit that would make a good on-road navigator (with good maps, nice screen, useful routing features, and an extensive Points of Interest (POI) database) as well as a good tool for geocaching (offering accurate coordinates and useful off-road navigation features) would prove to be a challenge.
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Jan 31, 2007
Connect to a Network Printer on a Windows XP Server in Windows Vista
For better or worse, Windows Vista is out today and I'll shortly be moving to it as the primary operating system on both my work and home PCs. Aside from compatibility glitches in certain Adobe applications, everything I need to work on Vista does (if a little shakily, in the case of Firefox). The one issue that almost prevented me from making the move was my need to connect to the shared printer at the office.
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Dec 21, 2006
Spam Subject Line #85
Actual spam subject line:
The problem is homemade robots usually malfunction, before turning on their creators and going on homicidal rampages.