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Here are the posts that received the most comments on ITWriting.com this year: Vista display driver takes a break (220 comments) Outlook 2007 is slow, RSS broken (173 comments) Annoying Word 2007 problem- can’t select text (101 comments) Why Outlook 2007 is slow- Microsoft’s official answer (95 comments) Adobe CS3 won’t install (35 comments) Delphi …continue reading 2007: the most commented posts, and a bit of blog introspection Turn Me Up is a new initiative whose aim is to restore dynamics to recorded music. Currently many, perhaps most new and remastered CDs and downloads suffer from excessive compression, the result being a sound that is fatiguing and lacking in dynamic range. It is a problem that is well documented, but mastering engineers feel …continue reading Turn Me Up: an attempt to end the loudness wars I’m writing about Eee PC right now, and after updating a clean install (no added repositories) was surprised to find Firefox failing with a segmentation fault. Clicking the Firefox icon did nothing. Running from a console got this: /opt/firefox/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: nnnn Segmentation fault Reinstalling Firefox and deleting the profile did not work, nor did …continue reading Firefox segmentation fault on Asus Eee PC after update Verity Stob looks at feature bloat and a few other things in her piece on apps that have gotten worse over the years. Confession: I use Paint Shop Pro too, although I have Photoshop installed as part of Adobe’s Web Premium CS3. In my case it is PSP version 5.0. PSP starts in a blink …continue reading When good software goes bad I use a Samsung i600, similar to the Blackjack, which I’ve upgraded to Windows Mobile 6.0. Nice mobile, but for a while now it hasn’t been syncing properly. It hadn’t bothered me too much, because the main thing I care about is email, which I retrieve via IMAP, and that always works fine. Then something …continue reading Windows Mobile sync pain The price of the Asus mini PC running Linux is falling. UK computer superstore PC World is advertising the 4GB model for £199 including VAT – and yes, right now there seems to be stock in hand. An improved model with an 8GB solid state drive and 1GB RAM is available in the …continue reading Asus Eee PC down to £199 Review just posted on RegDeveloper. In it I quote Peter Lindsey of component vendor Infragistics, who says that: Microsoft, in trying to capture credibility within the media market, has poorly represented the value of WPF to business application developers. The problem is that Microsoft decided to tell its customers not to use WPF (Windows …continue reading Visual Studio 2008 review, and the WPF business apps debate I wrote a macro to control audio via keystrokes in Word. Its main use is for transcribing interviews, but you could use it for music as well – easy to pause a song when the phone rings. The idea is that you can pause, play and rewind an audio file from keystrokes in Word, which …continue reading An Office Ribbon macro to control audio in Word Here are the gory details. Let me add my thanks to the great guys at phorum.org for their help in trying to work out what went wrong. The WordPress folk seemed less interested, maybe because the forums there are so busy that a hack report makes barely a ripple. Further the WordPress code itself …continue reading The day my web site was hacked |
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