Author Archives: Phil Edmonds
Ant and Dec take on the classics
Just one that amused me – PSquared’s music scheduling software, Autotrack, has an option to do a web lookup on a track’s details. Above is what I got when I wanted to check the date of The Cult’s classic “She … Continue reading
Bite a discount on your train station coffee
If you are a regular commuter via mainline train stations in the UK you’ve probably picked up your morning cappuccino or a sneaky pint on the way home and felt the premium prices in the coffee shop or one of … Continue reading
The magic iPad effect
Up till now I,ve been not that impressed with the idea of getting an iPad. After all what is it useful for? Still trying to answer that one but two minutes in the Apple store in Manchester playing with one … Continue reading
Using current drive letter in batch script on a usb drive which changes drives letters
Following on from lasts week tip about Robocopy, if you are backing up to a USB drive there is a chance that every time you use the drive (maybe on different machines) under Windows you get a different drive letter. … Continue reading
Robocopy your backup friend
My new favourite tool for doing backups is Robocopy. A little microsoft utility, previously in the Microsoft Resource Kits, but now “standard issue” in Vista and Windows 7. Even for my mainly XP based work, Robocopy is a great advance … Continue reading
3 mobile block port 25 on mobile broadband
Another Tuesday technical tip. I use 3′s mobile internet service – which works well for me (although I’ve never ventured much out side a city conurbation with it.) Maybe their offering is aimed at the mass market of Hotmail users … Continue reading
Attempt to Save WordPress Post bug
Well for this weeks Tuesday Technical Tip I’m opting to mention something that is actually referred to on countless web pages (thus already further drifting away from my concept of uncommon problems.) I’m mentioning this as a rather annoying bug … Continue reading
Lame on Linux
Tuesday Technical Tip I want to automate generation of MP3 files on a linux box- so I need to install LAME so I can do this via a command line. So this is what I did 1 – First grab … Continue reading
Microsoft Security Essentials exclude network paths from real time scan
My first real “Tuesday Technical Tip”: I’m currently using Microsoft Security Essentials on some machines on one site, with quite favourable results so far. From the GUI there is no way to exclude network paths from real time scanning. On … Continue reading
Technical Tips Tuesdays
One aim of this blog is to share small little tips or solutions to issues that I’ve found. I’ve got a few in draft form already, so I’m going to try and make Tuesdays “Technical Tips” day. Where each Tuesday … Continue reading