Wednesday 27 June 2007

Welcome to Toppy.org.uk

Toppy.org.uk

A toppy is a topfield hard disk recorder for digital terrestial broadcasts - e.g. a freeview box!

toppys are great devices as standard, a nice looking bit of kit with twin tuners so you can record two programs at once and watch another (if its on the same mux) or you can watch one record one.

What makes it a great bit of kit though is that if you go to toppy.org.uk you can download countless apps which you can install onto your toppy to make it even better.. one such app is my stuff, my stuff is an enhancement to the epg guide which comes as standard with the topfield, it adds icons for the channels to make it more like sky plus and it makes it easier to set series recordings and key word recordings.

Ideal to make sure you dont miss dr who......

Create .NET documentation with Microsoft's Sandcastle

http://www.sandcastledocs.com/Wiki%20Pages/Home.aspx

Sandcastle is a documentation tool for dot net, document your code as you go??

Tuesday 26 June 2007

Ringtones

Your a cool headed type of guy who is capable of running around solving problems left right and centre whilst ignoring the fact that yet again your daughter is getting her self into major trouble... If someone needs to call you, you need a ring tone that make sense - You need - the 24 ringtone

As an alternative to this -found out your girlfriends cousin is using this ring tone - jack bauer no longer has geek chiq?? You need - the broadsword calling danny boy ring tone!!
http://www.whereeaglesdare.com/default.php?section=8&page=1&id=1&country=72

Interview tips

Not for taking them necessarily but if you have to interview someone its sometimes hard to think of what to ask - you need a list of questions right? this is what i found when i last was interviewing..

http://www.businessballs.com/interviews.htm#interviews%20tips%20-%20for%20interviewers

stories, analogies and fables for business, training and public speaking, wedding speeches, best man speeches

stories, analogies and fables for business, training and public speaking, wedding speeches, best man speeches

Business balls indeed - some of these are quite amusing- i particularly like the dam story for example.

Mobile web browser for mobile internet - Java browser for wireless web - bitstream.com / wireless & internet

Thunder, thunder, thunder, thunderhawk??

Desktop browser on your mobile phone????

Three problems

1. my mobile phone screen is tiny, i would need a magnifying glass to use it like this
2. my phone refuses to talk to active sync any more so i cant install this
3. it seems like you have to subscribe - if it does work theres a bit of a risk of liking it so much you getting hooked into paying for something - i thought surfing was free man?

no thunder fucking way....

PC World - PC World Downloads - AM-DeadLink

PC World - PC World Downloads - AM-DeadLink

AM deadlink - if you still use favourites this deletes the ones that no longer work - if like me you use multiple machines in multiple locations may i suggest google toolbars favourites instead??

Download details: Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar

Download details: Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar

Initially im intrigued, still working out what half of it is about though so writing on here to remind me to have another look...

Bits of it ive found useful are:

Link to validation sites - it will submit the page you are looking at to be validated so you can see what youve done wrong (again)
Resize to screen res's see what it looks like when its not in widescreen
clear cookies just for the page you want to clear cookies for
A ruler to measure bits!! surprisingly useful.


Web resources ive found are:


http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2007/05/10/Internet-Explorer-Developer-Toolbar-_2D00_-Get-It-Now_2100_.aspx

Mainly people moaning that it isnt as good as firefox, there may be something useful in this eventually...

http://www.15seconds.com/issue/070208.htm - 15 seconds is good - but i must read slow cause this took me more like a couple of minutes to read....

http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.InternetExplorerDevToolbar

http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.InternetExplorerDevToolbar

Quick License Manager - Reviews and free downloads at Download.com

Interactive Studios Quick Licence manager

How to handle licencing? Its the age old question - do you write a bit of code to handle it yourself, or do you farm it out to someone else? Heres an example of farmed out code that looks useful


Quick licence manager seems to tick all the boxes, it enables you to create computer bound licence keys - bound to the name of the computer. It enables you to create evaluation keys with date bound expiration

Its only $69

Its probably easily hackable by the code kiddies out there but it will be enough to stop average jo from cheating you out of your money....

Its less life consuming than writing your own and watching that get hacked as well

nuff said, im going to try it, i'll let you know how it goes.