Tuesday 20 January 2009

ActivePerl Problems Solved

A few days ago I downloaded ActivePerl from here. After installing it I thought I would try running some simple programs but I kept getting an access denied error. After rebooting my system & viewing the Proactive Defense Summary in my Comodo Firewall, I discovered that Perl was now working fine.
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Sunday 18 January 2009

Side-by-Side Configuration

Recently I installed AVG in Vista, I noticed after restarting my computer that the AVG tray icon wasn't showing, so I tried starting the program manually & received a message regarding side-by-side configuration is incorrect. I'd also noticed that I could no-longer download files in my various web browsers.

I uninstalled AVG & decided to download Avira AntiVir, Comodo Firewall & Spybot, I've had no problem with them so far & I'm able to download files in Firefox again.
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Saturday 17 January 2009

MyPasswordSafe: Ubuntu

There is a version of Password Safe for Ubuntu, you can install it be typing into a terminal...

sudo apt-get install mypasswordsafe

After installation you'll need to create your own menu launcher for it, the image below shows you how my launcher looks.


A Command-line version can be found here.
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Password Safe

Is a wonderful little program that I've been using for a while now. I can store all of my passwords in a special protected file & it also has a built-in password generator. You can download it here.
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Amplify your WiFi

Nice post here, which shows you how to amplify your WiFi.

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New Brutus2D v1.8.6

A new version of Brutus2D has been released, you can read more here on the Brutus2D forum & download here.
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Thursday 15 January 2009

What's My IP Address?

Very useful site if you are using a router & you need to know your IP Address.
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New Stat Counter

I used to use a hit counter provided by Easy Hit Counters to count the number of hits that my blog received. A few days ago I started having problems with the stat counter & I wasn't the only one, as you can see here.

So I've got a new stat counter courtesy of StatCounter.
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Wednesday 14 January 2009

The Slits: Typical Girls

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Tuesday 13 January 2009

Jabaco: New Language

I was reading this post over on the Coding Monkeys forum about a new language called Jabaco.

The language lets you write code similar in style to VB6 but it compiles to bytecode similar to the output of Java. It also has a GUI Editor built-in & lots of other features plus it's free.
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Anim8or: Free Download

Nice free 3D modeller can be downloaded from here.
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Friday 9 January 2009

FireGPG Add-on for Firefox

FireGPG is an add-on for Firefox which lets you view, decrypt & encrypt emails in webmail programs such as Yahoo & Gmail. You'll need to instal GnuPG first & currently the FireFTP add-on isn't compatible with FireGPG, so you can't have them both installed at the sametime.
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Zamzar: Free Online File Conversion

Recently I downloaded a text document which had been saved in the .docx format. In order to open the document I had to download & install OpenOffice, which is a pretty large download @ over 100MB.

I did some searching & found a free online conversion site called Zamzar, I just uploaded the file & selected the PDF conversion option. A few hours later I was sent an email containing a download link for the PDF file.
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Tuesday 6 January 2009

Time Calculation in C & C++

Useful set of links for time calculation in the C & C++ Programming Languages.
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Lol @ MacBook Wheel


Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard
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Monday 5 January 2009

Benchmarking Coding Languages

Useful site here, which compares the speed that different programming languages run at on Ubuntu Linux.
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Nice Blogs

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Sunday 4 January 2009

Halo 3: Identity Cards

I've just discovered these at bungie.net, you can embed the cards in your blog or website using HTML but you can also embed them in your forum signature using BBCode.




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thinBasic update v1.7.5.0

A new version of thinBasic has been released. You can find out more by reading this forum post & you can download it here.
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Saturday 3 January 2009

Planet Textures

If you're constructing a sphere in OpenGL or DirectX & you need some planet textures, I suggest you visit this site.
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