December 2006 Entries

Toshiba Vista Bluetooth Drivers

I managed to track down bluetooth drivers for my Toshiba Tecra M4 Tablet PC which work under Vista RTM. Though I'm having trouble getting my christmas present, the Lego Mindstorms NXT, connecting to the tablet (so I can use the Microsoft Robotics Studio). Time to buy a compatible bluetooth dongle and hope it also works under Vista.

posted @ Monday, December 25, 2006 3:12 PM | Feedback (0)

I’m a winner!

posted @ Sunday, December 24, 2006 5:12 AM | Feedback (0)

Track Santa with SportsDo

Santas started his yearly trip delivering his presents. You can keep track of his progress over at SportsDo.

posted @ Sunday, December 24, 2006 3:12 AM | Feedback (0)

It’s Christmas!

It's not been on tv this year, and Christmas just doesn't ever feel like Christmas until I see the advert

posted @ Tuesday, December 19, 2006 1:12 PM | Feedback (0)

Remember to Close() after you Flush()

I'm not talking about closing the toilet lid (and not just putting the seat down as women seem to think is acceptable!). Anyway... I've just been pulling my hair out over why a zip file generated using SharpZipLib was being corrupted when returned from a webpage, saving to disk on the server worked flawlessly. The file sent to the client was approximately 7kb larger than the one saved on the server. Now usually I use the using statement to dispose of any objects that use resources but for some reason I wasn't calling Response.Close() in my method (Close() just calls Dispose(true)). What's even more annoying is there was the case...

posted @ Wednesday, December 13, 2006 10:12 AM | Feedback (0)

Virtual Earth 3D likes its memory

I'm working with Virtual Earth 3D at the moment and noticed IE7 can go upto 400mb Memory Usage. I've discovered how to make it drop to a nice reasonable memory footprint...simply minimize IE and all the memory gets freed up to a nicer and much smaller number. Maximizing the window afterwards doesn't cause a sudden memory frenzy either. So if you're having problems with greedy VE3D just minimize and maximize.

posted @ Tuesday, December 12, 2006 9:12 AM | Feedback (0)

What has Apple got up their sleeves?

Theres a rumour that apple will be replacing Aqua with 'Illuminous'. Via Gizmodo

posted @ Monday, December 11, 2006 8:12 AM | Feedback (0)

I’m not crazy

MP3 Player + battery life + ricky gervais podcast + public transport = people looking at you strangely as you laugh to yourself

posted @ Tuesday, December 05, 2006 5:12 AM | Feedback (0)