Just a quick one really. Restarted my computer after some standard Windows Update installs and since I started my computer today my Digsby won’t connect to Gmail. It had trouble connnecting to twitter too, but got there in the end. From the Digsby forums it looks like a restart might solve the problem. I’ll post […]
Google Sites and HTM/HTML files
I recently wrote a couple of UWA widgets that allow users to display photos from a SmugMug feed on their netvibes/iGoogle/Vista sidebar. I was trying to find somewhere I could host the .htm widget files and was hoping to be able to use Google Sites (because I’m cheap and it’s free). Frustrated to find that […]
Troublesome Opacity in IE7
So, you’ve worked out that IE7 isn’t standards-compliant WRT the opacity property in CSS, so you’ve used the ‘filter:alpha’ method – and the opacity’s still not working? IE7 needs an element to be positioned before opacity will work. If you don’t want to use positioning, apply zoom:1; to the element in CSS (both standard and […]
SQL Server: Using Parameters and Local Variables
I was trying to get a stored procedure in SQL Server to run using a mixture of parameters passed from an ASP.NET page and a local variable which I wanted to declare in order to modify one of the parameters received. I couldn’t figure out where to put the local variable in relation to the […]
Two Connections for One Wireless Network?
I’ve been having this weird problem at home with my wireless network. I have a Windows Vista Ultimate laptop (Lenovo Thinkpad T61p) and a Netgear RangeMax WNR854T wireless router. In ‘Network & Sharing Centre’ on Vista, it shows that I have two network connections to the same wireless network. Both show I’m connected to local […]
TyTn II Won't Go Into Standby
I’ve had my TyTn II for about 7 months now and yesterday it just started playing up. I made no software or hardware changes or did anything unusual. It just wouldn’t go into standby, and when it did, it was a Standby Of Death (SOD). Also, when I slid the keyboard out, the screen wouldn’t […]