I am writing this blog post from Windows Live Writer, a newish, free & downloadable application from within Microsoft’s Live Essentials suite. It’s interface gives the same feel of WordPress + Office Word. I’m not sure how much I will use this, but I thought I would at least give it a try.
This application automatically loads all of my ‘tags’ which is nice, but it does not seem to be able to detect what images are loaded in to my WordPress gallery which would have been impressive. It also seems to be missing any kind of support for my 3rd party plugins that I have installed.
Looks like this would work for most blog posts though.
Anyways, I hope you enjoyed my extremely brief review 
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This is a how-to for allowing your new Vista or Windows 7 to connect to a networked printer shared from an older Windows XP computer.
- Connect the printer to the Vista or Windows 7 PC, as though it were to be used with that computer, and let it install the drivers automatically.
- Reconnect the printer to the computer you will be sharing the printer from (Windows XP computer) and in its Properties, set it as “shared”. Make a note of both the XP’s “Computer Name” and the printer’s “shared-printer-name”.
- In the Vista or Windows 7 PC, launch the “Add a Printer” wizard and select the “Add a local printer” option. This automatically opens a new dialog box in which to select the Port.
- Click the “Create a new port” radio button and leave the drop-down menu options on the default of “Local Port”. Click Next.
- A small box opens in which to enter the Port Name. Type in the path to the “shared” printer in the host PC using the format \\computername\shared-printer-name where computername and shared-printer-name are the details you noted in (2) above.
- Select the Printer driver from the list provided, which should include the driver you originally installed, otherwise use the “Have Disk” button to install the correct Vista or Windows 7 driver if it is not in the list. It is essential that a Vista/7-compatible driver for your printer is used. Click Next.
- Give the printer a name and choose whether to set it as the default. Click Next.
- Print a test page to verify functionality and then click Finish.
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Don’t you hate when you visit a site and just wish you could change a few things about it? Or how about when one of your favourite websites changes the way it looks & feels… for the worse?
For these occasions, you can make the changes to your favourite websites using a Firefox extension called Greasemonkey.
A friend of mine told me to try this after I complained to him that a favourite website of mine had changed the way certain things work. So I installed this and got to work, looking at the source code of the website, and inserting a bit of javascript to modify the way it worked, and wala! Customized to my preference!
This Firefox extension is extremely powerful in a set of skilled hands, but if your knowledge of javascript and html is subpar, there is a library of pre-made scripts that allow you to enhance the majority of popular websites out there. The site is called Userscripts.org. Enjoy!
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First you will need to sign up for an Unlimitel DID (a la carte).
Once signed up, Unlimitel will provide you with the following:
- SIP USERNAME: your unlimitel assigned phone number
- SIP PASSWORD: 123456
- SIP PROXY: sip02.unlimitel.ca
- SIP REALM: unlimitel.ca
Here is how to configure your built-in Nokia E71 sip client:
Go to Tools > Settings > Connection > SIP settings > Options > New SIP profile
- Profile Name: Unlimitel
- Service Profile: IETF
- Default Access point: (WLAN SSID, or even your 3G access point, such as Fido Internet)
- Public user name: SIP USERNAME@sip02.unlimitel.ca
- Use Compression: No
- Registration: When needed **See below for details
- Use Security: No
- Proxy Server address: sip02.unlimitel.ca
- Realm: unlimitel.ca
- User Name: SIP USERNAME
- Password: SIP PASSWORD
- Allow loose routing: Yes
- Transport Type: UDP
- Port: 5060
- Registrar Server address: sip02.unlimitel.ca
- Realm: unlimitel.ca
- User Name: SIP USERNAME
- Password: SIP PASSWORD
- Transport Type: UDP
- Port: 5060
Go to Tools > Settings > Connection > Internet tel. > New Profile
- Name: Unlimitel
- SIP profiles: Check ‘Unlimitel’
Once all this configuration has been completed, you should be ready to place a voip/internet call using your Unlimitel DID with your Nokia E71.
My favourite method to call someone in my address book is to start typing their name on the home screen then press up on the D-pad to select the name, then bring up the context menu by pressing the middle D-pad button and selecting ‘Internet call’. If you have Registration set to ‘When needed’ then you will be prompted to register your phone. Select yes. This should take a few seconds and then it will begin placing the call.
**I prefer the ‘When needed’ registration method as I find this saves battery life greatly. I only use my Unlimitel DID to avoid using my daytime cellular minutes so I am only using this for outbound calls.
If you are using your Unlimitel DID number 24/7 as a main number, I highly recommend you set the registration to ‘Always on’.
Notable Resources:
http://www.n95users.com/forum/connectivity/10612-voip-configuration-only-half-works.html
http://bulletproof-incorporation.blogspot.com/2006/09/how-to-setup-sip-voip-on-nokia-e.html
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Windows Vista tutorials: Basic to Advanced customizations, tweaks, and fixes. Good for beginners to power users.
read more | digg story
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WordPress 2.5 has been released! To be honest, I had no idea it was even coming, but I stumbled across its announcement on Digg this morning. Hopefully not much will be noticed on the reader’s end but some of the new features on the backend look fairly promising.
That’s all for now!
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Hey all,
I forgot to post about this one when I opened up my cacti graphs to the public. Click on the link and use guest/guest as the credentials.
Enjoy, and don’t forget to check the weather 
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I saw this on Digg tonight, and thought it was pretty funny (because im a PC gamer).
G’night.
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A few weeks ago I decided to overclock the machine I built back in December 2006.
Here are the specs:
- Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 (2.13Ghz)
- Asus P5W DH Deluxe (Intel 975x chipset)
- BFG Geforce 7950GT OC 512MB
- 4x1GB OCZ Gold PC-6400 DDR2
- Western Digital Raptor 36GB (10k rpm)
- Western Digital Raptor 74GB (10k rpm)
- 2x Western Digital Caviar 320GB (raid-0)
I always knew this little E6400 processor was extremely overclockable due to an article I read on Toms hardware back in the day. For about the first 3-4 months I ran the system at stock speeds, and then started to experiment lightly with overclocking it. Recently I decided to take it a little further and push the limits of the CPU. I picked up the Scythe Mugen CPU cooler and was ready to rock n roll.
Current settings:
- CPU Clock: 3203Mhz
- CPU voltage: stock 1.3v
- CPU Multiplier 8.0x
- CPU temps: 27c (idle) / 38c (load)
- Memory Clock: 400Mhz (DDR 800Mhz)
- Memory voltage: 2.15v (up from 1.8v)
- North Bridge voltage: 1.65v (up from 1.55v)
I am confident the CPU can be pushed much higher, but I like to run my FSB/Memory speeds 1:1 and the machine is more than powerful enough for my needs at this time.
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Enjoy, and happy overclocking!
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cpu overclock scythe mugen
