I was having a hard time with command prompt windows when I created and ran my batch files – they wouldn’t stay open and kept closing before I could see its output. Then I discovered the PAUSE command – by adding this command to your batch file, you’ll pause the window for as long as [...]
Continue reading...25. January 2012
AWeber is a company that does a very good job of providing mailing list services, and is always innovating and coming up with new ways that you can improve your email marketing. One of their latest innovations is how they’ve created a way that allows any Facebook user to automatically sign up with your AWeber [...]
Continue reading...28. December 2011
The G2M3 codec is a codec that GoToMeeting uses. Not all computers, including Macs, can play videos encoded with the G2M3 codec. To convert videos encoded with the G2M3 codec into the normal WMV video codec so that any computer can play it, you need to download the Window Media Encoder and convert the video [...]
Continue reading...4. December 2011
If you’re trying to activate Windows 7, and are faced with the following error: Error Code: 0x8007232B Description: DNS Name does not exist You can try this to solve the problem. Search for “cmd”, then right-click on “cmd.exe” and choose to “Run as adminstrator” (this is important!) Then type these: slmgr.vbs -ipk [Your Windows 7 [...]
Continue reading...3. November 2011
1. Casio Men’s DW5600E-1V G-Shock Classic Digital Watch This is a classic bulletproof G-Shock watch. If you want fancy features like a thermometer, barometric pressure graphs, multiple alarms, and world time, then you’d have to look elsewhere! If you want a watch that keeps accurate time, lasts forever, and can take a ridiculous amount of [...]
Continue reading...23. October 2011
Tyres (or tires, depending on where you’re from) are a vital part of the car, and are especially so since they are the only form of contact that your car has with the road. Regular checks on your tyres and performing regular maintenance should be the norm, but first you need to know that there [...]
Continue reading...4. October 2011
This Excel VBA function allows you to take a column of values (e.g. ID numbers) in one worksheet, and use that to get corresponding values that are in a second worksheet. If you understand SQL, it’s something like: SELECT b.country FROM idtable as a, countrytable as b WHERE a.id=b.id I’ll explain the scenario further with [...]
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