Coast to Coast in a Day 2014 Training
About me: I am currently 47, I was ok fitness wise at the start of the year, I play hockey regularly and was doing 2 or 3 tough circuit training classes a week. I used to road bike lots when…
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Converting from imovie on Windows
I’ve recently migrated off a Mac onto Windows. After the event I found all my home video files were encoded with the Apple Intermediate Codec and couldn’t be played or edited on my PC After lots of trial and error…
Stopping Office Upload center running when using SkyDrive
I’ve been moving files over to Skydrive which appears to be working fine, then I’ve had all these notices about Microsoft Upload centre failing. Seems to me that two apps were trying to do one job and getting in each…
Unknown Device driver Windows 8 and Folio 13
I just installed Windows 8 onto my HP Folio 13 and one unknown driver. After some trial and error I narrowed it down to the Intel Smart Connect Technology Driver. I downloaded the driver from here. Attached picture of the…
Syncing Dropbox to an SD card on an HP Elitepad
I’ve now managed to get Dropbox syncing to the SD card on my HP Elitepad, following the same instructions I used for SkyDrive, namely: Format the MicroSD card as NTFS (otherwise this method will not work). Create a Folder C:Data…
Backing up my Solar Pogoplug
I’ve been running 123solar on my Pogoplug for almost a year now, and started to get concerned about loosing the historical data. So I started to look around at options for an automated backup. I simply followed the instructions here…
Letting Skydrive save to a MicroSD card in HP Elitepad (windows 8 tablet)
So I just got my HP Elitepad, I wanted to sync my documents using Skydrive to an SD card. At first Skydrive wouldn’t let me do this, fortunately I came across an article here, with some simple steps: Format the…
Real Time Solar stats
With the aid of a cheap Pogoplug and some excellent scripts already written I’ve got real time stats from my invertor showing Solar power in Leeds.
Browsing Mac Shares from Windows 7
I wasn’t able to see my Mac network share from Windows 7 and the single edit to the security policy that worked for Vista, didn’t work for Windows 7. It turns out a second step was needed, as detailed below:…
Mac OS X 10.4: How to prevent .DS_Store file creation over network connections
I came across this useful article on the apple support site. This explains how to prevent Mac OS creating .DS_Store files onto network shared drivers, like Windows Home Server (which I use).