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Chris Duckett

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Using Fur to heat test is a good idea
After discounting all sources for screen freezes, Tony McSherry finds a utility to help heat test a graphics card.
Posted by Tony McSherry | August 6, 2012, 5:09 PM PDT
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Watch Curiosity rover land on Mars without Flash
Those clever folks at NASA are providing more than one way to skin the Curiosity viewing cat.
Posted by Chris Duckett | August 5, 2012, 6:07 PM PDT
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Adobe releases open Source Sans Pro font
The world and your programs just got a little bit prettier.
Posted by Chris Duckett | August 2, 2012, 6:55 PM PDT
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Windows 8 and VS 2012 to hit MSDN on 15 August
Microsoft's upcoming operating system has been released to manufacturers, and will hit MSDN shortly.
Posted by Chris Duckett | August 1, 2012, 5:13 PM PDT
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Sub-pixel placement and Apple restrictions
Tony McSherry examines the problems he has encountered while developing HTML applications in a Windows environment.
Posted by Tony McSherry | July 31, 2012, 5:28 PM PDT
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Windows Phone 7: using ListBoxes with Style
Adding a button to the end of a ListBox in Windows Phone 7 is a little more complicated than expected.
Posted by Chris Duckett | July 30, 2012, 4:20 PM PDT
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Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day
It's the one day of the year to be thankful for that person who keeps everything working.
Posted by Chris Duckett | July 26, 2012, 4:44 PM PDT | Latest comment by prakashvijayan007@...
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Everyone vs. Apple update
OS X Mountain Lion will appear tomorrow, and we've got the latest from the global battle royale that is Apple versus Samsung.
Posted by Chris Duckett | July 24, 2012, 7:03 PM PDT
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AtG: HTML divided again, Pwn2Own targets mobiles
The HTML world is again divided between W3C and WHATWG camps, and which mobile OS will be the first to fall at Mobile Pwn2Own?
Posted by Chris Duckett | July 22, 2012, 11:35 PM PDT | Latest comment by internetexplorer
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Why mobile Flash didn't pan out
There was a time when having Flash on a mobile device was a selling point, but now that time is over. Can HTML5 fill its place?
Posted by Chris Duckett | July 12, 2012, 6:21 PM PDT | Latest comment by molementor
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Ukraine takes out Imagine Cup 2012
After five days in Sydney, a pair of sign language to speech gloves have taken out the Imagine Cup of 2012.
Posted by Chris Duckett | July 10, 2012, 10:40 PM PDT
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Windows 8 set for October arrival
Microsoft has narrowed the final release dates down to a week.
Posted by Chris Duckett | July 9, 2012, 5:43 PM PDT | Latest comment by CharlieSpencer_Palmetto
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AtG: dob in your boss for $20K
Today's Around the Grounds contains pirates, adaptive websites, and Boot to Gecko becoming Firefox OS.
Posted by Chris Duckett | July 3, 2012, 9:54 PM PDT
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Microsoft offers $40 Windows 8 Pro upgrade
Windows 8 downloadable upgrade special runs until January 2013
Posted by Chris Duckett | July 2, 2012, 5:37 PM PDT | Latest comment by jgsilva@...
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Were you hit by the leap second?
It caused more damage than Y2K, and lasted for a solitary second. Were you caught up in this weekend's leap second carnage?
Posted by Chris Duckett | July 1, 2012, 6:57 PM PDT | Latest comment by hippiekarl
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Using Tor and Firefox config on Android
It is possible to use Firefox and Twitter on Android with full Tor anonymity
Posted by Chris Duckett | June 28, 2012, 6:40 PM PDT
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Telstra halts data collection
Australian telco stops tracking websites visited by its mobile customers.
Posted by Chris Duckett | June 26, 2012, 10:47 PM PDT
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Use jQuery for sortable UI elements
Dragging, dropping, and reordering block objects is easy with jQuery.
Posted by Chris Duckett | June 26, 2012, 7:21 PM PDT | Latest comment by dperolio
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Apple fined $2.25m in deliberate 4G hoodwink
A court ruling has closed Cupertino's run in with the ACCC, and Apple is left with a fine and footing the bill.
Posted by Chris Duckett | June 20, 2012, 9:30 PM PDT | Latest comment by hippiekarl
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Microsoft Surface: this time it's business
The latest entrant into the tablet market is ripe to solve the "enterprise tablet" conundrum.
Posted by Chris Duckett | June 19, 2012, 11:50 PM PDT | Latest comment by JJFitz
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Android Studio can fix Android development
Google has finally decided to get rid of the Eclipse albatross from Android's neck.
Posted by Chris Duckett | May 16, 2013, 7:29 PM PDT | Latest comment by jannie.nel
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Dealing with Windows 8 Mail
The Mail app that arrives with Windows 8 is essentially a web mail system and has no tools to set mail rules or automate spam deletion. But can one man get by on that alone?
Posted by Tony McSherry | January 28, 2013, 4:00 PM PST | Latest comment by erikaf
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Combining Windows 8 and a Retina MacBook
A new Microsoft operating system meets new Apple hardware; what's the worst that could happen?
Posted by Chris Duckett | August 21, 2012, 4:47 PM PDT | Latest comment by arch_aya
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Using placeholder text in HTML5 forms across all browsers
The placeholder attribute on input elements is a handy timesaver, once we've dealt with old versions of Internet Explorer.
Posted by Chris Duckett | September 6, 2012, 4:10 PM PDT
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A stuttered start with Office 365
Weeks went by, and Tony McSherry was not able to finish his Office 365 set-up, all thanks to an intransigent domain registrar. One that was in the same corporation selling Office 365 subscriptions.
Posted by Tony McSherry | May 26, 2013, 10:51 PM PDT | Latest comment by Gisabun
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Assigning tasks your developers will want to do
Getting developers to emotionally invest in tasks is the fastest way to improve motivation and performance.
Posted by Ben Evans | June 2, 2013, 8:22 PM PDT | Latest comment by Tony Hopkinson
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Installing Windows 7 from USB
As netbooks get more popular and optical drives become less and less of an assumption, there are many times when a USB install of an operating system is a far better choice than the old DVD/CD we...
Posted by Chris Duckett | November 10, 2011, 9:06 PM PST | Latest comment by wizard57m-cnet
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How to set up printing from tablets and phones
More and more user time is spent nowadays with mobile devices, but the lingering need to print remains for many.
Posted by Tony McSherry | February 4, 2013, 7:22 PM PST | Latest comment by erikaf
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Programming for Android on Android
Although it may sound counter-intuitive, it is possible to create fully fledged Android applications on Android devices. We take a look at the apps that allow it to happen.
Posted by Chris Duckett | April 3, 2012, 8:02 PM PDT | Latest comment by jkameleon@...
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Moving to Arch Linux from Fedora
Chris Duckett details his move from Fedora to Arch Linux and learns that testing in a virtual machine is one thing, actually committing to change is another.
Posted by Chris Duckett | August 7, 2012, 4:29 PM PDT | Latest comment by lsatenstein@...
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Getting your Firefox tabs back
Next time you get that sinking feeling that you've lost all your Firefox tabs, don't despair; there is a solution.
Posted by Chris Duckett | January 29, 2013, 3:26 PM PST | Latest comment by Yorkshirelad90
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Using Tor and Firefox config on Android
It is possible to use Firefox and Twitter on Android with full Tor anonymity
Posted by Chris Duckett | June 28, 2012, 6:40 PM PDT
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Making a sortable ListView in Android
Creating a list of items in Android is simple, but what if you want to make those items sortable by dragging them? Now things start to get interesting.
Posted by Chris Duckett | February 21, 2012, 9:39 PM PST
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A look at Internet Explorer 10 on Windows RT
The new version of Internet Explorer comes in two varieties: a well-known desktop version and the new Windows RT version.
Posted by Tony McSherry | January 20, 2013, 4:31 PM PST | Latest comment by Duke E Love
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Hands on with HTC's Windows Phone 8X
There's a lot to explore in Windows Phone, and the integrated UI across multiple Windows platforms, the familiar tools, and SkyDrive are hard to beat.
Posted by Tony McSherry | January 7, 2013, 9:02 PM PST | Latest comment by Neon Zeon
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Claim 25GB from Microsoft on updated SkyDrive
Microsoft has updated SkyDrive to support Windows desktops, OS X and iPad -- but at the same time has revised the storage limit from 25GB to 7GB, unless you claim to reserve the existing 25GB limit.
Posted by Chris Duckett | April 23, 2012, 10:14 PM PDT | Latest comment by SkyDriveBad
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Prepare your https sites for Firefox 23
An upcoming release of Firefox will prevent non-SSL non-display content loading on SSL pages.
Posted by Chris Duckett | April 9, 2013, 9:47 PM PDT | Latest comment by Deadly Ernest
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Set-up an environment for Android, Eclipse and PhoneGap
PhoneGap is the cross-platform framework that allows developers to create mobile applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript -- but getting going with the platform requires a few hoop jumps.
Posted by Chris Duckett | October 31, 2011, 6:25 PM PDT
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What applications are available on Windows RT?
Tony McSherry looks at the desktop applications available on the Windows RT Surface tablet.
Posted by Tony McSherry | December 17, 2012, 8:12 PM PST | Latest comment by spookyone1
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Keeping an eye on Chrome's memory usage
Keeping track of Chrome's memory usage is easier said than done when it is spread over multiple processes.
Posted by Chris Duckett | October 14, 2012, 6:12 PM PDT

































