Note: Mac OSX 10.5.x “Leopard” does not need this. Apple seem to have made some changes in the way Leopard interacts with the file system making automatic refreshes far more instant.
A small but annoying thing about Mac OSX (version 10.4.x and older it seems) is that sometimes it doesn’t refresh itself when a file [...]

A letter to Larry Hryb, Microsoft’s Major Nelson about how to help save power with the Xbox 360 and Windows Vista Media Center:

Well I succumbed and picked up Microsoft Vista Home Premium for my Media Center PC.It’s actually running extremely well and is more stable than XP Media Center 2005. It does have it’s little quirks, and one of them is getting my home movies that are stored on a network drive to show up under Vista [...]

Hi everyone…
I picked up a new HP Photosmart C6180 printer today - nice printer with auto sheet feeding scanner and copier, as well as inbuilt fax. It also looks nice too:

So I have a HP iPAQ rw6828 (using a work provided Vodafone AU SIM), as well as a Motorola V3x mobile (using my own H3G or “Three” USIM).
Work have removed GPRS access on my Vodafone SIM at my request due to the ridiculous costs involved, so I thought I’d see if I could get my [...]

So this is a little different from my usual posts here, but I thought it might be worthwhile to some people.
This is my guide on converting DVD Films and Videos to Microsoft’s Windows Media format (WMV). The reason I do this is because I am a user of Windows Vista Media Center and also use [...]