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If you are running a blog and have a facebook account how can you connect them together, so you only have to type stuff in once (in the blog) and it pops up in Facebook?

Ok, so this is got to ba an example of poor “User Interface Design”. I worked this out a month ago, and thought I’d document it.. but couldn’t recall the steps (in spite of just having completed it!)

Anyway, thought I’d have another go today.. and eurika I worked out what to do!!

So follow these steps!!

1. Click on your name (on the facebook bar at the top of the screen)
2. Click on the Options link (Just below the [Share] button on the “Whats on your mind window”
3. If “Stories Posted by You” > Available sites is not showing, click on the settings button (Just below the [Share] button)
4. On the Available Sites: Click on Blog/RSS
5. In the Public URL enter your blog site, then click [Import]

.. and thats all!!

JJ has found a video converter

Huang, S. (2009) MediaCoder – more than a universal audio/video transcoder. Retrieved June 17, 2009 from http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/

Some new stuff for this month

• http://wave.google.com (email/IM) and
• http://www.bing.com (MS Search)

Had an issue when using multiple monitors. When using a monitor attached to my laptop the presentation displayed on the laptop not the external monitor.

Searching the we came up with lots of false hits… and the answer is actually quite simple in 2007.

Use the Slide Show tab and in the Monitor part of the ribbon change the “Show Presentation on” to “Monitor 2…”

No wonder there is no online help !!!

• Chrome Experiments (Google, 2009)^[2] http://www.chromeexperiments.com/
  • Chrome Experiments showcases the applications that require significant data processing using multiple Web pages simultaneously
  • Darrin Fisher, one of the engineering leads for Google Chrome, notes that all of the experiments use just HTML and JavaScript, and are designed to demonstrate what is possible with basic Web technology

(Naone, 2009, March 18)^[3]

E, Naone (2009, March 18)Browser Coders Make Chrome Shine. Technology Review. Retrieved March 24, 2009 from http://www.technologyreview.com/web/22315/?a=f

From a post by Paradigm PCs (http://www.pp.co.nz)

Adding system memory is often the best way to improve a PC’s performance. However, upgrading memory can be difficult and costly, and some systems have limited memory expansion capabilities, making it impossible to add RAM.
Windows Vista provides a way to add memory to your system using a USB Flash drive which is called ReadyBoost to improve performance without having to add additional memory to your system.
The flash memory device serves as an additional memory cache, which means that your computer can access the necessary data much quicker than it can access data on the hard drive. This is how you Speed Up Vista with Vista ReadyBoost.

Its best to use a USB flash drive that you can spare and then plug it in an empty USB slot, preferably at the backside of your system so that you won’t have it in sight.
Now you should see a pop-up with the option “Speed up my system, using Windows Ready Boost”.
If you are not prompted, just follow these steps.

• Go to start
• Select My Computer
• Right click your flash drive
• Choose Properties 
• Select the ReadyBoost tab
• Check “Use this device” and tweak the settings, click apply and you’re done.

The minimum requirement for the USB flash drive is at least 256mb.

Always regretted not recording IT changes as they happened. Eg. When I started computing (around 1980) I sold the original IBM PC (twin Floppy at $8,000, with a 10MB HDD around $16,000) So have started a history page in my wiki.

http://www.virtualmv.com/wiki/index.php?title=History#2008

Will troll over my old notes to see what I can add!

Microsoft promised at the last presentation I went to lots of new stuff, particularly based on their “Cloud computing” framework.

So, here is another tool that will be useful, 25GB free online storage!

go to http://www.microsoft.com and if it doesn’t show its called skydrive 

If you have a live account (msn or hotmail) go to http://home.live.com/ and look for skydrive or if you dont have a microsoft passport go to the same url and create one. As far as I can tell you dont need a microsoft email (hotmail) account. I using my work one fine.

It allows others to access your folder. I am having trouble receiving zip files via email so this may be a way to get them to me.

Was just playing around with my new USB Drive and realised you can create your own icon for Windows explorer.

1. Create an icon (duh!) – use Google to find an icon creator if you dont have one (e.g. GIMP or Paint.net with an addin) , and place in the root folder of your removable drive.

2. Create a text file (using notepad) called Autorun.inf (if there is already one it is likely to have an ico file setting already so all you need to do is change the ico file name).

The Autorun file only needs

Autorun.inf——————–

[autorun]
icon = .\NameofIconFile.ico

—————————–

My daughter decided to add another user to her HP laptop and at the same time change her admin password. Somehow the computer decided that the new password would be randomly generated and the computer locked her out!! So after trying a zillion passwords (and fear that we would have to rebuild the computer, I logged into my top tech support Google and after the first few telling me I needed to buy a package came across a blog from Mike Kelly ( http://blogs.msdn.com/mikekelly/archive/2007/11/25/lost-vista-password.aspx )

Basically, Mikes solution involved using System Restore ( …and we also did not know you can create a Password Recovery Disk in Vista)

Simply 

1. Reboot and press F11

2. Select Advanced Options > Microsoft System Restore (Make sure it is NOT the one that restores to the Factory setting or you will wipe out your computer!)

3. .. this leaves recovery manager and shows the latest restore points. Choose one before you changed the password (Luckily a Windows update had occurred a couple of days earlier and after about 10 minutes Vista was reset.) .. MAGIC

For a heavy weight password recovery check out.. 

Offline NT Password and Registry Editor

Note Bill Detwiler (2009) has a video demo of how to do this online. Note  Bills warning about quitting the program or the changes are not written to the computer.

Detwiler, B. (2009) Video: Reset Windows passwords with the Offline NT Password and Registry Editor. IT Dojo. Retrieved May 21, 2009 from http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/itdojo/?p=140