by Tom | Feb 15, 2010 | IT
I had an import just sit there doing nothing in Lightroom 3 beta. It turns out I had some movies (.avi) ticked as part of the import and they were choking it. Untick them and the import ran perfectly.
by Tom | Feb 15, 2010 | IT
I got a red top bar of my Office 2010 application windows (but only on the netbook, funnily enough). The error said Activation failed and had an error code of 0x8007232B. The instructions on changing the product key worked perfectly, although took a few exit and...
by Tom | Feb 15, 2010 | Reading, Science
I loved the story behind the Alpher-Bethe-Gamow paper, but the Cox-Zucker has to be up there as well.
by Tom | Feb 15, 2010 | Business, Personal
Interesting idea: sign up for a regular monthly payment that gets divided among content creators you “heart” during each month. This has the right idea of no surprises (you know what you are paying however many people you want to reward); I wonder how the...
by Tom | Feb 15, 2010 | Business, IT
Lovely idea from Lenovo: detach the screen of your laptop and use it like an iPad. This isn’t far off what the TC1100 did all those years ago, but with a finger touch screen rather than a stylus. Now all we need is for the alternative operating system to be...
