Posts from September 2007

Sep
23
2007

Dell XPS M1330 Review



Posted in Site news

I've just finished my review of Dell's XPS M1330. The wait time was longer than I expected, but it was worth it.

Read the full review

Sep
14
2007

Grab some Firethreads



Posted in Uncategorized

Mozilla has opened a new store selling all sort of Firefox goodies. It’s bordering on overly-geeky, but isn't it worth sacrificing your dignity to support open source?

MozillaStore

The Mozilla Store [Via: UneasySilence]

Sep
8
2007

Visualise site popularity with TouchGraph



Posted in Uncategorized

TouchGraph lets you see a visual spider diagram for any keyword or site. Interesting to see who’s linked to you and from where, and which of your pages are most popular.

TouchGraph

TouchGraph

Sep
7
2007

Creating a Bootable USB Flash Drive



Posted in Technology

I spent hours yesterday trying to get my laptop to boot from a USB key. I could probably have burnt 100 bootable CDs with the files on, but I wanted a USB key. So here's how to create one.

  1. Download and extract these files. Included are files for a bootable floppy and a copy of the HP USB disk format utility.
  2. Using the HP format utility (HPUSBFW.exe), check "Create a DOS boot disk" and browse to where you extracted the "DOS files" directory.
  3. That's it!. Automated commands can be run using autoexec.bat