Tips from the techy volume 2
Alright Bloggees, in honor of this short month, I have also provided a short blog: Have you ever noticed your new Windows 7 computer (or old Windows Vista one) waking up from sleep mode on its own? As strange as this sounds, it is also very possible. Here’s a tip that should fix this […]
How to Block or Blacklist websites using McAfee WebWasher
Note: The instructions below were attained with using a McAfee Web Gateway v6.8.7 build 7612 For those of you using McAfee Webwashers as one of your levels of web filtering and security, you may or may not have realized that white listing websites that the WW is blocking access too is pretty cut and […]
How to Fix Microsoft Update Not Installing Updates or Failed Updates in Microsoft Windows XP
Overview When installing Microsoft Updates in the XP, Windows Server 2003, or Windows 2000 operating systems, a 0x800A01AE error might appear. There are also times when once an update is downloaded it won’t install properly, and the update screen shows that the update has failed. Even after rebooting the system and re-applying the Windows Update, […]
Adobe CS3 Bonjour Service Creates Invalid 0.0.0.0 Gateway
On Windows 7 machines with Adobe CS3 installed, you may notice a loss of Internet connectivity. This may be caused by a bad default gateway (0.0.0.0), which can be seen when running ipconfig /all in a command prompt: Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0 (There may be an additional gateway listed […]
Customize the Windows 7 Login/Logon Background
Overview This article outlines the steps required to change the background image of a computer when you are trying to log into it. Using these steps you can display an image behind the log in screen as a reminder to the users. This background can be found under C:WindowsSystem32oobebackground.bmp and is shown in the screenshot below. Default […]
What do TV Personalities Earn?
Nathan Yau at Flowing Data posted some interesting data from TV Guide. TV’s Top Earners includes compensation data for some of of the highest paid actors and personalities on television. Pay for actors (comedy and drama) is expressed on a per episode basis, so we created a parameter control that gives you the ability to […]
CD Drive Missing or Not Recognized
If your CD drive or DVD drive is missing or not recognized by Windows or other programs, so you cannot play or access a CD or DVD. This problem is caused by two Windows registry entries that have become corrupted. To fix the problem, you have to use Registry Editor to delete the corrupted Registry […]
Internet Explorer ignoring CSS files
Like most web developers, I do most of my development work in one browser (in my case, Firefox) and then do cross browser checks after I’ve finished my work. One issue that I recently saw crop up was IE ignoring cerrtain stylesheets for no apparent reason. After a little digging, I uncovered the issue: Internet […]
Road Traffic Death Rates from the World Heath Organization
I enjoy reading many different blogs that include data visualizations, particularly those that include Tableau Public posts. A couple of weeks ago I ran across an interesting visualization at Russian Sphinx. Her post included a dashboard of World Health Organization data on road traffic deaths. I liked the style she used for her map visualization […]
Scan Large Documents in a hurry with Topicmarks
A new startup called Topicmarks has created some very interesting technology for summarizing long documents. Give it a try. You can send in texts in many ways: Upload a file from your computer Enter a URL to download from the web Copy/paste text Send in a file by email You can send in texts in […]