Just returned from the Apple store opening at Chermside and got myself a few bits including the new Magic Mouse. The first thing I noticed is that scrolling doesn’t work with my Bootcamped Windows 7 – searching around on the Apple support site I came across a Bluetooth update for Windows. Download the “Bluetooth Update 1.0 for Windows” from here http://support.apple.com/kb/DL952 When you run this you will get the error...

Today I got all sorts of “SideBySide” errors “Generate Activation Context failed for C:\Program Files\ESET\ESET NOD32 Antivirus\MFC80U.DL” etc and “The manifest file contains one or more syntax errors.” This seems to be due to a Windows update that was pushed out back in July, this was for the VS2005 CRT and modified developers environments without telling them. You can read more about it...

There’s something to be said about securing a good domain name, especially in terms of the value it can add to a product or service. I was recently informed from a company I had dealings with about the purchase of a domain in the six figure range, something I found incredible to believe at the time. I admit it jolted me with the hope that those dozen or so URL’s I was squatting would one day meet such an offer. I won’t...

One of the best maintenance scripts I’ve come across in quite a while, covers the following areas. Backup Integrity checking Optimizing indexes Executing and logging commands Utility functions If your using Maintenance Plans, stop now and implement this instead. Get it here...

Some Mac OSX packages come with uninstall scripts, some dont, others you just drag the app out the application folder and into the trash. Xcode most likely dumps a lot of stuff all over the file system, to do a clean uninstall just run this… sudo /Developer/Library/uninstall-devtools –mode=all Took about 6-7 minutes on my 2.4GHz iMac

I have a Linksys SPA3102 hooked up to mynetfone and they recently introduced caller id over stamping to residential plans. All this means is that when you place an outgoing call, instead of your VOIP number being presented to the person your calling, they get your standard Telstra/Optus number (PSTN) or even a mobile number if you so wish. In order to confirm my number and that I own it, mynetfone require you to call from the number you...

If your interested in real time Web Analytics you should do yourself a favour and check out both of these. The first is open source and you can run yourself provided you have PHP and MySQL available. It’s JavaScript based tracking like Google Analytics but you have full control over your own data. You could potentially use their API to pull your own data into an AIR client or even Excel. So check out Piwik by clicking...