The planning enquiry system of Cork County Council is a powerful system for downloading and viewing all the documents related to a planning enquiry. Unfortunately it relies on outdated software that most people won’t have access to any more (and for security reasons, that’s a good thing!). There are Android […]
Games
Delete the junk that games and apps leave behind in Windows
Use CCleaner and winapp2 to clean out the junk left behind by Steam installers, temporary files, cache files and more. Before you run this make sure you play all your Steam games at least once or you’ll have to “verify integrity of game cache” of each which will force a […]
Tech
Hibernate your Windows 7 Desktop
Windows 7 on desktop machines doesn’t have a hibernate button. It does have a sleep option which in fact is a “hybrid sleep”, a half way house between hibernation (RAM copied to disk) and sleep (RAM kept alive by a small voltage). Hybrid sleep is a good compromise but I […]
Desktop apps
Scroll like you mean it in Windows
One of the most annoying aspects of Windows after using Linux on the desktop for 10+ years was how the mouse wheel scrolled windows. On Linux desktops I could hover over a window and scroll it without focusing. It was really useful when I had a browser window with instructions […]
Apple
Windows screenshots on a Macbook Pro laptop
Creating a screenshot in Windows is normally simple. Press Print Screen, fire up paint and paste it in. However what do you do when you have a laptop keyboard without a PRT SCN button? It’s rather simple actually, thanks macrumors people. To create a screenshot on a Macbook Pro laptop […]
Games
Xbox 360 vulnerability? No, just weak passwords!
If your Xbox Live account has been hacked chances are it’s because you used a weak password. According to this post xbox.com reveals if a hacker has found a legitimate email address by printing the following error: The email address is or password is incorrect. Please try again. After 8 […]
Games
Microsoft, this video of Natal Natal doe…
Microsoft, this video of Natal Natal does not convince me to buy your new upgrade. After an exhausting I will not be jumping up and down, swaying side to side in the living room. Check out the comments on that post, many more funny cynical responses. Oh, Natal is now […]
Games
How to download the Halo: Reach beta
Fire up Halo ODST. On the main menu select PREVIEW BETA Download Or maybe it’s not. Some orange woman gives a pretty decent introduction to the game. Looks like it’s the colour on my DVI connection. In this video she looks perfectly fine, bit too much makeup but no umpa […]
Games
First impressions of Halo: Reach
Seananners Dead Pixel Obviously Jesus Machinima Respawn is full of Halo Reach videos, ish. The beta is due tomorrow and I will probably be pulling out my ODST disk to take part. The videos above remind me of Quake 3. The clean architecture, the futuristic setting, energy weapons. I’m showing […]
Games
Modern Warfare 2 free to play online to …
Modern Warfare 2 free to play online to all Silver Xbox Live users this weekend according to Major Nelson! Yes yes, PS3 players can play it for free whenever they like. Yada yada yada 🙂