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Used to Alt-Tabbing? Good luck!

If you regularly use Alt-Tab to switch between Windows, you're in for a shock with Vista. The display of windows is actually much improved - you can see a mini version of each window in real-time - but the relative positions of these windows ... (more)

Cornerstone House

Former 18th century farmhouse near to coast. Relax with coffee in courtyard. Warm welcome assured 2 doubles en-suite 1 Twinwith privat facilities Cost per person per night sharing a room from £22.00 Contact: Barry or Pearl Eves ... (more)

Custom-built Greenhouse

This greenhouse uses up an otherwise-unusable space next to the house, in the front garden. It consists of 2.4m lengths of twinwall polycarbonate sheeting for the roof and a pair of old patio doors for the glazed front. Everything is sandwiched ... (more)

Government will continue to use IE6

In response to a petition, submitted in June with over 6000 signatures and calling for an end to IE6 use within Government departments, the Government is happy to continue using IE6 because it thinks it is suitably patched: There is no evidence ... (more)

Calories used according to the gadgets

Does the Poolmate 2 calculate calorie expenditure correctly? As soon as you have two plus gadgets you can start testing whether they agree with each other My Polar (FT4) heart rate monitor reports elapsed time, heart rate, and calories used ... (more)

House and Home

Information and Advice on Housing and Living With the essentials costing more and more each year, it is no longer good enough just to buy fuel and home furnishings without any thought. Here is some information and advice we have collected ... (more)

How to Use the Twitter API

Here is a PHP class to push Twitter updates from your own web app: (more)

Good Energy vs. Ecotricity: which Green Electricity Supplier to use?

A war is ongoing between Britain's leading 'Green' electricity suppliers, with Ecotricity especially keen to slag Good Energy off at every opportunity. But why? Let's back up and examine what it means to try to buy green or greener electricity ... (more)

How to Use the SMA Sunny Boy Inverter

SMA is a German company that makes some of the best solar pv inverters around. These are the bits of kit that are fed the DC electrical output from your solar panels and converts it to AC suitable for exporting to the national grid (through ... (more)

Getting used to some steep gradients

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