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I see you've stumbled on to my humble home on the net, Drive:Activated. My name's Sam, I'm an ambitious and driven uni student, residing in Melbourne, Australia, wanting to make my mark on our world. This is my site, which is mainly just my blog and some other bits. There's no definite theme to my blog, just anything that interests me, and currently that's web trends, startups, ideas and cool stuff. Check it out, leave me a comment, click on 'Who is this?' to find out more about me, or drop me a line by clicking on 'Let's Talk'. Hope you enjoy it!
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Since converting to Vista and its sidebar, I've always missed something I had when I was using the Yahoo! Widget Engine on XP - the TV guide. It just isn't the same having a web browser window open with the TV guide up all the time, so I took it upon myself to create one, using the data from...
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I've been sitting on a copy of Vista Business for a while, but although I had Vista RC1 installed to play with, I never really found anything that enticing apart from the fact that it looks a lot better than XP so I never made upgrading a priority. Had some time over the weekend, and I was upgrading...
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Had a mate bring his brand-spanking new HP laptop, which came pre-loaded with Windows Vista. Most things worked, but one vital thing didn't - Windows Live Messenger. No amount of uninstalling or reinstalling was able to fix the problem, which was that apart from the first time, every subsequent time...
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I moved my digital TV card from my HTPC to my desktop recently after my HTPC died again . The card was detected and working fine in XP. Booting into Vista RC1 however, the driver installation was a mess because Vista first tried to install drivers from Windows Update but some how that went sour. The...
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I've been fiddling with my computer recently, trying to get it to all work nicely after I inherited some new parts. I have a seperate partition on my hard drive for the purposes of testing Windows Vista RC1. After having to repair my XP installation due to a change in motherboard chipset and CPU...
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Ever since Microsoft gave me one of their fingerprint readers , I have never used it for anything more than logging on and off on my computer (which is quite convenient), even though it can be used for authentication on websites, programs etc. Why? Because the software doesn't work with Firefox. Ok I...