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Geograph

Adrian — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:05:03 +0000

A project sponsored by the OS to relate photographs to each grid square.
How long before somebody finds a way of exploiting / monetising this?
Geograph.

Windows page file defragmentation

admin — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:58:34 +0000

This SysInternals utility allows you to defrag the Windows page file and other files normally locked.

Ray’s A point about chicken feed

admin — Tue, 29 May 2007 21:35:35 +0000

Alternatives to feeding layers’ pellets.

ZamZar free online file conversion

admin — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:08:38 +0000

ZamZar on-line file conversion looks like a handy tool for occasional conversions to other file formats. Their privacy policy claims that they don’t share email details, but I would be cautious about sending client confidential information to their servers for conversion. Links to converted documents are mailed back – and could be intercepted on the way, and there isn’t a secure sockets connection option when uploading.

ESC/POS control for customer display cursor

admin — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:53:36 +0000

OK, so Epson’s support proved to be useless – “isn’t there a DIP switch on the back” and “we don’t do programming here” seemed to be the best they can offer.

Inspiration led me to lookup the ESC/POS sequences for cursor display – not DC2 & DC4 as previously though, they use the ASCII US (31 decimal) commands:

USC 3167n select/cancel cursor display n=0,1 (48,49 decimal)

So, back to uedit and try to work out what difference 0, 1, (48 & 49 decimal)Â make to the thing…

15/02/2007: answer: None at all!

RSS feed plugin for WordPress

admin — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:06:05 +0000

Plug in page.

10 minute SEO check

admin — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 22:51:49 +0000

Must spend some more time following this up:

http://www.sarahfreelance.co.uk/2006/02/28/10-minute-seo-check/

UTW performance fix

admin — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 20:37:41 +0000

Aparently UTW suffers from an expensive query – this site has a fix:

http://ocaoimh.ie/2006/09/27/simple-utw-performance-boost/

Excel code snippets for file, path and tab names in cells

admin — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:33:19 +0000

From xlDynamic.com

File path, file and worksheet name:

=CELL("filename",A1)

File path only:

=LEFT(CELL("filename",A1),FIND("[",CELL("filename",A1),1)-1)

File name only:

=MID(CELL("filename",A1),FIND("[",CELL("filename",A1),1)+1,

FIND("]",CELL("filename",A1),1)-FIND("[",CELL("filename",A1),1)-1)

The sheet name:

=MID(CELL("Filename",A1),FIND("]",CELL("Filename",A1))+1,255)

Restriction: this technique only works for workbooks that have been saved at least once.

Expanding (folding) category lists

admin — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:23:03 +0000

I really must get around to implementing these plug-ins to stop clutter in the WordPress category and page lists.