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For the last two days the Firefox install on our home PC has been behaving oddly, specifically moving the arrow keys no longer moves the page as a whole, instead it scrolls through the text like in Notepad, MS Word or something. As it turned out I had inadvertantly turned on caret browsing/navigation where you can move around the page and select content with your keys rather than the mouse. Most likely I accidentally hit the F7 key which turns it on while I was tidying the desk at home, ironically I found out about it while cleaning my desk at work and wiping down my keyboard when I accidentally hit the relevant key. I can see how it would be beneficial at times but I wish there was a status display to say it was turned on/off to at least give a clue to newbies that it was at least possible, so they don’t think they’re going insane when their computer starts doing something funny. Doh.

A small tip for all your Thunderbird users who read your email via IMAP.

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A quick time for any users for phpMyAdmin and MySQL.

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Next Friday I’ll be receiving a new PC at work:

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A quick tip if you’re noticing that Explorer is using too much CPU time when you’re using WindowBlinds.

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Another weird one today. A co-worker’s install of Microsoft Outlook 2002 wasn’t showing any of the contacts he had in his “contacts” address book. As it turns out, this is a bug in Outlook, at least when its running in Exchange Server mode. There are two steps to this, first you add the contacts folder to Outlook then you add it to the email popup window. To fix the problem:

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Just a quick blurb to mention that this evening I installed SmarterStats on our website to give it a spin, and so far what I see I really like. The download lets you run stats for free for any one site which is perfect for personal sites or for doing a test run against your company’s main site. The only requirement is that the .Net v1.1 runtime must be on your machine, but you don’t have to install it on your server, you can instead put it on your desktop and just download the logfiles. Give it a spin!

Brighthouse Networks, who we use for our Internet service at home, just sent out their price list for 2006 which had a surprise in store: they’ve finally added tiered pricing on their Internet services. In plain Engrish this means that you now have a choice of three different packages for high-speed Internet from them:

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