Archive for May, 2008

VNC through Windows firewall

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

If you like to use a VNC program to remotely access your/a machine, but find it is being blocked by the Windows firewall (XP Sp2) - you can quite easily allow VNC through the Windows firewall, without turning the Windows firewall off.
To do this,

go to Control Panel
open the Windows Firewall snap in
choose exceptions from the […]

Open multiple tabs in IE

Friday, May 9th, 2008

A handy built in feature with IE7 is the ability to open multiple tabs, but even better, to open multiple tabs when you start IE.
To do this, simply go to the Internet Options (Tools - Internet Options) and add multilple home pages (each entry on a seperate line).

If you want, you can also then add […]

XBox red lights

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

If you see the unpleasant sight of three red lights flashing on your Xbox360 then your Xbox360 has probably experienced a hardware failure.
From personal experience and speaking to others, the best thing to do is to start an online repair process with MS, visit xbox dot com for this.

Can’t display notepad status bar

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

You may know that notepad has a nifty little feature called a status bar - this can make notepad much more useful by displaying line numbers, which is ideal if you are looking through code. Unfortunately, by default you can’t display the notepad status bar as it is greyed out. So, to turn the status […]