I’ve been trying to evaluate Microsoft CMS Server 2002 (“MCMS”), but I don’t have all of the required (expensive) server software. However, it seems that with a bit of creativity, you can actually download evaluation versions of all the software you need. Here’s how I did it.
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I’ve been trying to find a way to detect what kinds of iPods are plugged into a Mac (or PC). Turns out that every iPod (apart from the iPod Shuffle) has a hidden SysInfo file, which contains information about the device. And, with the aid of some friends with iPods, I have managed (I think) […]
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I’ve been working on an Intranet project which has been attempting some hefty (and perhaps inadvisable) setting and retrieval of cookies via JavaScript. It’s led to some interesting discoveries, and more importantly the discovery of what seems like a bug in IE6. The project is for users with IE6 only.
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Recently, I needed to be able to check if AAC files passed to my application were Protected AACs from the iTunes Music Store or not. Here’s the C code I used to do this:
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Having just been and bought a copy of Windows XP Pro with SP2 – which I must say was a very strange experience – I am now in the process of installing it on my Mac.
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My LaCie “Big Disk Extreme with Triple Interface 500GB” (FireWire 400, FireWire 800 and USB 2.0) has recently started spinning down of its own accord. It will just suddenly spin down without prompting. Obviously, this is a bit of a problem.
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I do quite a lot of work on Intranets, on which the only browser in use is Microsoft Internet Explorer. This often means that IE-specific tricks can be used safely on the Intranet. This specific trick is for using IE with Outlook. I read on MSDN about how to include line breaks in the body of an […]
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Backup 3 has a useful option to back up just your iTMS purchased files. But, it’ll only work for files in your user’s iTunes directory. And I store my files on an external drive. But, I found a way to back up my iTMS files from a different disk…
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Having spent much of yesterday bemoaning the lack of a FireFox inline-block attribute for using with display in CSS, I discovered that there is actually one – but hidden.
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I’ve been working on adding support for the Hercules DJ Console (Mac Edition) to my Mac DJ application, DJ-1800. This has proved trickier than I imagined, as I have not been able to find any documentation of the MIDI commands sent by this controller.
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