Archive - November 2000
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Wireless Keyboard And Mouse
Posted by: Sean | Posted on: March 1st, 2009 | 0 Comments
Last month i finally got around to buying a wireless keyboard & mouse, up until then i had never bought a keyboard & mouse i just used the basic one that came with the computer. I am glad i finally bought one though, they have so many extra buttons that you can customize, it really helps to increase getting things done while on the computer.
This keyboard allows you to control your media player with the few buttons along the top of the keyboard, there is also 5 customizable buttons that you get to program, this too helps speed up things, it saves having to go looking for a program in the start menu. The 5 i have mine programmed to are:
There is also buttons along the side that open up folders such as 'My Music', 'My Documents' and 'My Pictures' and also a few programs like Firefox and iTunes. Also on the mouse there is a few extra features there is two extra button's on the side of the mouse i just set these to copy and paste.
The only bad thing to do with this set is the size of the receiver, it is huge, there is no reason for it to be that big, other than that i have no problems with it.
I was surprised that Microsoft allowed you to set the media controls to control another media player other than there own 'Windows Media Player' which i hate!
My new site layout
Posted by: Sean | Posted on: June 12th, 2008 | 0 Comments
Well as you can see i have recently changed the complete appearance of this website. I think that it was about time because everything kind of looked all over the place. This new theme (Wicketpixie) i have was created by Chris Pirillo and can be found here. This theme has everything in it, it allows all of my different accounts that i am signed up into to be all displayed on the one page, My Site!
When you get this theme it has all of Chris's content in it such as live video's and his Flickr and youtube account. It is a very easy process to change all this to your own content
I have just recently signed up to Flickr and you can see all my pictures here.
There is one problem that everyone was having with this theme when it came out and that was that it would not display properly on Internet Explorer 7, like come on it works perfectly on every other browser such as firefox and safari. Considering that this theme is FREE to everyone, what you get is unbelievable. This theme could just have easily been made for purchase only!
Back to the problem with IE7 the reason it is not displaying properly is because this theme is still in development. This theme has been released early so that people can get the feel of it and if they like it they can donate for the further development of it.
I have made some CSS up to help fix the problem of the appearance of this blog in IE7, this CSS will align the navigation and search bar at top back to where they should be, the code is as follows:
#nav {
float:left;
position:absolute;
left:0%;
top:224px;
}
#topbar {
float:left;
position:absolute;
left:0%;
}
#mid {
padding: 30px 0 0 0;
}
You can just paste the above CSS code into the IE7.css file in the CSS folder of wicketpixe or download this file and replace it with the original.
Download Wicketpixie Theme Here