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Java is really jarring me1. Lame pun intended ;-) Footnotes 1. jar - affect in a disagreeable way; This play jarred the audience I've just finished making a simple Swing text editor with Java and had a bit of trouble converting it into a JAR file for distribution. The problem was that even... Read more...

Topics: java ste

This is great! Thanks to rurwin for linking to this over at feedback.wikidot.com. Here's a problem that *sounded* impossible I almost regret posting the story to a wide audience, because it makes a great tale over drinks at a conference. :-) The story is slightly altered in order to protect the... Read more...

Topics: comedy email programming

Your copy of Windows 7 has a number of themes available when you first install it but what you may not realise is that there are more on your computer, that it is not showing you, because they are disabled by default. Watch this video to enable them. Read more...

Topics: microsoft themes windows

This is part of an awesome video I have on my Xbox. I just found it on Youtube, so I'm sharing it here. For anyone that does not know, Halo is the name of a video game trilogy based on the Xbox and Xbox 360 consoles. This video is for the third game in that trilogy, before it was released, several... Read more...

Topics: bungie halo xbox360

Windows 7 can automatically detect which network you are connected to, and change your default printer to suit! Now, it doesn't matter if I'm at home or at University, my Windows 7 Professional laptop prints from the correct printer automatically! I just discovered this awesome feature tonight,... Read more...

Topics: microsoft windows

If Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were alive today, their famous Who's on First? might have turned out something like this. Before reading this post, I suggest you watch their skit, Who's on First? According to Wikipedia, Abbott and Costello were an American comedy duo that were most popular... Read more...

Topics: misc office windows

A closer look at the Halo Reach Multiplayer Trailer, which was released on 3rd March 2010. The first thing that you should do is to watch the official multiplayer trailer for Halo Reach. The worldwide release for the multiplayer beta is May 3rd, with the full game out in stores sometime in the third... Read more...

Topics: bungie halo xbox360

I am involved in a couple of communities, the most obvious one being the Wikidot Community. One thing I've noticed is that without creativity, a project will get boring very quickly and eventually fall apart altogether, as the main contributors lose interest. Over the past 6 months, Wikidot.com has... Read more...

Topics: wikidot

The Wikidot Community is probably the most-actively spammed wikidot site there is but only the naïve even make the attempt these days. Spam-related links are usually deleted within minutes of being posted or a couple of hours at the most! Experienced Wikidot user Ed Johnson was inspired... Read more...

Topics: community spam wikidot

Have you ever wanted to show an image when you hover your mouse over text? For example, the world's smallest horse ? :) The module looks like this: [[include :css-competition:include:hover |prepend= |text= |image= |attributes= |append= ]] Attributes (optional) prepend A line of text that appears... Read more...

Topics: wikidot