Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’

Sound Stops in Windows Vista

I hear that Microsoft didn’t take one of my BETA bug reports very seriously. Even after updating the drivers through windows update, audio is an issue.
Sound is still stopping on my Analog Devices sound card, with no errors, just an absence of noise.
Since Beta 2, I’ve adopted this method (which seems to be the quickest [...]

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Adding Your Blog as a Search Provider

In IE7, adding your own custom search is beautifully simple now that Microsoft have added the Create Your Own to the ‘Find More Providers…’ link in IE7

So, it seems sensible that your blog would want a piece of the action.
To that end, here’s a quick example of my own search provider. As IE7 uses [...]

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Drag and Drop Convert Word to PDF

Sometimes I find that it’s useful to save my Word documents as PDFs.
After playing around with the Save As PDF plugin for Office, I decided that it would be cool if I could write a script to convert a job lot of Word documents.
Prerequisites
MS Word 2007
Save As PDF Office 2007 Plugin
Just copy and paste the [...]

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Making SSL Certificates for your IIS Server

With IE7 on the prowl, I’m having to look at self-signing certificates again to make them work properly.
I found a nice straight-forward how-to on Eric Longman’s blog, which keeps it simple using a Linux box and Windows Server IIS.
Check it out

Although I’ve fixed my certificates, there is still the problem with IE7 showing a big, [...]

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