Michael S. Clark

Here is a simple hack that can enable you to place ALL the Tasks Control Panel and System Settings in ONE place! Create a new folder on your Windows desktop. Name the folder as: Master Control.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} [Via: WinVistaClub]

Why does loading take so long between legs of the “Duel” events? It’s the same course and the same cars, so why does it feel like it loads everything all over again? Have they never heard of caching? </$0.02>

Why? Why do I have to be signed in to XBox Live to use a media codec? I was trying to watch a programme last night with was encoded using the ISO-MPEG4 compatible XviD codec, but I was having trouble signing in, so it wouldn’t let me. Why can’t they add it to a dashboard [...]

The ActiveSync on my phone, which I’d used to sync with my Google Apps account recently began failing with the error “Your account in Microsoft Exchange Server does not have permission to synchronize with your current settings.”; code 0×85010004. Now I hadn’t changed anything, so I was a bit bemused to say the least. Today [...]

[wehrdo] has posted a guide with an extremely low-tech solution to password management. he literally put the passwords on a floppy disk in the form of paper glued to the magnetic film. for those that still have some floppy disks around, this is a zero cost hack. we wouldn’t recommend this for state secrets, but [...]

A London cash machine operator has turned some of its ATM units into Cockney rhyming slang outposts. Five of the Bank Machine’s ATMs have been updated with the backdated vocabulary option and, for example, may ask users for their Huckleberry Finn instead of their PIN. Both inventive and forward thinking, those Cockneys. [Via: L'Inq]

Tayside Police have restored their website following an embarrassing defacement late last week. Surfers visiting the site from late afternoon on Thursday were confronted by a defacement, claimed in the name of Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle, and accompanied by notes more in the style of Irvine Welsh than Jim Taggart. The text included in the [...]

URL shortening services are ubiquitous on Twitter and other cramped online spaces. They won’t all last, as tr.im has demonstrated, and their shutdowns could annihilate your linking history. If you own a domain, though, you can host your own service. [Via: lifehacker] Updated: Since I’m using Google Apps, I simply installed Google Short Links from Google [...]

A couple of useful links for registering domain names: http://domai.nr http://www.gandi.net

I was looking for a way to use WordPress permalinks under IIS6 without having to use a custom 404 handler, and after some searching, I came across this: This ISAPI filter removes the index.php from WordPress’s permalinks on IIS,making your permalinks more pretty and SEO friendly. Because IIS does not support mod_rewrite module for rewriting [...]