Posts Tagged “microsoft”
One of the most annoying aspects of Windows after using Linux on the desktop for 10+ years was how the mouse wheel scrolled windows. On Linux desktops I could hover over a window and scroll it without focusing. It was really useful when I had a browser window with instructions behind a terminal or just [...]
Creating a screenshot in Windows is normally simple. Press Print Screen, fire up paint and paste it in. However what do you do when you have a laptop keyboard without a PRT SCN button? It’s rather simple actually, thanks macrumors people. To create a screenshot on a Macbook Pro laptop press either fn+shift+F11 or fn+ALT+F11. [...]
If your Xbox Live account has been hacked chances are it’s because you used a weak password. According to this post xbox.com reveals if a hacker has found a legitimate email address by printing the following error: The email address is or password is incorrect. Please try again. After 8 attempts with a wrong password [...]
Microsoft, this video of Natal Natal does not convince me to buy your new upgrade. After an exhausting I will not be jumping up and down, swaying side to side in the living room. Check out the comments on that post, many more funny cynical responses. Oh, Natal is now called Kinect, not Kinetic. After [...]
Fire up Halo ODST. On the main menu select PREVIEW BETA Download Or maybe it’s not. Some orange woman gives a pretty decent introduction to the game. Looks like it’s the colour on my DVI connection. In this video she looks perfectly fine, bit too much makeup but no umpa lumpa. Feel the hate on [...]
Seananners Dead Pixel Obviously Jesus Machinima Respawn is full of Halo Reach videos, ish. The beta is due tomorrow and I will probably be pulling out my ODST disk to take part. The videos above remind me of Quake 3. The clean architecture, the futuristic setting, energy weapons. I’m showing my age now aren’t I? [...]
Modern Warfare 2 free to play online to all Silver Xbox Live users this weekend according to Major Nelson! Yes yes, PS3 players can play it for free whenever they like. Yada yada yada
Well, this is shocking. I’m glad I bought my Xbox 360 a while back before this price hike went into effect. For those who don’t know, visit the Xbox 360 Elite page for Ireland. See that price? Looks like we get gouged yet again with sky high prices in rip off Ireland. *sigh* I bet [...]
What would the Matrix be like if it ran on Windows XP? Very silly, but I love the ending! (Thanks Aehso!) PS. Jason Roe is organising a blogger/webby meet up in Dublin on Thursday the 27th. I won’t be there but he’ll have some WordPress stickers and badges to give away!
