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Newcastle Lib Dems launch mobile app

Posted on February 17, 2011 by admin

Newcastle upon Tyne Lib Dems today launched a new mobile website highlighting the achievements made since they took control of the City Council in 2004. It lists achievements such as Newcastle being voted the UK’s greenest city two years in … Continue reading →

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Setup a fixed IP address

Posted on July 4, 2010 by admin

In order to setup some routers, print servers and modems you  often have to connect to them via a wired connection even if they are wireless. Some of these devices have an inbuilt DHCP server so it’s just a case … Continue reading →

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Increasing message size limits in Microsoft Exchange 2007

Posted on June 28, 2010 by admin

By default Exchange 2007 with Service Pack 1 has a number of limits set that restricts the size of messages that can be received to 10MB. To see what the current limit is open the Exchange Management Shell (found in … Continue reading →

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Connect a PlayStation3 to Windows Media Centre

Posted on January 2, 2010 by admin

In order to play music stored on you PC (Windows XP Vista or Windows 7) you need to have Media Player 11 installed. If you don’t already have it you can get it for free from Microsoft. Once you have … Continue reading →

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Zoom X6 ADSL modem Default IP Address and Set up

Posted on February 12, 2008 by admin

I recently had to help a friend set up a Zoom X6 ADSL modem router and had a few initial problems connecting to the web interface.  The main problem turned out to be that the inbuilt DHCP server is turned off … Continue reading →

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Age of Empires 3 (III) Paused After Resume Saved Game

Posted on January 6, 2008 by admin

After excitedly playing my first game of AOE3 recently I saved it to come back too later which is quite a common thing to do. When I came back to replay the game an hour or so later though I … Continue reading →

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ehshell.mdmp. What is it and can it be removed?

Posted on October 17, 2007 by admin

If you are running Windows XP Media Centre you may have a file called ehshell.mdmp taking up a lot of room in your profile folder (C:\documents and settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\ehome). It appears that ehshell.mdmp is a dump file created when … Continue reading →

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Netgear WGPS606 or WPGS606 wireless print server installation and setup

Posted on July 19, 2007 by admin

In order to set the WGPS606 up for the first time on Windows (XP, Vista or 7) you need to connect using an Ethernet cable plugged in to one of the ports on the back of the print server your … Continue reading →

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