Dave's DayDreams
Blog URL http://david.gardiner.net.au
Located Adelaide, South Australia Australia
David Gardiner's blog of software development, .NET and other interesting things
Latest Blog Posts
- Office Communicator and the tel: protocol on Nov 18, 2009 in WWW
I was wondering today whether Office Communicator offered any integration with web pages to enable calling a phone number on a web page. It turns out it does (as the Communicator team explains on their blog) via the tel: protocol. I confirmed this b...
- Stack Overflow Careers on Nov 4, 2009 in WWW
Jeff has announced careers.stackoverflow.com, and I've jumped in quick to grab http://careers.stackoverflow.com/davidgardiner Some other places you can find me in the social network "cloud" are: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidrgardine...
- Getting podcasts onto my new phone on Nov 3, 2009 in Podcasts
I recently replaced my dead iPod Shuffle with a Samsung C3050 phone that amongst other things has music playing as a feature. I bought an 8Gb micro-SD card to go in the phone to store podcasts on. When I unpacked the phone from its packaging, I dis...
- Upgrading the Media Center to Windows 7 on Oct 11, 2009 in HTPC Windows 7
After my success with upgrading my not-so-modern PC to Windows 7, I thought I'd take another plunge and do an upgrade of my Vista Media Center machine. This is the family TV so any problems would not go down too well! The Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor d...
- From WinXP to Windows 7 on Oct 5, 2009 in Windows 7
My home machine used to be pretty state of the art, but that was a few years ago now. It has an Intel D865PERL motherboard. When I first got the machine, I used the built-in RAID to strip the two SATA disks together to get better I/O performance. Thi...
- Hotmail accounts hacked for sending iPhone spam on Sep 29, 2009 in WWW
I've had a few family and friends now who have apparently had their hotmail email accounts hacked for the purpose of sending spam to all the people in their contacts (including me!) The spam (who's grammar should make it obviously not from the origi...
- Why Websense is stupid (and I told them so) on Sep 22, 2009 in WWW Conferences
One of the vendors who happened to be exhibiting at TechEd Australia this year was a company called Websense. They were giving away T-shirts, so it was only after I had received my free shirt from them that I then proceeded to tell them how stupid a...
