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Fix Firefox image decoding performance regression

27/01/2012 – 18:34

For some reason Mozilla changed Firefox to decode imagines only when they are visible, meaning that they now slowly appear as you scroll down a page instead of loading quickly in the background first. Seems like a misguided attempt to save some memory. The fix is to set image.mem.decodeondraw to false.

By mojo | Also posted in idiots | Comments (0)

Add Google Maps link to eBay listings

21/01/2011 – 16:43

Greasemonkey FTW. Add your location to the home declaration. // ==UserScript== // @name           Ebay-Location-Route // @namespace      www.ebay.de // @description    Adds a link for the item location on google maps // @include       http://*ebay.* // ==/UserScript== // Version 0.4 // author: knoe, fixes by MoJo //Configuration var home = “mah house”; //home var blank = false;       [...]

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Transfer Read It Later to Instapaper

28/12/2010 – 19:06

I decided to switch from ReadItLater.com to Instapaper and needed to move all my links over. There does not seem to be any way to do it so I made one. Simply run the following script, entering your personal data in the relevant places: curl -k “https://readitlaterlist.com/v2/get?username=[user]&password=[pass]&apikey=[key]&since=1245638446″ >ril.txt tr “{}” “\n ” <ril.txt >ril2.txt tr [...]

By mojo | Also posted in Internet | Comments (0)

Miranda IM automatic update script

28/08/2010 – 18:45

Found a useful script to auto-update Miranda IM. They really should create an update system for it. I modified the script to work on my system and with newer releases in 7zip format. chdir /D update c:\portable\gnu\wget.exe http://code.google.com/p/miranda/downloads/list -O data.txt type data.txt|findstr /i unicode.7z 1> data1.txt del data.txt ren data1.txt data.txt c:\portable\gnu\wget.exe –force-html -c -i [...]

By mojo | Also posted in Internet, windows | Comments (0)

Windows 7 Tweaks

16/08/2010 – 20:34

Finally got around to installing Windows 7 on my main machine. As usual there are a lot of tweaks that need to be made. The Start Menu has some nice features but I really don’t like the way the All Programs section works now. Fortunately you can bring back the old cascaded menu and keep [...]

By mojo | Also posted in windows | Comments (0)

Making the Umax PowerLook 2100XL scanner work on Windows 7

15/06/2010 – 14:56

I had an interesting challenge at work a few weeks ago. A customer wanted a new PC running Windows 7 but he needed to keep using his rather old A3 scanner, a Umax PowerLook 2100XL. Umax only provide Windows XP drivers and installing them on Windows 7 stops the system starting up. Something about the [...]

By mojo | Also posted in hardware, windows | Comments (26)

MAME and paddle controllers

03/05/2010 – 21:02

I just got a Sega Master System paddle controller working with the Retro Adapter. It works perfectly but there is a compatibility problem with some MAME games I had not anticipated. I tried to use it with Arkanoid. That game uses a spinner control which can rotate endlessly clockwise or anti-clockwise, unlike a paddle which [...]

By mojo | Also posted in electronics, hardware, Retro Adapter | Comments (0)

USB devices in VirtualBox

31/03/2010 – 23:15

Getting USB devices to connect to the guest OS in VirtualBox can be a bit tricky. I run it on Windows so it might work differently on Linux, but anyway… The key is to understand that in order for the device to be detected it has to be connected while the guest OS is running. [...]

By mojo | Also posted in windows | Comments (0)

MS Browser Ballot fails

24/02/2010 – 15:06

Just got the first XP machine with the Browser Ballot update on it. I clicked “next” and IE8 came up with a window asking me to choose my settings. I closed it and selected Firefox from the available options. Internet Explorer opened and downloaded Firefox. I installed it and the browser ballot window was still [...]

By mojo | Also posted in idiots, Internet | Comments (0)

Update to Thunderbird userContent.css

05/02/2010 – 19:03

My custom userContent.css has been updated. I found a fix for the few remaining stupid HTML mails that failed to display correctly due to using “font: inherit” which picks up the <body>’s text colour (off-white) which is unreadable against the white background. I’m still not entirely sure why the <body>’s font colour is being inherited [...]

By mojo | Also posted in Internet | Comments (0)
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