Flash / AIR issues. System Restore to the Rescue

My new work PC developed an aversion to all things related to Adobe’s Flash and AIR earlier this week. Initially I thought it was just a Google Chrome / Flash issue. Then TweetDeck broke – it wouldn’t start up properly. Now, I don’t need TweetDeck on a work machine so that wasn’t too big of

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Firefox 3.6 and Windows 7: Thumbnail Previews

If you’re running Windows 7 and recently updated Firefox to 3.6, here’s a little tip you might like. While not enabled by default, it turns out that Firefox 3.6 has a nice little Windows integration feature: Thumbnail previews.

Just head to about:config, find the browser.taskbar.previews.enable key and toggle it to true. Now, when you hover over

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Track Site Changes with Google Reader

Google Reader has been a useful tool for following site feeds (RSS or Atom) since it was first released, but not every web site has a feed. In other words, Reader has bee great for getting updates on blogs, forums and most news sites, it hasn’t been useful at all with static sites or sites

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No wine for Evernote 3.5

I’ve been setting up a fresh Ubuntu 9.10 install with my commonly used apps (probably more on those later) and reached the point where I tackle Evernote. There is no native Linux version — and I get the impression there never will be — so traditionally I’ve installed the Windows version under wine. I grabbed

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Wubi in 32 bit Mode

I like to install Wubi on my Windows machines. I don’t use Linux full time, but definitely like to have it around and Wubi is a very easy way to make that happen. You have to be careful though: If you’re on a 64 bit machine then Wubi will install a 64 bit Ubuntu (or

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