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Nick Hodge is a professional geek and digital diplomat for Microsoft in Australia. More info lives underneath the About Box...

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• Anna Liu - My boss’s blog on architectural things I don’t understand.
• Barbora Zychova - I am Number 2 in the Fan Club.
• Brian Johnson - US East Coast EE dude
• Christian Longstaff - Fellow Microsoft AU videographer
• Crowded House - Crowded House reforming
• Des Walsh - Doyen of the Australian Blogging Community
• Frank Arrigo - Frank Arrigo, Head Geek goes to America
• Geek Girl Blogs - The best geeks are girls
• I Work on the Web - If you work on the Web, join the meme
• John-Daniel Trask - JD is a cool geek guy from Wellington. Does cool stuff with all the Microsoft stuff.
• Jukka Wallasvaara - Finnish
• Kurt Messersmith - Because I am sports knowledge challenged, Kurt is my go-to-guy
• Live Spaces - Experimental Only. Duck.
• Mark Szulc - Adobe all-round expert and nice guy
• Me on YouTube - My channel on SueTube
• Michael Kordahi - Delicate Genius, both names apply
• Mossy Blog - Scott Barnes: webdev.guru
• Nas Khan - Third best NZ’er, WPF+Silverlight: Designer blog
• Nic Filingham - Fellow Aussie Enthusiast Evangelist, in Singapore
• Nick Hodge, Excel MVP - Mr Excel, not me. I am MINI me.
• Nick’s Flickr Photos - All public photos are posted on Flickr.com
• Paul Foster - Pommy Microsoft Geek with Robots!
• ScenarioGirl - The state of UX, Accessiblity
• Shane Morris - User Experience Guru
• Stilgherrian - Mr Nerd from crikey.com.au - but really he is a geek
• The Geek Stories - Nick Hodge’s blog on on10.net
• The Geek Whisperer - Ajay bonding geeks and noobs
• The Podcast Network - Cameron’s New Media Conglomerate
• Twitter - Follow me, almost minute-x-minute on Twitter

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Paul Thurrott on Windows Vista SP1

Independent review, worth the read.

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Project General Melchett: Stage 2.

As the 8800GT is on backorder, time to borrow Liam's old ATI Radeon 1950Pro and start the installation process. Also a good time to clean up the cables a little inside.
Good news. General Melchett boots. BIOS finds all the hardware bit first time around. The CPU is not fried.

Vista takes an impressively short amount of [...]

Weekend Project: Windows Media Center

Yes, I know that the correct english spelling of Center is Centre.

Thanks to the generosity of Jeffa, I scored an old Mini-ATX case with power supply. Yeah, being the junior on the team - I get all the hand-me-downs.
Some hundreds of dollars later from AUSPCMarket, and I have my first ever:

AMD based PC (AMD Athlan64 [...]

Toshiba Hard Disk Upgrade

As my internal 100Gb hard disk on the Toshiba M400 (T2400) had only 5% free space: even after archiving photos and podcasts, I could not reduce the free space to under 10%.
Time for a new HD. Purchased from Auspcmarket, 200Gb 7200 RPM Seagate Momentum drive.
As much as this Toshiba has limitations that are starting to [...]

iTunes, iPod Touch and Windows

It's nearly a week since I upgraded my iPod from a generation 3 to one of the cool, uber-geek iPod Touch devices. As a 99.5% Windows Vista user, I am impressed.
The iPod Touch works on our home wifi. In the morning I check emails and other overnight happenings from the comfort of my bed in [...]

Flikr, Windows Live Photo Gallery is goodness

As Larry mentions in his post, the latest beta of Windows Live Photo Gallery is out.
After installing it, the first feature I tried out is the new "upload to Flickr". I am a Flickr Pro user: the ability to see and comment on my friend's photos is like attending slide-show evenings from the comfort of [...]

John Gallagher: MINI, The Geek Stories

JohnG, the nicest man on the planet, willing let me into his house to film another episode of The Geek Stories. Mayling filmed a behind the scenes show... which will be interesting to see, too. Server racks and a compactus in the games room. Now that's impressive!
So, do you have Australia's geekiest house?
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PC with 512Mb of RAM? Install Vista Home Basic

Ed Bott, from ZDNet in the US recently tested Windows Vista Home Basic on a 2002-vintage PC with 512Mb of RAM - and found the operating system responsive and usable.
Surprisingly, even the visuals on this system were a treat. With a three-year-old video card, this system was capable of running Vista’s Aero graphics. But because [...]

Microsoft Windows Vista support with Adobe Applications

(Link thanks to John Dowdell) Bridging my old world to my new world, this document details the support for current Adobe applications with Microsoft Windows Vista. It is well worth a read, especially as Adobe products: Flash Player and the Adobe Reader are very common installs.
Summary: no Acrobat 7 support for Vista, only Acrobat 8: [...]

ZoomIt: For presenters and visually impared.

If you are demonstrating, or presenting screen based technology: sometime you need to zoom in to highlight a dialog box, or some piece of small stuff that is, well, small.
ZoomIt is your friend. Works on Vista, too. Free.

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