Category Archives: Googled

Get 5.1 surround sound in ubuntu with Realtek ACL662

By Cohen | Published: April 23, 2009
Just switched over to Ubuntu as my primary OS and been working (hard) get to get everything working properly. Still worth it thought. Anyway, one of the more difficult problems was getting 5.1 sound out of the sound card in Ubuntu. The motherboard has a built-in 5.1 sound card, the realtek ACL662. Some people have [...]
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Selecting and uploading multiple files with one form element, wordpress style

By Cohen | Published: April 3, 2009
We’re building a CMS at work and one of the requirements is a half decent file manager. Having seen how easy the wordpress upload tool is, we wanted to replicate it. Clients don’t want to sit there having to individually select and upload 50 files from a folder! There are a number of options available [...]
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Blackberry app world (store) launches

By Cohen | Published: April 2, 2009
Somebody just mentioned that the Blackberry application store launched yesterday and so I had to try it out! So far, it looks promising, but have hit a number of teething problems. Yesterday I was unable to browse the store on my phone because I was in the UK. Today I’m able to browse the store, [...]
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Blackberry storm multi select messages

By Cohen | Published: December 23, 2008
I just upgraded to the Blackberry Storm despite reading mixed reviews and after day one am quite happy with it. There are a few niggles but overall I think it does a good job. One of my major concerns was that I couldn’t select multiple messages or items  to delete en masse. I flicked through [...]
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Mouse double clicking on a single click in windows xp

By Cohen | Published: November 24, 2008
For the last few days my mouse had been double clicking everytime I clicked and it made using the computer rather irritating. Luckily I only use my windows box for media so it didn’t really bother me. I started investigating the issue tonight and tried a number of different techniques, checking various settings in folder [...]
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