Archive for October, 2005

Speedometer—funk

Sunday, October 16th, 2005

I was digging through the archives at WeFunk when I discovered a deeply funky UK band called Speedometer. They’ve done a couple of albums, one of which was released earlier this year.

You can check out some audio clips on their website, and at their record company’s site too.

Awesome.

(Oh yeah… I found them in WeFunk show number 373)

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Virus and spyware removal

Friday, October 14th, 2005

Firstly: know your enemy!

Basic wash cycle to clean icky Windows:-

  1. Scan and clean with CWShredder (download + homepage)
  2. Scan, clean and immunise with Spybot-S&D (download, homepage)
  3. Scan and clean with Ad-Aware (download, homepage)
  4. Scan and clean with AVG Anti-Virus (download, homepage)
  5. Immunise with SpywareBlaster (download, homepage)

…and rinse

For grime that proves harder to shift:-

For persistent problem stains, try a different angle:-

…and repeat

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Firefox, extensions and plugins

Friday, October 14th, 2005

On Windows PCs, it is necessary—for a number of reasons—to replace IE. I do it with these:-

…again… and again… and again…

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