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		<title>Heatmiser PRT-TS Wi-Fi thermostat review &amp; troubleshooting tips</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently decided to replace my central heating programmer with a programmable thermostat, and decided to go for the geeky option: a wi-fi connected model! So I ordered a PRT-TS Wi-Fi from Heatmiser, which can be controlled both via a Web browser and an iPhone app. Overall, I&#8217;m happy with the product but I found [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chris.gg/2011/11/heatmiser-prt-ts-wi-fi-thermostat-review-troubleshooting-tips/</link>
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		<title>Display filename instead of document title in SharePoint search</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My employer has been using SharePoint for a number of years now, and it&#8217;s recently come to light that people haven&#8217;t always been putting meaningful information in the Document Title field. It seems that if this field is left blank, it will default to the document filename, but a lot of our documents have incorrect [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chris.gg/2011/06/display-filename-instead-of-document-title-in-sharepoint-search/</link>
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		<title>The iPad 2 saga (aka Best Buy fail)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having resisted the original iPad, I succumbed to the temptation of the iPad 2 and placed an order via the online Apple Store at 9am on the UK launch day, March 25th. Unfortunately, due to demand, I was given an estimated shipping date of 15 April, with estimated delivery on 26 April, inexplicably eleven days [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chris.gg/2011/04/the-ipad-2-saga-aka-best-buy-fail/</link>
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		<title>Thoughts on npower hometeam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I signed up for a npower hometeam 50 central heating care contract at the start of February. Knowing that boiler repair can be expensive and that my boiler hadn&#8217;t been serviced since we moved in over a year ago, £15 a month didn&#8217;t seem a bad price for peace of mind, especially as it includes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chris.gg/2011/04/thoughts-on-npower-hometeam/</link>
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		<title>Samba free mobile broadband</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently applied for, and was accepted into, a trial for the Samba Mobile free mobile broadband service. Samba provide a 3G USB dongle for which you are able to build up credit by viewing video ads via a Firefox extension which also installs a &#8220;battery&#8221; icon in your navigation bar showing your available credit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chris.gg/2011/01/samba-free-mobile-broadband/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Cannot save the property settings for this Web Part&#8221; error when using SmartPart in SharePoint</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently deployed a custom user control using SmartPart on SharePoint 2007, and although everything else seemed to work fine, I came across the following error when trying to edit the properties (in my case, the chrome type and width): Cannot save the property settings for this Web Part. Exception occurred. (Exception from HRESULT: 0&#215;80020009 (DISP_E_EXCEPTION)) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chris.gg/2010/12/cannot-save-the-property-settings-for-this-web-part-error-when-using-smartpart-in-sharepoint/</link>
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		<title>How to make Google Chrome open .torrent files with µTorrent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unfortunately Google Chrome doesn&#8217;t currently support opening files without downloading them, which is a pain when dealing with .torrent files which must be manually opened after downloading. I&#8217;ve been doing things this way for a while, but today stumbled across a handy feature in µTorrent which solves this minor annoyance: monitoring a directory for .torrent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chris.gg/2010/11/how-to-make-google-chrome-open-torrent-files-with-utorren/</link>
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		<title>How to disable time synchronisation under Virtual PC 2007</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the benefits of the Virtual Machine Additions for Virtual PC is that the time is automatically synchronised with the host machine. In most cases this is desirable, but I ran into a case recently where I needed to test something using an earlier date, and not realising this I wrestled with the time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chris.gg/2010/10/how-to-disable-time-synchronisation-under-virtual-pc-2007/</link>
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		<title>How to increase/decrease the time your iPhone rings before diverting to voicemail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The iPhone supports ringtone of up to 30 seconds, but most networks will divert to voicemail before you gets a chance to hear the full ringtone. The way around this is to instruct your network to increase the delay before a caller is sent to voicemail: Via the Phone app, enter *#61# and press Call. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chris.gg/2010/10/how-to-increasedecrease-the-time-your-iphone-rings-before-diverting-to-voicemail/</link>
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		<title>WHSmith.co.uk &#8211; one to avoid!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, I placed at order at WHSmith.co.uk for the first time since 2008. 15 days later and there has been no sign of my item, so I checked my order status on the website. It&#8217;s showing as &#8220;Part-complete&#8221; which apparently means &#8220;Some of the items ordered have been sent or cancelled and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chris.gg/2010/09/whsmith-co-uk-one-to-avoid/</link>
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