http://chris.gg Tech news and other stuff from a UK geek Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:07:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm posting this here simply for my own reference because Domino's don't publish it on their own site - I often order online and don't always have a menu to hand. Hope I didn't make you hungry! Regular Crust Our famous, fresh dough base. Thin Crust Our thin and crispy dough base. Medium and ... http://chris.gg/2009/11/list-of-dominos-uk-pizza-bases/ The Rock Band iPhone application is pretty good fun, but can be time consuming. Enterprising blogger Joe Bowers had a brainwave, and built a robot to play the game for him, saving him heaps of time! Seriously though, this is an impressive bit of robot-building, and Joe has documented the entire ... http://chris.gg/2009/11/robot-plays-rock-band-on-iphone/ I just stumbled across a great blog, Cover Lay Down,which features folk-style cover versions of popular songs. Highly recommended, although if you're anything like me you'll be there for hours! http://chris.gg/2009/11/folk-covers-of-familiar-songs/ Mark Pilgrim discusses the history of the now-ubiquitous IMG tag and the controversy surrounding the way it has changed the web. (via Boing Boing) http://chris.gg/2009/11/history-of-the-img-tag/ [caption id="attachment_190" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Cat Repose Terminal"][/caption] http://chris.gg/2009/11/ingenious-use-for-an-old-crt-monitor/ Here's a useful tutorial for WordPress users wanting to move to a different domain. I've had to carry out this process a couple of times and although it's not rocket science, it's handy to have a step-by-step list to ensure the process goes smoothly. This is one of a series of ... http://chris.gg/2009/11/how-to-move-wordpress-to-a-new-domain/ This historical achievement is what inspired Stanley Kubrick to use the song in 2001: A Space Odyssey. http://chris.gg/2009/11/first-computer-to-sing-ibm-7094-sings-daisy-bell-in-1961/ Access 97, for some unknown reason, seems to chew up all available CPU when it’s idle. Microsoft acknowledges this but has never provided a fix or workaround. It turns out this isn’t much of a problem - if you have other applications running which need CPU time, Access will gladly ... http://chris.gg/2009/10/tame-access-97s-cpu-usage/ If, like me, you're fed up with Windows XP SP2’s annoying “Open File Security Warning?”,  just create a system environment variable called SEE_MASK_NOZONECHECKS and set it to 1 to disable the feature. [caption id="attachment_150" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Annoying, isn't it?"][/caption] http://chris.gg/2008/04/disable-xps-open-file-security-warning-dialog/ Windows XP and Vista contain a feature that is supposed to help you locate the right program to open a file with an unknown extension. I've never found this particularly useful - luckily, it's easy to nuke it by employing a quick Registry hack. Check out this Lifehacker post for ... http://chris.gg/2008/04/disable-windows-unknown-file-typer/