I’ve recently come face to face with a limitation of the Lotus Notes platform; synchronization from my Lotus Notes Calendar to Google Calendar. Example cases such as towards the end of lunch, when it’s nice to know of any upcoming meetings or appointments, as well as their location.
LNGoogleCalSync is a free, open-source solution. It’s a small Java application that will allow you to specify your Lotus Notes details, along with your Google Calendar details, and update any new meetings or appointments from your Lotus Notes calendar to Google Calendar.
Notifications can be transferred as Reminders in Google Calendar, and then also synchronized to a multitude of mobile devices such as iPhones and Android devices.
Regular synchronization of this application is also easy. Running the program with the ‘-silent’ parameter, will hide any GUI prompts. Task Scheduler can be used in Windows XP, Vista and 7, to allow for regular synchronization updates.
The main website seems to be slightly out of date, in terms of information, however the download link will still provide you with the latest version from the Source Forge project page.
Visit the LNGoogleCalSync Website!
Windows 7 Jump lists are brilliant… until they break 
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My personal primary use of this tool includes pinning my lecture notes to products from the office suite, as well as folders with subject information for quick access.
Unfortunately, I’ve experienced a slight issue, in particular with the Office 2007 Word jump list. While I am now using Office 2010, I felt the problem and subsequent solution was worth publishing should anyone else, still using Office 2007, experience the same issue.
The problem in question; Occasionally I have found that the Jump Lists would be cleared for no apparent reason, and would not allow any documents to be pinned, nor update with any recent documents. This left me with a jumplist like the picture below;
From a technical perspective, the reason behind this is still unknown, however a solution does exist. After some Googling lead me to this post, with subsequent solution to the problem. While the solution won’t restore the previously pinned items, it will allow you to pin new items, and restore the ‘Recent Items’ functionality.
- Navigate to %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations
- Check for, and delete, any files that are large in size compared to others (probably anything above the 1 MB mark).
- If that doesn’t fix the issue, you can also delete all of these files safely, however you will lose any pinned items on other applications in the taskbar.
- You should now be able to pin new items to the jump list. Additionally, recent items should start appearing as you view new documents.
Half-Life 2 was originally featured in the original Game Music post, but only with a limited selection of the available (awesome) songs. Here is a more in-depth compilation of my favourite Half-Life 2 tracks, including tracks from Episodes 1 and 2.
Many of the Half-Life 2 tracks use extremely heavy baselines; they should be listened to on a decent sound system, with a decent sub woofer, in order to give the tracks, the justice they deserve 
In addition to the note above; the quality of the clips below compares only marginally to that on the official sound track (which happens to come with Audiosurf).
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I can’t tell whether I am disappointed in the musical aspect of Mass Effect 2 or not. Unfortunately, some of the ‘best’ music tracks aren’t included on the Official Sound Track – reason being? They aren’t made by EA, but are instead “real life” (but undiscovered) songs used in-game. Examples include the music from Aria’s Club on Omega — instead of gaining a place on the official soundtrack, it was substituted with some “generic battle music”.
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For such a great game, the ambient background music by itself doesn’t quite deliver quite the same effect as the game itself.
The music in Mass Effect was unfortunately not as ‘significant’ as I would have liked it to be. The tracks all seemed to lack the “ability” to be listened to outside of the game. A lot of the tracks were required to be coupled alongside game play in order to make their effect more prominent. This rendered the official soundtrack regrettably “forgettable”.
However, with every batch of not-so-great game music, or there are some stand out tracks from Mass Effect that provided that “Zelda-music like” connection to the game.
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Since publishing the post containing some of my favourite game music; I have been keeping and ear and eye out for any other games I may have missed. The original post was already quite full of various game music, so it was probably best to start splitting the music up by separate game posts.
Sonic the Hedgehog! Only after finding a quiz on Sporcle related directly to the game music, it wasn’t until then that the memories of the classic Green Hill Zone and super trendy Chemical Plant Zone music came flooding back. Below is the collection of my favourite Sonic zone themes.
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I was recently enlightened to a page as a result of a Google search for the ‘Greatest Game Music Ever’. The ‘Billboard’ website, listed 25 of the ‘Best Video Game Songs Ever’. In one of the biggest insults to real game music, the list comprised of real world songs, by real world artists, that had been used in games like GTA and Guitar Hero. C’mon Guitar Hero!? Best video game songs!? /sigh
While it may be dependant on the game in question, I’m not having a ‘go’ at the game itself, but the people and consequent websites who believe the GTA and Guitar Hero music is proper video game music.
On a final note, this page may be quite memory consuming with all the embedded files — but hey, it’s worth it
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So you’re wondering what on earth Shadow Productions could do to help with your cleaning routine? Well, not much really — however I can at least appreciate the difficulty of cleaning a keyboard and mouse, especially that of a gamer…
The odd situation is, that I tend to clean my keyboard while having the computer on — while voice chatting or waiting for a new game to install, I subconsciously clean the keyboard, but also tend to write an essay of jargon at the same time from accidental key presses.
This application, “Keyboard and Mouse Disabler” has only one known purpose so far, and that is to make cleaning your keyboard and mouse peripherals easy. With a few clicks, your mouse and keyboard will be temporarily disabled, preventing accidental key presses and mouse clicks — then it’s cleaning time
There is no install required, it runs straight from the download. While this may seem to be a rather trivial application to release, I thought why not. If someone finds a use for it — great
Download Keyboard and Mouse Disabler!
I was browsing the Internet and some local pictures and found some interesting Team Fortress 2 comics and included them below. I can’t remember the sources, nor authors for all of them. Let me know if you’re the creator 
Click the image to make it bigger, if it’s still not big enough, Right click then “Open in new tab/window” or similar.
Possibly one of the worst kept ‘launch’ secrets, Google announced the Nexus One back at the start of January, specifically the 5th.
Launched within the US, UK, Singapore and Hong Kong, customers were able to purchase a Nexus One. However, that left Australia and a plethora of other countries without access to the latest Google gadget.
More recently, there have been reports of a “2010 release date” for the Nexus One in Australia. Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) (Vodafone and Three networks) have said “Details relating to Vodafone’s Australian launch of Google Nexus One will be announced in due course.”
This due course may be confirmed by some photos taken during a ‘dissection’ of the Nexus One…
The picture may not seem to reveal much at first, however in the lower left corner appears the ‘A-tick’, a certification of ACMA’s “Telecommunications/Radiocommunications Labelling”.
Being certified by ACMA hopefully indicates and confirms future sales in Australia.
In the mean-time the temptation to import grows, with numerous sites now offering the phone along with warranty with a slightly inflated price…
