If you are having trouble with registration reminders for Acrobat 8 Pro on Windows 8, then you have come to the right place. You just need to follow 3 steps: Add a new Key (AdobeViewer) in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\8.0\ Add a new Dword (Registered) in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\8.0\AdobeViewer Edit the Dword value in hexadecimal to 2 See the Screenshot [...]

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The time has come to ditch the Antec Sonata and move to a smaller footprint computer system. I have been reading a number of reviews of the Silverstone FT03, which is a mid tower for Micro-ATX  boards. Now the interesting thing about this case is the fact that the motherboard is mounted with the rear [...]

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I have been using handbrake to convert my dvd collection, but found that I can’t really use my computer effectively for much else while it is using 100% CPU, even with the thread priority set to Low. On each item you can manage the CPU affinity manually through task manager, but when you have 10-20 [...]

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This article is a really good read. If, like me, you are an Arsenal fan,  you have seen the period under Wenger, which has been unusually successful in comparison to our history. In this most recent lean spell without trophies, a large coterie of fans have been calling for blood.  I say, in Arsene we [...]

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There is reasonable broad acknowledgement that Global warming is caused, if not at least significantly contributed to, by the burning of fossil fuels resulting in CO2 emissions. In Australia the biggest contributors to our emissions are Hazlewood and Yallourn Coal power stations, representing 40M of our 600M tonnes of CO2 emissions. The Australian government is talking [...]

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I just read a really interesting article on theage.com.au that covered a new wireless system developed at Melbourne University. The chip is said to push data at 5 gigabits per second, is cheap to manufacture, and works in the 30 to 300 Ghz range. According to the actual news release by NICTA the chip will [...]

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Like many users, I too have problems using Windows Vista when browsing the web. At first it appears that you have network problems. or your ISP is playing up. You can be browsing along and all of a sudden it is like the internet is not even there. I tried troubleshooting this for weeks. At [...]

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Nintendo have announced that they have releases a new photo channel for Wii. Directly from the press release This Photo Channel update includes: • Option to customise the Photo Channel icon on the Wii Menu with any photograph you like, transferred from an SD card • New file format for background music played from an [...]

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While I am sure there are lots of places that have already done a list like this, I thought it was worth while providing a list of what I consider to be essential free software that should be the basis for any windows user. While I am a believer in the GPL, and open-source software, [...]

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Recently I took the plunge and made the move to Windows Vista. I took the fresh install route, as I was in dire need anyway. The isntallation was completely uneventful, it patchd itself automatiically, it rebooted and it all just worked, it prompted me to download drivers for my printer but that was about it.  [...]

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