Alan Hart

If you have installed the latest Windows Serivce Pack 3 and after reboot noticed that the intermet has stopped workng and you get the errors:

“The procedure entry point apsGetInterfaceCount could not be located in the dynamic link library wlanapi.dll”

and

“The procedure entry point apsInitialize could not be located in the dynamic link library wlanapi.dll”

The solution is quite simple…

To get your D-link network adapter working properly under Windows.

1. It doesnt matter which D-link adapter you have. Dont bother trying new drivers yet.

2. Download this file which is the version of the file prior to the SP3 driver and is compatible with all D-Link versions.
Download wlanapi.dll (zipped) to fix Service Pack 3 D-Link problem.

4. Copy the downloaded file ” wlanapi.dll” to these folders:

“C:\ProgramFiles\D-Link\AirPlus G\” and “C:\ProgramFiles\ANI\ANIWZCS\”
Please Note: If this file already exists in these folders, rename the orginals or move them to a backup folder somewhere in case this fix doesn’t work.

5. Restart computer and it should work just as it did before SP3 was installed.

If this helped anyone would be nice if you could comment.

If this didn’t help, you could try this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950720

So i got myself a nice big 1.5TB USB External Hard Drive and wanted to sync folders in my Documents folder to that drive for safekeeping.

Easy right? Just use Vista’s SyncCenter? Well you can’t. Sync Center is only for network folder synchronisation and other “compatible” devices not most USB hard drives and memory sticks.

Luckily i discovered Microsoft’s SyncToy, an incredibly easy to use and uncomplicated folder sync application.

Just download SyncToy from the link below and install.

Download SyncToy 2.0 from Microsoft

Once installed, go to “Start” > “Programs” and click the  “SyncToy 2.0″ Icon.

It’s pretty self explanatory to setup folder synchronisation, click “create a new folder pair” and choose the two folders you want to syncronise to each other.

Easy!

I’m disgusted at the changes that will be made to Google Checkout fees after 5th May.
The only reason I chose to use Google Checkout over PayPal for transaction processing is because of the transaction fees being considerably lower and now i find that Google are making them EXACTLY the same as PayPal! They could at least have made them a bit less!

The website i am running makes nowhere near £1500 a month (i am only trying to make a bit of extra cash) but i see my rates shooting up from 1.5% to 3.4% and to get back to anywhere near the old rate i have to be earning £55,000 per month!! My household’s combined income doesn’t even come close to that working full time!!

I guess what with being one of the worlds largest organisations Google weren’t making enough money from the old 1.5% + 20p per transaction ?!
I like Google and it’s services and use almost all of them. I have never had any complaints or gripes with anything Google has done (except maybe gmail going down for a while recently)
Just a bit annoyed. Why is it always the “little guy” who gets penalised?

Rant Over!

For reference:

Google’s Fees:

http://checkout.google.com/seller/fees.html

Today i had the problem of eroneous email addresses appearing when auto filling the To, Cc and Bcc in Outlook. More of an annoyance than anything else, but still something i’d rather not have to put up with when using Outlook on a day to day basis.

Anyway below are the easiest two methods i’ve discovered for solving this Outlook E-mail auto-fill problem:…

To clear entire Outlook auto-fill / auto complete list:

1. In the Toolbar go to Tools > Options
2. Click [E-mail Options] then  [Advanced E-mail Options]
3. Untick “Suggest names while completing To, Cc, and Bcc fields”
4. Restart Outlook
   

To delete individual email addresses:

1. Start typing the email address
2. When the email address you want to delete is highlighted in the auto-fill suggestions pop-up just hit the Delete [Del] key on your keyboard.

Hope this helps someone.

As you are probably aware, marches are being held all across the UK in December for little Baby P!

Unfortunately a lot of people are unable to attend due to travel etc. but are still wanting to say their goodbyes and pay their respect to the poor little boy who was tortured to death at the hands of his mother, her boyfriend and another man.

Therefore marches are being organised across the UK see this site for details of these marches

March for Baby P

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This article has been updated:
Updated: Facebook chat emoticons, emotes and smilies / icons

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Want to add smilies to your Facebook chat conversations?

Here are the obvious (and maybe less obvious) smilies / emoticons / emotes that you can send to your friends in Facebook chat!

Simply type what’s next to the smiley and it’ll show up when u send it to your friends in Facebook chat!

smile = :-) or :) or :] or =)

frown = :-( or :( or :[ or =(

tongue = :-P or :P or :-p or :p or =P

grin = :-D or :D or =D

gasp = :-O or :O or :-o or :o

wink = ;-) or ;)

glasses = 8-) or 8) or B-) or B)

sunglasses = 8-| or 8| or B-| or B|

grumpy = >:( or >:-(

unsure = :/ or :-/ or :\ or :-\

cry = :'(

devil = 3:) or 3:-)

angel = O:) or O:-)

kiss = :-* or :*

heart = <3

kiki = ^_^

squint = -_-

confused = o.O or O.o

upset = >:O or >:-O or >:o or >:-o

pacman = :v

curly lips = :3

robot = :|]

Chris Putnam = :putnam:

NEW!

Shark = (^^^)

Penguin = <(“)

42 emote = :42:

You can also change the text style:

Bold Text Bold Text = *Bold Text*

Underlined Text Underlined Text = _Underlined Text_

Bold & Underlined Text Bold Text = *_Bold and Underlined Text_*

This is a list of all currently known Facebook chat emoticons.
I’m sure Facebook will be adding more emoticons in the future and when they do i’ll update this post.

Just noticed that google have chaged their favicon (the little icon that shows in the title/tab bar in Web browsers)

I’m not sure i like it, looks a bit boring and makes it harder for me to spot among all my open tabs, also looks naff both on a white and grey backround!

Probably google changing their branding or something or might just be doing it as a buzz creating exercise.

What do you think?

Newly added to the Gambling Addict Gear range on Streetwise Gear UK…

Holy Crap! Only in America!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7416120.stm

at least they require a background check i suppose, but still…