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Use a USB pen to install Windows 7 on a Netbook or Laptop without a CD / DVD drive

Peter Moore — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:28:37 +0000

Handy for when you replace you hard disk in your netbook or Laptop and rather than cloning your old driveyou simply want a fresh install of windows. You’ll obviously need to get yourself a copy of Windows 7, either on a DVD or an ISO of the setup files and a 4GB or 8GB USB pen drive. We’re going to wipe the pen drive (or at least flag the data for deletion), create a primary partition, format the drive, mount the pen drive before copying across our windows 7 set-up files from a DVD.

1// open start > type ‘diskpart‘ > execute diskpart.exe > click ‘yes’ to the User account control window prompt

2// When diskpart is running in cmd window, type ‘list disk‘ >

3// Identify the your USB drive by the size of the disk – in this case it’s a 4GB (3700MB) drive – and type ‘select disk #‘ (where # is the number of your disk – in my case it was disk 6). Type ‘clean’ and press enter.

4// Type ‘create partition primary‘ and press enter. Type ‘active‘ and press enter. Type ‘format fs=fat32 quick’ or if the USB key is over 4GB type ‘format fs=ntfs quick‘

5// Type ‘assign‘ and windows will map a drive letter to the drive. Click ‘Open folder to view files and copy your windows set-up files across from your DVD to your USB drive. Use your USB pen to install your copy of windows to your netbook.

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Create a URL button in flash AS3

Peter Moore — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 09:46:18 +0000

If you need a banner to have a button that when clicked takes you to another webpage when you click the flash button this is how you do it. You need to create a button (in this case a transparent rectangle on top of a web banner animation), add an event listener(a mouse event/click) and create a function (in this case the function is to request a URL and navigate to it).

1/ Press F8 to convert a rectangle into a symbol, create button and name it myButton.
2/ Click on the button in the main timeline and press F9 to open the actions window.
3/ Use this code to create an event listener and a function for after the click event.
You can use…
“_blank” or “top” to open in a new tab
“_parent” or “_self” open in the same tab



myButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, myButtonFunction);

function myButtonFunction(event: MouseEvent) {

var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http://www.pmlmedia.co.uk");

navigateToURL(request, "_self");

}

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List-o-matic! & htmldog

Peter Moore — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 11:52:03 +0000

If (like me) you need a crash course in CSS and HTML styles then this list-o-matic site is a good place for the beginner to start training in building a css navigation or even a whole standards-compliant website.

Found this HTML Dog Website good as well with information about all of the valid tags belonging to the latest version of strict XHTML. boooyaaaa

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Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO

Peter Moore — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:33:15 +0000

A great blog about Google and SEO

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Bedroom Mural

Peter Moore — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 23:59:17 +0000

Andrea has finished the Mural in Benjamin’s bedroom – how cool is this!

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I want one of these…

Peter Moore — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:11:26 +0000

Korg CX-3

…it’s a Korg CX-3 – this is version 2.

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