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meebo

Ian Sealy — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 16:34:17 +0000

So I’ve just been looking at meebo. It’s a Web-based application that consolidates the major instant messaging platforms (MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, etc…) into one user interface. It seems very good. I’ve just been trying it out with Paul, who uses MSN Messenger. Does anyone else use online chat regularly? If so, let me know which application you use, especially if it’s one that meebo supports.

Email problem

Ian Sealy — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 12:40:57 +0000

Thanks to a problem with FastMail, it looks like I’m going to be without my email for the weekend. So apologies if you’ve emailed me and were expecting a swift reply. I’ll get back to you next week. Pity nobody’s … Continue reading →

Swapping ` and \ keys on Windows XP

Ian Sealy — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 11:38:53 +0000

This is just some info that I no longer need but want to archive somewhere anyway because it took me a while to work out how to do it.

On my current Toshiba laptop, the ` (backtick) and \ (backslash) keys have swapped round compared to my previous Toshiba. At first I couldn’t get used to this, so I just swapped the keys round under Windows XP using:

REG ADD "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout" /v "Scancode Map" /t REG_BINARY /d 000000000000000000000003290056005600290000000000

I no longer need this for two reasons:

I got used to the new layout.
I rarely use Windows these days.