http://chrome.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/chrome-for-android-update.html

Go checkout it out at Google Play (previously Market), only works on Ice Cream Sandwich devices so far.

http://frustrateditengineer.wordpress.com/2012/03/03/windows-7-logon-screen-background-changer/

All went well during the installation, until I decided to open up the Store and download some apps only to be greeted with “This app can’t open, The screen resolution is too low for this app to run, change your screen resolution” This occurred for any of the built in apps as well.

Easy to resolve I thought, I’ll just change my screen resolution, except it was already set at the maximum resolution of 800×600.

Windows 8 even states on the screen resolution page that screen resolutions lower than 1024×768 that the apps may not open.

So to conclude Windows 8 seems like it doesn’t like devices with screen resolutions lower than 1024×768 to work properly. Not a big issue, I can still continue to test on VMware Workstation 8. If anyone does know a workaround please let me know (I haven’t done a lot of research for a solution).

Update:

It would seem there’s a way to change the resolution via the registry.

Change the “Display1_DownScalingSupported” setting

I would recommend backing up the registry first, and being careful… but seeing as your probably testing Windows 8 like me… you may just want to take the risk!

To do this, fire up the registry via Windows Key + R to get to the run box, type regedit and click ok.

Then CTRL + F to open the find box and type “Display1_DownScalingSupported” – click Find Next.

Once found you will need to change the value from 0 to 1. There may be more than one “Display1_DownScalingSupported” in the registry, so hit F3 (find next) and change all the values from 0 to 1. On my netbook there was only one option. Others have reported more than one.

Once the values have been changed, restart the netbook and you should be able to change the resolution to a higher value.

Now the apps within Windows 8 should open!

So we did some research on the Interweb and noticed a few posts by similiar people having the same issue. Seems to have happened over the last week by the sounds of it, have Microsoft broke something?

The fix is to either reinstall Service Pack 3 which is time consuming or obtain the latest Windows Update Agent 3.0 from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949104 which will resolve the issue.

The only thing I could think of was that the satellite repository must have inconsistency. I decided to log-on to a satellite and see what commands are available to try and resolve this issue. I came across the following:

• cdp-checksum, cchk Validates satellite content by computing the checksum
  on each file.
• cdp-verify-content, cvc Compares the list of content IDs and their sync states on this CDP with what the Primary servers thinks it should have. Logging to the file specified by log-path.

I decided to run the “zac cvc” command first to ensure the content was correct followed by a “zac cchk” to double check the checksum of the files were also correct. The time for these commands may vary depending on content size. These took around 3 minutes each to complete.

This fixed the problem I was having whereby the content was downloading incorrectly. It then occurred to me that this would be good to have on a bundle that ran at least one a month to ensure all content is consistent on the satellites. Seeing as I have 100 satellites, trying to do this manually would be a pain!

This has since fixed the issue with updating and also some other issues relating to bundles.

Enjoy!

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See what you think and pass it on if you agree with it. We are hitting 95p a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying £1 a ltr. This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the “don’t buy petrol on a certain day” campaign that was going around last April or May! The oil companies just laughed at that because they knew we wouldn’t continue to hurt ourselves by refusing to buy petrol. It was more of an inconvenience to us than it was a problem for them.

BUT, whoever thought of this idea, has come up with a plan that can really work. Please read it and join in! Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to think that the cost of a litre is CHEAP, we need to take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the market place not sellers. With the price of petrol going up more each day, we consumers need to take action. The only way we are going to see the price of petrol come down is if we hit someone in the pocket by not purchasing their Petrol! And we can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves. Here’s the idea:

For the rest of this year, DON’T purchase ANY petrol from the two biggest oil companies (which now are one), ESSO and BP. If they are not selling any petrol, they will be inclined to reduce their prices. If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow suit. But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of Esso and BP petrol buyers.

It’s really simple to do!! Now, don’t whimp out on me at this point… keep reading and I’ll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people!!

I am sending this note to a lot of people. If each of you send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300)…and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000) … and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers!

If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted! If it goes one level further, you guessed it…..THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!

Again, all You have to do is send this to 10 people. That’s all. (and not buy at ESSO/BP) How long would all that take? If each of us sends this email out to ten more people within one day of receipt, all 300 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within the next 8days!!! I’ll bet you didn’t think you and I had that much potential, did you! Acting together we can make a difference. If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on. PLEASE HOLD OUT UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE 69p a LITRE RANGE. It’s easy to make this happen.

Just forward this email, and buy your petrol at Shell, Asda, Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons, Jet etc. i.e. boycott BP and Esso.

POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!!!

But watch this funny clip HERE its great!

Should have some intresting things to post in the coming days as i get paid on Thursday and have a very busy month coming up!

Hmm, what might be intresting to do is, have a round up every week of the funny things i come across, that way this site shall be kept updated more often.

// CsTarX