Sherlock Holmes
Let me start by saying I’ve read all the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, seen all the black and white Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce movies and Jeremy Brett BBC series from the eighties. The new Sherlock…
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Windows defaulting to Outlook Express
I was working on a PC that had a multifunction printer: the user was scanning to email via Samsung’s MFP utility but it was opening Outlook Express instead of the default email client Thunderbird. Since Outlook Express had never been…
Kirby: King Of Comics by Evanier
Jack Kirby is a giant legend in comics and everyone who has enjoyed a comic book in their life owes a tip of the hat to him. Kirby: King Of Comics by Mark Evanier is a biography of Jack Kirby…
Lime Tech unRAID
After working with FreeNAS as a free storage solution for small businesses I came across Lime Technologies unRAID, which takes a completely different approach to storage. It’s a software RAID type solution that uses your largest disk as a parity…
Small business storage
With my testing of free software storage solutions I’ve been looking hard at how much data a small business uses. I’m helping out a small tradesman who has two desktop PCs, a laptop and two networked printers. Actual business files…
Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool
Longest name ever for a one trick app. Microsoft developed the Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool to allow people to write an ISO file to a bootable medium: DVD or USB storage. When Windows 7 launched a lot of…
Brodart Just-A-Fold III Archival Book Jacket Covers
I’m a collector: comics, books, statues, that kind of thing. No matter what it is I like to take care of it so it will last a good long time. With my switch to trade paperbacks and hardcovers over weekly…
Backupify with 1&1
Backupify is a new online service that backs up your online services and is free to sign up until January 31st 2010. They provide backup services built on Amazon’s Web Services and supports a range of services including WordPress, Blogger,…
FreeNAS: first steps
FreeNAS seems to be making a lot of news and tech sites lately; it’s a free network attached storage operating system so you can make your own NAS box out of whatever hardware you want. I haven’t been interested because…