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Monday, July 30th, 2007
Extensions add some great functionality to Firefox. Although with thousands available, your web browser can quickly become overloaded. But what if you had to pay for them, which extensions would you really install?
Here’s ten extensions I use on daily basis and have made the effort to installing them on more than one machine on a […]
Is Linux ready for the Desktop?
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
Is Linux ready for the mainstream desktop?
Just been reading an article from eWeek called The March of the Penguins, which kind of coincided with my brother and I installing Linux Ubuntu last Friday. Here something I rather liked from the article…
In 2001 we had…
Outlook Express
Internet Explorer
Office
Windows XP
Today in 2007 we have…
Open Office v Office
Firefox v Internet Explorer
Thunderbird v Outlook Express
Ubuntu / SuSE […]
Jeff Barr of Amazon
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
Yesterday evening I went along to Strathclyde University for a talk on Amazon’s new web services given by Jeff Barr a senior evangelist for Amazon Web Services. When you mention the word Amazon to people, most will either think of The Amazon Jungle or the hugely successful online book supplier. Myself included won’t realise that Amazon, the book supplier, is quietly making […]
Bootable CD to the rescue!
Monday, July 9th, 2007A couple of weeks ago I had some hard drive issues with a clients PC which stored the majority of their business data. Although backup was performed the night before, the hard drive failure occurred later on the next day. So it was essential to recover the days work from the failing hard drive. In this […]
Restoring Windows XP Backups on Windows Vista
Thursday, July 5th, 2007
Last week I installed a couple more Windows Vista machines after a series of catastrophic problems at one of our smaller clients. Then it came to restoring some files from the backups which where originally created using Window XP backup utility. Microsoft in their great wisdom has removed backwards compatibility with XP backups in Windows […]
Trouble Shooting The Blue Screen of Death
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
There are crashes and then there’s The Blue Screen of Death. You may of experienced your PC running slow or a program crashing, but in the Windows 95/98 days the system suddenly halting and restart was a regular occurrence.
Fortunately since Windows 2000 this has become less of a common occurrence, or so it seemed. Working late last night at a client’s office on […]
Do You Know Your Web 2.0?
Thursday, June 21st, 2007eWeek has just posted a quiz on Web 2.0 for the Enterprise 2.0 conference currently running in Boston. I got six, maybe seven if we cheat a little.
Where did the term “Web 2.0″ originate?
Name three different versions for what RSS stands for?
What is a trackback?
How much did News Corp. pay for MySpace?
Name the founder of […]
Debian Day 2007 - From Business Point of View
Monday, June 18th, 2007
I decided to attend Debian Day with a point of view that I had heard that Open Source software could help my small business to reduce IT costs and bring competitive advantages. Here is a quick review of the talks from the event:-
Knowledge, Power and free Beer
Andreas Tille - Debian Developer
Andreas explained concepts of […]
10 Resources To Improve Your Wireless Network
Thursday, June 7th, 2007 Image from The IT Managers Journal - Check out Jason’s blog
If you live in a city with similar architecture that of Edinburgh, i.e. walls thick enough to stop cannon balls (and wireless signals), offices split between two floors. Then you may of had issues with your wireless network. What’s more old buildings where never designed with network cable in mind, so it’s more […]
Its happening…offline mode for browser based applications
Thursday, May 31st, 2007
Just this week I was talking about browser applications (Google Docs) biggest downfall over local installed applications (Microsoft Word for example) is a permanent need for an internet connection.
What’s more, the next generation of web browsers will allow these applications to work offline and synchronising changes back to the server when connection to the internet becomes available […]