I administer a lot of web sites. And all of these web sites need backup solutions. Since most of those web sites use LAMP servers it only made sense to set up a backup system using the available, included open source tools. It didn’t take long to create a solid backup system and, with the [...]
Monitor Directories With Directory Changes Watcher
Directory Changes Watcher is a small, lightweight (2 Megabytes while running minimized in the Windows System Tray) and portable software program that monitors directories and moves new or changed files to another directory. The tool that is using only 111 Kilobytes unpacked on the local hard drive supports local and network directories. The first thing [...]
Windows Clipboard Software
The Windows Clipboard has the severe limitation of being only able to store one item at a time in it. Copying a second item inevitably removes the first from the clipboard to make room for it. ArcClip is a free Windows clipboard software replacement that remembers the last 50 text items by default that have [...]
Text Flow Collaboration Software
Working on one text document with multiple colleagues can prove to be very complicated. Imagine writing a first draft and sending it out to several colleagues for feedback. You probably will receive several revised versions of that text document in return which contain annotations, comments and other feedback. The difficult part begins to combine and [...]
How To Coordinate Multiple Amazon Purchases
If you make purchases at an Amazon store you have the option to let Amazon ship the items as soon as they are available or grouped together to save postage and handling fees. Shipping and handling is usually not a problem as Amazon will send some items free of charge. For some items though, but [...]
Enable Hotmail POP3 In All Countries
Microsoft has announced a change to the Hotmail email provider service that they offer. The feature to access Hotmail accounts using a POP3 connection will be gradually enabled for all Hotmail accounts. Gradually meaning that only users from some countries like Germany, Italy or the United Kingdom are currently able to connect to Hotmail via [...]
PagePlus: A better and cheaper DTP program than Publisher
99% of home users will use Microsoft Publisher as their desktop publisher but will be unaware of a free superior package offered by Serif. PagePlus is a ‘budget’ desktop publishing suite published by Serif. The latest version (PagePlus X3) costs £80 but an older version, PagePlus SE, is offered free-of-charge. PagePlus SE contains many different [...]
eGroupware: Your Exchange Replacement Has Arrived
If your company uses Exchange you might have noticed the license for Exchange now requires a CAL for each user who accesses the Exchange server. In a large enterprise this can become quite costly. Fortunately there is an alternative. The eGroupware suite is a free, open source groupware suite that allows users to manage contacts, [...]
Analyzing Windows Shutdown Performance
Windows Shutdown usually takes only a matter of seconds before the computer shuts down. It can take longer if commands or applications are executed at shutdown – like cleaning temporary files or the pagefile – or if a driver or program does not respond properly to the shutdown command. One of the better additions of [...]