I behave with respect when I’m in a room with other people, in a train or on the street. This means that I have my mobile phone set to vibrate only, that I won’t answer it in crowded places, that I won’t use it to listen to music loudly (and without earbuds) and that I [...]
MailStore Home 5 Released, Email Backup Software
I have been using MailStore Home for some time to backup and archive my Thunderbird email databases (see Use MailStore To Backup Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Emails and How To Speed Up Thunderbird By Archiving Emails). The developers of this excellent free email backup software have just released version 5 which is more of a bug [...]
Amazon To Start Publishing Books
Amazon is without doubt one of the largest online book stores in the world. People who once used local book shops to order and buy books are now using Amazon’s online shop to do the same. It is in many regards a more comfortable but less direct experience. A recent article in the New York [...]
How to maintain a good security and backup strategy, Part 1 – the Home
Data is now everywhere and we store pretty much everything as data. Contacts, diaries, music, photographs, videos, conversations, business records, everything is data. In fact more and more people are shredding the paper copies of everything they have and going digital with scanned copies of important documents being much easier to store. Unfortunately this also [...]
Backup Folder Sync, Mirror Your Data Backups
Depending on your backup strategy, you may mirror your data backups for additional protection. One option here is to create a local system backup first and copy the backups to a remote location for safe keeping. This way it would be possible to access the latest backup(s) directly on the local computer and past backups [...]
WebCamImageSave, Capture Periodic Webcam Images
Webcams can be used for a variety of purposes. From video conferencing over monitoring a room for security purposes to connecting them to the Internet to make it available publicly. WebCamImageSave is a new application by Nirsoft for the Windows operating system that can capture periodic webcam images. This can be handy for documentation purposes, [...]
Skype Update Removes Google Product Bundling
With Skype now being a Microsoft Division it was clear that some things had to change. There is still a lot of speculating going on in this regard. The Skype development team has released Skype 5.6 for the Windows operating system and an update for Skye 5.5 that removes the Google product bundling from the [...]
Selection Links, Open, Download Multiple Firefox Link Targets
One of the few Firefox extensions that I have been using constantly for a very long time is Multi Links (formerly Snap Links) which allows me to open multiple links directly by drawing a rectangle with the mouse around them. That’s handy for instance if you are on a page with multiple files that you [...]
Demonrift TD [Game Saturday]
I love Tower Defense (TD) games. Last game that I played quite a bit was Orcs Must Die, a Tower Defense game with action elements that you can purchase at Steam or Xbox Live. Demonrift TD is a free browser game that you can play in all modern web browsers if the Flash plugin is [...]