Just happened to look over a colleague’s shoulder today and spotted he had added his logmein computers in to google reader as an rss feed. At first I wondered why he’d done this, then it dawned on me that many of us use a  ‘centre of the universe‘ web page such as igoogle to generate [...]

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I have a little job coming up in a few weeks time where I need to quickly clone a dozen Toshiba laptops (perhaps daily) with with a dual boot Linux+Windows set-up for a Conference Cyber Cafe. We’ll be using Ubuntu Linux for the Cyber Cafe (I can’t be a*sed to lock-down Windows!) , but at [...]

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I’m often surprised by how many supposed ‘IT Pros‘ never use a UPS on their own home kit. Mains spikes are more common than one might imagine, and trying to get a local electricty provider to admit that they’ve experienced a glitch is nightmare., believe me, been there. got the T-shirt. If (like me) you [...]

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mac users – if you are looking for an easier way to tag movies you’ve downloaded with eye TV or ripped in handbrake have a look at metaX. It rather cleverly pops over to Amazon, looks the movies up, grabs the description and artwork and away you go. A bit cheeky nicking the info from [...]

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Thought I would revisit Ubuntu Linux again this evening and try out the latest release code-named Feisty Fawn. As a tech I’ve always been a big fan of Ubuntu, it’s as easy to install as Mac OS X and is has bucket loads of neat apps built-in like an office suite and Windows networking especially [...]

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I’ve just been reading Ed Parson’s blog about Open Source Software… if you are not sure what Open source means roughly it translates to the fact that you get to use the software for free, and if you are a geek you might help improve it, and if you are just a ‘punter‘ you’ll consider [...]

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Something I find fascinating about the iPod phenomena is that many users don’t just ‘like‘ their iPods… ask them and in many cases they’ll often confess that they ‘lurve their iPodds’. Yet almost anyone who uses a computer in the office will probably already know how to move an mp3 file over to a £20 [...]

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 I’ve just spotted that dabs (a UK PC\periphery vendor) are offering a 500GB hard disk at £72.54 inc. VAT, and it’s actually a fairly decent drive running at the more desirable 7200 RPM speed. So you could stuff two of these in a Windows PC and and use the built-in disk management to create [...]

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iTunes is one of those utilities you take for granted if you use an iPod, it’s THE tool to automatically harvest podcasts, movies and TV shows and then sync them over to your iPod not to mention all that clever stuff like striping out the pauses in classics such as Dark Side of the Moon. [...]

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I’ve been quite a fan of the logmein Windows PC remote control software party because they a offer free edition but mostly because unlike Remote Desktop I don’t have to use it with a VPN (it’s already using 128bit ssl). I also don’t have to open any firewall ports as it’s a client that logs [...]

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