There was an interesting post on Lifehacker yesterday outlining the steps that can be taken to migrate away from an old email address. It was recommended that you use your own hosted domain to ensure that future mail can be managed in a single place.
Well I’m in the process of doing something similar with my [...]
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Tidying Up IM
Seam Carving to resize images
Seam Carving is an image resizing technique that Jeremy originally pointed out to me … whilst on the phone … walking … through the rain … to the pub … funny what you remember eh?
When J and I discussed it, Seam Carving was available as a GIMP plugin which meant installing GIMP.
Well now there’s a [...]
Sans Interwebs – update
Well it may not be the ideal but it looks like we might be back online rather sooner than planned thanks to the Wifi offered by the hotel complex.
Whilst it’s still a short term fix it will do for basic browsing and email at home. I still need to find a solution to the bigger [...]
Time to start encrypting email again!
You gotta love this. In the midst of a fiscal crisis and during the one time in our history when data protection and privacy are considered hot topics of the age GCHQ (who may or may not be based in Cheltenham and may or may not listen in on every phone call made in the [...]
I miss Twitter SMS Alerts
I can understand why they’ve been switched off (must have been costing them a fortune) but at the same time, I feel like I’ve lost a level of integration with what was my second most prolific online comms channel after this blog.
Truthfully, unless something is jumping up and down at me daily (e.g. this Blog [...]
Parallel Processing in PHP
Sorry guys – an actual tech post so those of you who don’t want to can read the previous post and dig through Daisy Owl’s archives until I’m done. For the rest of you? Read on…
Another day another Blackberry
I’m a blackberry user – I make no apologies for it. I’m not a Crackberry Head and fairly frequently use the Phone Only setting or even turn it off completely but, as it stands, I am a blackberry user. I’m also a tech head and am very, very demanding of my phones. They have to [...]
Choosing a CMS Part 3 – Wordpress
Wordpress (in this example Wordpress >= 2.5) is now well known as the number 1 hosted and self installable blog platform in the world. Based on PHP and MySQL (a trend you’ll see continuing as we move through the other apps) the Wordpress application is solid, moderately fast and reasonably customisable.
I’m not the first to [...]
Lock down your PC
A quick one for all those who are wondering where they can get free security software for their PCs:
30+ Free Security, Encryption Firewall and Antivirus Apps for Windows
My recomendations?
Antivirus – AVG 8 (but disable the link scanner)
Firewall – Zone Alarm
Encryption – Truecrypt
Digital Signing and Encryption – GnuPG
Although you know what my ultimate recomendation would be [...]
I think I won the storage competition.
A certain Mr Baker and I had (some time ago) a bit of friendly competiton running to see who could amass the most disk storage. I think I just won as it’s not very often you see this much free disk space on a laptop:
Filesystem [...]
