Category Archives: Tech

Tidying Up IM

Posted on November 18, 2008 by Rob

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 … Continue reading →

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Seam Carving to resize images

Posted on October 28, 2008 by Rob

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 … Continue reading →

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Sans Interwebs – update

Posted on October 22, 2008 by Rob

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 … Continue reading →

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Time to start encrypting email again!

Posted on October 9, 2008 by Rob

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 … Continue reading →

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I miss Twitter SMS Alerts

Posted on September 25, 2008 by Rob

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 … Continue reading →

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Parallel Processing in PHP

Posted on September 25, 2008 by Rob

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…

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Another day another Blackberry

Posted on August 16, 2008 by Rob

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 … Continue reading →

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Choosing a CMS Part 3 – WordPress

Posted on August 13, 2008 by Rob

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 … Continue reading →

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Lock down your PC

Posted on August 12, 2008 by Rob

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) … Continue reading →

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I think I won the storage competition.

Posted on August 8, 2008 by Rob

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 … Continue reading →

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