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
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 [...]
