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Quote of the Day- December 11th 2012

Dec 11, 2012 · 1 min read ·

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“An afternoon with no meetings is a great sleeping opportunity”

Evernote Skitch for Windows

Dec 6, 2012 · 1 min read · evernote ·

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Evernote Skitch is now available for Windows, first impressions of the app on my Windows 7 desktop are good, it’s recreating the simplicity of the Android app very well.<–more–> More details here- http://blog.evernote.com/2012/10/25/skitch-for-windows-desktop-and-skitch-for-windows-8-are-here/

Generating Reports in WinDirStat

Nov 30, 2012 · 1 min read · windirstat ·

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To use WinDirStat to generate reports of disk usage you need to have either Outlook or Outlook Express installed as the reports are generated as an email.<–more–> Without one of these mail clients an “unknown error” message is shown. (found in version 1.1.2.80)

Evernote Clipper

Nov 22, 2012 · 1 min read · evernote ·

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I use Evernote a lot for note-taking, keeping track of ideas, code snippets, conversations, and so on. One of the great added features on the Windows desktop is the Clipper functionality. This is a great screen clipper- by pressing Win-Key and Prnt-Scrn together (on Windows 7, Windows 8 uses that “charm” …

Keeping Digital Photos safe

Nov 22, 2012 · 2 min read ·

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Fairly regularly at work I’m asked what I do to keep my digital photos safe. This question usually comes from someone who’s just had a hard disk failure or similar and lost their photo collection. At home my budget (like most people’s) doesn’t run to a Storage Area Network with fault-tolerant, …
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New SkyDrive desktop client

Nov 20, 2012 · 1 min read · microsoft onedrive ·

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There’s a new client out for Microsoft SkyDrive. I take advantage of the free cloud storage services on a number of providers but don’t always want to sync everything to my local hard disk. Thankfully Microsoft have added this feature to their desktop app.
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Quote of the Day- 5th November 2012

Nov 5, 2012 · 1 min read ·

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“There is no charge for awesomeness” Po

CheckCAS version 1.0 for Windows

Oct 3, 2012 · 2 min read · chemistry powershell ·

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This small application will check one or more Chemical Abstract Service (CAS) Registry Numbers to make sure they are formatted correctly. It validates both the format of the given registry numbers and also their check digits.
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Installing memory on a Dell Latitude E4310

Jul 26, 2012 · 2 min read · dell laptop latitude ·

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I recently had my corporate-build laptop upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7. The laptop in question is a Dell Latitude E4310 which came fitted with 4GB RAM- more than sufficient for 32-bit Windows XP, but the OS upgrade offered the potential to increase.
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New Media Centre Part 1

Jun 21, 2012 · 3 min read · xbmc ·

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I’m building a new home media centre to sit in my living room and play video and music through my TV. Today the hardware for my media centre arrived from Ebuyer.
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