Online backups – revisited

A little while ago I posted an article about online backups.  It has been a sufficient time now to provide details of how things went..
I have to say the most reliable, easy to use, is Elephant Drive it just works, and even on my quite slow AMD sempron based computer, it doesn’t seem to hog [...]

How to get DTS for SQL express 2005

Great to use SQL server 2005 express.. works pretty much like the full versions (obvious limitations on size of 4gb database, 2gb RAM etc).
But.. one annoying thing was trying to use a simple import/export tool.. for years I had used DTS on SQL 7/2000, and SSIS in the full versions of SQL 2005.  But no [...]

If you need a really, really easy way to blog..

Blogging has become very simple of late, but still you need to either login to a service (i.e. wordpress, or blogger), and enter you post which sometimes can be fool proof, and other times darn right messy. 
Tumblr started to make things really easy, although what about appealing to the lowest common denominator when it [...]

iSpring turns powerpoint into flash – for FREE

If you love powerpoint or hate it, one of the big problems (big meaning file size!) is the distribution of the powerpoint slides you create.. of course they are great for internal organisations where everyone has Office etc to run powerpoint.
But what do you do when you want to:
1. Email powerpoint to others
2. Show you [...]