Blogging: the easy way

By now, you must know there are absolutely millions of blogs, and almost as many blog providers (blogger, tumblr, wordpress etc). Some blog providers have very comprehensive, and sometimes too complex configurations. That is why I think tumblr and posterous have done well to make blogging exceptionally easy for us plain folk.
Although one [...]

How to: (GMAIL) Mark ALL messages as Read.. I mean ALL!

Yes, not just page by page!
If you are like me (human that is) you may be using Gmail.. and you may also be using Gmail with POP access (i.e. to download to say Outlook etc).
I have recently been using straight Gmail in the browser (actually with Flock which is excellent by the way!).  And I [...]

Using Google Calendar with Outlook.. and SMS notifications!

You are probably aware of Google Calendar?  most people certainly know of Gmail of course, and Google Calendar (along with Google Docs, Spreadsheet etc) are additional services which can/have been very useful for lots of people.
One thing has been a little tricky though.. good old integration with other services.  Google usually release pretty good [...]

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 [...]

How about storing files online? free storage options

 
** UPDATED **Just added some notes from testing over the last week…
Well, I know there are quite a few online storage vendors out there.  One of the biggest impacts perhaps has been Amazon (yes the book people!).  Amazon introduced something called Amazon S3 which is part of their AWS (Amazon Web Services) range.  Don’t worry [...]

Really portable printing

I was perusing the usual blog circuits (in this case web worker daily) and came across the “PrintStik”.
I have seen a few portable printers in the past, notably the Cannon range of bubblejet printers, although the printstik looks certainly smaller, and by the commentary, seems smaller, easier to use, less inclined to leak etc.

Not sure [...]

How about storing files online? free storage options

Well, I know there are quite a few online storage vendors out there.  One of the biggest impacts perhaps has been Amazon (yes the book people!).  Amazon introduced something called Amazon S3 which is part of their AWS (Amazon Web Services) range.  Don’t worry about the details as yet… the reason I mentioned it is [...]