Archive for the 'software' Category
Looking for a registry cleaner
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 7th May, 2007
I’ve had a couple of crashes on Vista in the last few days which is quite distressing. I know it’s usually caused by driver incompatibilities, but I wanted to make sure it’s not some corruption in the registry. Now, Micro$oft used to produce a registry cleaner called RegClean, but they discontinued this a few years [...]
Creating surveys
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 6th Apr, 2007
I sincerely believe that the best way for a business to improve is to always listen to customers’ feedback and react accordingly. And don’t just wait for a customer to give you their feelings on your products/sevices, but make it a point to solicit this information and use it to optimise and improve your business.
One [...]
KoolIM - web chat client
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 5th Apr, 2007
We’ve all been there, you go visit a client and get given a locked-down machine to do your work on. All’s well and good, until you find you need to MSN a colleague for a file, and then you find that there’s no Messenger installed on the machine, and no way to get it installed [...]
Joost Invites? Anyone?
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 3rd Apr, 2007
Well, well, we have a new version of Joost available (0.9), as well as 5 new invites per beta tester. Nice to get a mailshot from them this afternoon.
I’ve only had a quick look at the client, but it looks more polished and there’s a host of new channels; including an anime channel, a sci-fi [...]
Firefox plugin to check Technorati Rank
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 2nd Apr, 2007
I’ve just finished writing my first FireFox plugin. It sits in your Status Bar and reports on the Technorati Ranking of the website or blog you’re looking at at that particular moment in time. It’s out for testing at the moment with a couple of mate, but I’ll post it up here soon if I [...]
Business Software
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 29th Mar, 2007
One of the main concerns of any business is to streamline their manual processes and make them more efficient. One area that is well understood is when it comes to administrative tasks like payroll and tax filing. And it always makes sense to pick a solution that is already on the market, rather than writing [...]
Skype 3.2 beta for Windows
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 29th Mar, 2007
Just a note to all you Skype users out there. Skype has released a new beta of their chat/VOIP client which you can download here. It’s still in Beta, so the usual caveats apply, but if you want to learn more, read up about it on the Skype Blog. One of the biggest changes is [...]
When all else fails .. reset!
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 26th Mar, 2007
I had some problems recently trying to get LogMeIn working in IE7. I had disabled the add-on some time back and I couldn’t get it to work again. It wasn’t appearing in Add-On manager, so I couldn’t enable it again, yet, when I hit the page, the website assumed I had the plugin so wouldn’t [...]
FireFox and WMV files
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 21st Mar, 2007
I’ve been having problems with Firefox v2.0 and WMV files. Everything it comes across one it keeps throwing a fit and complaining about “Missing Plugins”. When you try to get the plugin it needs it tries to download Windows Media Player, but I KNEW I had the latest version. Turns out it’s a known issue [...]
More Joost invites
Posted by: Owen on Sunday, 18th Mar, 2007
Looks like Joost (The Venice Project) is getting ready to issue another new bunch of invitations to their IPTV project. This post on their blog implies that they are getting ready for a big release and some more invitations will be coming out in the next few days. They’re looking to put togther a new [...]
Tax and Payroll Software
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 13th Mar, 2007
I’m currently working on a project linked to the local Tax Office and one of the things that appeared on my radar today was a column related to packages that help you file your tax return. One of these is eSmartTax, a US-based Online Tax Filing and E-File Software. It’s not applicable to my local [...]
Backing up - the key to Disaster Recovery
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 12th Mar, 2007
I’ve spoken a number of times on this blog about various options for backing up your data online. But one mustn’t forget the more traditional backup mechanisms like backing up to tape, to optical disk, to hard disk, or even to an FTP site at a remote location. The key aim is to have an [...]
Joost Invites
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 1st Mar, 2007
I got a couple of emails from Joost yesterday. Two to be exact. The first one was acknowledging the bug I found while running on Vista, together with a promise that it will be fixed in the next version.
The other one was that I now have a couple of invitations available. I’ll be giving these [...]
Getting Vista to speak to NAS devices
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 23rd Feb, 2007
Andy has a great post that describes a solution to a problem he had. Basically, when Vista tries to access a shared folder on a remote computer or device, it will refuse to send your password using older encryptions methods. The problem stems from the fact that older devices do not understand newer encryption method; [...]
New things at Skype
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 21st Feb, 2007
I just upgraded to Skype 3.1 (Beta) today. I’m always keen to try out their new software as it’s always pretty stable. The new version has a kick-ass new feature called SkypeFind which uses user-generated listings to help you find business and organisations you are after.
This new release comes of the back of Skype’s release [...]
