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Looking at survey software

I was putting together a survey at work today. Pretty simple stuff, just wanted to gauge where the team wanted to go for our Xmas lunch and what would be the best date. I did it on our Sharepoint intranet, but the process was rather… Read more »

Secure your systems with FortressSSH

I came across a great whitepaper by a company called Pragma Systems that talks about their Fortress product line, designed to secure a wide variety of different platforms using protocols like SSH, SFTP, SCP and others. They have a variety of different offerings ranging from… Read more »

Blogging at the speed of thought

Have you ever wanted to shout at your computer? Well, you might want to think again, and instead tell your computer what to do. Interesting idea? Well, you might be surprised to learn that I’m writing this post by dictating it into Dragon NaturallySpeaking. I… Read more »

WordPress v2.7 will be awesome

I just came across a video recorded by Allen Stern which shows Matt Mullenweg (one of the co-founders of WordPress) showing off some of the new features in WordPress 2.7 (due in around a month). Here’s the video: There’s quite a bit of excitement about… Read more »

Downloading new Microsoft software

There’s been a new “wave” of beta software coming out from Microsoft today. According to Liveside you can download the new set of Live applications (called Wave 3) which include: Messenger v9 Windows Live Movie Maker (this looks cool) Mail with Calendar synchronisation Writer Photo… Read more »

Standard protection

I have this policy of always putting on an Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware package on any machine that gets used in my house and gets on my network. I don’t believe in buying packages though, when there are free products available that do exactly the same… Read more »

Latest version of WordPress: 2.6.1

There’s been a new point release of WordPress dropped to fix some minor bugs with 2.6. Nothing major and in fact, there’s no real need to upgrade unless you have a problem that’s been addressed here. Here’s some information about what it contains: 2.6.1 offers… Read more »