My previous WordPress backup plugin broke when WordPress version 3.o was released. I tried a few different options and finally settled on Automatic WordPress Backup, which is a plugin that backs up your WordPress database, themes. plugins and htaccess files. Here’s why its really good! It backs up to Amazon S3, in the cloud data […]
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Creating Screen Capture Video with PIP in Camtasia 5
Just created another screen video using Camtasia 5. This is the latest version and its really cool. You can put in a picture in picture (I know you don’t want to see my ugly mug!), which might be useful in some situations. However, the filesize increases dramatically with PIP. See what you think…
Computer Security – Port Scanning
I’ve just been writing some code to run a TCP socket on a specific port. I was having trouble reading the response from the socket, which promted me to luckily find this damn good port scanning utility that I want to tell you about. Its called JFirewallTest and it’s a nifty little Java program that […]
RoboForm Rules
I was recently turned on to a product called RoboForm by a top internet marketer called Mike Filsaime. I had seen various password management products and thought about getting one, but was dubious. After Mike mentioned how easy RoboForm is to use, I thought I would give it a try. And I must say I’m […]
Windows Server 2003 SP2 & ARCSERVE 11.0
I run Computer Associates ARCSEVE 11.0 to backup all data every night. I recently installed SP2 on the Windows 2003 server that runs the ARCSERVE backup. After the install I found that ARCSERVE crashed after running for a while, with nothing indicated in the Arcserve log or the Windows event log. I found a usefull […]
Goodbye Blog Comment Spam
If you’ve been blogging for a while you will have noticed how the spam community (if I may call it that) arbitrarily posts its sticking crud to your blog as comments. Lord knows why they bother. But a pain in the butt they are to boot! I’ve been manually dealing with this for a while, […]
MACs Have Bugs & Can Be Hacked Shock Horror
I saw the news recently about the uproar, yes, uproar no less, cause by a group of hackers at a security conference where some apparently managed to hack Mac OSX. WOW! This has re-opened the debate as to wether the MAC operating system is more, ahem, secure than it’s rivals, especialy, dun dun daahhhh, Microsoft […]
Mind Boggling Project Documentation
As a developer of software systems for small and medium sized businesses I know that project documentation, while normally required in some form, is usually sparse at best and often non existent. Sure some sort of design document may be generated and then the development starts and the thing evolves somewhat and you end up […]
Windows Live Messenger 8 Causes IE Fault – Part Deux
I noticed that IE started to quit on me again after I ran Microsoft Outlook. When I rebooted and opened IE, no problem. After opening Outlook (2007) IE immediatley started to shut down. So I decided to uninstall the Windows Live Messenger sign-in helper and the Windows Live Search IE toolbar. That seems to have […]
Windows Live Messenger 8 Causes IE Fault
I’ve just upgraded to Live Messenger 8 with the IE toolbar and immediately had a problem after installing where Internet Explorer (i’m running 7) crashed upon opening. A real pain in the butt! I seem to have overcome this immediate problem, though it seems there may be many more! To fix my IE problem I […]
