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2007 September

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Backup Your Non-Digital Pictures

To go along with my other posts on keeping your digital pictures safe and backing up your books / documents, here’s another post on backing up - but with a twist.
This time it’s a service that offers to scan in and digitise your precious memories stored on old style film stock. They’ll take your memories […]

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Top 3 - How to Pick a University.

I never went through this myself as I had grand plans to join the RAF at 16 as an apprentice electronics technician. I was amply qualified, I sailed through their tests but (as I later found out from a neighbour) I was only offered a job as a truck driver so that they could fulfil […]

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From The Right Royal Waste Of Time Department

As the title states - this is one of those sites that rates as being a total waste of time but immensely addictive and enjoyable. if you are looking to waste some time, then you could do worse than trying The Paper Plane Simulator.
Go on, give it a go and report your best score as […]

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What File Extension Are you?

Turns out I’m a .DOC file extension - go figure.

Which File Extension are You?

Tags: file, extension

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Huge List of Web 2.0 Applications

Here’s one for your bookmarks

Office 2.0 Applications

It’s the biggest listing of Web 2.0 applications I have seen to date and what’s more I do like the way they have been categorised. If you have the time then most of the ones I’ve clicked through on also have a review.
Tags: itredux, office 2.0, web 2.0

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Mozy To Be Sold

My current favourite automatic online backup company, Mozy, is about to be sold - or so say the TechCrunch guys. I say good for them and I love it when the little guys win out.
However, the main reason for bringing them up again was that I came across this chart at Flickr and thought I’d […]

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Book Backup

Along a similar vein to my post a few weeks back on photo backups using Mozy I came across BookBackup.
I confess, I haven’t used it and probably won’t but it may be of some service to you folks. Though from a quick read through this service does not offer a free account. You do get […]

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Where Did All The IPs Go?

IPv6 is on its way. We are, so we keep getting told, running out of IPv4 range of addresses and my thought whenever I see these headlines are to wonder where have all the IPv4 range gone to?
Well, I spent yesterday with my teenager wandering around one of the venerable UK institutions known as a […]

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Goodbye BlackICE

I spotted that the long popular BlackICE firewall is closing its doors next week but it will be supported through to the end of September 2008. However, if you are a fan (I’ve lost faith in it over the last few years), then fear not as its new(ish) owner Sunbelt Software is offering registered users […]

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Leaky Firewall Software

A site I visit about once every other month or so has updated its leak-test results for the current crop of personal firewalls’.
Matousec’s Leak Tests have become a source of reassurance to end users on the one hand, but a source of contention for some firewall makers. Naturally any vendor that did badly (follow the […]