Monthly Archives: August 2009


Say hello then WAVE goodbye …

Well actually – Wave hello …. to Google Wave that is. Mentioned during a meeting this morning on colloborative working and innovative ways of dealing with clients and colleagues… So from Googles preview announcement site – with the note that this may be released later this year Google Wave is a new model for communication […]


I got the power ……

Sick of having to go on site to reboot a troublesome device that requires being powered off – or rebooted – or trying to talk a user through getting the correct machine selected through a maze of power cables ? Well then – its time to use remote power switching !!! The IP-9258 shown above […]


Spiceworks 4.1 update

A summary of the fixes and changes since version 4 of the Spiceworks Helpdesk application and what they address. Nice to see some niggly issue sorted so quickly after V4 release Update 1 (10/8/09): A new build of 4.1.39229 is now available. This fixes the bug where end users are being emailed the weekly report […]


Burn Baby Burn

While diagnosing a fault with a DVD writer – I needed a utility that would confirm that the drive was operating correctly while writing an iso file (an image file containing in the case the contents of a DVD) ImgBurn is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application that can […]