Monthly Archives: March 2011

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Faster .. Faster .. Faster …

This entry was posted in Interesting Web and tagged Virgin Media on March 9, 2011 by HAL

Virgin Media have announced FREE improvements in their upload speeds as per the following table So for those lucky users on the higher cost tariffs this is a big speed boost and certainly will help in certain circumstances where the limited speed was previously a problem. To access these new speeds Virgin say All you […]

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Polishing the Chrome

This entry was posted in Internet Review Software Web and tagged Chrome on March 8, 2011 by HAL

The latest incarnation of the Google Chrome browser is fast – really fast and it brings some joy back to browsing again.  Get it here and see for yourself what this free browser for XP, Vista and Windows 7  has to offer. To me its simplicity and speed  (and reliability) have a a lot to […]

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Something spicy to go ? An iphone app to monitor your servers and pcs for free

This entry was posted in Monitoring Must Have Software and tagged Spiceworks on March 7, 2011 by HAL

Given the mobile nature of todays IT professional and the need to keep an eye on monitored equipment at all times brings me to todays treat.  Spiceworks – the free infrastructure management tool have upper the bar with an iphone app for accessing the service that monitors your network of machines. If you haven’t tried Spiceworks […]

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The heat is ….. on

This entry was posted in Gadgets Hardware Monitoring and tagged Openxtra Xsensior on March 4, 2011 by HAL

Our friends at Openxtra have come up with a novel  solution for on the spot temperature logging with a laptop or in installations where its hard to justify a full blown networked temperature solution. The Xsensior provides a simple and cost effective way of adding usb based temperature monitoring to your arsenal of monitoring tools. Simply […]

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IPAD2 – as good as we thought ?

This entry was posted in Gadgets IPAD Review and tagged Ipad2 on March 3, 2011 by HAL

The coverage for the release of the IPAD2 and the surprise appearance of the glorious leader – Steve Jobs was quite impressive.  When the Times gives over several articles to the technical and business review of Apples latest baby – Ipad is now mainstream. The interesting bits of those articles relate to the number sold, […]

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Creating HTML content from a CSV file

This entry was posted in Interesting Software Tips Web and tagged CSV Excel HTML WEBDRIVE on March 2, 2011 by HAL

As a client required I was looking for a solution to creating some html pages for upload to a web site from a csv file exported from excel. The other requirement was that as much as possible of the process would be automated so that the user would update the file – run a process […]

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LinkedIn – now linked in (with WordPress)

This entry was posted in Software Tips Web and tagged LinkedIn Wordpress on March 1, 2011 by HAL

As part of a drive to glue up the various services I use and publish on – I used LinkedIn’s wordpress integration to grab posts from my blog and push those out through LinkedIn. Its almost  mandatory these days to make your content available to whatever audience wants it in the place that they want […]

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