Monthly Archives: June 2011


I need some kindling …..

Not to light a fire but to help me get familiar with a recently acquired Kindle ebook reader. I call the process of learning about the Kindle – Kindling. I had tried working with my Ipad but found that it is still to heavy for regular prolonged reading where you have to hold it in […]


Getting in the Zone – with OCR

A client requirement in a recent project was to be able to process scanned documents – extract information on the document to be used as a name and then rename the image in the same format with the extracted metadata and store it into a folder for onward processing. you would think that such a […]


New release for WebDrive

As reviewed before here Webdrive allows you to present an ftp as a mapped drive. Very useful in linking users or servers with remote data. The new release  – V10 –  available here builds on the already very functional current release. For me the native 64 bit support stands out. The developers summarise their product […]


Getting Analytical with your WordPress

A client asked about getting Google Analytics set up for their CMS before an upcoming trade event. If you don’t know Analytics it’s Googles tracking and analysis service for web sites.  as they put it Google Analytics shows you how people found your site, how they explored it and how you can enhance their visitor experience. […]