Monthly Archives: July 2012


Need a case for your PI ?

I have been waiting for a case for my Raspberry Pi for few weeks – came across this nice design at this site http://www.pibow.com/. The costs are reasonable and it will protect your Pi so well worth getting your hands on one Heres the product blurb   The Pibow is made to be fairly easy […]


Host your own on-premise meetings and conferences

The Apache Project OpenMeetings has had an update and is definitely moving towards becoming an interesting alternative to some of the commercial offerings that are available via the web. The reason for hosting your own conferencing tool is that integration with PBX and other internal systems may make this approach more valuable for businesses. Openmeetings provides […]


Thunderbirds are gone !!

After nearly choking on my coffee after reading that Mozilla are reducing their efforts on the Thunderbird email client – I spent some time trying to think of the logic behind this and other shifts from client based development. The MD of Thunderbird (the project that Mozilla carry on the development under) says


Has Apple killed Safari for Windows ?

I actually use a range of browsers – including Safari on Windows. I was surprised to see some articles this morning suggest the end of the road for this alternative browser. Enjoying the choice that the Apple developed browser brings to a field which sometimes seems stagnant and limited in innovation – was something that […]


Start PICKing On Your Data !

When something related crops up several times in a few days you really start to wonder whats going on? In a conversation with a client regarding a ERP system upgrade we got to talking about the database it was written in and they were surprised when I knew what this database was. PICK was used […]