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Organising your thoughts

Keeping track of various projects and developing ideas for new apps can be daunting – and especially when dealing with multiple clients and want to seperate access to only the projects that relate to specific clients. For several years I have been using the subscription service for IBM Smartcloud. Given the integration with the sidebar […]


Scan to PDF and FTP

In researching a client requirement I came across Boxsoft’s option Scan to PDF Pretty much it does what they need out of the box so thats another box ticked The developer blurb   1. Archive Paper in PDF Format To ease workload on dealing with large quantity of paper files, Boxoft Scan to PDF helps […]


VM Explorer 4.1

Another release of the Trilead Backup tool brings new features which are more than welcome. Although I deal primarily with VMWare and relatively little with Hyper-V due to its lack of penetration in the local market – its good to see improved support for it. Support  for Hyper-V 2012 server File level restore for VHDX […]


Clean out the trash in WordPress

When playing about with a WordPress test site, sometimes things get so clogged that you just have to wipe everything and start from scratch. Rather than deleting everything and re-installing WordPress there is a handy plugin which takes the pain out of the whole process. (20 seconds and it’s done!) http://wpmu.org/daily-tip-reset-your-wordpress-database-with-one-click/


Itunes gets a haircut

So this week we see the latest release of  Itunes – given that when I’m at my machine – you can be pretty sure this is running – its always worth checking out the latest and greatest features and changes. Apple’s blurb about the latest invocation Introducing the new iTunes. With a dramatically simplified player, […]