Review

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The minstrels in the gallery

This entry was posted in Interesting Review and tagged Jethro Tull on March 22, 2011 by HAL

The minstrel in the gallery looked down upon the smiling faces. He met the gazes — observed the spaces between the old men’s cackle. He brewed a song of love and hatred — oblique suggestions — and he waited. He polarized the pumpkin-eaters — static-humming panel-beaters — freshly day-glow’d factory cheaters (salaried and collar-scrubbing). For […]

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ViceVersa – a tool for synchronising disks or folders

This entry was posted in Interesting Must Have Review Storage Tips and tagged ViceVersa on March 18, 2011 by HAL

Can’t believe that I haven’t mentioned this before as I must use it at least once a month and frequently more often. I regularly have to transfer the contents of drives for analysis or recovery and it always bugged me that it would fail on a particular file and halt the transfer. So I use […]

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The latest on Splunk

This entry was posted in Review Software and tagged Splunk on March 15, 2011 by HAL

Got an update through from Splunk which is timely as I was hoping to implement a Splunk server as part of a virtualisation project to allow us to pick up and monitor on vmware logs and other outputs from the systems / equipment. Splunk 4.2 is the  latest release here. Some of the highlights for the […]

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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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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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I’m sorry Attensa – its over ….

This entry was posted in Internet Review Storage and tagged FeedDemon RSS on February 10, 2011 by HAL

I had to say goodbye to an application that has served me well for a long time. My feed reader of choice was Attensa River of News which due to the fact that Attensa no longer support or develop it and that it was increasing unable to subscribe to certain types of feed – I […]

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Need some hot key scripting? AutoHotKey has the answer

This entry was posted in Review Software Tips and tagged AutoHotKey Macros and Text Substitution Scripting on February 8, 2011 by HAL

Was on the lookout for a scripting app that would be powerful enough to script some GUI testing as well as provide some simple but useful windows and text scripts. Came across Autohotkey which seems to have developed no end since the last time I looked at it some time ago. I installed without any issues […]

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Keep taking the tablets (RIM Playbook versus Ipad)

This entry was posted in Gadgets Internet IPAD Review and tagged Playbook RIM Tablet on February 3, 2011 by HAL

Just watched a demo of the RIM  Playbook as part of the Lotusphere conference – link here. Would have to say that this is the best competitor tablet I’ve seen so far and although we may have a few months to wait to see this in anger I have to say that it may be […]

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