Review

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Managing your ebooks and ereader

This entry was posted in Review Software Tips and tagged calibre ebook on June 17, 2011 by HAL

I’ve collected a large number of pdf reference manuals over the years and I was looking for something to help manage them. I had come across Calibre and was wondering how it had developed since I last saw it. I have to say that I was quite relieved to find that it had actually turned […]

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Getting in the Zone – with OCR

This entry was posted in Review Software and tagged Zonal OCR on June 16, 2011 by HAL

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 […]

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Uklug live

This entry was posted in Interesting Review Software xpages and tagged XPAGES on May 24, 2011 by HAL

Am sitting in Sean Cull doing his talk. Have had some real “I could use that idea” moments. His approach is very similar to my own. His experience brings a common sense approach combined with a thirst for innovation. His belief in notes and domino mirrors my own and he is not afraid to make […]

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Need an SFTP server ? Want one for free?

This entry was posted in Review Software Tips and tagged SFTP on May 17, 2011 by HAL

In setting up a duplicate environment to host a backup copy of  a clients web site (for contingency purposes) a secure FTP server was requested by the web design company to allow transfers of the live site backups to be sent to this backup server. I had provided a costed SFTP solution for a client some […]

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Accessing your ftp server with DataFreeway

This entry was posted in Review Software Tips Web and tagged DataFreeway FTP Putty on May 12, 2011 by HAL

Came across this handy little tool recently. I know that there are other similar tools like fastscp but this program had a snappiness to it that I felt was work mentioning. Its called DataFreeway from here. The feastures that I liked where the simple shortcut creation and the watched file option. The publishers describe it […]

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Can Win Get Thin ? WINTPC

This entry was posted in Interesting Review and tagged Windows Thin PC WINTPC on May 6, 2011 by HAL

Working on a VDI proposal for a client I was considereing the options for dedicated hardware thin clients versus software clients to access virtual desktops. Then another option came to mind. Microsoft Windows Thin PC or WINTPC. This reduced version of Windows 7 allows customers to repurpose exisitng PCs as thin clients. There are obviously […]

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Need a simple diagramming tool ?

This entry was posted in Interesting Review Software Tips and tagged DIA diagramming on April 15, 2011 by HAL

A client recently requested a simple tool for generating data diagrams as part of a project. They wanted something simple and preferably inexpensive as it would be needed to be used by a large group of team members. Tools like Visio were too expensive in this case and more complex than the client needed. After […]

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WordPress 3.1.1

This entry was posted in Review Software and tagged Wordpress on April 6, 2011 by HAL

Barely 6 weeks after the 3.1 release – the WordPress Team are back with an update addressing some issues that have been identified. According to the developers, the update addresses nearly 30 issues in WordPress, including three security vulnerabilities. Also they say .. WordPress 3.1.1 corrects a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the media […]

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