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Adobe Sendnow

A service from Adobe (in the style of dropbox but not requiring an installation of anything) is called Adobe Sendnow. It allows you to upload files and have a link sent to your recipient. Even better it cleans up afterwards. So about Sendnow – which you get at https://sendnow.acrobat.com/welcome.html Adobe SendNow supports a broad range of […]


Faster .. Faster .. Faster …

Virgin Media have announced FREE improvements in their upload speeds as per the following table So for those lucky users on the higher cost tariffs this is a big speed boost and certainly will help in certain circumstances where the limited speed was previously a problem. To access these new speeds Virgin say All you […]


Polishing the Chrome

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 […]


Plurking is working (again)

After a recent WordPress upgrade I found that  a couple of addins weren’t operating as expected. Specifically some to do with plurk http://www.plurk.com/ About Plurk Noun. plurk (plüer-kh) – A really snazzy site that allows you to showcase the events that make up your life in deliciously digestible chunks. Low in fat, 5 calories per […]


vCenter XVP Manager and Converter – manage non vmware hosts from Vsphere !!

Just noticed that VM labs have released something that will appeal to those of us managing or testing various flavours of hypervisor platforms but that have a vsphere focus VMware vCenter XVP Manager and Converter provides basic virtualization management capabilities for non-vSphere hypervisor platforms towards enabling centralized visibility and control across heterogeneous virtual infrastructures. It […]