Tag Archives: Software/Apps
Whole Disk Encryption – The Holy Grail
You have your nice laptop for running around the world with, you are on a business trip to Warsaw and then suddenly after getting off the plane and on your way to your meeting you find that you do not have it. Doh! you remember that you put it in the little pocket of the [...]
So you got a Netbook, what now?
You take it home, do the unboxing, get it powered up and running and now what? 1. Get comfortable with the Linux install that you may have inherited or swap it for Windows XP. If it came with XP, then settle in. 2. Get Firefox 3.0 running, OpenOffice 3.0 onboard, get hooked up to WiFi, [...]
Spambayes – Spam filtering
The news of the shutdown of a major spam source in the US gives you some warm feelings about the constant stream of poorly targeted rubbish in your inbox, but the rate at which you will see them will grow again soon enough. So as a small business or independent consultant/freelancer what do you do [...]
PDFs’ R You
Adobe are responsible for an important publishing format with the PDF, unfortunately they have made it prohibitively expensive to create documents through the use of Adobe Acrobat. This is not to be confused with Acrobat Reader, the freely available tool that Adobe distribute. Now their tool allows you to explore the more esoteric aspects of [...]