How to Backup and Restore a WordPress Database
Yesterday afternoon a self hosted wordpress blog I maintain died. It just wouldn’t load and then the site would timeout. The database had decided to pack it’s bags and vanish, not even a dear john…
Category Archives: Software
Compression made easy
“compression made easy”… I’m not referring to the inbuilt zip features on Windows. Instead referring to 7-zip the powerful open source software. I’ve used it both on Windows and Linux and without doubt it is an…
Print Screen / Screen Capture on Windows = Greenshot
So on ubuntu you hit the print screen keyboard button and a nifty application opens up and you can then save the screen capture to a graphics file. On microsoft windows…….. the experience wasn’t as…
Create PDF files
Your using open office, word or any number of other applications and you want to create a pdf file. Well here are a couple of methods I’ve tried on Windows XP, Windows 7 RC and…
Nero 9 basic version free download
A basic version of Nero 9 is now free to download. If you use an old version still for basic burning of dvd’s or cd’s, then this is great news. Personally I am not a…
Open and Edit Adobe PDF files in OpenOffice
It happens, you get emailed a pdf and you need to edit it and the original word version is with someone who is on holiday / another time zone / left the company four years…
Ping! – Creating an image of your hard drive partition
I wanted to test the latest Windows 7 RC on a laptop for a couple of hours only. To save me the trouble of reinstalling the previous OS, applications and files I decided to use…
Test driving Google Chrome on older hardware
So for the last couple of weeks I’ve been test driving Google Chrome on an old laptop running windows XP. A Toshiba Tecra 8200 with a 750mhz cpu and 512mb ram. This laptop has been…