Backup your data
When did you last perform a backup and what did you backup? There is much to backup and so often we delay it, forget data and then one day….. Automation and variety are your adorable…
Category Archives: Software
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…
Compression made easy
This blog post is about using the compression software 7-Zip. Note: This isn’t a sponsored blog post. “Compression made easy”… I’m not referring to the inbuilt zip features on Windows. Instead referring to 7-zip the…
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…