At the office, your IT guys probably back up your computer for you or force you to store critical files on a file server that they back up. I’ll write later about how the Institute does backup at a corporate level. The concern of this posting is backing up personal computers.
What are you [...]
If you’re put off by the high price of PhotoShop but want features, features, features, get a copy of the free Gnu Image Manipulation Program (GIMP). Version 2.4 has just been released. Some highlights from the release notes:
The selection tools have been rewritten from scratch to allow resizing of existing selections. Additionally the [...]
Tagged gimp, gnu, image, photoshopAs part of Office 2007 (Beta2TR), I’ve installed the latest beta of Windows Desktop Search. It seems to work reasonably well, but it can’t index network drives. We map “My Documents” out to a server, so Windows Desktop Search 3.0 Beta is more or less useless for anything other that acting as the search engine [...]
Tagged desktop searchHow does one enable end-user training of a site-wide Bayesian spam filter for SpamAssassin when the users are reading mail through Microsoft Exchange and the filtering takes place on several Linux MX servers?
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I’m back to Copernic from Google Desktop. As I wrote a few days ago, I like the Google Sidebar, but I ran into Outlook related problems. First, when the new GDS indexed mail, Outlook removed the little envelope icon in the system tray that indicates new mail has arrived. Second (and more important), [...]
Tagged desktop searchI’ve been trying to create a favicon for this site and found this really cool tool: FavIcon from Pics — how to create a favicon.ico for your website. You feed it an image and it generates the icon that you see in the browser’s address bar.
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In this article, you can find out how to talk on Google’s new chat service:smash’s world: I’m on Google Talk right now. _ the offical homepage of Ben Guild (smash).
Say hello… I’m “sdstern” there.
If you don’t have GAIM (my recommend IM client — it handles MSN, AOL, Yahoo, and Google), you can get the Google [...]
Since I wrote about Google Desktop and Copernic last week and since my side-by-side comparison a couple of months ago, there’s a new version of the Google Desktop. It’s been running on this machine for a few hours and has completed indexing. So far, it seems as complete as the Copernic index. The new Google [...]
Tagged desktop searchI’ve tested three free solutions for locating mail and documents on my computer. All three work well and I’m comfortable recommending any.
You’ve just put a new LCD monitor on your desk. It’s all connected. You’ve turned on your computer and…. disappointment! You need to put in about 10 minutes setting it up and you’ll be amazed at the difference.
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