Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Software Above the Level of a Single Device – Saasu

April 18, 2011Matt 1 Comment »

Overview Saasu is an Australian online accounting software company who’s name stands for “Software as a Service Utility”. Saasu is also the name of their online accounting software for managing business finances. Saasu is capable of handling sales, payroll, purchasing, e-commerce, inventory, point of sale, document and workflow management that can be and is extended [...]

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Rich User Experience – Photoshop Express Editor

April 8, 2011Matt 7 Comments »

Overview Adobe Photoshop Express Editor is a free online photo editor based on Adobe’s Photoshop range of desktop image editors that offers a rich user experience through a simple yet powerful Flash based interface. While it is derived from what is often regarded the industry standard in image editing, Photoshop Express offers a very different [...]

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Innovation in Assembly – Yahoo! Pipes

April 5, 2011Matt 3 Comments »

Overview Yahoo! Pipes is a composition tool that was released in February 2007 (n.d.) designed to aggregate, manipulate and mashup data from around the internet (n.d). In short, you can pull in all sorts of data using all sorts of inputs, both user input or from a web source. It then uses a patching style [...]

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Harnessing Collective Intelligence – Stack Exchange

March 14, 2011Matt 2 Comments »

Stack Exchange is a network of question and answer websites on a range of topics. Currently there are 46 websites in the network ranging from programming to mechanical to gaming to cooking. Overview The concept behind Stack Exchange is that each website in the network is a combination or synthesis of a blog, a wiki, [...]

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Rebuilding a RAID Array on a Thecus N4100 Pro

August 7, 2010Matt 2 Comments »

Back in April I was having a problem with my Thecus N4100 Pro where it was taking a long time to boot up, I’m talking around 8 hours or so. The confusing part was that on the display, it said it was ready, even though it hadn’t moved to displaying status information yet, and when [...]

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Dropbox has LAN Sync

May 10, 2010Matt No Comments »

As of version 0.7.97, Dropbox has an extremely useful feature called LAN sync. Basically the way it works is that, when enabled, after a file is updated on one computer, it syncs with the Dropbox servers. Then, when other computers that are synchronizing the same files go to download the changes or new file, they [...]

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Get More Out of Your Apple Magic Mouse

January 9, 2010Matt No Comments »

Something else I got this Christmas is an Apple Magic Mouse. This is the latest generation of mouse from Apple, and it is an absolutely fantastic device! Just turn on Bluetooth on my Mac, turn on the mouse, tell the Mac to find Bluetooth devices, it straight away detects the mouse and pairing is just [...]

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Turning SBS 2003 into a Virtual Machine

December 14, 2009Matt No Comments »

I recently replaced a 4 year old server for one of my clients which was running Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 as it was starting to seriously struggle to keep up with every thing. On top of that, almost every morning it would be unconnectable, it really wasn’t worth fixing. The new server is running [...]

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Changing the SMTP Server Port in SBS 2008

December 9, 2009Matt No Comments »

I have recently upgraded a server, and in doing so, migrated from Microsoft Small Business Server 2003, to the new 2008 version. In doing so, I planned to change how the Exchange server was setup. All email is downloaded to Outlook from a POP3 account on the web server, it is then synced with Exchange [...]

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Is Mac Really Better than Windows?

December 3, 2009Matt 2 Comments »

I was just reading a post over at the Global Thoughtz Technology blog about Brian Croll, Apple’s OS X Marketing Vice President, commenting that Windows 7 uses antiquated technology. The post itself I think is valid, Brian Croll’s comments may be fair, they may not be, but either way Windows 7 is a huge improvement [...]

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