Overview Founded in 1999 (n.d.) SourceForge was one of the first hosted solutions providing a collaborative software development management system that incorporates version control through a web based interface. It is a fantastic example of a web application that makes use of the perpetual beta concept because of the irony behind it. SourceForge is a [...]

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 [...]

I took this screenshot a while ago and totally forgot about it. I thought it was amusing then and I found it amusing a couple minutes ago when I came across it again on my hard drive. Firefox has determined that the following add-ons are known to cause security or stability problems: Microsoft .NET Framework [...]

My parents have been having an issue with the internet at their place for a while now. I’ve just had a chance to look at it and it is quite suspicious. Randomly when a Google search was performed, when you clicked the links you would be redirected to sites that you were not expecting, primarily [...]

If you’re a student and are looking to purchase Microsoft’s Office suite, they are now offering Office 2007 through It’s Not Cheating with a free 2010 upgrade when it is released. It’s still the same excellent price of $75 for a perpetual license, you just get a free upgrade when the new Office suite is [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I’ve got a lot of tabs open, and they’ve been open for most of the week for some reason or other. With Firefox crashing at least 4 times a day at the moment, it probably doesn’t hurt to get these listed down and saved. I hope you find something useful amongst them! It’s funny how [...]

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 [...]

It’s great to see a boss pointing these things out to the employees. Sure, a cash handout is great, but ongoing work is much better. Have a read of the letter that this employer sent to his employees here. As a small business owner, I agree with this email entirely, even though I only employ [...]