I have a love-hate relationship with my home server. I’m on my second, the current being the HP Mediasmart 495ex. There’s a lot to love about this system, it’s flexible, mostly reliable, simple to maintain and easy to expand. It gives me lots of space on the network to backup files and serve media to the internal network. There’s also [...]

You know you should be keeping backups right? If there are any digital files you don’t want to lose you really ought to be backing them up locally and offsite. Local backups are pretty easy, you can clone your drive onto an external drive and both OS X and Windows have backup built into the OS. Offsite backups can be [...]

There are a few different ways for you to add posts to a blogger or wordpress blog on an iPad, but they aren’t exactly elegant when it comes to formatting. Blogsy is an iPad app that promises easy posting with multimedia love, so let’s try it out! Obviously I’m posting this via the Blogsy app. The interface is decent, I [...]

Photosynth for iOS lets you capture full panoramas easily on your iPhone.

Having problems creating a Time Machine backup disk on your ex490 or ex495 HP MediaSmart Home Server? Here’s the fix that worked for me, I know have a 1.2 Terabyte backup image working well!

Is Wunderlist the perfect free task management software for use on multiple machines and phones?

Is there a software package out there that can help you tag, sort and organize a collection of PDF files? Yep. Ironic Software makes a few different tools for sorting, organizing and searching for information on OSX.  Yep is their PDF catalog tool, and is the only one of their products I’ve tried, but I can vouch for its usefulness [...]

During my dayjob I design and direct animation for tv series and commercials.  Like anyone else who works in graphics or design there are a surprising number of times when I’m called upon to match a font.  In this case the client isn’t sure what font they are using for their identity, but it’s important that it remains the same.  [...]

This is one of those ‘how did I live without it’ plugins for Windows Media Center.  I’ve used media center for years, and it’s actually a very good adaptable system for viewing TV and movies at home, particularly if you want to do a little tweaking to set it up just right.  There are a few annoyances, but fortunately most [...]

Which is better 1Password or eWallet.