Category: tools
Crashplan, I love you.
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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 [...]

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Blogsy – iPad blogging app first impression
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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 [...]

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To Do task list sync: iPhone, Mac & PC
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Is Wunderlist the perfect free task management software for use on multiple machines and phones?

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Windows Home Server Fail
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What is a Home Server and why does Microsoft want to kill it?

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Yep. Like iTunes for PDFs
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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 [...]

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Identifying the right font

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.  [...]

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