My Favourite Utilities

Spinrite is a disk maintenance and repair utility. Originally created to deal with spinning disks in mind, it has also been discovered to work on SSDs. Remote Utilities is a remote access/maintenance utility.

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Google Drive serves up Web Pages

I was listening to the This Week in Google podcast the other day. They talked about the possibility of serving up a static website from a Google Drive folder. So I looked up the LifeHacker article but I needed a look at the Google Apps Developer Blog for the details. I got confused and started […]

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Backing up those gmail messages in All Mail

I recently read an article on wired.com that mentions in passing backing up all of that information you have lurking in the cloud, like emails. It got me thinking about a perl script I had for grabbing IMAP data. The basic idea is that the module allows for fetch, delete, copy on IMAP-based email. This […]

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Darned plugins – How to run a separate copy of Firefox

I recently created a wordpress website, www.leylandlandscapes.co.uk, and I tried free hosting. This was the first free host trying to find a free host, and it is fraught with obstacles. The third one I tried, host-ed, was the first that actually worked. Of course I wanted everything, but the resources provided were suitable: a MySql […]

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c902 and linux

A little while ago, I received a shiny new c902, and looked forward to loading it with mp3s… I plugged it in, selected anything, but no joy. Hunting for a while led me to libmtp. I tried ubuntu Intrepid Ibex, and managed to download photos, but still no music. Let me cut to the chase […]

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Mackeral sky

Unusual for me, but I quite liked this cloud effect.

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