“Tech” collection
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HTD Tech Briefs
View all →September 20, 2006
Fun with OpenSource
Some interesting opensource items that I have been playing with: JitterBit Integration Server - pretty nice stand alone integration server with various types of hooks activeCollab - a flat out opensource "attack" at BaseCamp SugarCRM - an extremely solid implementation of a CRM solution (although I'm slammed with a upgrade error due to my hosting provider having an old version…
Read more →April 11, 2006
Anti-Spyware Tools (recommended)
There are two anti-spyware tools that are free that I recommend all Windows users install: Spybot Search & Destroy SpywareBlaster Both of these tools are free, however, you need to be diligent in terms of updating their "definitions" regularly (part of the price of using "freeware" tools). I usually go to one of my favorite Windows program sites called MajorGeeks…
Read more →November 16, 2005
Bringing life to an old laptop
More fun in techdom. My wife's laptop hard drive was filling up...becoming more fragmented...and therefore, slowing down. I decided to give it the gift of a new life. I purchased a 100gig hard drive with a 16mb cache. Installing on a dell is a snap...sorta. My problem was, I didn't see the adapter that was attached to the old drive,…
Read more →November 9, 2005
The blame game
Macs rule! Simple, elegant and the stuff just works. Prime example: new digital camera. After our old digital camera died and we purchased a new one, we, of course, wanted to see how well it worked. The test: take a picture and get it off the camera and on to a computer. For the Mac: a matter of minutes with…
Read more →November 5, 2005
Sidekickin’
So, my cellphone, the Sidekick has a new life! This is first, a great gadget! Cell phone, web browsing, instant messenger, camera, PIM...even has games. Well, there has been a lot of anticipation of an upgrade to the OS which brings some nice new enhancements. The biggest one is the ability to run javascript... There has been some discusson on…
Read more →November 4, 2005
Printing Fixed
...how something that has been documented for many years can continue to crop up...
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