I once used to store backup copies of family photos and video on DVD. Now, with hard disk space so cheap, and much faster, that’s my preferred way to go. What to do with all the backup DVDs? Simply throwing them out is too risky. They could fall into anyone’s hands. Destruction is the only [...]
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For many years I’ve journaled by hand in a nice Moleskine notebook using a Waterman fountain pen. Far from a regular habit my journal is a place of retreat when life isn’t tracking the way I want it to. I realised some time ago that I would refrain from writing anything unless I had solitude [...]
I’m frequently asked what software I use for various tasks. This has prompted me to create a page on the site for My Application Toolkit. Rather than creating long lists by operating system or function I’ve used TheBrain to display the relationship between software, operating system and function dynamically, and to provide appropriate links to [...]
Are you backing up your computers regularly enough? I was discussing this with my father and father-in-law a few days ago and we realised that even if we were, somebody else needed to know what was where. You never know what can happen. This prompted me to create a concept map of the backup configuration [...]
Reports are coming in that iTunes Match has become available in Australia; though once signed up, nothing much is happening. For those who don’t know, iTunes Match shifts the primary storage of your iTunes music from your home computer to the cloud so that it can be available and synced across all your iTunes devices. [...]
My iPhone makes it easy to live the GTD 2-minute rule because there are many things it can do quickly when I’m not at my desk — including this post.
There are two types of people in the world. Those who have had critical hard drive failure and those who are yet to. Backups are important. Imagine the pain of explaining to a child why there are not photos of them before they were five years old simply because you didn’t have a backup strategy [...]
I needed a password eight characters long so I picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. This was the joke that gave comedian Nick Helm the award for best joke at the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. It may also be the best advice you hear all year. The last twelve months has seen an increase [...]
Or, how to create your own site-hosted unsubscribe form using the Gravity Forms MailChimp Add-in. A technical post today, showing how I implemented this on The Buchan Institute’s website. MailChimp’s basic visual editor forms can be nicely formatted to look like most of your site, and have custom redirects for success pages. If however, like [...]
