March 2005

Handy article on Blogs

Janis Joseph contributes regular articles to The Jerusalem Post on web design topics. Her March 2005 article is titled: Easy as Falling Off a Blog and is a useful read for small business owners. Blogs are not the sole domain of geeks or exhibitionists. They have tangible benefits for commercial companies and even non-profit organizations: [...]

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Getting Rid of “Spam” and Other E-mail Pests

Randy Cassingham has an excellent Spam Primer online: Getting Rid of “Spam” and Other E-mail Pests. The basics of spam, “phishing” and other e-mail pests, how they got your address in the first place — and what to do now that you’re inundated. This is very comprehensive and may be a bit daunting at first [...]

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StickyBrain 3 at 50% off for .Mac members

One of my favourite applications is StickyBrain from Chronos. It provides a database of notes, which you can group into folders and subfolders, search easily and easily create. Now it seems that .Mac members can purchase StickyBrain 3 for US$19.95 until June 15, 2005 — 50 percent off the regular price. [Via MacMinute.] I often [...]

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Getting iTunes back

When my hard drive failed last week I didn’t bother backing up my music and audio books as I knew I had them on my iPod already. Getting everything back on the fresh clean drive has been time consuming though, and retrieving my music was a slow process. I started with iPod Access (US$12.99) from [...]

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Mac OS X is 4 years old; virus idiocy

The Laporte Report reminds us that Mac OS X is four years old. Apple started selling it on March 24, 2001. Meanwhile, there’s a Mac company who have now demonstrated they are absolute idiots. DVForge [http://www.dvforge.com/virus.shtml] are offering US$25,000 for someone to write a Mac virus to go in the wild. Just because the Mac [...]

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Multiple CD Burns

Those of my clients who backup to a CD quite often ask me about using a CD more than once. It’s not so very easy with Mac OS X, but the Mac 911 Weblog explains how in the item: Multiple Burns.

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