Category Archive: Technology

How to add the Gadget by URL to Gmail

I can’t believe how difficult it was to add a Gadget in Gmail by entering the URL. It was not very intuitive, but here’s the steps to have this enabled: 1. Login to your Gmail 2. Click the Wheel at the top right hand corner and then Mail Settings 3. Click the Labs tab 4. […]

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Migrating to Goggle Apps

I recently migrated my company`s emails to Google Apps. Initially, I thought the process was going to be painful but to my surprise it was quite easy and straight forward. The main reason why we moved away from our existing email provider was because of the storage issue. As part of the hosting package they […]

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What I learnt about VPS hosting in Australia

Ok, so you’re looking at going down the track of using a Virtual Private Server – yes, this is a cheaper alternative that having a physical server. A Virtual Private Server is basically a logical partition of a physical high end server. So multiple virtual private servers can exist on the physical server. For the hosting […]

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Free Open Source Video Capture Tools

There are two free open source video capture tools that I use. Both of them have advantages and disadvantages but both do the job. The one that I use the most is Wink as it has additional features and it also allows you to remove frames within the  video sequence. Wink – http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ Camstudio – […]

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Google Calendar Agenda Gadget for Windows 7

If you’re looking for a Google Calendar Agenda Gadget for Windows 7 here’s one that I found quite helpful. http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=be5c647c-224b-40b4-ac9c-8044f51abb4a It allows you to add Gtasks and notify you of incoming emails as well. Also, here’s one for Outlook: http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=ed840437-7d13-4755-8d0a-0ba2cbbf38e6 Great little gadget. DO YOU LIKE WHAT YOU’VE READ?Join our subscription list and receive our […]

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Moving Gmail Signatures to the top of emails

I spent a few days looking for this solution and it was quite simple. Currently, when you enable the signature feature in Gmail the signature ends up being at the bottom of the email. This means that if you’re replying to an email, the signature is at the bottom. Most other email system has this […]

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June 3, 2011   /   by Marco   /   , , , , , , , , , , ,

PDFCreator – the free and open source PDF writer

PDFCreator – the free and open source PDF writer

If you need to use an open source PDF creator then use PDFCreator. Simple hey! I’ve used this tool for several years and it does the job. Once you install it all you have to do is select the PDFCreator printer and click print. You’ll then be asked where you want to save the file […]

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NetDrive – awesome tool for mapping FTP drives

For those of you who like using Windows explorer to browse through your FTP  files, then I personally use NetDrive. NetDrive is free for non-commercial home use. Here’s the download page http://www.netdrive.net/download.html DO YOU LIKE WHAT YOU’VE READ?Join our subscription list and receive our content right in your mailbox. If you like to receive some […]

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Android MUIU ROM

A friend of mine told me about the MUIU rom and how great it was so I decided to test it out. Unfortunately, I didn’t like this ROM, even though the interface was nice and it did have a couple of nice features it didn’t do what I wanted: FM radio was missing Tethering didn’t […]

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May 31, 2011   /   by Marco   /   , , , , , , , , ,

How to Automatically BCC in Outlook 2010

How to Automatically BCC in Outlook 2010

So today I wanted to automatically add in the BCC my gmail account so that I can easily retrieve and archive sent messages from Outlook 2010. WIthin 4 minutes I was able to get this working thanks to these instructions: http://www.groovypost.com/howto/microsoft/how-to-automatically-bcc-in-outlook-2010/ Now if you’re like me and want to backup your outlook information then you […]

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EeePC 1000H recovery instructions

After a painstaking weekend, I finally managed to perform a recovery on my EeePC. Now this was probably the third time I actually performed a recovery but each time I do this, I seem to forget the procedures and steps so I decided to blog about it. That way I have the option of coming […]

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OffiSync – GoogleDocs plugin for Office

If you’re like me, I love GoogleDocs and it’s innovative features. I basically use GoogleDocs for everything, including drawing pictures. The main advantages for using GoogleDocs is the fact that your documents are all stored on the cloud and what’s more amazing is that you can share documents, spreadsheets and drawings with your colleagues or […]

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