With so many sites, services and places that require passwords, pins, secret phrases etc, it’s really hard not to fall into the temptation of setting the same password for every site. Having the same username/password for each site you interact with (such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Online Banking etc) is very dangerous. By having the same username/password combination you’re relying on someone else to keep your information secure. If they suffer a security breach (and yes, it does happen even to the most diligent website owner) that enables a …

For many years Windows Media Center has been the go to software if you want to watch TV on your computer. But of course, it’s Windows only, not easily customisable and frankly, it’s quite ugly. But, the most important thing is that until now, the only real solutions for watching live TV on your computer were all built for Windows, or fairly hard to install.
In this article, it’s fair to say that I’ve had to set up the main TV receiver on a Linux box using MythTV because I don’t …

If you ever need to convert some WMF (Windows Metafile) or EMF (Enhanced Metafile) files using a Mac into something sensible you can actually use then you can’t go past this neat program. The program allows you to render and convert single or multiple WMF and EMF images on your mac, preview them, change colours in vector based files and save either all of them, or selected ones as Mac native images in one of 10 file formats, including vector formats (PDF, EPS) and the raster ones, such as TIFF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, JPEG-2000, Mac ICNs and more.

Of course, we don’t recommend anyone boots into Windows – but sometimes you just have to. Maybe you need to run QuickBooks and you’re an Australian business which doesn’t have a native Mac version. Maybe you want to play some games and they just don’t quite run as well under OSX as they do under Windows.
So, you installed BootCamp, and everything went swimmingly. But you keep forgetting to press ALT when the Mac reboots (or whatever key it is, I’ve forgotten) – or you don’t want to ALWAYS boot into …

When I started my own business some years ago, one of the things I found the hardest was keeping track of all that client information. Everything was stored in different places, for example I might have notes from a meeting I’d had with the client last Thursday, stored in a folder somewhere on the file system. Then I’d have e-mails I’d received from them, stored in Thunderbird or MS Outlook depending on what was flavour of the month at the time.