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Sep/15

Document Organisation Part 2 – Management

Filed Under Windows, Workflow at 28th September 2015 0:01 by

Overview Similar to my photo organisation post I have also looked into doing something similar for documents. The goal is become paperless or at least less reliant on paper documentation. When I embarked on this workflow optimisation I wanted to … Continue reading →

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Sep/15

Document Organisation Part 1 – Physical To Virtual Documents

Filed Under Windows, Workflow at 14th September 2015 0:01 by
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Overview This is the first post of a series where I describe the electronic documentation management system I use. It’s a system that works fairly well for me and I hope it can pass on this information and even better … Continue reading →

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Aug/15

Make Windows Update Time More Often

Filed Under Windows at 31st August 2015 0:01 by

Overview Microsoft Windows doesn’t update the clock enough times in the day and when you have a motherboard with a dodgy clock it doesn’t help when the time drifts. Thankfully the time synchronization can be controlled using the Task Scheduler … Continue reading →

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Jul/15

Windows 8 Sticky Edges

Filed Under Windows at 27th July 2015 0:01 by

Similar to Ubuntu Microsoft has decided to add a bit of resistance on the edges of a multi-monitor display setup. This allows the system to popup a menu (like the charm bar) before allowing your cursor to move to the … Continue reading →

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Jun/15

DSLR Photo Management On The Go

Filed Under Photography at 28th June 2015 0:44 by

Overview Keeping a large stack of photos on a memory card is always a scary thing in case the memory card goes back. People have created a workaround but using more (and usually smaller) cards to mitigate against the risk. … Continue reading →

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May/15

Living With Hive (Home)

Filed Under Houseware, Review at 25th May 2015 0:01 by

Overview Hive is a British Gas creation which allows remote control of your home water and heating control by replacing your thermostat and timer controls. It’s a step into home automation which we have had for over a year and … Continue reading →

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Apr/15

OpenVPN Server On Raspberry Pi

Filed Under Linux at 27th April 2015 0:01 by

Overview Having a great geek out chat with Andrew Gorton and he gave me the idea of setting up an OpenVPN server using a Raspberry Pi. A simple, relatively cheap solution to get access to resources at home. Pre-Requisites I … Continue reading →

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Apr/15

Deluge BitTorrent Client On Ubuntu

Filed Under Linux at 13th April 2015 0:01 by

Overview Deluge is a bit torrent client which uses a client-server like architecture. The cool thing is you can have the server locally (like this install) or remote and just use the client to manage the queue. Install Add the … Continue reading →