Apple’s Time Machine software made it easy to set up incremental back-ups, with one exception: network drives (more formally called network-attached storage, or NAS). Time Machine only directly supports drives formatted with Apple’s HFS+J file system, and will eventually use all disk space on the drive. This page provides an illustrated guide showing how to [...]
This web app can share your screen (it’s a view only application, not like VNC/remote desktop) to who you want.
This is a great solution to help friends (or maybe also customers) watching directly the remote screen.
It’s safe and easy (it uses JAVA to do the trick – so the sharing screen system must [...]
Today, trying to slice an image with Gimp, with my Kubuntu Oneiric I have found this strange error message: “TypeError in slice(): integer argument expected, got float”.
This is a well know bug, but until it will be fixed, you can fix it by yourself.
Run from the terminal your favorite text editor (gedit, kate, [...]
I’m a huge fan of Simple Backup for many reasons (simple personal backup configuration, settings profile, etc…).
The last Ubuntu version, Oneiric Ocelot, contains a bug preventing SBackup from running from a system wide cron-job and storing the backup data on remote drive.
If you have this problem, from the logs, you can [...]
This livecd it’s a simple but powerful solution to backup and restore partitions.
Easy graphical user interface boots from CD in less than a minute No installation needed; runs from a CD-ROM or a USB stick Saves and restores Windows and Linux machines Automatically finds local network shares Access your files even if you can’t log [...]
Recently I have discovered two new (at least for me) utilities:
I’m using gzip and bzip2 from ages, and also multiple processors and multiple cores, so why don’t use multi-threading compression utilities? They are (obviously) binary compatible with the old counterparts and they [...]
This board is the coolest thing I’ve seen in computing for years. The price (25$ for the basic one and 35$ for the advanced one) it will be awesome.
I can’t wait!
The guys from Box.net are giving away 50gb of space forever if you install the last APP on your iPhone/iPod/iPad. It’s a nice and free backup solution!
http://blog.box.net/2011/10/12/were-giving-ios-users-insane-amounts-of-free-storage-box50gb/
PS: It’s working also if you are an old user (like me). Just install the APP, log in and enjoy the space!
PPS: if [...]
IETester is a free Web Browser (it’s alpha software, anyway it’s working, so why not use it???) that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE9 preview, IE8, IE7, IE6 and IE5.5 on Windows 7, Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.
I’m [...]



