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I recently saw an ad on tv for finallyfast.co.uk which offers a “pc speedup service”. The ad immediately made me think it was a scam because of the way it was done. A quick google shows I am not alone: finallyfast.com | Web Safety Ratings from McAfee SiteAdvisor – doesn’t rate it as bad but . . . → Read More: finallyfast.co.uk – scam or useful service? BBC recently announced that iplayer now supports downloads on windows an linux, in the form of iplayer desktop. You can get started on the iplayer labs page. So I decided to try it out… iplayer security dialog – extremely bad! Why can't they get a digital signature for the download? First I had trouble . . . → Read More: BCC releases iplayer desktop for linux I use the k2 theme for this wordpress blog. I used to write my own, but k2 is much, much neater. I also use the openid plugin for wordpress. (I wrote about openid’s before) To get the two to play together, you need to turn off live commenting. In my case, as my blog is . . . → Read More: WordPress, k2, openid I stumbled across this post on the Official Gmail Blog: 2 hidden ways to get more from your Gmail address It is an absolute must read if you use Gmail So, as there is a new version of WordPress (2.5.1) which has some serious security fixes, I thought I would move my blog to running from svn. This doesnt mean I am running bleeding edge code, it just means updating the WordPress code is as simple as svn sw new_version_url. Which is a lot simpler . . . → Read More: Installing/Updating WordPress with Subversion Andy Piper write about Remote PC support for family members a while ago, and I remember playing with the single click reverse vnc, based on ultravnc. However I dont run windows often, so the idea died. Today I played with getting it working under linux. The single click reverse vncserver part is still the same, . . . → Read More: Remote support for my family |
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