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 Read more…
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 Read more…
formulatepro – Overlay text and graphics on PDF documents. Great for filling out forms. – Google Project Hosting.
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
Recently I have discovered two new (at least for me) utilities: – pigz – Parallel gzip – pbzip2 – Parallel bzip2 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 Read more…
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! 🙂 FAQs | Raspberry Pi.
Step aside Arduino, TinkerForge is the new sheriff in mod-town video — Engadget.
ImageOptim — all image compression tools in one Mac app. Very nice and open source application to reduce photo size without compromises!