By ray | December 18, 2006
As previously mentioned, when Yahoo added my web hosting account to my regular Yahoo account all my e-mail aliases vanished and e-mail started bouncing. Well, today I noticed that they’re back.
But, they’re back in name only. I can see them, I can edit them, I can add them and I can delete them. But I [...]
By ray | December 14, 2006
I’m taking a look at Carbonite Backup as my next backup solution. In short, it seems almost perfect. (Almost - because there’s no Mac client although they say one will be coming in early 2007.)
It’s the cheapest backup solution out there, $50/yr or $90 for 2 years with unlimited storage. (I just noticed today that [...]
By ray | December 10, 2006
I have Sun’s java runtime installed on my Windows PC, specifically (from the “About” box) “Java 2 Platform Version 1.5.0″. I have it set to check for updates on the 3rd of each month (I’m not positive but I think this was the default). So for the last few days it’s been telling me that [...]
By ray | December 10, 2006
While I didn’t get the Maxtor OneTouch to use as a backup drive I decided to take the included backup software for a test drive to see how it works before hooking it up to my Mac.
The Specs From The Box
Firewire 400, IEEE 1394, i.Link and SBP-2 compliant
USB 2.0 and 1.1 Compliant
Mac OS X 10.2.8 [...]
By ray | December 10, 2006
Windows Defender, Microsoft’s anti-spyware utility, has been updated, left beta and had it’s production release. It remains free. The Windows Defender beta software running on my PC notified me of the updated version. When I clicked on the link to download it just brought me to Microsoft’s Windows Defender web page. When clicking on the [...]
By ray | December 3, 2006
In addition to the blog posting that appear on the home page, the following updates were made to the site this past week.
The Backup Project page was updated with the shortlist of software I’ll be evaluating.
Added the following Thunderbird tip to the Cross Platform Apps page in the software zone:
The Thunderbird spam filter must be [...]
