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11-11-11-11 Contest

Victor — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:00:59 +0000

First Place (Handy Backup Professional – $99) Handy Backup Professional is an advanced backup software designed for small and medium businesses. It extends functionality of the Standard edition with the following functions: Backup to SFTP servers Image backup Database backup via ODBC connectivity 2 x Second Place (Handy Backup Standard – $39) Handy Backup Standard is a simple PC backup and data synchronization [...]

Handy Backup Review

Victor — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:52:07 +0000

The worst thing can happen is to loose all you the pictures you made in the last 2 years or all the customer information you gathered in the last 5 days. These kind of scenarios can happen to anyone and unless you create a duplicate of your data (a backup) you cannot recover it. There [...]

Tip #7: VMWare Unity View

Victor — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:12:32 +0000

I just found a really cool feature in VMWare Workstation 6.5.3. It is called “Unity View” and basically allows windows from a virtual machine to appear as windows in the host machine. In the example pictures you can see that I have a host running Windows 7, a unity windows from a Windows Xp guest and [...]

Spell check MSDN fail

Victor — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:59:43 +0000

Check out this fail: Don’t worry if you can’t understand it. Is just that you are not geek enough. :)

1, 2, 3, 7!

Victor — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:57:06 +0000

Today is a big day for Windows fans. The final milestone in Windows 7 development process has been reached and the new operating system is general available. Just two years passed since the release of Vista and many say that Windows 7 should be just a “super-service pack” for Vista. If you are not a MS Partner [...]

Ads on blog

Victor — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:04:18 +0000

Dear visitor, This blog is non profit and will remain so. The reason why you may see some Google Ads (if you didn’t block them) is that I want to cover the hosting expenses (~$100/year). So from now on the following fair policy applies: revenue of up to $100/year goes for hosting revenue >$100/year goes for charity, prizes (please [...]

Panorama 1

Victor — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:00:56 +0000

Some panorama pictures made by me. Delft, The Netherlands: left: TUDelft EWI (Elektrotechniek, Wiskunde en Informatica) building right: sport fields from Sport Centrum Park in Rotterdam: The next two are made from the Euromast Tower in Rotterdam: left: the Erasmus bridge

Office 2010 Web Apps

Victor — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:49:19 +0000

Most of you know Google Docs (GD) - the web-based word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, and form application offered by Google. Probably in the attempt to remove GD’s supremacy and to promote their new Office 2010, Microsoft is preparing a free online version of Office called Office Web Apps. For the Technical Preview four application are available: Excel, [...]

Tip #6: The importance of the default case

Victor — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:12:31 +0000

It is said that “is good to catch an exception as soon as possible”. This is the motto of the post. You never wrote perfect code! Neither do I and probably no mortal will do this. You must accept it and try to make your code as best as possible. There are many ways to do [...]

Tip #5: Get 25GB Online Free Storage

Victor — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:00:15 +0000

Do you want 25 GB of free storage that can be accessed from anywhere you have Internet connection? Microsoft is offering 25 GB free online storage through SkyDrive. The drawback of this service is that you can only access files through a browser and if you want drag/drop facilities you must use Internet Explorer. Gladinet is developing [...]