Jason Slater Technology Blog

Tip: Always Add The Recipient Last

Jason Slater — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:00:00 +0000

The beauty of email is that it’s so quick and convenient to fire off an email, as you tab through the fields on the send form, but how many times have you fired one off ...

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Happy 9th Birthday Jason Slater Technology Blog

Jason Slater — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:00:00 +0000

Well, it’s time to blow out the candles as this technology blog is celebrating it’s ninth year talking about all things technology related, from the history of technology, through software...

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Breaking Free #2: Work Is Something You Do Not Somewhere You Go?

Jason Slater — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:26:47 +0000

Welcome to the second part in this series where I plan to find out if it’s possible to break free from the rat race and earn a living from the Internet; to get up ...

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Have You Neglected Your Backup Recently?

Jason Slater — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:00:00 +0000

Computer Weekly recently reported that according to recent research, commissioned by Acronis, European SME (Small/Medium Enterprise) businesses may be neglecting backup and (probably more importantly...

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Essential New Shape Manipulation Tools In PowerPoint 2010

Jason Slater — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:00:00 +0000

A feature which doesn’t appear, by default, on the ribbon bar in PowerPoint 2010 is the new selection of shape manipulation tools: Combine, Intersect, Subtract, and Union which allow you to do all...

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Technology News For 12th March 2010

Jason Slater — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:45:00 +0000

Fri, 12th Mar In this article we’ll take a look at some of the key technology news stories and headlines, from around the world, for ...

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Spiceworks 4.6 Is On Its Way

Jason Slater — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:30:25 +0000

The free network monitoring and management platform that just keeps getting better, Spiceworks, is in the last phases of beta testing as it readies for public release. Spiceworks addresses three...

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Watch Out For Barclays Branded Email Scams

Jason Slater — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:47:51 +0000

After the recent warning about DHL branded electronic mail scams (see Watch Out For The DHL Branded Email Scams), it seems Barclays is under fire from scammers. I received this communication recently...

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A Look At The Motorola Milestone, Part One

Jason Slater — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:10:00 +0000

Motorola describe the Android 2 based Milestone as “The Phone Without Compromise” so in this series of articles we’ll look at it closer so see whether it lives up to it’s name. First impressions ...

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Be Greener With The OWL Wireless Electricity Monitor

Jason Slater — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:15:00 +0000

If you work from home regularly, or are simply interested in living a little greener whilst saving money on your electricity bill, you might appreciate more information to avoid wasting energy –...

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Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

Using the Microsoft Arc Mouse - and Win One

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Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Considering Windows Server 2008 R2
Being a thin-client environment there are clearly some benefits to be gained from the developments in Remote Desktop Services...

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Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Are we ready to switch to Google Apps yet?
There do seem to be some curiosities here – particularly led by the fact that I was unable to get the online calculator to match the disc savings calculator.

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Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Address the world from your phone

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Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDT

StumbleUpon: A Quick Guide for the Unconvinced
An overview of what you need to know when thinking about using StumbleUpon.

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Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Free iPhone App May Cost You Big
AT&T, the company with a stranglehold on the hottest phone in history, the iPhone, has released a free app called AT&T Navigator. However it’s not free at all.
Developing An Application In Flash And AS3 Part Two
To catch up on this ongoing project read this article: Developing An Application Using Flash and Action Script 3. Now I have a pretty reasonable grasp of the basics of ActionScript 3 and its object nature the next step has been to take a step back
A look at the Toshiba Portégé R600 with 512GB SSD
Toshiba have managed to fit a 512GB SSD into their tiny R600 - I got to take a look at one recently...
Palm Under Fire As User Complaints About Shoddy Hardware Increase
The Palm Pre has been eagerly awaited from the moment it was introduced at the CES this past February. The Smartphone, running Palm’s new WebOS software was expected to be the struggling company’s best chance at returning to its former days of gl

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Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDT

What are the options for roaming data backup?
One of the things to consider is what online backup really means...