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How to schedule Windows 7 to shutdown

By on Monday, December 5th, 2011 | No Comments

Many people ask me how they can get their computer to shutdown at night automatically. With windows XP I used a nice little freeware program that would sit in the tray, but with Windows 7 it is much easier. There is a task scheduler built in that you can take advantage of. Click on Start>Control [...]

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HIPIX Image Format

By on Thursday, October 14th, 2010 | No Comments

A company called Human Monitoring Ltd have recently announced a new image compression technology based on the existing h.264 standard (which that has been around a while and you may have come across it with video files). The advantage of using an existing standard as opposed to creating a new one is that it can [...]

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Apple iOS4 quick rundown

By on Friday, July 2nd, 2010 | No Comments

So what’s the buzz with the new software release for the iPhone 3G and 3GS? In summary, you get: * Wallpapers for the home screen – yeah nothing new for most other phones on the market but great on the iPhone (now) * Multitasking – great innovation but I would prefer to be able to [...]

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Stop that nagging reboot message after windows update

By on Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010 | No Comments

Don’t you hate the constant reminder to reboot windows after an update? Yes, you need to apply the changes, but if you are working on your PC, you don’t want to reboot until later. What I don’t like is that if you’re PC is unattended, your PC will just reboot. Well, here’s a fix: Type [...]

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AVG Rescue CD

By on Monday, March 29th, 2010 | No Comments

A great addition for any IT pro’s toolkit which I read about the other day – AVG Rescue CD is bascially a portable version of AVG Anti-Virus running on a Linux live CD. You can use it as a bootable CD or even a bootable USB drive, and the best thing is that it’s free. [...]

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