Jason Slater Weblog

2007 has been an eventful year - lots of things going on, many good and some not so good. I finally had my tonsils removed - 30+ years late but who’s counting!
Some big changes, developments and events in the tech world have occurred including virtual server finding its footing, Vista taking a hammering, the social [...]

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I was a bit surprised when a missile launcher came through the post this week.
  
Of course it is a toy - the postman might have balked at the idea of carrying a real one on his bicycle - let alone it being the complete IT budget blown for the next hundred years - and where [...]

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For the last few days I have been looking at the Sony Ericsson p1i.

The Sony Ericsson p1i does seem to be a viable alternative to the Nokia e61i I am trialling (see Trialling the Nokia E61i).

The SE p1i and the Nokia e61i are what are generally referred to as Thumb Phones. My first observations are [...]

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Some users were asking me how they could batch rename files for their photos - they wanted to get rid of that horrible DSC prefix and replace it with something like Holiday2007. The simplest way is to go into Windows Explorer and select the files you want to rename (You can select multiple files by [...]

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For a long time I’ve relied on a great product for archiving emails. Initially it started out as a method for offloading mails from the mail server and encouraging users not to store their data in PST files but has since become an essential repository for retrieving mails both old and new.
I have always [...]

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