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DIY VPN - Connecting computers over the Internet

I have been asked the following question, or a variation of it, many times over the years I've written NetSmart. The question being "At home (or my office) I have a desktop computer that is my main computer. When I travel, or am away from my computer I take a notebook with me .." Read more

Wikimedia, Wikipedia, WikiThis, WikiThat

"Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge". This is the bold mission of Wikimedia. Your average Internet user has not heard of Wikimedia, but most have heard of its biggest project, Wikipedia. Read more

Reduce your spam

Spam email, or junk or unsolicited email, involves nearly identical messages sent to many people. Everyone has at some point or another received spam. Volumes of spam have grown exponentially to several billion messages a day. It is frustrating, confusing, and annoying for email users. Read more

Home desktop searching

Today a very big proportion of the information we deal with in our daily lives is computerised, with all of it sitting somewhere on our computer's hard drive. The very real problem is though that with just so much information we're suffering from data overload. Its becoming more and more difficult to keep track of the information ... Read more

New ways to do old things

I recently became a dad again with the addition to the family of the cutest little girl. She's really pretty, but also really loud, and really demanding. Needless to say, life in our house sure has changed a lot over the last few weeks. One of the biggest changes was we had to be a lot smarter and more efficient about how we did things. Read more