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Hotspot Shield VPN 27 May 2013 | 06:49 pm

I regularly connect to the Internet using free WiFi hotspots with my Nexus 7 tablet and, although most of the services I connect to use SSL to secure the connection, I felt it would be a good idea to ...

Creating Multiple Outlook Distribution Lists from Excel 16 May 2013 | 03:17 am

Suppose you have a list of companies you deal with, and each company has more than one contact. You want to send a customised email to each company based on entries in an Excel spreadsheet. You want e...

Forcing a Jellybean 4.2.2 update for Nexus 7 15 Feb 2013 | 12:50 pm

A very quick post today to tell you how to force an update to your Nexus 7 tablet if you have been checking for software updates unsuccessfully. 1. Stop the Google Services Framework application by ch...

Pure Gym Classes 5 Feb 2013 | 03:02 am

I finally decided to rejoin Pure Gym, the gym I signed up with about 3 years ago when it was just opening. When I first signed up, I made an effort to go to the gym regularly – probably 3 or 4 times a...

Migrate a guest OS to a new datastore in ESXi 5.1 22 Jan 2013 | 06:10 am

A step by step guide to moving a virtual machine from one datastore to another in VMware ESXi 5.1 (probably applies to earlier versions too) I had been running my VMware host with two small physical h...

My diet 6 months in 12 Jan 2013 | 09:10 pm

I’m now about 6 months into my diet and fitness challenge and I’m continuing to make good progress! Since starting on July 23rd 2012, I’ve lost about 25kg, my weight at the start was 95kg, I’m now 69....

Installing Photoshop CS2 on Windows 7 64-bit 8 Jan 2013 | 06:17 pm

Adobe have kindly made Creative Suite 2 (CS2) available to download for free – you can download it at http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html - however, there are a couple of tricks to...

How to move from Instagram to Flickr 19 Dec 2012 | 02:45 am

Today, 18th December 2012, Instagram announced that they would be changing their Terms of Service effective 16th January 2013. After that date, Instagram will be able to repackage any photo submitted ...

16 weeks of dieting 18 Nov 2012 | 06:50 pm

10 weeks ago, I wrote a blog post about my diet progress. I am now 16 weeks into my diet and have made great progress. I have continued to use the myFitnessPal Android application which I can’t say en...

Wireless adapter problems on Acer Laptop after November 2012 Microsoft Update (Windows 8) 18 Nov 2012 | 03:29 am

On Tuesday, November 13, 2012, Microsoft released 6 security bulletins in their regular ‘Patch Tuesdy’. After installing the bulletins and rebooting my Acer V3-571 laptop which is running Windows 8 Pr...

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