So when I got my iPhone I knew that I’d order the Zagg invisibleSHIELD sticker to protect it. These clear stickers are tough and protect your iPhone (or laptop or whatever) from everyday scratches, like when you’d put your iPhone in your pocket with your car keys. The US military use these stickers on some [...]

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Pravane holds the claim to be the first published SteamPunk work. You can read a full review of the book here.
Comprising a cycle of linked stories set in Dorset, England, it depicts a 1968 in which the Roman Catholic Church still has supremacy; in its timeline, Protestantism was destroyed during wars that resulted from the [...]

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Create online checklists with checkser. When you’ve made them, share them out for others to use. I’m something of a checklist fan, so I appreciate this website, even if I’m late to the party. So what checklists already exist?
Setting up a blog
Facebook Closure
Moving Home
Self Management
Divorce
Cosplay
How to review a book
Home Buyer Checklist
Things to do when buying [...]

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I have had so much downtime from moving hosts that it is untrue. I’m sorry about the site failures that have been happening since Friday.
This is going to turn into a review / rant about Hostican, the hosting provider I moved to. This is my personal experience of them:
Pretty much as soon as I moved [...]

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In part one I covered ‘Why use eSATA?’ In part two I’m covering ‘How to use eSATA’ The presumption is that you want to add additional external drives to your current setup. Maybe you are a laptop user or have run out of internal space in your computer but still want super fast disk access [...]

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Granite Digital has a seemingly great product for recovering data from older IDE and (newer) SATA disks. Works with all drives and on Windows, Linux and OS X; good work on multiple OS support.

Remember that I mentioned this a while ago? Well it only does SATA drives, and Granite’s covers IDE drives too. So I’ve [...]

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Sometimes little gadgets make you go ‘whoa, neat.’ Doesn’t happen often, just sometimes.
This is one of those times. Take a look at this SATA drive USB mount, pretty damned sweet. I WILL be buying one of these shortly.
When it arrives I’ll throw up a review for everyone. In fact this is now outdated by a [...]

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Did you know that you can add features to Leopard’s quick look feature? Here’s some now:
Folders
When you Quick Look a folder Apple’s implementation shows you… an icon of a folder. This plugin, on the other hand, shows you the folder and its contents.
Zip Files
This plugin does for [...]

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