It turns out Google can handle your currency conversion needs. Keep in mind Google keeps a record of your queries.
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VPN for OS X: Witopia 2012 review (from a three year user)
The Witopia Personal VPN is a great value, but watch out for tech support issues with WiTopia Pro OpenVPN SSL account. Same fast speeds on both.
Laptops for Schools: Microsoft Windows, Apple or Linux
If you had to buy 1700 laptops for a school one to one program, you have a budget to enhance drivers and open source and still save money.
People who buy iPhones are image-conscious fad-following idiots
Samsung smartly shows iPhones are for pretentious wannabes who are behind the times.
Textile: How to write in the world’s greatest markup language
I often have to introduce our team to Textile formatting and our clients. I’ve linked to the other great Textile documentation out there.
HighriseHQ issues: Why can’t we create a new Deal from dashboard?
How can 37signals cripple the dashboard File option for Deals by not allowing us to create a new Deal and file the item directly?
Textile Editing on OS X: BBEdit, iTextile, MarkMyWords
So for non-programmers, here’s how to get Textile editing working on BBEdit. Review of other OS X textile solutions.
Latin1 to UTF-8: A single query to find all the Latin1 database tables
We’ve found that even WordPress sites which are principally already UTF-8 have the odd Latin1 table sneaking into them. Here’s how you find them.
Apple Mail: Fixing Broken IMAP accounts after a server move
Trouble with your IMAP after a server move? Here are the setting you need to change in Apple Mail to save messages properly.
Basecamp Mobile Platform Subscribes Everyone. Note to 37 Signals: Mobile has to work to be useful
With up to 20 people on a single project, spanning design, programming, SEO and content, notifying everyone is a nightmare.
Memory | SSD Reliability: whom to buy and whom to avoid
If you don’t like downtime and hassle, avoid OWC and OCZ at all costs. Storage is an area where failure is particularly taxing of time and energy.
Google Chromium Binaries: Here’s where Google hide the nightly builds of Chrome without the spyware
For some unaccountable reason, the URL 404’s now (don’t Google know about 301 redirects?) – here’s the new working nightly build link.
Web server backups: DIY or Die by the hand of your webhost
Why you should never trust your webhost with backups. And what to do instead.
Setting up SendLoop DKIM and SPF on a Cpanel/WHM server
Learn how to setup your SPF and DKIM records in this illustrated step-by-step guide. Exact steps for SendLoop and WHM.
BackupBuddy free alternative – Simple and effective WordPress backups
Read our recommended solution for WordPress backups of smaller weblogs and some thoughts on BackupBuddy.
Google Search Settings won’t stick in Safari or OmniWeb: turn off Instant!
Google wins our Microsoft embrace, extend, extinguish award of the month for their attack on Safari and other webkit browsers.
Apple Mail: Getting rid of multiple draft messages in IMAP
Having trouble with draft messages proliferating like rabbits in IMAP in Apple Mail? Here’s the solution.
Apple’s Privacy Policies look more and more like Microsoft
How to protect your privacy when using an Apple computer. The distance between Steve Jobs’s talk about privacy and Apple’s walk. Baked-in privacy invasion.
Feedback/team building tool: Rypple
How should you get feedback from your employees. It depends on organisation size. Small groups: just ask. Larger: have a look at Rypple.
bcToolkit vs Freshbooks for Basecamp reporting: nod to Freshbooks for reports plus invoicing
Should you use bcToolkit? How important is reporting. Are there any more affordable alternatives to bcToolkit?
