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WebSitePublisher – Slick Tool

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Occasionally I run into a software tool that “just works”. No muss, no fuss. Just start it, tell it to do its thing and forget about it. Kinda the opposite of Microsloth products. This little bit of freeware, WebSitePublisher is just such a package. It does only one thing – shoveling bits and pieces of […]

Posted by neonjohn on January 25th, 2008 under Computing, Cool Stuff, Product Reviews | 1 Comment »

BlogDesk Mysterious error and solution

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I write to this blog using the BlogDesk off-line editor. When I set up this blog I spent a LOT, and I do mean a LOT of time trying to find a good offline editor. The solution to that problem escapes me to this day. BlogDesk is simply the best of a pretty awful lot. […]

Posted by neonjohn on January 21st, 2008 under Computing | 3 Comments »

I {Love|Hate} Serial Ports or….. Life in the slow lane

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I just got me a brandy-new US Robotics Sportster V.92 external modem with the RS-232 interface. Remember that antique icon of the last century, the external modem? Time to step into the WayBack machine and get re-acquainted. Lightning is a B***H This all came about a couple of weeks ago when lightning hit one of […]

Posted by neonjohn on November 29th, 2007 under Computing | 2 Comments »

I have seen the Future

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There are some public domain electronic books that I’m going to host on my website. They’re very good and rather than leech bandwidth from their original sources, I transferred them to my site. How to do that was the question, as I’m stuck on dial-up and a couple of the books are over 100mb! Then […]

Posted by neonjohn on June 15th, 2007 under Computing | Comment now »

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