Yesterday was World Backup Day. Every March 31st has been declared to be World Backup Day and serve as a reminder to everybody to backup their data. The website behind the holiday offers winnable prizes, discount offers, tips on how to backup and more. … [Read more...]
Arena.Xlsm, an RPG built using Excel
If you have your nose buried in spreadsheets all day at the office, you might enjoy a little change of pace even with Excel open. Cary Walkin, a chartered accountant up in the great white north, has created an RPG using just Excel's macro system. It works on the Windows versions of Excel 2007 - 2013. The story goes that you are captured by the Emperor and are thrown into an … [Read more...]
Using Newsblur as a Google Reader replacement
I had Newsblur sitting in my inbox since November, meaning to check it out as a new RSS feed reader. I wasn't quite sure it was worth paying the premium price given the number of feeds I subscribe to but one fateful night when it was stated that Google Reader would be retired this Summer, I made the investment and the jump. I was most interested in a cloud-based feed reader … [Read more...]
Setting up Ketarin to keep your installers up to date automatically
There have been plenty of updates to popular software applications lately. Java, Flash, Firefox, and the others all make keeping systems up to date a living nightmare for IT and home users. Even keeping a local copy of the current installers for new computers can be a time-consuming task. To make that job easier, you can use Ketarin. Ketarin is an open source program written … [Read more...]
Google Reader is dead July 1st, 2013; Seven RSS feed reader alternatives
In another round of Spring Cleaning, Google announced today that Google Reader will be retired on July 1st, 2013 and a number of other services will also be shuttered. Apps Script's GUI Builder, and five UiApp widgets, CalDAV API, Google Building Maker, Google Cloud Connect, Google Voice App for Blackberry, Search API for Shopping, and Snapseed Desktop for Macintosh and Windows … [Read more...]