NextGEN or Picasa for image galleries.

I am trying to decide what to use for managing pictures on this blog.

I have installed NextGEN gallery and put up a trial album – nice and easy to make captions, tags and so on.  It even makes thumbnails automatically.  The only problem is that I have to resize the original images manually (well, using [...]

Self-Sanitising

A few days ago I had a request from a friend who suspected her computer was infected with a virus.

She had Symantec installed, and apparently up-to-date, I was curious, so I suggested she go to myNetWatchman to download this useful little utility and run it on her system before running the Symantec scan.

A couple of [...]

Entry into the blogosphere

After a few months working on Joomla and starting up a few websites I thought it was time to broaden my horizons and try WordPress.

Rather than rolling it out on a commercial site and having to ride the learning curve whilst keeping a client happy I have decided to use it for my own blog.  [...]