Michael S. Clark

I’ve just completed the transfer of all the websites I host to NearlyFreeSpeech.NET. For as little as $0.25, you can set up web sites at NearlyFreeSpeech.NET, the original home of only pay for what you use hosting. This is the penultimate service that this server provides as I have already transferred email to Google Mail [...]

I’ve recently been using Dropbox.com to keep my files in sync between home and work. I’ve also been on the hunt for a (free) site to host ClickOnce deployments. It was only in a revelation whilst I was in bed last night that I wondered if I could use Dropbox’s Public directory as the target [...]

We’ve always liked Weather Underground for its no-nonsense, real-time weather info. Today they’ve released a new service called Full Screen Weather that mashes up Google Maps with weather data for nothing but maps and up-to-the-minute weather info. [Via: Lifehacker]

Robots born with the sole purpose of solving the Rubik’s Cube are nothing new, but we’re pretty sure we haven’t seen one crack the code in under a dozen seconds before. [Via: engadget]

I tried to use the window Aero Snap feature on Windows 7 today that allows you to snap windows to the left or right of the screen by holding the title bar and dragging to the left or right edges. This work well for systems with one monitor, but with dual monitors, the desktop is [...]

I’d been looking into getting a compact video camera for a while now, and more recently since Alfie came along. I’d initially looked at the RCA EZ409HD, but after reading the disappointing reviews, I decided on the Flip Ultra HD. It’s fairly inexpensive and very easy to use, and the quality is excellent. You can [...]

Why? Why do I have to be signed in to XBox Live to use a media codec? I was trying to watch a programme last night with was encoded using the ISO-MPEG4 compatible XviD codec, but I was having trouble signing in, so it wouldn’t let me. Why can’t they add it to a dashboard [...]

The ActiveSync on my phone, which I’d used to sync with my Google Apps account recently began failing with the error “Your account in Microsoft Exchange Server does not have permission to synchronize with your current settings.”; code 0×85010004. Now I hadn’t changed anything, so I was a bit bemused to say the least. Today [...]

[wehrdo] has posted a guide with an extremely low-tech solution to password management. he literally put the passwords on a floppy disk in the form of paper glued to the magnetic film. for those that still have some floppy disks around, this is a zero cost hack. we wouldn’t recommend this for state secrets, but [...]

URL shortening services are ubiquitous on Twitter and other cramped online spaces. They won’t all last, as tr.im has demonstrated, and their shutdowns could annihilate your linking history. If you own a domain, though, you can host your own service. [Via: lifehacker] Updated: Since I’m using Google Apps, I simply installed Google Short Links from Google [...]