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Reviews
Sysinternals Process Explorer 16
_ February 5, 2014_ Kevin Costain

Process Explorer 16 and VirusTotal: A Massive Improvement

Process Explorer includes the ability to check loaded processes with the virus checking aggregator VirusTotal. This combination of seeing running processes and virus checking is a great way to get a quick idea if machines are running malware.

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Reviews
Facebook's iOS news reader Paper
_ February 3, 2014_ Kevin Costain

Facebook Announces Paper, Tries To Reinvent News

With a name like Paper, it seems Facebook may be reaching for much more than a way to find stories from posts. Facebook may be shooting for the lofty goal of being a news service, and a starting point for when people read the news.

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Publishing
Calwell Logo (Balls)
_ January 30, 2014_ Kevin Costain

Changes at CWL

Over the next little while, you’re going to see a few changes to this blog.

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How-To
Truecrypt Logo
_ January 28, 2014_ Kevin Costain

3 Ways To Automate The Backup Of TrueCrypt Containers

Backing up open files are usually difficult. This isn’t exactly easy when the TrueCrypt file may actually be in use. I’ve compiled a list of things you can do to keep these files backed up.

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Ideas
_ January 27, 2014_ Kevin Costain

Google Gets Wise To Guest Blogging For SEO

The guest blog request, and the subsequent posts, are used to build links from a more popular site to a less popular one, in an effort to gain traction with a search engine. Google appears ready to clamp down on this practice. Here’s what I think of the practice.

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Links
IBM Logo
_ January 24, 2014_ Kevin Costain

IT Is Entering A Commodity Era Of Computing, IBM Is Not

Cringely is no fan of IBM. His latest skewering of IBM’s move to sell its server business to Lenovo doesn’t sit too well with him.

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Ideas
Samsung Curved UHD Screens
_ January 23, 2014_ Kevin Costain

Curved TVs are coming, and here’s why you’d want one

Anytime I’ve mentioned this to someone who wasn’t at CES, the response I get is “Why a curved TV?”. This is such a simple, but the valid question for those of us that just accept what’s coming with open arms. I thought I’d explore why we’re seeing curved TVs and why you might be interested in one yourself.

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Editorial
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_ January 21, 2014_ Kevin Costain

Logmein Abandons Its Free product, Users

All users running Logmein Free options on mobile and desktop tools will receive a notification that they’ll have to upgrade to the “Pro” version or lose access within 7 days. Naturally, Logmein puts a spin on this, mentioning that they’ve offered the free product for 10 years, but many users are angry.

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Editorial
Canada Post Logo
_ January 20, 2014_ Kevin Costain

Canada Post makes huge changes, becomes even less relevant

For most of us, this means worse service, for a more expensive rate. This is what a company looks like when has no idea how to change beyond reactionary measures. For all Canadians, this should be incredibly disappointing for a service that forms such an important part of our society’s infrastructure.

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Links
Derp Rage Drawing
_ January 16, 2014_ Kevin Costain

CES is (not) mostly bullshit

The current iteration of this story is from Will Smith (no, not that Will Smith), who writes for Tested. In his article “CES: It’s Mostly Bullshit”, he expounds on the suckiness of all things CES. He’s really only redeemed by saying “mostly”

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