I recently started playing around with Visual Studio to develop Windows apps. Mostly for fun but I also have some ideas of apps that I thought would be useful so I built them to help me with some simple tasks that just need to be a bit quicker. This one is called “What’s My IP” released on the evening of 2019-12-10. What does it do? Because I work in IT/networking I often need to get the public IP of the network I’m sitting behind....
If you don’t have at least 2 copies of your backup does your backup even exist? Cloud backup is great, I use it for my computers and servers every day so I know that my data is backed up to an offsite location in the event of a disaster or issue with any of these devices or services. Having a backup stored in a single cloud storage solution is better than not having one but it’s not full proof....
Update 13/11/20: Microsoft recently released support for plus addressing in Exchange Online (Office 365) This is a pretty simple method that you can adopt to see exactly which companies are selling your personal information. You can start using this trick now if you use Outlook.com or Gmail as your email provider. I’ve only tested this with Outlook.com and Gmail accounts so this may not work with your current email provider....
It’s very frustrating having just launched your shiny new website and then it goes down due to overloaded traffic, a bug in the code or a system failure. But what’s worse is not knowing that it’s gone down until a customer tells you! I run my own web hosting and IT consultancy business, CL Servers. The uptime and speed at which I can serve customer websites is crucial to the business....
After many months of 3hr+ video calls, late nights coding, days of debugging, and a tonne of coffee I launched my first side project with friends; Ross and Nicola over on Product Hunt. What is Scenehunt? A platform with a collection of crowd sourced data to pull together film scene locations from around the world. New users can register and create locations for free at any time. What type of data is crowd sourced?...