Ever wonder what it takes to get a IT system up and running as a nonprofit under 25 people? In these difficult economic times, it’s really important to get your act together regarding your nonprofit’s finances. When I started out in the tech industry in the 1990s, IT departments were sti...

Filed under: HackIt, daily With each passing day the rate we acquire digital media increases (we don't even bother unpacking our CDs when we move anymore). Large publishers have started moving away from DRM, which means we'll be buying even more digital media in the future. Acquiring all of this non...

I have lost count of the number of times I’ve been tortured by the prospect of losing my Outlook .pst or key business files. I was aware of backing up files for a long time, but blew it off until a little while back when the latest in a series of friends experienced a fried hard drive. So, I&#...

DEVONtechnologies, LLC releases maintenance and feature updates for all editions of its information manager DEVONthink and for DEVONnote. Devonthink is the one and only database for all digital files, be they PDFs, emails, Word documents or even multimedia files. DEVONnote helps taking notes and kee...

Let’s get a couple of things out of the way before I begin. I know Matt Asay, I like Matt Asay, and I respect Matt Asay. I am, in fact, slated to moderate a panel for him at his upcoming OSBC conference. But the one area in which we’ve never seen eye to eye is the Linux desktop. I certai...

A while back I posted about using Amazon S3 to backup my data. I promised a follow-up post evaluating how it was all working. So here is my summary. It took me the better part of 2 months to get all my files uploaded to S3, but consider I was on the road most of Oct/Nov. So the time I could use to u...