Author Archives: Admin
loosing weight by walking, the first 1 million steps
With the help of an Activity tracker it might be easier to achieve your weight loosing goals. These trackers take care of the tedious work to log everything. Just place the activity tracker on your wrist, and start walking… This … Continue reading
Test, DIY tuning a piano key
I promised to “have a look” on a piano that did not sound “right” any longer; not for some time. A piano tuning professional had said that he does not know any piano with this name. After opening the piano, … Continue reading
DIY CRM: part 2 for personal task management
This is continuation to DIY CRM: part 1 for a small team, where the MS Access was used as a simple tool to keep track of tasks or cases for a team. The same tool can be used for a … Continue reading
DIY CRM: part 1 for a small team
MS Access is included in the MS Office set of tools. I was playing around with it, and discovered that it comes with several build-in templates for different tasks. One of the interesting template is “Customer service” template, that was … Continue reading
Recovering files from broken NAS (network attached storage)
After few years, even after little use, my Lacie 1000 Gb NAS went broken. When powering it up, the hard disk did not spin, but a smoke started to come up from the back side of the box close to … Continue reading
CryptSync, a simple alternative to protect your files for sharing
CryptSync is simple and easy to use tool to synchronize 2 folders, where the files in the destination folder are encrypted. (CryptSync is using 7-Zip for the encryption.) In this way, one can perform client side encryption when sharing several … Continue reading
Survey of ISO certifications, results for 2015
ISO is having surveys about number of ISO certifications, it is worth to have a look 🙂 The table below is taken from the executive summary. There are also excel files available for each ISO standard that shows certifications per … Continue reading