David Vielmetter

Category: Reviews

  • Outlook data recovery from a PST file

    [sponsored] If you’re using Microsoft Outlook with a single POP3 account to manage email, all your personal data will likely exist in a PST file. If this file gets corrupted for whatever reason, Outlook may fail to start. [the problem] Outlook will not start and hangs at a splash screen showing starting… or processing… or…

  • A review of leeflets

    Leeflets is a simple, but powerful content management system for single page websites. Once installed, platform is ridiculously easy to use. Leeflets doesn’t require a database or any messy setup process within your hosting panel. Just drag and drop the files on to your server, and you’re ready to go!

  • Skydrive got a makeover

    Microsoft’s Skydrive has finally become a real competitor in the cloud storage arena. Yes, it’s been around for a while, but it hasn’t been very usable and it’s interface has been severely lacking. The most recent overhaul, however has made Skydrive as easy to use as Dropbox. Freely available and functional Apps for IOS, Mac,…

  • 10 Reasons to love the new Outlook.com

    I’ve been beta testing Outlook.com for a month now and I like it. Finally Microsoft got it right with a simple and uncomplicated web based email experience. Best of all, now anyone can experience Outlook.com. Simply switch your Hotmail account over to the new UI or create a new account at Outlook.com. Here are the…

  • Cloudflare

    About two months ago I read about Cloudflare on the Interwebs and decided to give it a whirl. This review is reflects my experience using a free Cloudflare account for just over one month. Cloudflare is essentially a Content Deliver Network (CDN) with some interesting additional offerings. While the free account doesn’t give you all the…

  • Google+ App for the iPhone

    Dear Google, I understand that your primary focus for development of mobile Apps is the android platform, but that shouldn’t be an excuse to slack on building apps for other platforms. Especially if it involves your second endeavor into Social Media. Shouldn’t the focus here be to make your social network as accessible and functional…

  • IOS5 printing with FingerPrint

    I recently got an iPad2 and I upgraded to IOS5 pretty shortly after I got it to take advantage of iCloud. Since the upgrade, I haven’t been able to print via my previously setup AirPrint service on Windows. After wasting three days of poking around on the Internets researching ways to fix printing on IOS5…

  • Screenr – a tool for error reporting

    UPDATE: Screenr has closed. Screencast-o-matic is my preferred replacement: http://screencast-o-matic.com With ever more complex business process software, the bugs are often deeply embedded within a process or sequence of steps. Unless you perform the sequence precisely, chances of reproducing the error, bug or crash are slim to none. This makes it difficult for developers and support…

  • Alien Blue HD for the iPad

    Since the recent Google Reader debacle with Recommended items, I’ve been moving back to Reddit for my crowd sourced news and top stories on the net. While trying to find a better way to consume Reddit, I ran across an amazing App called Alien Blue HD for the iPad. I like it so much, I…

  • Outlook 2011 for Mac

    So I got Outlook 2011 the other day, thinking that it might be a better solution than Thunderbird + DavMail. It works well enough with exchange 2007 and 2010, but if you’re connecting to exchange/sbs 2003…forget about it – it’s not supported. That got me thinking…if an iPhone can connect exchange 2003, why can’t the…

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