About: Rod Weston

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Paragon Drive Copy 11

One of the things I absolutely hate about upgrading my hardware is the 12 hours of reinstalling all my software and reloading my data. But Paragon has a software package that dramatically eases the pain of hardware upgrades. I will soon be upgrading my computer and I intend to use this software to migrate all Continue Reading...
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Update Your Video Player

If you are not using VLC, you should be. It’s the best free video player available. And it’s free. I rely on it. It plays the broadest range of video formats of any player available at no cost and it does it very well. Now VLC has released version 2.0 which has been commletely rewritten Continue Reading...
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Stopping the Spam Robots – Captcha and Re-Captcha

I don’t like CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart) . Most of them are difficult to figure out and sometimes – especially with Google – I have to try four or five times to get it right. But the spam robots must be stopped, so CAPTCHA  is one of the better Continue Reading...
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Congratulations, Robert Lemon!

In a field of 500 authors, Robert Lemon has been honored as Advantage Media’s 2011 Author of the Year! Robert’s book, Now is Your Time, draws on his own experience and understanding. Robert received the Airforce Achievement Medal Award, from the Secretary of the Airforce for his achievements in the Air Force. He has been Continue Reading...
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Handling Blog Comments

You will notice that few comments appear on my blog. It’s not that I haven’t received comments – I receive several comments every day, especially on the Typography blog post – but the vast majority of the comments do not contribute to the blog. Unless the comment offers something of value to the readers of Continue Reading...
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