Category Archives: General

Our grab bag of general information

Surfulater Web Site Makeover

Posted on April 8, 2010 by nevf

The Surfulater Web site is overdue for a major makeover, both visually and its words. We aren’t doing a good enough job at quickly explaining what Surfulater does and why it can be so useful for people who spend any … Continue reading →

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Firewalls are wonderful things except when they aren’t.

Posted on March 3, 2010 by nevf

All PC users are faced with a never ending onslaught from rogues trying to gain access to their PC. They may want to steal your personal details or hijack your PC and use it to send out a flood of … Continue reading →

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Firefox Version 3.6 and the Surfulater Firefox Extension may not work

Posted on February 11, 2010 by nevf

The current Surfulater Firefox Extension does not work if you do a clean installation of Firefox Version 3.6. If you upgrade to Firefox V3.6 from an earlier version of Firefox the Extension will continue to work correctly.

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Hope is not a plan

Posted on October 14, 2009 by nevf

I was contacted by a long time ED for Windows customer yesterday who had visited our Surfulater Web site and commented on the quotes we have there, adding his own “Hope is not a plan”. I’d not heard this before … Continue reading →

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Too much of a good thing – the rebuttal

Posted on April 8, 2009 by nevf

After writing Too much of a good thing I contacted the therein mentioned customer (Mr. T.) informing him of the blog post. To my surprise he wrote a lengthy rebuttal and with his permission here it is in full, along … Continue reading →

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Too much of a good thing

Posted on April 6, 2009 by nevf

A new Surfulater customer e-mailed over the weekend wanting to know how to get Surfulater to automatically save each and every Web page he visited in his Web Browser. He commented that disk space is cheap and a 1TB drive … Continue reading →

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A great time to buy – price update coming soon

Posted on October 25, 2007 by nevf

Surfulater price update. Starting November 2007 the single copy (2 licenses) price of Surfulater will be $59. If you’ve been holding back on purchasing Surfulater or you know of any colleagues or friends who may be interested in Surfulater, now … Continue reading →

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True Stories

Posted on May 10, 2007 by nevf

I’ve collected some great stories from Surfulater users recently and with their permission I’d like to share some with you. Hi Neville,   It has been a while since I’ve emailed you about your product but I just want to say … Continue reading →

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To Vista or not to Vista that is the ?

Posted on May 2, 2007 by nevf

I was never able to find the time, nor the motivation to try the Vista Beta releases, so it wasn’t until the real release before I laid my hands and eyes upon it. I’ve been using Windows and developing software … Continue reading →

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XEN and the art of Virtualization

Posted on January 10, 2007 by nevf

I endeavour to spend a bit of time over the Christmas/New Year break trying out and learning about new things as these opportunities don’t present themselves much through the year. On Friday night over dinner, a good friend Russell Robinson mentioned … Continue reading →

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