Kev Quirk

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How To Use FTP On A Chromebook

Chromebook’s are brilliant. They’re cheap, quick, lightweight, and generally awesome. However, for power users, such as myself, Chromebook’s do lack some features. In this article, I’ll show you how t...

Technology, Web

CyanogenMod 11 Galaxy S3 Freezing

Over the past 24 hours, I’ve been having a right nightmare upgrading my Samsung Galaxy S3 to CyanogenMod 11. After getting an update alert, I duly updated; but my device decided to start freezing ever...

Technology

Oh Freedom How I've Missed Thee!

Over the past 6 months or so, my blog, RefuGeeks has been growing and growing, and growing. That’s a really great thing, however it’s meant that a hell of a lot of my time has been taken up with serve...

Notes

Selling Up & Moving On

Many of us work bloody hard, and in most cases, it’s too hard. So what can we do about it? Is plodding through life being permanently over worked a good thing? Of course it isn’t. So I’ve taken some s...

Blogging, Meta

Decisions Decisions...

Anyone who follows me on social media, this site, or RefuGeeks will probably know that back in August, I was lucky enough to start writing for the tech blog Goliath, Over the last few months, things h...

Blogging

Dreamhost - The Worst Web Host I've Ever Used

I’m sure most of the people reading this post will know that I run a pretty popular blog, . It’s really great that RefuGeeks is growing in popularity, but the side effect to that is that I’m having to...

Meta, Opinion, Web

I'm Writing for MakeUseOf

I’m really proud to say that I have been offered a position on the team as part of their regular writing staff. For those of you that don’t know, MakeUseOf is one of the most popular technology blogs...

Blogging

Rodriguez - The Superstar That Never Was

If you read the about section of this website you will see that I am really into music, I love pretty much all types from old motown to modern/classic rock, to pop and indie. So it dawned on me, why d...

Opinion

How I Made a Successful Career In IT

I actually get quite a lot of feedback from people asking me how I’ve managed to make such a successful career in IT at the tender age of 28 (well, 29 in a few weeks). To be honest I think a lot of it...

Technology

How Many Projects Can One Person Run?

I really love blogging and I’m always on the look out for a new and exciting project to sink my teeth into. But I have to be honest with myself a lot of the time – I usually don’t have the time to tak...

Blogging, Opinion

My Name is Kev Quirk and I'm an Addict

For some people it’s drugs, alcohol, gambling, even sex. But for me it’s domain names, seriously, my addition to gather ever more short and clever domain names is getting out of hand (but shhhh, my gi...

Web

Bringing it All In-House

Everyone loves “ “, don’t they? Having someone else manage all of your online services for you just seems like heaven – especially if they’re free. You don’t have to worry about anything, just turn up...

Web

I'm Finally Home

Anyone that follows me on any social networks, or the sparse updates I add to this blog will know that I have been on the hunt for the perfect operating system for my needs over the last few months. I...

Technology

Windows 8 Isn't That Bad

So I recently mentioned that I would be in favour of ChromeOS. I chose ChromeOS because I wanted something that would work well, is stable and is fast. I came to the decision after trying many, many L...

Opinion, Technology

Why I'll Leave Ubuntu Linux

For the last two and a half years I have been an avid user of all things . But recently I’ve not been able to “settle” with Ubuntu, this is because of a number of reasons which I thought I would elabo...

Opinion, Technology, Linux

OwnCloud is Awesome

I’ve been on the hunt for a valid replacement to Dropbox for quite some time now. Dropbox is expensive, Ubuntu One is unreliable and Google Drive doesn’t have a linux client. I researched pretty much...

Technology, Web

British Army Cuts - What a Joke

Today it was announced that there is going to be a THIRD round of cuts to the British Army. This is all being done in an effort for the UK Government to save money and cut the deficit of the UK debt....

Opinion

Welcome to My New Site

Well, I’ve been a busy guy re designing my personal homepage. What do you guys think of it? I personally think it’s pretty awesome. :) So now, instead of having just a simple “vcard” website, I’ve got...

Meta, Technology