40 programs to copy and clone your hard drive
DaleThis is an update of version 2 of this post with the following additions: Acronis Disk Director, Acronis TrueImage Echo & Active@ Boot Disk. And since people have asked, I…
PDA screen capturing.
Since a reader asked “What did you use for screen capturing, with your recent PDA posts”. Windows Mobile I use Pocket Controller Pro, which I mentioned here. There is a…
Free GPS Street Mapping software
Google Maps. Heck, I’m impressed with it. It’s free (apart from the mobile data charges) It’s accurate It does travel routing (but not “turn-by-turn” :-( ) It can download Google…
Built-in PDA browsers are crap, and here’s why
Here are screen shots of BlackBerry and Windows Mobile displaying this blog: Now, if you’re lucky, the site you are visiting is mobile friendly. If it is not, then…
Why this blog looks better on a mobile phone
Back on the 16th December, I mentioned that I use the WordPress Mobile Edition Plugin. Here are the three reasons why. Size This is one of those times where small…
“Tell the supplier to use an older format”
Older operating systems, surprisely, cannot read CD’s burnt on new computers. Customer logs a service call: We can’t read a CD a supplier sent us. “Supplier is using a newer…
Pocket Professional Pro – I’m impressed
Update 3 December 2009 Since writing this post, I've switched over to using MyMobiler. You can read why here. Was on a training course the other day, learning about a…
4 favourite Google search tips
Search a particular site. To search a particular site, use the site parameter. will search the Microsoft Knowledge Base, for articles about Vista and KBQFE. (KBQFE stands for Knowledge Base,…
Free paper templates.
I find incompetech a really useful site because it lets me create lined paper templates, which I can use to print out on good quality paper. Why is that important…
Running Linux? Using Grub? GAGs easier.
GAG, the graphical boot manager is a lot easier to use. Saw it over at gag.sourceforge.net