Does Free Lead to Buy?

A fairly common practice for software providers is to provide older versions of their software for free as a taster to encourage you to go on and purchase the latest versions. This applies equally to online apps as it does to desktop - the delivery mechanism is different but the principal is the same.  But […]

8th November 2008

Stories that caught my eye this week – 8th November 2008:

Remember the Milk Gadget Puts Tasks in Gmail’s Sidebar [Gmail]
Visualizing data in the cloud
MSI Wind 9-cell spotted in the wild
Gmail’s New Gadget Support Lets You Remember The Milk
Remember The Milk for iPhone and iPod touch Now Available [Featured IPhone Download]
Early Look at Firefox’s Private Browsing […]

25th October 2008

Stories that caught my eye this week – 25th October 2008:

Do you have 16 boxes?
Create No Download Screencasts In Seconds With ScreenToaster
Planzone: A Collaborative Tool that Makes Juggling Easy
Please Fix The iPhone: A To-Do List For Steve Jobs
Five great things about being CEO in a tech recession
Sun PDF Import Adds PDF Editing to OpenOffice.org […]

12th October 2008

Stories that caught my eye this week - 12th October 2008:

The Steps to Read Gmail Mouselessly
Google Spreadsheets Redesign
Picasa 3 Beta’s New Features
Google’s Super Satellite Captures First Image
Windows XP downgrade deadline extended to July 31, 2009
Gmail Labs Adds Advanced IMAP Controls
Startup Delayer Beats Boot Time Frustration
Is Microsoft finally close to snatching up RIM?

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More VMWare Woes

Further to my previous post regarding getting VMWare Server up and running on Vista I spent a while over the weekend trying to migrate a Virtual PC image.
VMWare kindly provides a tool to carry out the conversion called VMWare Convertor.  My first attempt was met with a message: “Unable to Determine Guest Operating System”. […]

VMWare on Vista

Just got a new laptop running Windows Vista Business and while it hasn’t been as painful as I had expected (having 4gb of ram helps) I did spend all of Wednesday morning trying to resolve a problem with VMWare Server. Installation was fine but as soon as I tried to start an image the […]

Windows Virtualisation with Sun VirtualBox

Virtualisation has become all the rage recently. Running multiple instances of a system on a single piece of hardware is a very compelling proposition as everyone try’s to get more out of their investments. While virtualisation is typically applied to server environments there is no reason why it cannot be used on a suitably specified […]

Xobni (L) LinkedIn

There has been a new update to the Outlook companion Xobni that adds information from LinkedIn. It can now import pictures from the business networking site and also provides (brief) details on the selected individual, typically their title and company. This clearly only works where the email address that they have corresponded with you […]

Skydrive and Folder Share

Microsoft has a couple of similar services that help you access your files (documents, pictures, mp3s etc). These are Skydrive (stupid name, I much preferred Windows Live Folders) which is an online document storage facility with 5gb of free space and FolderShare that allows folders between multiple machines to be synchronised. However, there is […]

Xobni - the Essential Outlook Plugin

Over the last week I have been trying out a new beta plugin for Outlook called Xobni (Inbox backwards) that helps you make sense of the mess that is your email.
Xobni appears as a column down the right hand side of Outlook that displays information about the sender of the currently selected email. At the […]