I find that I am increasingly wanting to save and view flash files. Maxthon has a plug-in for this but its not that great and when my eldest daughter came to me last night and said she wanted to save a great flash animation of hurricane damage I really struggled...
In this post a few weeks ago I described how I liked the FeedDemon keyboard reading experience, however there are a few things I would like to see improved, which I realise are very picky! The default key definitions seem too difficult for me, I want to be able to...
Before my upgrade to Vista I had been pretty impressed by Windows Update and I was impressed by the install experience of Vista, all my drivers seemed to be on the DVD or seamlessly downloaded. However last night I checked on the HP web site and was pleased to see...
I am a bit nervous about VMware on Vista right now and concerned about the upgrade costs to move from 5.5 to 6. So for now I am leaving VMware on my servers. For my clients I have installed Virtual PC 2007 and have been pleasently surprised by the following:...
Carlisle was a surprisingly fun place to visit. Debbie and the elder girls had been there last year and stayed in university diggs for a couple of days, so I too the twins to the best of the places that they recommened. We spent most of our time at Tullie...
We arrived at one of the forts at about 16:30 so didn’t have much light left. There is not much of the original wall left but the area we were going to see was about 30 minutes walk from the car park. We had a really great trek up to...
We have spent the last few days in the Lake District, we started off in Kendal, then went up to Carlisle for a couple of days and then back down to Arnside which is one of our favorite walking areas. I only took the Treo 650 so the photo’s are...
I have been using Vista for a while on my Tablet and Laptop, but my main desktop has remained on Windows 2003 server. Fortunately a kindly partner agreed to buy me a new desktop for some development work I am doing with them so I decided to get a machine...