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Iphone 3.0 – a 100 reasons to be cheerful

Finally from Apple – another milestone update. In their words whats new … iPhone OS 3.0 Software Update This update contains over 100 new features, including the following: • Cut, Copy & Paste with shake to undo • Landscape keyboard in key applications • Enhanced Messages application – Send and receive photos, contacts, audio files, […]


Transfixed by the solenoid

Recently after replacing the lamps in my venerable Phaser 860 I had a paper jam issue. The page would print correctly but would stop just before falling into the paper output tray on top of the printer. Cleaning the rollers just inside the front panel where they feed the paper out of the printer had […]


Bumptop release getting closer !!

Two small updates within a week and a version 1 designation show that the release to the general public of Bumptop is getting closer. I noticed also by accident that you can create yellow sticky notes on the bumptop desktop by creating txt files on the real desktop with the text on the first line […]


Lotus C Api – new version released – finally ….

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/downloads/toolkits.html#notesdomino is where you will find version 8 of the C api which is described as “A toolkit that lets you control Domino components using Domino’s C API”. It been so long since the last version was released that I’ve almost forgotten the last time I used it to extend an application. Time to dust […]


Virtual machine watching

With all the focus of my research for the last three months on familiarising myself with VMware ESX and the practical aspects of managing a simple ESX server configuration raises some areas that aren’t necessarily handled well by the supplied tools from Vmware. Firstly I wanted a simple monitoring application that allowed me to become […]


Bumptop on my other screens

Finally this morning when rebooting my machine Bumptop advised me there was an update to the version I was running. Once install I knew something had changed since it was on a screen other than my primary display. Yippee – – – finally its now multi screen aware and using the “next screen” button you […]