Virtual machine users rejoice!! No longer do you have to use one virtual machine tool at work and another at home. Now VMWare has released a version of its free VMWare player that actually allows creation of virtual machines. Some may recall that I previously posted about Virtual Box–Sun’s open source tool that you could [...]
If you have a Windows Mobile based cell phone you can now convert it into a laptop. Celio Corp is selling a product called Redfly that is basically a laptop shell that runs off of the cell phone itself. It comes in a 7″ version and an 8″ version and for now it only supports [...]
I just saw this over on PLDesingLine about how Windows Mobile powered phones will be able to backup their info on a website called My Phone. Well I’m here to tell you that I can already do that. You may recall that I recently bought a mobile phone with Windows Mobile installed on it. Well [...]
What better way to start off the New Year than with a new toy?! This all started several months ago when my old mobile phone began acting strangely. It was also a clam shell type phone and when I opened the lid to take a call it would drop it immediately. It got to the [...]
Yesterday I posted a tutorial on how to create virtual machines. I wrote about how vms can be handy tools especially to us developers who sometimes need two or more OSes at once. I also wrote about how virtual machines mimic real physical machines in many ways. One of those ways is how virtual machines [...]
Many moons ago I recall reading an article in one of the better-known PC mags about how to re-install Windows 98. The article suggested wiping the hard drive clean and doing a complete re-install about every 6 months. The sad part is that I was one of those people who needed such an article. Many [...]
A lot of developers work exclusively with IDEs and GUI front ends for debuggers and the like. While I don’t have any problem with those tools, I prefer to use the command line; mainly because I sometimes work remotely and trying to use VNC doesn’t work well in all cases. If I use [...]
