Overview Saasu is an Australian online accounting software company who’s name stands for “Software as a Service Utility”. Saasu is also the name of their online accounting software for managing business finances. Saasu is capable of handling sales, payroll, purchasing, e-commerce, inventory, point of sale, document and workflow management that can be and is extended [...]

My parents have been having an issue with the internet at their place for a while now. I’ve just had a chance to look at it and it is quite suspicious. Randomly when a Google search was performed, when you clicked the links you would be redirected to sites that you were not expecting, primarily [...]

I had a VMWare Fusion crash today with a Windows virtual machine running. When I tried to bring it back up though I got a “Failed to Lock the File” error. Restarting VMWare didn’t fix it, rebooting didn’t fix it. After a quick search I found an article on a similar issue with the Windows [...]

If you have a unibody Macbook Pro in the 15″ or 17″ models, then you probably have two video cards. In the case of my Macbook Pro, I have an nVidia 9400m and an nVidia 9600m GT. By default the 9400m is enabled. For the most part this is perfectly fine for my usage, but [...]

Ever wondered what all the different memory types are that are shown in the pie chart at the bottom of the system memory tab in your Mac OS X Activity Monitor? If you’re used to the memory usage information that Windows shows, then the OS X descriptions might be a bit confusing. The reason for [...]

Something else I got this Christmas is an Apple Magic Mouse. This is the latest generation of mouse from Apple, and it is an absolutely fantastic device! Just turn on Bluetooth on my Mac, turn on the mouse, tell the Mac to find Bluetooth devices, it straight away detects the mouse and pairing is just [...]

I was just reading a post over at the Global Thoughtz Technology blog about Brian Croll, Apple’s OS X Marketing Vice President, commenting that Windows 7 uses antiquated technology. The post itself I think is valid, Brian Croll’s comments may be fair, they may not be, but either way Windows 7 is a huge improvement [...]

VSO Software’s Blindread and Blindwrite are an excellent set of tools for creating backups of copy protected disks on the Windows operating system, especially when using the Blindwrite disk image formats – .bwt .b5t and .b6t. Most disk image mounting tools for Windows will read this format, such as Daemon Tools, Alcohol 120% and so [...]

I came up against a problem today whilst working on fixing a design to work correctly in both IE6 and IE7. That problem was, I am running IE6 in a Windows XP virtual machine in VMWare Fusion on my Macbook Pro. Normally, I test IE7 on my Vista desktop and IE6 in the Virtual Machine. [...]

It’s been a while, and how I’ve missed you my poor, neglected blog and readers, it’s been so empty without you. So what have I actually been doing for the past month? Yep, it’s been a month already! Or it would have been if I had waited two more days to write this, but I’m [...]