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 [...]

As I mentioned back on the 1st of January, I would like to focus on my photography some more this year. As part of that I bought myself a Canon EOS 500D DSLR camera.
Over the past couple of weeks since I got the camera I have been reading a number of articles on photography and [...]

I have recently upgraded the server at Goodtime, and in doing so, migrated from Microsoft Small Business Server 2003, to the new 2008 version. In doing so, I planned to change how the Exchange server was setup.
All email is downloaded to Outlook from a POP3 account on the web server, it is then synced with [...]

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 on, [...]

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. [...]

Did you know, if you press the Insert key on Windows while holding down Shift, it will paste whatever is in the clipboard at the time, the same as Control + V. I didn’t know that before, just something I came across by accident then. That’s in Vista, I’ll give it a go on XP [...]

I was recently helping a friend move their XP install over to a new hard drive without having to re-install XP or any of their programs.
The situation is this, she previously had an 80gb drive with XP installed on it, and a secondary 250gb drive. She bought a 750gb drive and wanted to move the [...]