• Mrs Robinson - the finest rhythym guitar you'll ever hear...

    A bit off-topic this, but we had some friends staying over the other night and Julian just took up learning to play the guitar a couple of years ago, and is doing what new guitarists do (I've been noodling on all sorts of guitars for about 18 years but...
  • Some Handy Windows shortcut keys...

    I like the Windows GUI, and particularly since I'm use to it, the Vista UI. I don't think I follow a particularly usual pattern, though, because I tend to make use of lots of keyboard shortcuts which many people may not know, or may know about somewhere...
  • Using HTC devices as a modem over USB in Vista RTM

    One of the neat things with HTC Windows Mobile 5 devices on Windows Vista is when you activate the Wireless Modem over Bluetooth, Vista will just see the device and automatically detect it as a modem. When you plug the device in to a Vista PC using USB...
  • Keeping my SPV M3100 from getting scratched

    I said yesterday that I had a mixed experience from moving to the Orange SPV M3100 (aka HTC "Hermes"/TyTn design), particularly concerning the size of the device (compared to a regular phone) and the belt clip thing that it comes with. Jason , however...
  • My Pocket PC kept waking me up with middle-of-the-night reminders... :(

    I switched fairly recently from using a Qtek 8500 Smartphone (which I still use occasionally and love for its form factor) to an Orange SPV M3100 Pocket PC Phone, and have had a somewhat mixed experience as a result. Pros: The M3100 has a nice screen...