Trunking and tray
Blog The tray had to be cut to size, about 50cm shorter than the 3m length. A couple of weeks ago I ordered some trunking and a cable tray (which will replace the improvised MDF/timber one I constructed from offcuts) from Minitran.
[March 19, 2008, 9:03]
Logitech Comfort Lapdesk for Notebooks
Blog Visually the white glossy tray-top and mesh underside design is rather ‘of the moment’. The ‘tray’ part sits up at a 12 degree angle, which might seem a little unnecessary given that you can tilt a notebook’s screen, but actually I found it rather...
[February 11, 2009, 13:55]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The Cdestroyer has two circular sheets of sandpaper, one in a sort of ash-tray like bowl and the other on a disk with a handle. Friday The world's stupidest gadget came in for review today. The job it does might just be considered useful, but the...
[March 5, 2001, 9:33]
Windows 7 Needs Liposuction
Blog In Windows there are limited things that can be done like killing the taskbar tray, shutting off unneeded processes, etc. I've tested Win7 in Beta and what turned out to be the RTM. On a dual core with 4 GB of RAM its a fine OS.
[September 15, 2009, 6:29]
New Gizmo5 for Windows Release
Blog Gizmo will also remember your last state, so if you had it minimized when you last shut it down, it will start minimized as well (this does not appear to be true if you had the main window closed, and only the Gizmo icon in the system tray visible...
[July 29, 2008, 11:12]
Lockdown & Markdown
Blog I love it; there's even a PortableApps menu which sits in your System Tray :) My current contract is at a top-secret governmental organisation (just one more contract job, then I'll move out to the country, try my hand at some remote working and...
[May 9, 2008, 11:32]
Skype 3.8 Release Available
Blog The former pops up blaring in the middle of your screen, and the latter is indicated by a very discreet little flag overlaying the Skype icon in the Windows system tray which many, perhaps most, users either don't notice, don't recognize or don't...
[April 30, 2008, 14:12]
TokBox Releases Desktop Client
Blog Now, with the Adobe Air based client, you don't have to use a browser to log in to TokBox, and once you are logged in you can leave it running in the system tray, so you are always ready to make or receive a call, without the bother and confusion...
[July 15, 2008, 15:01]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The bugs and the kids are easy to deal with: a robotic hand hanging down from the centre of the roof can easy be programmed to squash the first and silence the second with a mixture of threats and promises, a clenched fist here, a dip into the...
[December 5, 2003, 16:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It seems to be advice along the lines of: "If you can't beat them — and you can't — you might as well join them", advice which sits oddly in the in-tray of a company that said "Think Different" and meant it.
[October 20, 2006, 19:20]
2.30 am
Blog PS Only Apple would make their own paperclip to eject the sim tray. Back form a Vodafone Portugal launch of the iphone, 100 lucky guests to get the phone at midnight, hamburgers and donuts served - pity portuguese nibble are SO much better.
[July 11, 2008, 9:20]
Adobe: AIR on Linux beta, better now?
Blog Features like full screen and system tray are now available in the beta and in general the company has made it clear that developers should regard the current download as a more robust proposition all round.
[September 24, 2008, 11:07]
Acer One Runs Vista! But Not For Long.
Blog I have an excellent signal my tray icon tells me, but nothings happening. Yes I kid you not. I've been doing some work for a reseller of late and one of the items that I came across was a 4 gb Acer one net book with an install of vista running.
[December 4, 2008, 7:18]
And Skype call this customer Service part 5.
Blog Shut Skype down from system tray if needed. A very simple solution could be provided by Skype to solve this problem until the bug is fixed, but Skype support is clearly not interested in even bothering to read and understand support requests, less...
[April 6, 2008, 16:15]
