Share one monitor between 2 computers
Use source button if your monitor has 2 ports, usually both DVI and VGA ports.
DVI (White) and VGA (Blue) connections on the same LCD monitor
It was so obvious that I only discovered it as a tip in this article - Share the same Keyboard and Mouse with Multiple Computers. Doh!
Extract -
[**] If you only want to share a monitor between two computers, you don’t even need a KVM switch. Just connect one computer to the monitor using a VGA cable and the other monitor using the DVI or HDMI cable. You can then switch between computer using a button on the monitor itself.
GSM halfway to world domination
According to the Register - GSM connectivity now enjoyed by 4 billion, 4 billion people (60% of the world population derived from Wolfgram Alpha ) have access to or own a second generation (2G) GSM mobile phone.
Far behind in second place is the third generation (3G) GSM mobile phone used by 0.5 billion people and third is CDMA devices used by just over 0.4 billion people. The other platforms are "duking it out" for the scraps.
I created the image below to summarise the article, as a picture is worth a thousand words.
Capture screens on the Blackberry Bold
Just downloaded CaptureIt 1.4 from www.thetechmogul.com OTA (Over The Air or wirelessly straight to the phone). Installed and removed it 4 times before I figured out from this post -Capture it 1.2 install details at crackberry.com that the key to this working is you have to allow ALL permissions . If you don't, you just get an image that is just a white screen. Otherwise, you get a screen shot of whatever was on the screen at the time. Here's mine of downloaded apps on the Blackberry Bold. 
Publishing on the move
I'm posting this using wordpress for blackberry Beta 0.9.0.149. This is really cool as the focus is totally on content generation real-time. I'll experiment with this to see how it stands up to real use.
You buy the content but who owns the data?
Amazon Pulls Already-Purchased Books from Kindle caught my eye. Interesting concept going on here. I pay for something that is delivered to me. When the manufacturer decides they do not want to supply the item any more, they retrieve the item without my permission and give me my money back.
I understand the issue was a copyright infringement but does that allow retrospective application of the solution on a customer who has already legitimately purchased the item? That's like buying a hard copy book at a book store and when you get home the pages are blank. In the meantime, the store has left you a message informing you that your money has been refunded.
Is that doing business and making customers happy? Related Post - Are PCs becoming dumb terminals
Foldable design for UK 3-pin plug
I think this is a brilliant idea. See full story and movie on the Register.
These UK 3-pin plugs are the bane of my existence when trying to pack my laptop, power brick and plug into a laptop case. Hope this prototype gets fully developed by the designer Min Kyo Choi, who has essentially rewired a traditional UK 3-pin plug measuring roughly 48 x 44 x 46mm into a flat-pack design that’s just 48 x 44 x 10mm.
What is a browser?
What is a browser? I thought that was a straight forward question, with a simple answer. Wrong!
According to this cms watch article, most ordinary computer users define a browser as a search engine i.e. the result of the searches from a browser, not the tool itself.
There was no distinction between access to the internet and getting the search results. So a browser is Google, Yahoo or Ask not Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari or Chrome. The term browser has become a generic word to most users, meaning search results.
EU browser war hots up
Having caught up on my recent tech news, it's amazing what final judgements were handed out from the EU anti-trust issue body to software companies taken to task for monopoly issues.
Microsoft: Agreed not to ship Windows 7 with Internet Explorer 8 installed.
See EU Press release - 17 Jan 2009 - Antitrust: Commission confirms sending a Statement of Objections to Microsoft on the tying of Internet Explorer to Windows, ZDNET article - 12 Jun 2009 - Microsoft to EU: Antitrust this! Will remove IE from Win 7 in Europe and Computer World article- 12 Jun 2009 - MS mocks Europe: Windows 7E, sans IE, in EU, per EC
However the first essential update/security patch will be what? Yes you got it, Internet Explorer 8.
Whilst I agree with what the EU is trying to do in principle i.e. that Microsoft should stop crippling rival software e.g. browsers. This judgement does not cut it.
Fisheye grants open source license
Where I can, as a way of supporting open source software, I participate in open source projects. It's nice to see commercial companies making a concerted effort to invest and support open source software also.