I hate having to pull a hard drive out of a case to check what the jumper settings are for Master, Slave etc.

Not knowing the exact model of this Maxtor one I came across today, I though I’d ask my friend Google. I found a page with most (if not all) of the Maxtor and Qantum drives listed that I would ever need. Handy site to bookmark.

Check it out here.

My terminal emulation program of choice is PuTTY. It’s a small, simple but very functional piece of software. My only gripe with it has been that it doesn’t have a facility for multiple sessions or tabs - like Secure CRT for example.

But today I found something that does the job. It’s call the PuTTY Connection Manager.

The features are as follows (copied straight from the website):

* Tabs and dockable windows for PuTTY instances.
* Fully compatible with PuTTY configuration (using registry).
* Easily customizable to optimize workspace (fullscreen, minimze to tray, add/remove toolbar, etc…).
* Automatic login feature regardless to protocol restrictions (user keyboard simulation).
* Post-login commands (execute any shell command when logged).
* Connection Manager : Manage a large number of connections with specific configuration (auto-login, specific PuTTY Session, post-command, etc…).
* Quick connect toolbar to quickly launch a PuTTY connection.
* Import/Export whole connections informations to XML format (generate your configuration automatically from another tool and import it, or export your configuration for backup purpose).
* Encrypted configuration database option available to store connections informations safely (external library supporting AES algorithm used with key sizes of 128, 192 and 256 bits, please refer for the legal status of encryption software in your country).
* Standalone executable, no setup required.
* Localizable : English (default) and French available (only when using setup version, standalone is english only).
* Completely free for non-commercial, and personal use : PuTTY Connection Manager is freeware.

I must say it works quite well. I tend to have multiple SSH sessions to devices at once and it handles it quite well.

Evrt since Wordpress 2.3 was released, the (brilliant) plugin Ultimate Tag Warrier has not worked. To date there hasn’t been an update for this plugin, but I have managed to find a replacement that appears to work quite well.

It’s call Simple Tags. Check it out. There is plenty of info and even video tutorials that show you what it does and how to implement it on your existing website.

Long live the tag!

Track your exercise with a GPS enabled mobile phone

I’ve always wanted to track or log my exercise without too much hassle. Nokia have released a beta version of such a product called SportsTracker.

It uses the GPS fucntion in your mobile phone to map your exercise activities. These can be uploaded to the Nokia sportstracker site and you can view your route in Google Maps - very handy indeed.

There are a large number of phones currently supported. I use it on my Nokia 6110 navigator and have yet to have any problems - even though it is still in a ‘beta’ stage of development.

Kudos to Nokia for such a great piece of software that is available free of charge.

Here are a few screenshots:

For more information, check out the sportstracker wesbite.

Outlook 2007 has a RSS feed reader built in, but what about if you have Outlook 2003?

RSS popper takes care of it for you. Once installed and configured, RSS feeds will appear in your folder list - one folder for each feed under the RSS folder. It even handles RSS feeds that require a user ID/password. If you have a large number of feeds, you can alter the refresh rate of feeds to minimise net traffic to less intervals.