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Here’s a quick, easy and free application for taking screenshots on your Windows Mobile 5 device: Ilium Software Screen Capture.
As the website says:
Using Ilium Software Screen Capture takes just six simple steps:

Start the program on your device
Use the Options menu to define the key you want to press to take your screenshots
Leave the program […]

Last night my conceptual model of how my favourite RSS reader, FeedDemon, works when synchronizing with NewsGator online changed.
Conceptual models
In Donald A. Norman’s book The Design of Everyday Things he writes about the importance of conceptual models:
A good conceptual model allows us to predict the effects of our actions. Without a good model we operate […]

This evening I compiled my first ever iMix: The Original Songs From The Mirror (link requires iTunes to be installed).
What is an iMix?
With iTunes and the iTunes Music Store, you can publish your music recommendations for friends and family anytime.
When you publish a playlist at the iTunes Music Store, it’s called an “iMix.” iMixes allow […]

Safari 3.0 the Apple browser, built on the WebKit rendering engine, is now available in Public Beta … and for Windows too!
I can’t ever see it becoming my #1 browser, but it’s great news for us web developer-type bods who don’t have ready access to an Apple Mac — or the Linux Konqueror […]

One of my favourite and most-used applications is Mindjet MindManager 2002. I use it for everything, from planning websites and managing complex projects to helping to decide what to buy people for Christmas and reorganising my filing cabinet.
Mindmapping is a fabulous tool and of all the mindmapping applications that I’ve tried Mindjet’s MindManager family […]

It was my intention this evening to write a review of my O2 Xda Orbit, the mobile/cell phone / PDA / GPS / radio device that I got about a month ago.
But instead I’m spending my evening performing a hard reset and reinstalling everything, for the second time this month. And I’m not even going […]

I’m not ashamed to admit that I am a little obsessive with keeping things in order, neatly categorised and (usually fairly) tidy: books, cassettes, CDs, clothes, files, folders and even MP3 tags. Which is why I love this piece of software: Mp3tag by German programmer Florian Heidenreich.
What it does
Mp3tag is a simple piece of freeware […]