Mount a VMware .vmdk File

After years of using VMware products, I still stumble over features and utilities all the time. Here’s my latest discovery.

I hate to risk losing data or configurations so before I retire a server I convert it to a virtual machine. The same with employee PCs. When someone leaves, I convert it to a VM before

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Taskbar Meters

Here’s a slick little utility for Windows 7 that I’ve been using for months. Unfortunately, I just keep forgetting to mention it here! Let’s remedy that.

Taskbar Meters is, in their own words, “Incredibly simple meters that live in the Windows 7 task bar.” And really, that about sums it up. You can run any or

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Synergy+

I first mentioned Synergy almost 4 years ago on this blog – that’s a lifetime in blog years! Ever since then it has been a utility installed on almost all of my machines. I often have two or more going on my desk and Synergy makes it so easy to control all of them with

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Windows Mobile: Slide 2 Unlock 2 (S2U2)

A couple weeks ago I finally got a bit frustrated with my Windows Mobile phone. Carrying it around in my pockets and laptop bags was causing it to take “liberties” way too often. You see, I’d get a text message or some other alert which would “wake up” the phone. While awake, it would get

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Free Nero 9

Looking for an option for CD burning software? While I personally tend to prefer ImgBurn for such purposes (and many more) I’m happy to see Nero’s latest addition. More options are always welcome.

What’s better than free? Free forever! Nero offers you the chance to enjoy Nero’s world-renowned
data disc burning and copying features for an

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