If mobile phones have one weak point, it is content management. Except for the case of telephones with integrated PDA functions (for which there are already specific applications to synchronize and administer contacts, messages, email, or multimedia content), mobile terminals are usually a kind of little treasure filled with personal information but closed and unconnected to other devices to carry out such common and essential tasks as saving a backup copy of your contact list or managing the content on the mobile. Without a backup copy, in case of a malfunction, theft, or loss, it will be impossible to recover the personal information or valuable calendar information collected over the years.

With MOBILedit! the situation changes because you can now dump the information to a computer, or transfer videos, books, photos, or ringtones from the computer to the mobile. In this regard, MOBILedit is especially brilliant, offering access to portals with audiovisual content or the PC from the program interface so that you can select all of the files that may be useful or fun for you from the phone’s display, or by pluggin in your headphones.

You can also send messages from the computer, provided that there is a correctly configured connection between the telephone and PC. To do this, you just have to follow the communication wizard, with the options to specify whether the connection will be made via Bluetooth, cable, or infrared. Compatibility with more than 450 phone models is another one of its strong points, although you should check to see if your phone is on the list at www.mobiledit.com/phones.asp.

This program is available at: Mobiledit.

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With release of Windows Vista, Windows XP future was not very bright. Initial plans were to stop all the updates of XP, while people started to adopt massively the new Operating System (Vista). Nevertheless, hardware requirements forced many people to stick on XP instead of embracing Vista. Microsoft itself had to make a step back, and finally decided to launch SP3, which is the last loop of an extremely successful and satisfactory Operating System.

In fact, SP3 does not include any amazing update. It is more a recompilation of a series of updates and some interesting feature, such as the possibility to install the O.S without having to specify the serial number (the contrary than in Vista).

Prior installation of SP1 and SP2 is required. As usual for this kind of installations – especially when it comes from Microsoft – the process can take many minutes. You better have enough time and your laptop plugged to the power.

It is worth mentioning that, from an installation CD plus XP3, an installation CD including SP3 can be created.

Go to Service Pack.

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The processing power of computers is increasing at a speed which would have been almost unthinkable a few years ago. The arrival of multi-core processors, along with the falling price of memory and hard disks, means that the computers are not used to their full potential most of the time. One way to make the most of all that potential is through virtualization. In other words, installing several operating systems side-by-side using tools such as VMware Server. After installing VMware, all you have to do is launch the assistant and follow the steps that are described to be able to work in Windows whilst installing the latest Linux distribution, for example. Once this has finished, you will have a “virtual machine” window on your screen containing Linux. Or if you prefer, you can install Windows XP, Windows Vista or even MS-DOS. Everything will work exactly as if you had two computers in one.

There are limitations, of course, such as graphics acceleration for games, which still isn’t completely resolved, or the slight performance drop when compared to a real dedicated computer. But despite these small problems, it’s a very attractive way to make the most of the money invested in your PC: And as if that weren’t enough, the web page of VMware features a section dedicated to gathering together pre-built virtual machines which can provide all sorts of specific functions. For example, there are virtual machines designed especially for safely browsing the Internet. Using them is simple: download the file (which, it has to be said, may be several hundreds of MB) and open it using VMware in order to enjoy a browsing environment which is completely isolated from the real computer but which includes all the features of a conventional web browser.

It’s easier than it seems and, what’s more, it’s free.

You can find it here: Goofull VMware.

The virtual machines can be downloaded from here: VMware.

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