So I ended up buying the HTC Wildfire phone and am very happy with the buy. Rather quickly I installed CoPilot a GPS navigation software which is fairly cool, however it was annoying that I had nowhere to put the phone in the car, if I tried to leave it on the dashboard it would fall over or whatnot.
Anyway a bit of googling ended up with something called a “Dash Genie”, a universal phone mount for your car. It works quite simply by having a VERY sticky red dot on the holder that will “glue” your phone so it won’t rummit around (see the video clip) and a suction cup for your dashboard or window. It works perfectly, there ishowever however a minor annoyance – for some reason the mount interfere somehow with the touch screen of my phone (yeah I know it sounds strange, but true never the less) – I think it is because the elastic capacity of the mount, anyway you may need to hold the phone steady with one hand when operating the phone – but hey minor annoyance.
From what I can tell it will work with almost any phone smartphone or regular alike.
I got mine here;
http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/dash-genie-in-car-holder-p23796.htmBy coincidence I stumbled across an interesting gadget, it’s something called JawBone.
Initially it seem like an ordinary blue-tooth headset, well it is but with a twist – it uses an elaborate background noise cancellation technology and it seem to do so very well indeed (watch video below). So if you use your blue-tooth headset in noisy environments then this may be something for you.
For more details refer to WIKI or their web-site;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawbone_%28headset%29
http://www.jawbone.com/
The issue came up today when a coworker told about his Windows 2000 machine he had at home that he had forgotten the password for, now for corporate use we have the Microsoft ERD commander cd (previously Winternals) which works perfectly.. but that is for corporate use (SA license required)..
Anyhow, I remembered there was some strange utility that could do the same thing, it took a little googeling but I quickly found it it’s;
http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/
Free and all 🙂
Another approach would be, find KonBoot (the first version was free, but it has now gone commercial) it may be a bit hard to find the free version but it is out there and works.. Boot with KonBoot, bypass windows logon (password can be bypassed by leaving the field blank), now create a new admin account (eg call it “admin”)- set password – make this new user member of the local administrators group. Now boot without KonBoot and login with this new account, you can now change the password for the real administrator account… (it may also be possible to change the password for the administrator account while booted via KonBoot, but I am not 100% on that)..
I managed to find KonBoot here; http://www.darknet.org.uk/2009/06/kon-boot-reset-windows-linux-passwords/
Problemo solved 🙂