No Hyper Terminal for you Windows 7 - Putty has Serial too!

Windows 7 does not come with the legacy Hyper Terminal application.  If you spend any time configuring or trouble-shooting Cisco routers, (among many other things you might use a serial port for, assuming you still have one), then this is a modest inconvenience.  Solution: one of the best tools of all time, our friend putty.

Honestly I've used this tool for over a decade and never notice the Serial option.  Probably because I never needed it because I had Hyper Terminal.  Why was I wasting my time, putty is so much better.

Bvckup - Desktop Backup Tool

During our search for a Desktop backup tool we came across Bvckup by Yaletown Software Design.  Our primary requirement was simple, to find a low-cost and simple tool that would allow us to backup user files located on their laptop PCs running Windows 7.  When in the office these laptops are connected to our Corporate LAN, but they go home each night with the user.  Thus we needed a backup tool that would run continuously in the day and not harass users if the network resource wasn't available.

Works, but only issue we found was that a missing delete buffer.  If the user deletes a file on their PC, the backup copy gets deleted upon next sync, usually every minute.  Therefore this tool won't help to recover files from accidental deletion.  But as long as you backup your users network sync location then you should have at least a nightly copy.

We have not yet deployed this tool to a large group, but if we did, it would be handy to be able to have all installations also log occasional status to a network location so that we can tell if the backup is working or not.

Todd 4 Tech: Phone Lock Samsung Rugby 2 - Steps to Unlock

Thanks Todd, has the same issue:

Todd 4 Tech: Phone Lock Samsung Rugby 2 - Steps to Unlock: The Problem I recently had an issue where one of our mobile phones was returned to me with a phone lock on it. I tried a couple of simple ...