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I recently reviewed the Quicktest 500 for Denis at Openxtra. I’m a big fan of test equipment that takes the guesswork and time out of getting definitive results when a problem arises. Over the years Openxtra have provided many of the tools that I use to do testing for a very wide range of clients. Denis does seem to have a knack of picking the products that are best in class – an its no accident as I think he looks at them with a very critical eye when selecting them – based on his years of experience in development and testing – so that they function as expected and to the standards you expect from an essential part of your toolkit. So hats off – another success from Denis and I will now have to think of another tool that I need so that Denis can once again surprise me.
If you are working with ADSL and are still lugging out a laptop just to get line characteristic measurements – do yourself a favour – Call Denis and the folks at Openxtra on 0800 6121357 and get yourself a professional tool for the job. You won’t regret it.
Don’t forget to take a look at the wide range of test tools on the Openxtra website – they really are best of breed and worth finding out about !!
It was a bit of a surprise when I heard from Nuance that they had released a PDF file reader. So what would make this stand out from the crowd?
Well its free – but so are the others.
Its small – so is Foxit.
Its secure – well the jury is out on pdf security
You can use its online conversion utility to get your docs as word or excel by email – okay thats different
It can allow you to annotate pdfs – ding – score one to Nuance free product – otherwise you pay for one that can do this
You can fill forms in without an addon paid for product – ding – two points for Nuance
It works with PDF portfolios – ding – the competition are in the dust and not getting up for some time
Initial testing shows similarities with the other Nuance product – Nuance PDF convertor and speed seems quite nifty.
So I’m going to be getting to grips with this new entrance in the PDF reader charts and I’ll be back with more info soon!!
A discussion with a colleague about a software problem relating to Sage Accounts (a UK accounting package) and .Net lead to an interesting find. Despite repeated attempts to remove .Net to facilitate fixing the underlying Sage problem he could not get it to remove itself correctly
The tool that did work can be found here
http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2006/05/30/611355.aspx and the author Aaron Stebner posted an updated version of the .NET Framework cleanup tool that now contains support for automatically cleaning up the .NET Framework 1.0, the .NET Framework 1.1, the .NET Framework 2.0, the .NET Framework 3.0 and the .NET Framework 3.5.
