How much is this service? (Busy at the moment, but otherwise I'll google in a bit.)

Timbuktu is remote control software, it's about $89 per machine. I don't think it will truly solve the problem.

The two links seem to be cheap solutions.

Oh, those links look like they might work. Thanks!

Bah. Before I get that far, I have to fix this VPN issue. I can connect using my laptop (with XP) to the VPN, but once there I can't attach to any shares on the network. I've set up the VPN connection to allow access to the network. Any ideas what I'm missing?

Wouldn't it be nice if your screensaver automatically unlocked when you sat down at your computer, and locked up again once you got up and left? Applescripter Jesse David Hollington put together some nifty scripts that do just that, based on whether or not his Bluetooth phone is in range.

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Idly poking around browser features...

Opera lets you define your own searches, so something like "i alan cumming" in the browser bar searches IMDB for Alan Cumming. Plenty neat, and I've been using it on and off for a few versions now.

Only recently did I notice that with your cursor in any text box Opera gives you a "Create search..." option which does the syntax worrying for you.

Brilliant! Made setting up an LA Public Library search (just highlight the text, right mouse click and menu on from there) was trivial, and now that I have my library member ID attached to the monitor, I am only a few clicks away from putting a hold on (instead of Amazon wish-listing) most any book people bring up.

I know what kind of obsessive I am--Wikipedia and IMDB were the first searches I added. Oddly, not Google images yet--but that's only one click away from the normal Google search, and for my purposes I don't mind seeing the next results first--they may give me research ideas too.

This isn't really tech support, but this seemed like the place to start. I was asked to find license information for several different software components (Combobox xp, GridCtrl, TabPageSSL, XML viewer, CColor, cSubClassWnd, and CXImageGUI). Does anyone know how one would go about looking for such things?

I am now officially pissed off.

I dropped $40 on Motorola's Phone Tools program, in the hopes of finally getting some pictures off my phone, and maybe installing some custom made ring tones.

The FRELLING PROGRAM refuses to see the phone. I want my forty bucks back.

Actually, I want the effing thing to work right, so I can customize my damned phone! But if that can't happen, I want my damned forty bucks back.

Had you already tried BitPim, Sean?

Motorola PhoneTools kind of sucks, babe. I used it back when I had a Motorola flip-phone, and it was flaky on the best of days, and useless on the worst.