I was going to append this to the bottom of my recent review but, in the end, I thought this deserved its own post.

As I mentioned in my review of TotalEdit, I’ve been feeding back to the author during the beta stage of this new release. However, even after it came “out of” beta and I reviewed it, I continued with some feedback. All of which the author has taken on board and now, with release 5.0.6 out, now fixed.

Fixes of mine that he’s fixed include…

• Opening files from Windows Explorer now works when remembered files are being opened too.
• The menu has been updated so that the File Explorer control can be updated with no documents are open.
• Shortcuts can now be assigned to external tools.  Use the Customize menu and the Tools tab to assign a control.
• Re-enable the icons of external tools on the menu

None of which is a small change and I’m very grateful for him to make them – now I can assign shortcuts to those customised commands I’ve added to the menu (launch page with Firefox, for example) and clicking on a file that launches TotalEdit will now open the files as well as just the application.

Oh, and that point 2 was that if you didn’t have any open files the option to update the file explorer list wasn’t available – there were ways around this, but it didn’t make sense that all the controls for modifying the look and feel of the application couldn’t be used at this point.

Anyway, all fixed and it makes TotalEdit even better in my eyes.

Well done James – and superb customer service.

As I’ve mentioned in the past, VirtualBox is my favourite of all the virtualisation tools out there. I use it to run Kubuntu on my Windows XP machine, for web development purposes.

Anyway, I have just the one “guest” machine, Kubuntu, so it seems a bit tedious to have to start VirtualBox each time. Naturally, there is another way – a command line shortcut.

Cutting to the chase, I’m assuming you know how to create a shortcut. I’ll also assume you’re using the latest version of VirtualBox. Right, here’s the shortcut…

"C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" startvm xxx

Where xxx is the name of your virtual guest.

And that’s it really. Oh, and if you want to make it pretty, I even found a Kubuntu icon to make that shortcut look even more appropriate.

One of the great advantages of running a site such as Copy+ is the potential for publicity – both for us to receive and also to give. Therefore after stumbling across a piece of hardware that would be ideal for users of the Copy+ software, I got in contact with the distributor.

Not only did I get a 10% discount for everyone in kind return for the publicity, but they’ve even sent me (or rather the Copy+ author, Stuart) some of their hardware – in this case a SATA hard drive dock. You simply drop 1 or 2 SATA hard drives into this device, which is connected to your PC via USB, to access them.

Brilliant! And I look forward to Stuarts review – assuming all goes well we can eagerly promote this product further on our site.

However, one thing struck him. And tickled me. The logo to the right was on the front of the box. No hammers or chisels required apparantly. Damn, and they’re a vital part of my PC repair kit.