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I just wanted to quickly gather up some links to articles I've found interesting of late. First of all, Claus Valca has some great posts over on Grand Stream Dreams. I want to draw your attention to a link roundup and comments post Claus made a week...
So it seems the fruits of Ray Ozzie's labour at Microsoft are starting to appear in public at last. And I for one say "Your point being...?" I'd love to link to their blog at this point to let them explain it, but it seems that their...
I found this post on Lifehacker via Kurt Wismer , someone whose comments I've kept an eye on for since I started reading the alt.comp.virus newsgroup, which is quite a time ago now. Kurt seems to have the habit of annoying people by simply speaking...
Ah the death of Netscape. I remember it well and I guess I'll miss it, a large part of computer history and my own too I guess, so goodbye and thankyou Netscape Navigator. Just finished reading this blog post on wired that reports that Netscape Navigator...
So with great fanfare*cough*, Microsoft have announced the next version of their web browser , which will be Internet Explorer 8. Didn't see that one coming! Dean Hachamovitch, manager of the IE team, has some fun with 'alternative' names...
Glenn Wolsey posted today about his experiences with migrating from a desktop machine to a MacBook Pro and how it's caused him to re-think his storage strategy. This got me thinking about my own computers and storage needs. I'm actually very happy...
As if they didn't already have a bit of a reputation in some parts, it seems the people behind MacHeist have really decided to sink as low as they can this year. If you're involved with MacHeist in any way, I'd like to take a moment to thank...
Ok, the Captain has to comment on this article , discovered through daring fireball . No wait, that link is dead because the author of the article decided to issue some kind of correction . For months now, you've barely been able to pop open a web...
But I'm too busy laughing to stop and point it out .
Yet another in the "I get asked this a lot and so finally I decided to write an article" series. This question keeps being asked repeatedly by the victims of hackers breaking into their web server. The answers very rarely change, but people...
Don't let the spin fool you. Microsoft have agreed to extend the "end of shelf-life" date for Windows XP for another 5 months because people are just not buying into Vista in the way they hoped. This is an embarassing climb-down for Microsoft...
In the cases below I’m talking about commands that can either be run natively by the operating system, or (in the case of Windows at least) are available as free addons. Windows Remember that Windows commands are case INsensitive, e.g. "PING" and "ping...
Choosing a device One of my recent projects at work has been to introduce a pilot scheme for smartphone use for college staff who need to stay 'connected' all the time. We've played around with PDAs before, and the college has some conventional mobile...
Not that I expect a lot of people to be paying attention to my little blog in the sea of virtual "ink" that will be spilled over this, but what the heck. Apple have released a public beta of Safari 3, the browser they are aiming to include in Leopard...
Interesting article here on a series of tests across various machine configurations to find out whether having more RAM was more important than having two identically matched sticks of RAM in a MacBook.Long story short, the conclusion was that for everything...
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