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In the grand tradition of this blog, I need to apologise for not posting again. I don't have much of a defence, except that I've been very busy at work for reasons that I can now talk about: My employer has finally received all the confirmations...
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...
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...
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...
A whole "Month of Apple Bugs" planned here. Interesting. Be sure to read their FAQ before making assumptions about the motives of the people doing it. They've actually started off with a couple of media player bugs, one Apple Quicktime and...
This has got to be a mistake. (Why do I seem to say that a lot recently when reviewing an action taken by Microsoft?) The Windows Vista team blog posted a note about the terms of the licence for Windows Vista the other day, and it contains one or two...
Over on the Grand Stream Dreams blog, Claus Valca has written a post outlining the reasons you should take the security of your computers at home seriously. He mentions various scams that target home users with a few real world examples of people just...
And you thought it was just Microsoft products that needed to be patched. Apple have announced the release of update 10.4.8 for 10.4 users and Security Update 2006-006 for 10.3 users. I don't normally bother posting such notices, but a couple of things...
So I finally got around to installing Vista RC1 and Office 2007 B2TR on my MacBook. I've got some great screenshots in the photo gallery, and it's looking quite good. There really is some kind of delicious irony in the Apple Mac being one of the...
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