Internet telephony service provider Skype released a new public beta yesterday of its software for Mac OS X. Skype software is now available on the major platforms – Windows, Pocket PC, Linux (beta) and Macintosh. Skype | Download Skype In my experience, Skype really is an excellent communication tool as I’ve commented previously. Worth getting, […]
Category: Software
RSS: FeedDemon, not NewsGator
Having tried out NewsGator for syndicated RSS webfeeds, I’ve decided to stay with FeedDemon. NewsGator is good, I have no issue with the program. It’s more to do with how I use my email program. As I mentioned in a previous post, I use Outlook 2003 for email but it’s purely the background app with […]
Instant messaging: Workplace appeal but some concerns
A report released today by the Pew Internet and American Life Project says US workers are increasingly using instant messaging (IM) in the workplace, with approximately 11 million Americans logging into an IM program daily, Internetnews.com reported. The study says 53 million Americans (43 percent of all US Internet users) report using IM with the […]
Windows Media Player 10: Very nice!
Just installed Windows Media Player 10, released by Microsoft today. For Windows XP only. First impressions: Easy install, very easy to set up (takes already-configured options from Media Player 9, if you had that installed), fresh and updated look, seems to load faster than MP 9. The presentation of various features is very different to […]
Sun to develop enterpise blogging tools
Sun Microsystems plans to include Roller blogging technology as part of its enterprise software, according to an Internetnews.com report today. Roller is server-based weblogging software designed to support multiple simultaneous blog users and visitors. To kick start this, Sun has hired Dave Johnson, the founder of Roller, to “design, develop, and deploy the primary blogging […]
Windows XP SP2 and Norton Antivirus – configuration
In the visitor statistics info for my blog, I’ve noticed a high number of Google and other searches coming in over the past few weeks looking for configuration information on Norton Antivirus (NAV) and the Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) upgrade. The reason my blog gets included in such searches, I guess, is due […]
Windows Media Player 10 – 4 issues in 2 days
Whoops!! Not good news re Windows Media Player 10, reported by Neowin today: Neowin.net – Where unprofessional journalism looks better | Windows Media Player 10 – 4 issues in 2 days I’ve been running MP10 for the past few days, not encountered any issues. But I tend to use it mostly for playing radio station […]
Skype is hard to resist
Great article in today’s New York Times about Skype, the internet telephone service. I’ve written a few posts about Skype (latest) as I think it’s an excellent service from my experience so far. The New York Times | Techno Files: In Internet Calling, Skype Is Living Up to the Hype (free registration required). If you […]
blinkx: A new way to search
Interesting desktop application – blinkx. It links together information from files on your own computer, and can suggest content from news sites, the internet, video and blogs. The developers say it’s not designed to replace current search engines like Google or Yahoo, but is a completely new way to use information on and from the […]
Apple’s mega security gap
I wonder if this will get as much media attention as happens every time a new security gap is known about Windows, leading to hotfixes, updates or patches. Apple has released a security update to fix more than a dozen flaws in the Jaguar and Panther versions of the Macintosh operating system, Internetnews.com reports. According […]
Their perception is your reality
If the single most important thing to any business is its reputation, then Oracle Corporation is in deep trouble. From a report published this week by market research firm Techtel: In 2Q04, opinion of Oracle by US IT professionals reached the lowest level in twelve years. This declining opinion, even against a background of declining […]
Run Firefox from USB drive
A very useful tip on running Firefox from a USB flash drive (or any removeable media, for that matter). I’ve recently had to use some PCs that aren’t my own which had Opera or some other browser, which I don’t like. Following this tip, I can have Firefox on my USB drive and use it […]
Firefox and Technorati don’t seem to get on
Major gripe. Every time I go to the Technorati website, Firefox 0.9.3 freezes up; I get the hourglass and ‘Not Responding’ in the title bar. Yet if I visit Technorati with Internet Explorer or Maxthon, no problem every time. I commented on this behaviour in a post a few weeks ago. I’ve deleted the cache, […]
Firefox preview release available
Mozilla has announced the prelease version of the Firefox browser: Greenlane or version 0.10. Firefox | Rediscover the web Perhaps this version may sort out all my little niggles about Firefox (see here and here). Final release version 1.0 is due out in early October.
Firefox passes 1m downloads
From Spread Firefox: In just under 100 hours, we have smashed through our one million download campaign – with 6 days still to go! This is the fastest adoption rate we have ever experienced, higher than every previous Firefox release. This refers to one million copies of Firefox 1.0 Preview Release downloaded between its release […]
Windows XP SP2 CD is everywhere
On a visit to my neighbourhood news store this morning, I noticed that the rack with all the computer magazines is chock full of mags sporting a cover-mounted Windows XP SP2 upgrade CD. What’s interesting about this is that these magazines aren’t just from The Netherlands – in addition, there are mags from Germany, France, […]
Being open on Skype has its risks
I’m a believer in Skype, the internet phone service that has on average about half a million people online at any one moment. I started using Skype in July. Calling other Skype users is totally free, which means I can chat with Skyped friends and family in places as far apart as the US, Costa […]
BlogJet and Ecto reviewed
For the past ten days, I’ve been using BlogJet and ecto to create some of my posts. Both these applications are offline blog editing tools which let you manage your post content wholly offline, creating your content on your own computer and then publishing that content to your blog. I’m going to focus my comments […]
Outlook and Hotmail to get a separation
A report on Bink.nu says that Microsoft is un-enabling access to Hotmail from within Outlook and Outlook Express: Citing concerns about spammers abusing the service, Microsoft on Monday will announce that it is dropping a feature from its Hotmail service that currently allows non-paying customers to access their email from Outlook and Outlook Express. The […]
Ecto does support thumbnails
In my review of BlogJet and ecto that I posted this morning, I said that ecto does not support the creation and posting of thumbnail images to a TypePad blog. Well, that isn’t correct as ecto developer Alex Hung commented. Indeed, when I checked the options in ecto for Windows version 1.0.8.4 that I’m now […]