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I had heard of Konfabulator in the past as being an Apple app that displayed widgets on your screen, and, being a Windows man and not usually a fan of having junk cluttering my desktop, didn’t pay much notice to it. So when I heard that Yahoo had bought the company and then released the […]

I haven’t managed to get my hands on a copy of it but it’s good to hear that the beta has finally been released. From what I’ve read so far about it, this release doesn’t contain too many of the cool features that we’ll see in the final release – it seems to be more […]

I’ve been using Plaxo for a while now to manage my contacts, and apart from some of the quirks (like repeatedly spamming all your contacts with updates requests) I really like the service. My biggest complaint has been that it doesn’t support Thunderbird which I use at home with my IMAP accounts. Well that has […]

Haven’t seen this on any of the tech blogs that I read so I don’t know if I’m the first to notice it, but there is a big change coming up with the imminent release of Exchange 2003 SP2. The maximum database size will be increased to a whopping 75GB. This is huge news for […]

Google have been revolutionising online maps recently with their satellite technology which you can view online at maps.google.com. They have also released an extremely cool application called Google Earth, which is a free download and allows you to dynamically view satellite photos of the earth to extremely close-up zooms – you can download it here: […]

Mozilla have released Firefox 1.0.6 and Thunderbird 1.0.6 which are both security and bug-fix releases. They have also announced that the 1.1 release of Firefox has been delayed by several months and will become Firefox 1.5 when released. Download here: Firefox 1.0.6 – (Release Notes) Thunderbird 1.0.6 – (Release Notes)

Just been reading about this on a couple of tech blogs – notably John Howard’s – Windows Longhorn has now been renamed to what will be it’s official release name, Windows Vista. The name is supposed to give thoughts of clarity and connectivity…

My new notebook arrived on Monday and I couldn’t be happier with it. I spent a lot of time leading up to this purchase researching prices and features of various notebooks and brands and I’m fairly sure that I got it right. This notebook is my first, proper, new computer – all of the others […]

I’ve just purchased a new wireless/router/4-port switch for home. It’s a Linksys WRT54G and it has: wireless capabilities for both B and G access; a 4-port 100MB switch; and router/firewall functions. The reason for buying it was two-fold: firstly, I wanted to buy a 100Mbps switch as I’m currently using a crappy, old 10Mbps hub; […]