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Service pack 2 for Office 2003 was quietly released today. Nothing ground breaking (update: the only major, new feature appears to be some anti-phishing tools for Outlook 2003 – I haven’t tested them yet though), just the usual collection of security/stability/performance fixes. Download links here: Office 2003 SP2 Visio 2003 SP2 Project 2003 SP2 OneNote […]

The final version of Gallery 2 was released a week or two ago, so I decided to get the photo gallery back on this site with the help of the WPG2 plugin. I’ve decided to just post some of my favourite photos here, instead of just mirroring our entire album which is still available on […]

For the past year or so I’ve been using Virtual PC for setting up labs for study and testing purposes, but recently I decided to give VMware Workstation 5 a go. I couldn’t believe the difference between VMware and VPC – the first major difference was the performance improvements in VMware. I had gotten used […]

Forgot to mention this last week, but Opera have finally decided to release their browser for free! Well, they have always had a free version but it was embedded with somewhat annoying banner ads. I’ve always liked the Opera browser but the embedded ads had always turned me off. Opera are a firm believer in […]

This is a bit old, but as I recently learned, when Citrix released Metaframe Presentation Server 3 they introduced a new feature called Session Reliability. Briefly, Session Reliability allows your ICA sessions to remain active even when the network connectivity drops out. It seems like a good feature so why would you not use it? […]

I spotted this last week and have been really impressed with Microsoft’s new IE developer’s toolbar (screenshot below – click to enlarge.) I’m a long time Firefox user and try to avoid using IE as much as possible, but as a part-time web developer it’s always important to test website in a number of different […]

I’ve just created a new site called Blogtown (blogtown.co.nz) – the aim is to create a free blogging service for people in New Zealand. The site is fully funtional but is still being tested, so I’m only making the service available by invitation only. I’m using WordPress MU, which is a multi-user version of the […]

Ars Technica have just produced another high quality review, this one looking in depth at the iPod Nano. Highlights of the article include the stress testing and the subsequent autopsy of the iPod. Educational stuff… http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/nano.ars/1

Read this on the Engadget website, as a current Skype user it will be interesting to see what eBay is going to do with Skype. Not sure if I’m that keen on it to tell the truth – at least there are a few other options out there now, like Gizmo or Google Talk. Yup, […]

Just noticed that Thunderbird 1.5 Beta 1 has also been released so I’ve downloaded and installed it and will give it a good testing over the next couple of weeks. First impressions: Offline support has been removed from the installation options, this is now part of the standard build Product version shows up as Thunderbird […]