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This article compares hard-key QWERTY phones such as the Blackberry to the iPhone’s (or iPod Touch) on-screen keyboard and discovers a higher error-rate on the iPhone. I have some opinions on the iPod Touch’s keyboard myself, but I’ll save those for another entry. Link: Direct Comparison of iPhone and Hard-Key QWERTY Phone Owners Indicates Higher […]

With help from a couple of nifty plugins, this site is now optimised for viewing on either the iPhone or iPod Touch. So if you’re reading this in your feed reader and you’re lucky enough to have one of Apple’s beautiful devices handy, head on over and check it out for yourself. Plugins: iWPhone WordPress […]

Just in case you need another reason why DRM is bad, read this article about the Major League Baseball revoking their DRM license, thus rendering all purchased & downloaded videos now unwatchable. MLB rips off fans who bought DRM videos Fans shafted as Major League Baseball revokes DRM licenses

The last effort didn’t work, so this time I’ll try it using the WordPress editor – but NOT the visual editor:

Lets see if this works: create a new post in Windows Live Writer paste the embedded code if it works, you should see the Voicethread then click the Publish button to post it.

This press release just popped up as I was about to sign off the for the night, but I just had to get a quick mention out: "Integrated IT Designed for Midsized Businesses" Microsoft have finally revealed some details about a new server bundle for "midsized" business called Windows Essential Business Server. This has been […]

First week into Movember 2007 and I’ve decided to aim for a classic highway cop moustache – here’s the first of many embarrassing photos for your viewing pleasure! Don’t forget – you can sponsor this effort by donating to the prostrate cancer research fund using my registration number – 107742 – at this address: http://www.movember.com/nz/donate/?action=sponsorlink&rego=107742 […]

The PowerShell team have just released the first publicly available CTP of PowerShell 2.0. This hasn’t even reached beta stage yet, so there is bound to be lots of bugs and no doubt the product will change  a lot prior to release. Lots of new features, but the stand-out ones for me are: Remote scripting […]

While I was away on holiday, Ubuntu released the latest version of their desktop operating system: Ubuntu 7.10. I had last tried the 7.4 release on my new notebook without much luck as the hardware was a lot newer than the operating system. I wasn’t too hopeful of having much luck installing 7.10 either on […]

Blogtown NZ has been updated to the latest version to fix several security bugs and to add new features. One of the new features is native tagging support although this needs to be built into the themes to see the tags.