Jun 12 2006
Big news around the internet at the moment is that Robert Scoble is leaving Microsoft to work for a startup company called PodTech.net. As you can probably tell from the name, PodTech.net are a podcasting or vlogging company. This is a big loss to Microsoft as Scoble put a human face to the massive corporation. […]
Jun 08 2006
Google have just released a Firefox only extension that automatically synchronises your bookmarks, cookies and passwords between browsers on different machines. Sorry for the continued Google love, but this is awesome! read more | digg story
Jun 08 2006
Windows Vista Beta 2 is now available for download to the public. Microsoft are encouraging users to download the file using an Akamai plugin – I couldn’t get the ActiveX plugin to work in IE, but luckily there’s a Java plugin for Firefox read more | digg story
Jun 07 2006
Today I passed the 70-292 exam. It’s one of the two exams needed to upgrade from MCSE 2000 to MCSE 2003. I studied quite hard for it and even managed to find some time on the fishing trip to learn about stub zones! I found it quite easy in the end and got 850 so […]
Jun 07 2006
The beta @ amanzi site investigates the new Google Spreadsheets and puts it through it’s paces. Overall opinion is good but read on for more – as usual there’s lots of screenshots! read more | digg story
May 24 2006
This is a test post from Word 2007. The blog publishing tool has great potential, but the most important thing is that it publishes clean HTML. Lets’ see how it handles bullets: Item 1 Item 2 Item 3 An ordered list: First Second Third And some formatting like bold text (should be strong,) italics (should […]
May 23 2006
I’ve been catching up on some local blogs recently and found a discussion on which cafes in Wellington are good for meetings – i.e. you need to be able to have a conversation without feeling like you’re shouting. I haven’t yet found the perfect cafe for this yet. We often go to Legato as it’s […]
May 03 2006
Not many people know about the free software virtualisation tool available from Altiris or what it’s capable. This review details how to use it and what can be done with it, with lots of screen shots. read more | digg story
May 02 2006
Another superb article from Mark Russinovich on the Sysinternals website, detailing how power users can elevate their privileges to administrator level on Windows machines. read more | digg story
Apr 27 2006
firefoxgurl Originally uploaded by x4d41. Firefox girl! Another good reason to use Firefox…