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I am now the proud owner of a FeedDemon 2 license! I’ve been trying to decide on a feed reader recently and with so many cool online readers available I thought I didn’t need an offline version. But at the end of the day, nothing beats a full, desktop application for speed and functionality. And […]

We went to see the Rolling Stones in Wellington yesterday, and what a concert it was!!! They are definitely still the greatest rock band ever – the concert rocked from Jumping Jack Flash opening track, right through to the encore of Satisfaction. I first saw them in 1995 on their Voodoo Lounge tour and I […]

I just noticed this on the Microsoft Connect site – Virtual Machine Additions for Linux. Previously these additions have only ever been available for Windows guest operating systems, so this is a big deal that Microsoft is now working on the Linux versions. read more | digg story

OK – so this may be getting a bit boring… but I have heaps of different invites available to give out to interested people. I have the following: * 100 Google Gmail invites * 5 Windows Live Mail invites * 10 Windows Live Messenger invites read more | digg story

My previous post about Plaxo joined in with the blogosphere’s opinion that Plaxo needed to apologise for their spam they had knowingly sent out. This morning I discovered that Plaxo’s CEO had made a full, public apology – even to the point of making a dig at themselves with a picture of flying pigs in […]

Blog post from the beta @ amanzi site looking at the new co.mments service which allows you to keep track of blog posts and comments. read more | digg story

Plaxo have made a couple of high visibility blog posts today saying that they are restricting the amount of automatic emails (a.k.a. SPAM) get sent out by users of their service. This seems like a good thing but it’s the way that they went about it that is leaving a bad taste in people’s mouths. […]

The beta @ amanzi site looks at a controversial change to Firefox in the alpha Bon Echo version. The tab close button has been moved onto each tab from it’s orginal static position on the right. Lots of people have already been complaining, while others prefer each tab to have their own close button. What […]

This is part 2 of the beta @ amanzi review of Windows OneCare Live – Microsoft’s antivirus/backup/tune-up application. The article covers how easy it is to backup files, but not so easy to restore them. As always there’s lots of screenshots. read more | digg story

I’ve just posted a new article to the beta @ amanzi site showing off the new Firefox 2.0 Alpha 1 with screenshots showing the installation and new features of the freshly released alpha. read more | digg story