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I’ve been using the new beta 1 version of Firefox 1.5 since it came out and so far I’m impressed. It’s extremely stable for a beta 1 product, and although you don’t notice any significant changes at first, there’s definitely been a whole heap of changes made under the hood. The first thing you notice […]

While I was looking at all the iPod news I downloaded the latest version of iTunes to see what all the hype was about. I’ve used it in the past but never really liked it that much – I just assumed that you would only use it to sync to your iPod. Version 5 of […]

I still haven’t bought an MP3 player – I haven’t yet found that perfect player which balances size, features, capacity, and performance. That’s all changed now with the release of the iPod Nano! This device looks incredible – thinner than a pencil and only slightly longer than an iPod Shuffle, it has a beautiful colour […]

I’ve just been reading an interesting article on the Ars Technica website about how the copy protection that is being used on new CD’s is making it harder for honest people to enjoy their music while doing nothing to prevent piracy. This is something I’ve agreed with for some time now – pirates will always […]

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)