Windows Live Writer released a new version earlier this month. I had tried this desktop blog-posting program before without much success. This is really just a test post.
The program has a sleek design and an intuitive interface.
The advantage of using something like this with WordPress is the simpler ability to wrap text around images and [...]
I've tried quite a few RSS feed aggregators – software versions and web sites – but I've never stuck with any of them for more than a few days.
That's partly because I switch between Linux and Windows, home and work too regularly to build content and maintain loyalty.
I have found one though, called Gregarius, that I might persist with [...]
I discovered an intriguing new technology gadget tonight thanks to the Google ads on my own site. It’s called GoPC and it’s a virtual operating system that provides a free service for accessing programs and data storage online.
It uses Suse Linux and provides a limited number of programs with the free service. These include Firefox, [...]
I’m taking a look at Windows Live at the moment. It’s a suite of services including email, online gallery, blog, news and messenger.
It has a neat clean interface and the Windows Live Mail is a great improvement on Hotmail.
Google and Yahoo offer similar packages and I’m interested to see where it all leads. The three [...]
Okay, I’ve always been a distro tart, hopping from one Linux system to the other. I’ve abandoned Gentoo after a short relationship; it was just too hard to keep everything together.
Kanotix was previously my preference, but an upgrade disaster forced us apart.
That’s when I discovered PCLinuxOS. It’s based on the commercial Mandriva, but it’s better [...]
Here’s a screenshot of Gentoo using a KDE desktop with a background picture of Jim and Maggie.
There’s nothing uniquely special about it. A couple of extra observations from my previous post:
Gentoo boots more quickly than any other distro I’ve tried; about the same as Windows XP.
Some of the stable packages are out of date. That’s [...]
My Kanotix installation died on me last week. It was a self-inflicted fatality; suicide in other words. I went for over a month without upgrading the distro, just updating software instead.
I finally went ahead and the system shock was all too much. I had the black screen of death, but it locked on me and [...]
I’ve installed the latest release candidate of IE7 on my laptop.
It’s fairly impressive and has some features that are similar to Flock and Firefox. The most obvious improvement on previous versions of IE is the implementation of tabbed browsing.
It takes a while adjusting to the look and feel, which will make the transition a little [...]
I indulged and bought myself a new laptop this week. There were some good end-of-financial year sales and this coincided with the mysterious random crash of my desktop PC.
The laptop is a Dell Inspiron 640. It has a 60GB hard drive, DVD RW, 1024MB RAM, Intel 1.66 processor and all the bells and whistles for [...]
There’s a buzz happening in the Linux world about a new image editor called Pixel.
It’s a cross-platform program that also works in Windows and Mac. I’ve got it running successfully in Windows XP and Suse 10.
It’s more intuitive and user friendly for Windows converts than the Gimp and has the added advantage for a print [...]
