I’ve made the decision. OK, it’s not a total move, only partial. I’ve decided to install Ubuntu Linux, and give it a bit of a test for the blog, as well as potentially moving over to it myself. First a bit of history: I’ve used Unix before a *long* time ago and used to enjoy [...]

While we’re on the subject of shell extensions, this little program (135Kb) will do loads of cool stuff. For that paltry footprint, you’ll get 4 Virtual desktops, programmable window icons (like your close box etc) and the ability to set the opacity of windows too. For instance, I really like the idea of having a [...]

Small neat and useful. If you can’t wait for Vista to come out, you can add one of it’s cool features to XP right now, for free. The download is very small and when you hover over items on your taskbar, a small preview pops up showing you what’s in the window! Very cool and [...]

Greatest find of the week. This website will learn from your music tastes. The website is held in conjunction with apple and amazon (not that that should disuade you at all) and delivers the equivalent of 400,000 songs from their database not including world or classical music. Anyway, it’s a really cool website, allows you [...]

You know, retro is such a let-down, IMO. You always expect to relive the past and to feel the way you did when you played the game, or saw the film, or did the thing you did to look back and think, “aah, Retro.” It never quite lives up to the memories. Now why is [...]

Right then… I made a promise to myself to not publish anything that was personal to me, or was directly linked to what was happening in my life – I guess I wanted to have a bit more of a subjective view on what I was talking about. However (here it comes!) I have come [...]

It seems through recent news that the UK broadband providers are starting to enforce their limits and fair use policies and in a recent The Register article it appears that BT are starting to get serious with their customers. With emails “asking” for compliance to already plain fair use polices (which obviously nobody but lawyers [...]

Yeap, that’s right. Apparently Daemon Tools has been seduced by the darkside. They have signed with WhenU and now have spyware in their (once) cool program. According to the article, it’s only from version 4 that has the problems, so if you still have an older version, I suggest you stick with it!! My current [...]

Has your PC ever died? Have you ever been right in the middle of something, that is really important (which is always the way, according to what is known as “sod’s law”) when it goes? This guide/article is really interesting and not only details the top reasons for PCs giving up the ghost, but also [...]

OK, this is an interesting article. It details a couple of the proposed new ideas for Media Player 11. There is however no mention of RSS, and therefore podcasts. I do however know that the new beta version of Microsoft Outlook, at the moment, has the capability to subscribe to RSS so I guess it [...]