Monthly Archives: January 2008
4 Reasons why Windows Vista is better than XP
Windows Vista has attracted a lot of heat since its launch in January 2007. It’s been called out for nagging users with the User Account Control (UAC), being a resource hog, being slow, having an unfamiliar interface, incompatible with legacy … Continue reading
The Week that Was – DRM (in verse!)
Yahoo! is rumoured to soon set the DRM shackles free. last.fm successfully did, but you can only hear tracks by three. The media was so pumped up it ignored imeem who a month ago convinced the Big 4 to stream. … Continue reading
Fixing Hibernate Problems in Windows Vista
One of the most regularly reported problems with Windows Vista is that the hibernate function – one of the power-saving modes – does not work. I have been using Vista daily since February 2007 and although the experience has been … Continue reading
Where to find Facebook Etiquette Tips
I am happy to concede that I was slow to jump on the Facebook bandwagon. After all, there is only so much adopting that one can do in a fast paced, 2.0 "must be the first, oh please, I just … Continue reading
Steve Jobs causes global market panic
No 3G iPhone. No sub-notebook/tablet/12" Powerbook. No Blu-Ray drives. Randy Newman. Markets plummet in US, Europe and Asia/Pacific (red lines denote approximate local time when Steve Jobs delivered the Macworld 08 Keynote). Coincidence? You decide. … Continue reading
Opening ODT and DOCX – are they human readable?
One of the supposed benefits of XML is that documents produced in this format are able to be opened as a text file and read by normal people, allowing the content to be recovered, even if the formatting was unavailable … Continue reading
What ever happened to the Mars500?
In June of 2007, the European Space Agency (ESA) issued a call for all interested suckers candidates for the Mars500 research project. The experiment was to be run by the Russian Institute for Biomedical Problems (site complete with broken graphic … Continue reading
