Archive for the 'Computers' Category
Sunday, November 12th, 2006
A couple of weeks ago we launched the latest version of our easy-to-use and free RSS Reader called inclue! We have tried to concentrate on making it extremely easy to watch and listen to rich media, be it videos from YouTube, music tracks like the innovative new Amie St. or podcasts/netcasts; right inside your Windows […]
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Wednesday, October 4th, 2006
I have always wanted to migrate from Windows to the Mac. Recently a very good friend kindly gave me a Mac Mini, and last night I set it up in the new house. Being a Mac newbie I decided to keep a blog about my experiences Jumping Ship from Windows to Mac. Follow along on […]
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Sunday, August 13th, 2006
My new Dual-core Dell XPS-400 computer is working wonderfully. I managed to restore the data from my old machine.
In other news, since May I have been engrossed in my latest new hobby. Watch this space… in a week or so I shall put up the first gallery of photos of my new hobby, and […]
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Friday, July 21st, 2006
My main AMD computer went belly up a few days ago. Anyone who has outstanding email to me - sorry I’ll get back to you eventually. This machine has been cursed from the start, I should have known when it took a couple of motherboards and a couple of power supplies before I even got […]
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Saturday, March 11th, 2006
So who’s going to upgrade to Vista when it emerges later this year? (Dec 1st supposedly) If the XP launch is any indication then expect to see the early rush of early adopters - usually the geeks. Most folks will let it mature for a year or two, for the major bugs to be fixed, […]
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Sunday, February 5th, 2006
I am having total fun at my job, so much so that I can barely call it work. Whilst I very much enjoyed working for SOE, alongside some of the greatest minds in the games industry; I see now that I had fallen into a rut in the last year or so. The work in […]
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Tuesday, December 6th, 2005
OK so this is really geeky - but I just had to enable the site with a Frappr account. These folks offer a great Google Map-based group tracking widget, thingy.
If you read my site, check it out and join in here. It only goes to the zip code level so don’t worry, no one is […]
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Thursday, November 17th, 2005
Please participate in our beta for our free RSS reader for Outlook. The product is called inclue!. Myself, my work colleagues and bosses would be very grateful if you could install it, play around and give us feedback. You can either feedback directly to me or use our forums.
To beta test you will need to […]
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2005
Today we launched the beta of our first product at work! Because we had already formulated a huge deploy list with every little detail on it, moving everything to the production hardware for Beta was a smooth process. We are all very excited to start getting feedback from “real” users. Will there be bugs? Of […]
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Monday, October 24th, 2005
I don’t know whether any of you are familiar with SETI@home, but you might want to check out BOINCas a great new-generation version of distributed computing.
Basically, BOINC installs a tiny client on your machine and allocates your computing resources to scientific research when your computer is idle. Many scientific studies require processing of intense amounts […]
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