Monthly Archives: July 2005
Dancing to Apple’s iTune
The impact of Apple adding podcasting to iTunes 4.9 has been amazing. http://www.apple.com/au/itunes/ http://www.apple.com/au/podcasting/ In one small product point release, they seem to have gone from one piece of the podcasting puzzle, to the only game in town. Sensible, grown … Continue reading
Windows Vista – Second thoughts
As you probably know, Microsoft announced last Friday that the official name for the next version of Windows will be Windows Vista. At the time, in this previous post, I commented that it wasn’t a bad choice of name. I … Continue reading
Windows Vista – One Windows to rule them all ?
It has been leaked to the internet that the next version of Windows will be officially called Windows Vista. Known by the codename of Longhorn for several years while in development, it is expected to be announced at 6am Pacfic … Continue reading
Why iTunes 4.9 ??
Much anticipation was made of it in the podcasting community – people were excited they are going “prime time”. And scared what 35 million new users might do to their servers. iTunes 4.9 would be the first iTunes to incorperate … Continue reading
My Podcast Wishlist
The last few months I have discovered Podcasting and have been completely blown away by it. It’s fantastic. I’ll do a page of my favourite podcasts soon. Once we move house in a few weeks I am actually planning on … Continue reading
Microsoft to buy Gator?
One of the interesting stories from a couple of weeks ago was Microsoft were going to buy the parent company of Gator – the ad-ware / spyware thats in so many p2p programs. Well it seemed like the world was … Continue reading
MS Betting Big – Again
One of the interesting lines I picked up from Microsoft’s announcement that RSS will be integrated into IE7 and Longhorn – they were Betting Big on RSS. That’s a big statement from Microsoft. They don’t say it often – probably … Continue reading
Who is this Microsoft?
No one could deny that Microsoft has been taking a pounding from press and users for the last 12 months. Even more so than usual. They have been beaten up about security, bugs, IE6 being stale, delays in SP2, delivery … Continue reading
Why can’t NOD32 play nice with others?
For the last 12 months or more I have been using NOD32 as my anti-virus of choice. http://www.nod32.com.au/ For years I used Nortons Anti-Virus and thought it was OK. But I think that had a lot to do with the … Continue reading
Apple and Intel
As you might know, a couple of weeks ago Apple announced that it will be moving from its current platform of IBM Power PC chips, to intel. At first it seemed like a huge rumour that “leaked” a few days … Continue reading
