Interesting little snippet from Slashdot asking whether or not Microsoft used Mac to test new features within Office before they appeared in the Windows’ version of the software – ironing out bugs if you will. The article also mentions that Microsoft may have considered dropping Office Mac to hurt Apple and cause an instant ripple…
Lots of people have been going on about Yahoo! Pipes since it emerged some time ago. I personally have been waiting for it all to die down before going on over to my new Flickr account (aka Yahoo! account) to have a look. I only spent a little while browsing around the available options and…
After all the recent controversy regarding Windows Vista and security issues found within no time of release this is yet another hit that Microsoft won’t want to take. Their OneCare Security software was the only one of 17 tested by AV Comparatives organisation that failed it’s test to detect security breaching viruses. Seemingly it only…
With Spring being in the air and all that I decided to give my blog a bit of a dust and a new set of styles. Gone is the slightly dull, green and olive look that I had and in is a new vibrant and clean style. I’ve also changed a couple of the sidebar…
This seems to be the news shaking the blogosphere this morning just before the IBAs. Apparently some unscrupulous individual managed to gain access to one of WordPress’ servers and ‘tweak’ the download for version 2.1.1 of WordPress’ software to suit their own needs. The added code would open up the possibility of a remote PHP…
In recent times you may have noticed that I have become obsessed with statistics and rankings with respect to my blog. Just last night is was rummaging through some e-mail when something caught my eye. I was using Gmail and there in the PageRank plugin for Firefox was a score of 7/10 for my Gmail…
Just got myself a Joost invite yesterday and decided to try it out. I’ve heard good and I’ve heard bad things about it. However, I went in with an open mind. Within 5 minutes of downloading the application the dancing crystals started to drive me mad but that’s just one of these things so I…
Personally I really hope that this doesn’t happen as I have grown quite attached to my @gmail.com address but there is a badger on Google’s arse, in a manner of speaking. Apparently another company already has rights to the gmail trademark and Google have already lost the case in the UK. If they lose the…
If like me you maintain a mirror of your main blog and that mirror happens to be a conveniently free wordpress.com account but your main blog is based on MovableType then this might be interesting to you. No doubt you will have already noticed that you can import your MovableType content without any real trouble…
A few days ago I posted a little article about how I feared that I had become a link whore. Today I read this warning shot from John Chow about the dangers of being, shall we say a rank enthusiast and going beyond the call of duty to improve your blog’s ranking. Worth a read…