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Psion NetBook Pro – one year on
Dec 22, 2004 15:38 - 0 Comments
As I have stated in past posts I am a long time Psion devotee having gone through various different machines.
About 18 months ago Psion broke with tradition and brought out a machine that, for the first time, did not use EPOC as it’s operating system. Instead Psion went over to the “dark side” and built [...]
Google vs. the Rest of the World
Dec 6, 2004 22:46 - 0 Comments
Everyone knows Google, don’t they. Nobody bothers to use any other web search engine, do they? Now Google are trying to get into other areas of the computer users consciousness by launching a webmail and desktop search service.
Taking a look at the desktop search first this is a downloaded install that starts by indexing all [...]
Windows vs. Linux
Nov 21, 2004 21:22 - 0 Comments
I have been watching the Windows vs. Linux debate with interest for some time now. Security seemed to be the principle reason that the Linux community were suggesting that you move over to the open source operating system. Now Microsoft are fighting back and using Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) as their reason for staying [...]
Hackers Really Piss Me Off!!!
Aug 19, 2004 14:10 - 0 Comments
I went to my website this morning and instead of seeing the usual posts there was the following message:
“El Pulpo Hacker Strike Again …
Las Malvinas son Argentinas …
See You in Canasvieiras ”
That was it, no other changes made. The reason it happened was because I had set the permissions on one file to give world [...]
Browser Auto Detection
Jun 24, 2004 19:02 - 0 Comments
There has been a lot written on the web about detecting a user’s browser. The reason why there is so much discussion is that Internet Explorer and Netscape have differences in the way that they render HTML and so the “experience” you get can be different for the same site. At least that was the [...]
Hey Hey 16K
Jun 23, 2004 20:31 - 0 Comments
Even before my love affair with Psions begin (see previous post) I was a Sinclair addict. Originally it was just a ZX81 with the obligatory wobbly ram pack but quickly I had moved onto a 48K spectrum with dual microdrives, a printer and interfaces 1 and 2.
All of this came flooding back when I found [...]
Back to the Fold
Jun 22, 2004 22:20 - 0 Comments
Ever since I got my hands on a Psion Organiser II CM some eight years ago I have been fascinated by PDAs in general and Psions in particular. Since then I have progressed through most of the Psion range including an LZ64, Psion 5, 5mx and a Series 7 and have been very happy with [...]
Variations on a Theme
Jun 5, 2004 15:35 - 0 Comments
I have been using the Greymatter content management system to drive my website for a few weeks now and have been very impressed with the results. The majority of my sites are written in the Perl scripting language and this gives me the flexibility to have my sites exactly as I want them. However, when [...]
