Windows XP Given Another Stay of Execution

It is being reported on the BBC today that Microsoft are going to extend the life of Windows XP once again - this time until the end of May 2009. This is almost certainly due to two things: the public’s dislike of Vista and the huge take-off of netbooks, which use either a variant of […]

22nd November 2008

Stories that caught my eye this week – 8th November 2008:

Google - do you speak the Queen’s English?

Xobni Adds Yahoo Mail, Facebook, Skype, Hoovers, And The Kitchen Sink

Google catches downsizing fever

Google’s Mobile App Uses Undisclosed Proximity Sensing System and Why You Should Care

Google SearchWiki Launched

Get to Google Docs from Gmail

You can see the rest of […]

15th November 2008

Stories that caught my eye this week - 15th November 2008:

URLs for iPhone-Optimized Google Sites
Slife 2.0 for Windows Leaves Beta [In Brief]
Google Launches Voice and Video Chat Inside Gmail [Video Chat]
Find and Download Higher Resolution Videos on YouTube [YouTube]

You can see the rest of my reading list here.

SET NOCOUNT ON

I spent a frustrating couple of hours yesterday trying to get output from a database into a web page - something that I have done many times before. However, on this occasion as the query was complex I decided that it needed to go into a stored procedure. I quickly got that working and tested […]

8th November 2008

Stories that caught my eye this week – 8th November 2008:

Remember the Milk Gadget Puts Tasks in Gmail’s Sidebar [Gmail]
Visualizing data in the cloud
MSI Wind 9-cell spotted in the wild
Gmail’s New Gadget Support Lets You Remember The Milk
Remember The Milk for iPhone and iPod touch Now Available [Featured IPhone Download]
Early Look at Firefox’s Private Browsing […]

25th October 2008

Stories that caught my eye this week – 25th October 2008:

Do you have 16 boxes?
Create No Download Screencasts In Seconds With ScreenToaster
Planzone: A Collaborative Tool that Makes Juggling Easy
Please Fix The iPhone: A To-Do List For Steve Jobs
Five great things about being CEO in a tech recession
Sun PDF Import Adds PDF Editing to OpenOffice.org […]

18th October 2008

Stories that caught my eye this week – 18th October 2008:

The Myth of All Day Computing
Quicken Online Drops Subscription Fee, Now Free [Quicken]
Who Links to Non-Existing Pages from Your Site?
Internet use ‘good for the brain’
Ah, the irony! SAP freezes internal IT purchases
Whom Should You […]

4th October 2008

Stories that caught my eye this week – 4th October 2008:

Songreference Turns Your MP3 Playlist Into A Video Playlist
Technology - is the party over?
Facebook for iPhone clicks over to version 2.0
Cloud + Client
Which way to the mobile web?
Fast forward for mobile broadband
Google Launches Its Own Memetracker
“Windows Cloud” Operating System to Be Released Within a […]

New Look - New Focus

You may have noticed a new look to the site today (still tweaking so expect some more subtle changes). I decided that not only did it need a refresh but also a slight change of emphasis.
Since spinning the site out of my personal blog I have covered anything technology based that has taken my fancy. However, […]

Stories that caught my eye this week – 27th September 2008

These are some of the stories I have been reading this week:

Best of the Best: The Hive Five Winners [Hive Five]
Understanding Online Photo Rights
The 2009 Compact Calendar Now Available [Printables]
Google Chrome as Future Operating System [Google Chrome]
Find Out Where a Username is Already Registered [Identity]
T-Mobile G1 launch day roundup
Google Contacts Has a Standalone Site [Google […]