Month: March 2006
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AjaxWrite wants to take on Microsoft Word
What if there were an alternative for Microsoft Word that would install and open in 6 seconds, read and write Microsoft Word .doc files and run on Macintosh, Microsoft Windows or Linux computers? asks Michael Robertson. And, he says, it…
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Feed Demon 2 close to final
Release candidate 2 (build 2.0.0.19) of the forthcoming version 2 of the Feed Demon RSS reader for Windows was released yesterday. Fewer bug fixes and more feature changes and additions are good signs that the application is getting close to…
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Truth in advertising?
This looked interesting (in a “hmm, reminds me of the million dollar home page idea” sort of way) – an advertising site that includes only blogs. Then I read what BoingBoing’s Xeni Jardin had to say about it: BoingBoing reader…
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FUD surrounds Vista
Hot on the heels of Microsoft’s postponement of the consumer launch of Windows Vista comes bad news about the actual code of the product, reported yesterday by Australian tech magazine Smarthouse: Up to 60% of the code in the new…
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Understanding wikis and best practice
Finding out about wikis isn’t terribly difficult – there are plenty of descriptions around to help you understand what they are, starting with this one on Wikipedia (itself a wiki). But if you want to find out who’s doing what…