Month: August 2006
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Windows Live Writer from Microsoft
Another new entrant into the blog editing software market comes from Microsoft with their beta launch of Windows Live Writer. I’m trying it out in writing this post and so far so good. A very polished program for a first…
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Share your memories at the BBC
An intriguing social experiment from the BBC – The Time When: […] The site is a place to record and share memories of the important days in your life. It also gives information about events which have taken place on…
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A PC nostalgia trip
Reading David Tebbutt’s 1981 review of the first IBM PC is quite a trip down memory lane. More so for David, I expect, as he was at the launch on 12 August 1981. Yesterday was the 25th anniversary of that…
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TypePad Mobile first look
If you have a TypePad blog and a cameraphone, moblogging just got a lot easier with Six Apart’s launch of TypePad Mobile. This free program enables you to post photos from your phone to your blog via high-speed data connection…
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Pay attention to Gartner’s hype cycle
IT industry analysts Gartner published their 2006 hype cycle for emerging technologies this week – their predictions on what they think will be hot technologies in the near future, and what won’t be. These predictions form part of the hype…