Category: Hardware
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Windows Vista rocks (mostly) but Outlook 2007 sucks
During the Easter weekend, I installed Windows Vista on my primary desktop PC, a Dell Dimension XPSGen5. Ten days on, I have no real complaint at all about Vista. Some niggles, perhaps, but none are such that I’d even consider…
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Up and running with Windows Vista
Installing a new operating system on your PC isn’t a task you undertake lightly, especially when the operating system you want to install is substantially advanced and, well, different to the one you’ve been used to for some years. This…
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The great PR cock-up
The phrase “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” seems to be an appropriate idiom to describe a developing kerfuffle surrounding Microsoft’s latest blogger outreach campaign ahead of the launch of Windows Vista at the end of January. Concisely,…
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Update: Dolphin Music does care about its customers
[Update May 29, 2007: The title of this post has been changed to reflect some developments since I wrote the post in December 2006. The original title was: “Recommendation: Don’t buy from Dolphin Music.” Read on to see why I’ve…
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Using Skype via wi-fi without a computer
Browsing in my local PC World yesterday, I came across a display of the new Belkin wi-fi phone for Skype. It looks very appealing – a phone that enables you to make and receive Skype calls without using your computer.…