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New ooVoo Release for Mac
Blog While still technically a "beta" release, this update brings the Mac version much closer to the Windows version. A new release of ooVoo for Mac is available, version 1.5.1.83. I don't have a Mac, so I can't test this release myself.
[September 9, 2008, 12:48]
ooVoo News - Mac Available and Free Calls Extended
Blog I don't have a Mac, unfortunately, so I can't try it out myself, but I know they have been working very hard on it, and doing a lot of testing before making this release, so I assume that it is the same high quality as the Windows version.
[March 19, 2008, 15:07]
So farewell Windows 3.x
Blog After some early mid-steps with versions of Windows that used concepts like "tiling" of Windows before it hit upon the distinctive style of overlapping windows (an idea borrowed from Apple's Mac). The history of Windows 3.x is the story of the...
[November 6, 2008, 15:40]
Microsoft: You already have naked PCs!
Blog You can buy a PC with no OS, with Windows or with Linux, or indeed a Mac with the Mac OS so all such options are available and consumers make the choice already," said a spokesperson, before dropping in a comment that never fails to set off alarm...
[September 25, 2007, 10:54]
Adobe: AIR on Linux beta, better now?
Blog The company is surprisingly open about the fact that many features were not completed with the alpha that was released earlier this year and says that the beta is near feature complete and the majority of AIR applications that have been running on...
[September 24, 2008, 11:07]
OpenOffice.org 3.0 - Stop Paying Microsoft for Bug Fixes!
Blog It can be installed on Windows, Linux or Mac systems which already have MS Office (or other such programs) without causing problems or interference, and you can then see for yourself how it works. In fact, I can remember using Word under Windows...
[October 15, 2008, 13:37]
Virtualised Windows 7 Migration
Blog Being a Mac user I will be staying cheerfully distanced from Windows 7 for as much of the rest of my natural life as is physically possible, so I feel I should provide you with a link here to try it for yourself if you wish.
[May 5, 2009, 11:01]
Happy Birthday Mac
Blog The Mac for years had better graphics, sound and overall usability than a DOS or early windows PC's. The Mac has been through troubled times, it is not that long since Microsoft bailed out Apple to some serious money, yet that is rarely remembered...
[January 26, 2009, 7:54]
Freeware, Podcasts and Resources Worth Having.
Blog The main emphasis is on technology and computing with shows such as the week in tech, the tech guy (a great phone in with technical problems explained to people), windows weekly with Paul Thurrott the author of super site for windows, macbreak...
[November 5, 2008, 10:24]
Vista vs XP
Blog And while you can understand Microsoft's desire to refresh the Windows UI (all those Mac OS X screen shots look so much prettier than XP), Vista's designers seem to have cut off their nose to spite their face.
[July 30, 2008, 7:30]
WPF loses out to AIR
Blog From what I understand from a quick google this was previously an application written in WPF (the Windows Presentation Foundation), a platform based in the murky world of .NET, and also one that won’t run on my Mac making it 100% inaccessible to...
[May 26, 2009, 10:43]
Can we rely on guys who have used Linux for years?
Blog He asserts that it's too hard to add a new printer or camera, and that even Mac OS is easier. I don't know any "hard core techies" who jumped to Mac as an alternative. He states that the technology industry is driven by innovation, and all Linux...
[November 24, 2009, 13:03]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Annoyed Mac users are switching to Ubuntu, says Boing Boing, following up the story with a link to a useful collection of tasty things a new Ubuntoid might want to load. Although, to be accurate, the BB article says that one annoyed Mac user is...
[June 30, 2006, 19:45]
Hewlett Packard H470 - Finally Another Good Mobile Printer
Blog You have to use the command "hcitool scan to get the MAC address of the printer, then go to System/Administration/Printing, hit New, then Other, and enter that MAC address, minus colons and with "bluetooth://" added to the beginning, for the URL...
[July 24, 2009, 14:14]
Sun upgrades xVM VirtualBox
Blog It support most popular environments including Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris and OpenSolaris. In addition, with new bridged networking configurations on Windows and Linux platforms, xVM VirtualBox software helps to deploy server applications in...
[December 19, 2008, 14:46]
Video IM / VoIP - Where are we now?
Blog It is available on the widest range of interesting/useful hardware by far; they have versions for Windows, Mac and Linux, and a variety of Mobile and Nokia Tablet devices. Unfortunately, I find the Windows version to be considerably less stable...
[March 27, 2008, 10:00]
Nokia Qt Developer Days: from the show floor
Blog According to Qt, these releases should allow developers to target new platforms as they feature new support for Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.6 - Qt 4.6 also introduces a port of Qt to the Symbian Platform with integration for the S60 framework.
[October 14, 2009, 12:48]
Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor Beta - does what it says on the tin
Blog Well, I’ve just installed Windows 7 on an Acer notebook and I have to tell you that it was a remarkably pain free process. I installed the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor Beta to do some pre-flight checks, which went well.
[September 25, 2009, 6:40]
Swimming with the Microsoft Fishies
Blog I've been messing with Windows 7 for more than 2 weeks now in-between sessions spent pounding on Visaster/Office2007 and the comparison, at least at the OS desktop level, favors Windows 7 tremendously.
[February 2, 2009, 15:07]
Windows Live. Hotmail's Growing Up.
Blog I've recently after years of abstinance, got my self a new windows live (hotmail) account. also available is a suite of free down loads designed to replace the bloat that currently ships with windows in time for the launch of windows 7.
[December 8, 2008, 7:37]
