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Wow what a game, I must say having only played it for 3 hours this isn’t going to be an in-depth review but just merely my first impressions… This has been on my wish list for some time and I pre-ordered it as soon as I could nearly going home at lunch time to play [...]

So the annual Mac fan camp is over for another year so what were the highs and the lows? Well personally I think this is going to be slightly heavy on one side and most of the highs have low points… Time Capsule – This was a kick in the backside for anyone who recently [...]

From 2007 to 2008

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So it is that time of year when everyone gives you their opinion on what was great about 2007 and what to expect in 2008. Well what was great about 2007 is probably repeated by everyone: iPhone Facebook Vista – yes you may laugh but despite its faults it still made improvements on the desktop [...]

I’ve had chance to play around with the beta for Firefox 3 and so I thought I would jot down a few notes on what I have seen so far this first post will focus on security which is close to my heart. In short I love it, I’ve always been a fan of Firefox [...]

The question at thembid.com’s blog was ‘What are your essentials?’ after a windows re-format, however I want to touch on the actual process and how that can me made easier. House keeping is one of those tasks I used to love to hate a few years ago but an unfortunate necessity with a Microsoft Windows [...]

Microsoft has had Windows Live Mail in beta now for a while, but after hearing a friend was still using Outlook Express I thought a quick post would be in order to let people know that there is something better! Outlook Express has been out since Windows 98 and during its life has had holes [...]

Taken from the BBC. AOL has joined Microsoft in supporting Open ID, giving the free identification scheme 63 million new users. OpenID is a decentralised identification system that lets individuals use a single password for any site that supports it. This is great news for Open ID which has been slow to take off despite [...]

Yahoo have released a service and it is one straight from the labs of Yahoo and not bought in for a change. It is also a first and a brilliant idea!! It is called pipes and is a free service that lets you catch popular feed types and then manipulate them and mix them up [...]

So what?! Should we all be rushing out to buy one or both of these products? In short yes. Office particularly is a fantastic product and much improved over the previous versions; if you only buy one of these Microsoft Office 2007 should be it. It has the brand new UI which makes things a [...]

Well Mozilla have announced the planned features that will appear in Firefox 2.. erm, I mean Firefox 3. Personally I still don’t think Firefox 2 had enough to warrant its launch as a major release, but hey – at least we getting it this time! taken from mozillalinks.org Among the list of mandatory requirements, read, [...]