Following on to my post a couple of days back, Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) has now been released to manufacturing (RTM). Chris Keroack, Microsoft Release Manager for Windows Service Pack 3 posted this information to the Technet forums just today. Chris goes on to say that XP SP3 will be available via the [...]
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WordPress 2.5 Released Today
WordPress 2.5 has now been officially released. There have been many new features and improvements made to what was already a fantastic product. Why not head over to the WordPress Blog to see what all the hype is about are and how easy it is to upgrade your version.
Edit Photos Online With Adobe Photoshop Express
Adobe has ventured into online photo editing and storage with the release of Photoshop Express. Photoshop Express is a free public beta which allows you to edit your photos online and store up to 2Gb of your favorite photos on their servers. Whilst this is a beta product, it is feature rich with many popular [...]
Australia Daylight Savings Changes In 2008
Eastern Australian states, Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory, will change their daylight saving start and end dates in 2008. Daylight saving will begin the first Sunday in October and end the first Sunday in April. Eastern states currently start and end daylight saving at different dates. This change will synchronize [...]
WordPress.com – Now With 3Gb Of Free Storage
One of the few limitations at wordpress.com, the free blog host was the amount of storage you were given with the free accounts. Matt Mullenweg’s recent post shows that the storage limit has been raised by factor of 60 from 50Mb to 3Gb. Matt’s recent post said. “Our hope is that much in the same [...]
Solid State Flash To Replace Traditional Drives
We have been using the conventional or traditional hard disk drive for around 20 years now. But a change is on the horizon to the use of solid state flash memory. What if any benefits will this give us? As there are no moving parts within the solid state drives, like the memory cards we [...]
Microsoft Announces Windows Vista SP1 RTM
Microsoft have today released Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows Vista to manufacturing (RTM). They are claiming great progress in performance, compatibility and reliability. I certainly hope this will be the customer experience. Whilst I haven’t personally had any issues with the “Gold” release of Vista, there are some performance aspects that I hope have [...]
Microsoft Takeover Bid For Yahoo US$44.6 Billion
Microsoft has for many years been buying up smaller companies, typically software vendors. But this one’s a big fish. In what would be one of the biggest internet buyout deals, Microsoft announced that it has made a proposal to the Yahoo board of directors for US$44.6 billion. Let’s see, that’s US$44,600,000,000. That’s a lot of [...]
