I finally “upgraded” my computer, which is to say that I basically bought a new one. Purchased the parts online mainly from Netlink Computers, because they had very good prices, shipping wasn’t bad and because they’re in British Columbia, I didn’t have to pay PST because I’m in Ontario. Continued
So, I’ve been using del.icio.us for a little while now, and I’m very impressed. I don’t know how I lived without this before, when I was stuck in the dark ages of offline bookmarks and always worrying about how I’d synchronize my bookmarks between my computers and wondering how I’d combine them and their many (overlapping) categories. It was an organizational nightmare, but I put up with it because, well, I’m a neat freak and like organizing stuff. Continued
So if you’ve been following the continuous rollout of more and more Web 2.0 applications, you’ll have known that Google Calendar was officially released back in April. Since I haven’t had time to use it until now, I knew relatively little about it; but after having used it a bit I am impressed. That Google has finally released a calendar application should be no surprise since one of their main competitors, Yahoo!, has had calendar of their own for some time. Continued
For those of you who opted in to Microsoft’s Windows Live Mail beta, you may have noticed some problems recently. It appears that Microsoft latest version of the its mail service had some bugs in it – the following was shown after the login screen today.
Whoops!
You may have noticed that some of the new features in Windows Live Mail Beta have gone missing! Well, you’re right. We hit a couple of bumps with our most recent release, but we’re working hard to bring back the great new features.
In the meantime, we’ve restored the service to the prior release so that you can keep using Windows Live Mail Beta. For all you Firefox users out there, this means that you’re getting our Classic Hotmail experience again.
Don’t worry – we’ll get your new Windows Live experience working as soon as we can! This is all new stuff we’re doing so we appreciate your patience while we work the kinks out.
I’ve been using Firefox for well over a year now as my main browser, and I’ll never go back to IE. For me, Firefox is pretty much the browser to use – it works well with CSS, is fast, and for the most part is bug-free. Every computer I regularly use has Firefox on it.
So, naturally, I decided to give Thunderbird a try. After having spent most of the last year mainly using various webmail services and not really using a POP3 client, I wanted to see how Thunderbird had progressed, and to see if it was really worth it to go back to a POP3 client. (Some wonder if there is even a future for POP3 clients with webmail become so widespread and versatile.) Continued
I’ve been playing this game on and off again ever since it came out on March 20th, and I’m very impressed with the scope and depth of its gameplay. Having played and enjoyed its predecessor, Morrowind, I had high expectations for Oblivion, and wasn’t disappointed at all with Oblivion. Like Morrowind, (and most serious single-player RPGs), Oblivion requires a lot of time to get into and enjoy – it’s not really that type of game that lends itself to short 20-minute gaming sessions. Continued
If you’ve been using the Internet for a while, you’ll have noticed a slight change in the way certain online services have provided content, in the past 1-2 years. A sort of mini-revolution is going on, leading to the term “Web 2.0” to describe this new breed of web-based services. A lot of exciting things are promised, and some have been demonstrated and are in semi-wide use. Continued
Google recently added Notebook to their ever-increasing array of web services. It is basically a direct competitor to del.icio.us and other social bookmarking services, and aims to allow you to better keep track of sites/links that are important to you, and access them from any computer while also allowing you to share them with others. Continued
Most of you probably already know of the numerous products and services offered by Google nowadays. From their ubiquitous search engine on which they founded their business, to their industry-changing GMail, you can’t really use the web without running into one of these Google-branded services. Continued
Seems as though Word 2007 will provide built-in blogging. This doesn’t come as a huge surprise, since blogging has been a huge success on the Internet, with more companies offering blogging services every day. Now, I know what you’re thinking: How can you expect Microsoft Word to generate sane, readable XHTML markup? Continued