Norton Internet Security Our love affair began back in the days of running a cable across my bedroom for my meagre dialup connection and the protection (Firewall, Virus Checker) you offered. After that. I felt obliged to renew my subscription every July. Each new version looked very similar and you hardly ever notified me of viruses or security breaches. Maybe you eliminated them all ruthlessly and silently but for 35 GBP per year, you need to ‘add value’....
I currently use MyYahoo! as my home page. I have looked at MyYahoo’s next incarnation, played with Google’s personalised home page and Windows Live! but none are as flexible as I would like. So, prompted by the only other Oracle gentleman with enough taste to choose WordPress, Rahul, I decided to experiment a little with Netvibes. Out of the box, the default Netvibes screen doesn’t look too remarkable. A widget for Gmail, a search box, example RSS feeds and the obligatory Flickr feed to display other peoples lovely cats on your home page....
Don’t know where, don’t know when but SonicStage 3.4 is available. I haven’t had a chance to download 3.4 yet and I would love to be proved wrong but I suspect SonicStage remains the only software application in the modern world without a ‘Check for updates’ option. Irritatingly, this post about version 3.3 remains one of my most popular blog articles. Sigh.
I was worried that Google’s integrated suite of Web 2.0 office applications would pose a threat to Zoho but another, more immediate competitor has just launched this week. ThinkFree provides a similar service to Zoho offering free, Web-based Word, Excel and PowerPoint software. I found ThinkFree’s charts matches the features in Excel (and is better than ZohoSheet and NumSum). In fact, ThinkFree’s compatibility with Microsoft Office is so awesome, at times, it is easy to forget you are not actually using Word/Excel/Powerpoint....
Just wrote a quick letter using ZohoWriter. An interesting product. Think of Microsoft Word on the Web. ZohoWriter supports the standard WYSIWG editor, document versioning, collaboration, blog publishing and export to Word/PDF formats. My document is saved safely on a server in the event of any media based disaster striking my PC. The only comments I have was that it wasn’t obvious how to suppress the header and footer when printing the final hardcopy, I couldn’t see a speel checker and WordPress....
Buoyed by my recent, successful firmware upgrade of my Linksys wireless router, and for the sake of completeness, I decided to upgrade the driver software of the Linksys Wireless USB adapters to the latest version (2.0.2). In addition, prompted by my wife’s perceptive question of ‘Is it not working because someone has hacked into it ?’, I also decided to increase the security on my embryonic wireless network by disabling SSID broadcasts and enabling MAC address filtering so only specified PC’s can connect....
I have been experiencing more wireless weirdness recently. What once was stable and reliable has become increasingly sporadic, unreliable and damned irritating for no obvious reason. I am not a networking sort of guy. I am not particularly interested in wireless networking. I use WEP in an effort to secure my network and stop my neighbours piggy backing off it but that’s about it. I am ashamed to admit that, on one occasion, when my wireless network was broken, I briefly piggy backed on an unsecured network just to temporarily solve the problem....
Microsoft announce Virtual Server 2005 is now freely available. Whatever you can do, we can do (but a bit later).
Some people might have expected the clock on an expensive Sony digital car radio to automatically switch into British Summer Time. However, they would be wrong and I will now be forced to try to remember the location of the fine manual.
I thought this was simply hilarious. Thank goodness, he captured a screenshot for prosperity.