Archive for October, 2005

how to map a drive to your ftp site

Monday, October 31st, 2005

Engadget have a step by step guide on how to map a drive to your ftp site. This is well looking into if you maintain a web site or even if you want to take advantage of that web space that came with your isp for personal storage.
‘Transferring files to and from your blog’s webserver […]

smash the ipod

Monday, October 31st, 2005

The day has arrived. The money has been collected and the time is now here to see an ipod smashed in a store.
Sound weird? You betcha!
head on over and have a look at the video of the ipod being smashed. Go on, you know you have nothing more important to do
Smash the ipod […]

web based office suite

Monday, October 31st, 2005

Between the lines suggests that a web based Microsoft office “lite” version might be just around the corner.
‘Web 2.0 explorer Richard MacManus rounds up info about Microsoft leaping into hosted applications, with SharePoint, CRM and ERP (Dynamics?) applications, in his recent post. But will that extend to Microsoft Office, he asks? A Web-based Office in the cloud […]

Activewords update

Monday, October 31st, 2005

Active words which is my favorite “must have” utility for any windows pc has had some updates recently. The guys have been working hard.
What’s new with ActiveWords?

ActiveWords InkPad 1.5.2 for Tablet PC.

ActiveWords for Google, MSN, and Yahoo.

ActiveWords Agent for ClearContext.

ActiveWords for Salesforce.com - BETA.

Gamespot review Civilzsation 4

Thursday, October 27th, 2005

Gamespot have a review of Civilisation 4 that was released in the US yesterday. Unfortunately it wont be released for another week in Australia…. Game Spot have given the new installment in the Civilisation series a 9.4 which is remarkably high for them.
Simply cannot wait.
‘The GoodIntriguing new gameplay options plus even more-refined core gameplay; Great presentation with powerful new […]

Age of Empires 3

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

Age of Empires 2 was the start of my strategy game obsession. I have played many RTS strategy games since but nothing beats learning a new game or style for the first time. I now prefer the Civilisation series (more about that soon) but I have a soft spot for the game series that started […]

TaskPrompt

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

Snapfiles points out this free application that will help you get organised.
TaskPrompt
‘TaskPrompt allows you to manage a personal ToDo and Task list. It provides an easy to use interface with integrated calendar display that allows you to quickly view the tasks that are due for the selected date. It can also remind you of […]

how much is your blog worth?

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

Business Opportunities weblog has posted a little web application that allows you to calculate how much your blog is worth. Not time for me to sell geekyinfo yet
‘Inspired by Tristan Louis’s research, I’ve created this little applet which computes and displays your blog’s worth using the same link to dollar ratio as the AOL-Weblogs […]

testing flock

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

This is being posted from within flock - the new browser that is built upon firefox.
So far so good. I like the look and for a developer version it is quite stable so far.

more music ranting

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

Prompted by the previous post, I have my own little rant about the way that music labels respond to the threat of digital music. I refer of course to the copy protection of CDs. Now we don’t have fair use provisions in our copyright laws, and until today there was no legal way […]