I have a PAX write-up to complete. I’m doing some major work on my other site, LOb, tonight; hopefully I can say that is live shortly. By shortly I mean probably Friday.
Must stop twittering so much, it takes away from blog time.
Speaking of time, the focus of my time is shifting from tinking around to [...]

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10am PST, 6PM GST, 1PM EST
Spread Firefox | Download Day 2008

That’s in 30 minutes folks. So get ready. Full list of places below, just add 30 minutes to find your start time:

Tags: 2008, firefox, firefox download

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Keeping your Windows up to date? Good. What about all your applications?
Thought not.
Well your apps connect to the net as well and they’re as vulnerable as your OS. It’s time you updated them. How? I’m glad you asked, for Windows try FileHippo or Secunia.
Run the scanner and you get a list of all the apps [...]

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I’ve posted about this before but here’s more specific instructions on how to get a full OS onto a USB stick. They recommend a 1GB stick, but go with a 4GB to give yourself space. Personally I’m doing this with a 16GB stick.

Essentials for creating a Portable gOS using Windows:
* gOS [...]

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I knew about the memory limit in Windows XP before I went ahead and upped the memory in my Mac from 2GB to 4GB. I just knew that XP would not manage to cope with 4GB even though the limit on 32bit (standard) Windows XP is 4GB. This is because, in Microsoft’s words:
The physical address [...]

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Remember when I wrote about this?
Well this morning I got an email that I have 10 days to download the Speed Download 5 for free. It seems that Yazsoft and Machiest have buried the hatchet, and not into each other for once.
Congratulations goes to Yazsoft who finally did the right thing. So if you bought [...]

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I purchased the last pack of applications from the Macheist people, and I was burned by the Speed Download 4 (SD4) fiasco. TUAW has a good write up on it, but more exists.
the SD5 update was pushed down via the automatic updating system [built in to SD4 and switched on by default-CR], apparently catching [...]

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Oh Microsoft, when will you change your business practices? Although this is hardly a drop in the ocean for any company this will not unduly hurt MS. It will mean that MS will not turn a profit in the EU for the next five years or so. Will it change the way MS runs its [...]

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