Have you ever wanted to make your cat sing? Did you ever want the furry ankle biter to say thank you for the roof, and the food? Well your luck might just have changed. As long as you have Crazy Talk 6 Pro installed on your computer, you can do just that.
A wee while back, I talked about this fabbo new software from Microsoft, the quite natty XP Mode. As a quick refresher, XP Mode builds on the Virtual PC software already available, and adds some new functionality.
Back in April of this very year, Conficker was poised to take over the world. That is if the evil masterminds behind it decided to push the button. Well, although Conficker is continuing it’s push onto the desktops of the unprotected, it seems that there is not much going on behind the botnet.
You may or may not be aware that Linux has carved a solid niche for itself in the cut and thrust world if IT. There are many, many web servers out there using a LAMP stack, and it is often used as a platform for building rock solid server appliances.
The Redmond software and marketing machine is in full flight at the moment, and the impact on the web is dramatic. Almost all of the press we see has Windows 7 in a good light, and perhaps quite rightly. I for one have bandied the phrase, “What Vista should have been”, and extolled it’s virtues to all that would listen, I have even pre-ordered a copy. But are we going too far in our wonder and praise for Windows 7? And is it being perpetuated by Microsofts marketing department?
If you have been following the sound economic advice on the purchase of Windows 7, as provided by Gaj-It.com, then you may have been lucky enough to pick up a copy for the bargain price of £50 for the Home Premium version, and £100 for the Professional version. A snip considering the price of the full retail versions. We won’t go into what it costs to buy Mac OS X. And of course you may have found that the bargain price copies are in short supply.
For those of you waiting for the release of Windows 7, we have come a step closer with the announcement of the pricing. The news is good though, and not what we are expecting, there have been price drops since Vista.
Why is it that when you buy a MP3 player, they give you headphones that look as if they came from a Christmas cracker? Even the mighty iPods headphones are a bit basic, and the availability of even nattier headphones would indicate that Apple feel there is room for improvement.
