So, you have a NAS box, or perhaps a USB external storage device. It sits there on the shelf, or desk, and occasionally you head on in to retrieve the Abba album you squirrelled away, or perhaps that photo of uncle Philip asleep on the sofa at Christmas with a party whistle up his nose. And certainly these devices do this very well. Have you ever wanted to do a bit more with it though?
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.
I walked into an Apple store yesterday for a cheeky look around as i love Apple, i also feel some form of Patriotism when i go in one! The first
Lenovo has quietly released the IdeaCentre C100 at the gdgt party in San Francisco. The IdeaCenter C100 is an all-in-one 20-inch unit with the potential for a touchscreen. The first version of this desktop machine will ship with Windows Vista, but the rumors are that when Windows 7 is released Lenovo will ship an updated version of the C100 with a specially optimized touch screen.
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?
