Archive for the 'Software' Tag

You’re downloading an application from the net, lets say an application that you were curious about but might not turn out to be of much use to you. What’s the biggest download size you’d accept? What size of download would make you think ‘I can’t be bothered’?

Keep that figure and mind and now consider whether [...]

Regarding the little things the computer does. Volumes controls and Bluetooth transfers.

I’m not a very good writer. I hope that from time to time I pop out a fairly interesting piece, I can get quite passionate about music and I know a few words. Really, my lack of experience shows. Most noticeably, I overuse certain words and phrases. Especially when proof reading, I swap one phrase [...]

Many of you will already have seen the preview screenshots of Microsoft’s next release of Office. Currently referred to as Office 12, it will likely arrive in late 2006.

Microsoft have been busy of late. Windows Vista is finally showing progress (all the features from MacOSX are just about in) and they’ve recently been plugging [...]

One of the many fabulous things about Apple’s MacOSX is the incredible number of keyboard shortcuts for advanced typography. Left and right (so called smart) quotes are generated with Option+] and Option+Shift+], for example. Some word processors automatically insert them, but when you enter as much content into a web browser as I do, it’s [...]