Archive for the 'Tech_Blog' Tag

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 [...]

We’re all of thirty days away from CSS Reboot and things aren’t looking so hot at Chateaux Ben.

As is my style, I’ve got waylaid with other things (ooh shiny and so forth) and the design is still very much in genesis. In fact, I’m currently stuck on finding the right font to write Ben Ward [...]

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 [...]

One of the things that I really hate about Windows XP is that it handles external storage like a stone absorbs water.

When you plug in, Windows XP will mount the device with a letter and slap on a generic ‘Removable Disk’ icon. This is fine if you work with only a couple of external devices, [...]

One of my chief irritations with Gmail is the way in which it will embolden any folder with new mail, even ‘Spam’. Making things bold encourages you to look at them and deal with the items inside it (be that reading or deleting). Spam folders aren’t supposed to be distracting like this, they should just [...]