Monthly Archives: April 2006

Windows Live Mail Desktop

April 23, 2006 – 8:41 pm

Despite the beta site being a little ‘faulty’ for a few days (and getting an invite to the German beta trial) I downloaded the Windows Live Mail Desktop install. Similar to Live Messenger beta WLMD has a user interface that is VERY similar to the browser based client. The blur of web and desktop [...]

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The master at work..

April 21, 2006 – 6:12 pm

By now you probably appreciate that I’m into new stuff, but I’m also a bit of a nostalgia freak. I also like Apple products. Simplicity, elegance, energy. They reflect the way that Jobs does his presentations and takes you into his ‘reality distortion field’.
So I found this presentation of Steve introducing the iPod on YouTube.
I’ve [...]

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Netvibes.. now with tabs

April 10, 2006 – 5:49 pm

With the introduction of tabs Netvibes continues to push the boundaries of the RSS fed portal page. And it’s seriously quick too when compared to PageFlakes and Live.com. I must say I’m impressed. Keep it up guys!

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Moving house

April 7, 2006 – 1:28 pm

I’m moving the MenOri blog to Word Press. Dan over at istherefood.com has changed his hosting environment and as a result I’m taking this as an opportunity to ‘get serious’ and move the blog to Word Press. So expect a new look and feel amongst other things.
This is probably going to co-incide with the 5th [...]

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Ciao Bella Linux

April 3, 2006 – 5:20 pm

I’ve been in Rome for the weekend having a fabulous time seeing the sights and tasting the…. errr… coffee. It’s a great place, haven’t been for nearly 7 years though and the FAO building still stands where I had my first IT contract job.
In my experience of the IT landscape around Europe it’s become evident [...]

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