Archive for July, 2008
Monks get broadband
Patience is one of the characteristics of monastic life, but even the patience of the Brothers was being tested by our slow internet BBC NEWS | Wales | Broadband boost for island monks
Wahey, new Delicious is out!
Over the past few days we’ve been transitioning Delicious over to our new platform, quietly starting with RSS feeds and APIs. Today we’re taking the final step and flipping the switch on the new web site: delicious.com. delicious blog » Oh happy day — the new Delicious is here delicious.
Zimbra Desktop allows offline access to Yahoo/Gmail/AOL Mail
Nice app for managing your e-mail from a desktop application for PC, Mac and Linux: Yahoo! Zimbra Zimbra Collaboration Suite
Why I won’t be upgrading to the iPhone 3G
I’m really happy with my iPhone, but I must admit I was initially tempted to upgrade to the new 3G version which is released this Friday. However, after thinking things through I’ve decided to stick with the “old” version. Why? Well, with the free OS 2.0 upgrade, I will get these features for free anyway: [...]
Useless Mac Applications #2 : Adobe Reader
A classic example of an application that started off performing a simple, useful task (i.e. displaying PDF documents) and has grown to an overly complex, slow, hulking beast of an application. I got scared off by the 251Mb disk space the installer claims that it needs: I’ll stick to Apple’s Preview.app, thanks. Useless Mac Applications [...]
Automatically virus scan your downloads folder
Okay, so there are not really any Mac specific virus threats, but there are tonnes for Windows… and you don’t want to be passing these on to your PC owning friends right? Best be safe… Download and install ClamXav Launch ClamXav application Go into preferences and click the Folder Sentry tab Drag your Downloads folder [...]