Tag Archives: Microsoft

OpenOffice 3.0 Beta launched

Posted on May 8, 2008 by

OpenOffice, the free opensource office suite, released OpenOffice 3.0 Beta yesterday. This latest release now runs on Mac OS X without requiring X11 to be running as well. And there are versions for Windows and Linux obviously. There are a … Continue reading →

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Startup 2.0 on again this year in Barcelona

Posted on April 25, 2008 by

This year’s Startup 2.0, a European competition for Web 2.0 startups, was launched the other day. Submissions are accepted for blogs, wikis, social networks or any other website which makes a high use of Web 2.0 components, such as tags, … Continue reading →

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Trendpedia launches Blog Search

Posted on April 22, 2008 by

Simon from Attentio pinged me yesterday to let me know about their latest offering, Trendpedia. In Simon’s own words Trendpedia: is in essence a European Blog search with a lovely trend function. We have some more cool stuff to come, … Continue reading →

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Live Maps Bird's Eye now includes (some) Irish towns

Posted on March 27, 2008 by

Via Clare Dillon the Virtual Earth blog and Martha Rotter on Twitter I spotted that Microsoft’s Live Maps now includes images of Cork, Galway, Carlow, Limerick, Navan & Wexford – cool! The Bird’s Eye button becomes active when you are … Continue reading →

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Get off your high horse Ed!

Posted on March 25, 2008 by

There was a big bruhaha on the intertubes over the weekend when Apple ran its software update on Windows and offered the Safari 3.1 browser download as the default selected option. Now I am not for a second condoning this … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Vista performance issues

Posted on March 13, 2008 by

Vista is buggy. That much is obvious to anyone who runs it but it has been improving in stability as the patches are rolled out. However it runs extremely slowly too and this became startlingly obvious to me in the … Continue reading →

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Yahoo! indirectly upping the cost of acquisition for Microsoft?

Posted on February 20, 2008 by

Microsoft made an offer of $44.6bn for Yahoo! recently which Yahoo! rejected saying it “substantially undervalues” the company (personally I think it waaaaay overvalued Yahoo! and Microsoft caught a lucky break that the offer was spurned). The New York Times … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Wireless Laser Keyboard 6000 not very wireless!

Posted on February 20, 2008 by

I bought a Microsoft Wireless Laser Keyboard 6000 V2.0 a few weeks back because I needed an ergonomic keyboard (was suffering from an RSI) and went wireless to avoid cable clutter. However, I have had lots of issues with the … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu deleted my Windows partition!

Posted on November 26, 2007 by

I installed Ubuntu (a Linux distro) on my Vaio a few months back and loved it. It was fast, it was stable and I felt I was achieving a certain amount of geeky street cred for using it! Then, more … Continue reading →

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