my new XPS One
Finally got around to unpacking my new XPS One – a gorgeous system that in looks and performance rivals anything out there. Amazingly easy set-up and unpacking. Keyboard is fantastic.
What actually takes the most time is getting all the stuff I need onto the system. We have to find some way of making that easy for people to do – maybe as part of the order process? Anyway, here is what I am loading:
- Internet Explorer 7 – already on the system – set-up my iGoogle and Yahoo home pages. Remember, you can set as many homepages as you like so when you launch, they all open in tabs. Import bookmarks and feeds.
- Firefox: I prefer IE 7 over Firefox but like to have Firefox about for some of the add-ins.
- Download and install del.icio.us extensions for IE and Firefox. Click on the buttons and save to del.icio.us.
- Livewriter – my preferred blogging client. Fantastic little app from Microsoft that they have managed to make impossible and anoying to install by bundling with their very confusing “Live” family of products.
- Google Toolbar. Try the beta. Love the gadgets in the toolbar.
- Google Notebook. Terrific way to store information and access it from anywhere.
- Skype. Can’t live with it. Can’t live without it…
- Yahoo Messenger. Chitter chatter…
- Feeddemon – my preferred way to read all those blogs. Still can’t get it to sync correctly and wish they would deploy the NetNewsWire interface.
- Raphsody. Love this. Is the future of online music in so many ways. But still need a simple way to manage my tunes so download iTunes as well. iTunes is still the best way for me to access my Podcast subscriptions.
- Real. I go for the free version with the IE 7 plug-in. Love it as a way to collect and store video.
Now i am downloading all my cadgets for Windows Sidebar – why don’t they store this online and sync it via log-in? This goes for all the dashboards…
I’ll keep updating this as I motor along…
Great Tech Writing from 2007
Peter Griffin over at the NZ Herald links to some of the best Tech Writing of 2007. The University of Michigan gathers some of the best – all free to read….
ANOTHER USE FOR SKYPE
This is a great tutorial on how to record broadcast quality interviews using Skype. Very useful!
joining communities…
This is interesting… faking community participation, not good…
Rich Kulawiec writes in to let us know that Sears.com and Kmart.com (owned by Sears) have been inviting visitors to those sites to “join our community.” However, rather than joining any actual community, what you appear to be doing is installing spyware that reports on your every move online.
At last
New rules for Rugby come into effect for the Super 14 season…
Changes include: requiring each backline to be 5m from the hindmost foot at the scrum; not allowing a ball that has been passed inside the 22m line to be kicked out on the full; modification of the tackled ball rules and the implementation of free kicks rather than penalties for most non-serious offences.
