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WordPress 2.5

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

The latest incarnation of WordPress got a step closer to general availability today, with the unveiling of Release Candidate 1. Being the “must have the latest”-type, I downloaded it as soon as I heard about it.
With a little bit of forward planning, though, I have not loaded it on to this site but have installed [...]

Mac snobbery

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

I’ve just read an article over at TUAW, reporting on research that says that Mac owners are snobs. Apparently, they are more likely:

to be perfectionists
to use notebooks
to use teeth whitening products
to drive station wagons
to pay for downloaded music
to go to Starbucks
to care about “green” products and the environment
to own a hybrid car
to buy 5 pairs [...]

Going to back to Safari

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

For several months now I’ve been using Flock as my browser of choice. Built on the Mozilla engine, it is a very good browser - lots of new things (in built Facebook integration, for example) and quite fast. The in-built blog editor has also been a major plus point for it.
But I’ve found that it [...]

Zen and the art of website construction

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

You’ll have noticed that there haven’t been many posts recently - this despite me signing up to the Blog365 Challenge - and those that there have been have been moaning about software.
Well, the reason for less posts is that I’m still trying to get a handle on Zen Cart, the shopping cart / database software [...]

More on software

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Since buying the iMac, I’ve been using a lot of different software packages to get various things done - lots of different newsreaders, office applicatons, image manipulators, browsers and so on - and so far have not had to buy a single piece of software; the concepts of open source, donationware and freeware are ones [...]

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