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Just so there’s no confusion

The Firefox 3 download record attempt will officially begin on June 18 in Australia at 3.00am (EST). This URL http://tinyurl.com/4e7fv5 provides the timezone details for people. The 24 hour period is counted from US Pacific time on 17 June, which for most of us on this side of the world will mean downloading won’t start [...]

Firefox 3 is on the way

It’s been a long time coming (well, not that long) but it’s finally here. Firefox 3 is to be launched on 17 June and Mozilla are asking for help to set a world record for the most downloads on a single day. A reasonably worthy idea – anything to knock IE off it’s dominant pedestal [...]

Speech recognition in Vista

It’s great having a few hours up your sleeve because I’ve been able to really have a play around with some the features of Vista. This weekend I’m beginning to play around with speech recognition capabilities of Microsoft Windows Vista. So far its performance is not far from that of Dragon Naturally Speaking. In fact, [...]

Microsoft Wireless Mouse 5000

The wireless mouse market is growing exponentially. In the market for a new mouse I tried to make some sense of the range out there. At the top end, there seems to be some mice, in the $100-$200 market, that appear to be trying to replace the PC itself – email buttons, notification LEDs, all [...]

Performancing in Firefox

Here’s a new blogging tool we discovered recently. It’s called Performancing and it’s a blogging tool that is easily accessible in Firefox. It’s an add-on so easily downloaded and added to Firefox. The interface is very simple, and the set up is most reliable. For some it could be overly complicated, and if you don’t [...]