Ars Technica have just released their latest system guide for January 2006. I’ve been waiting for this one to come out as I’m currently looking at building up a new 64-bit system, and their advice is always invaluable!
Ars System Guide: January 2006 edition : Page 1
31 January 2006
Ars System Guide – January 2006
Dual boot Windows XP on Intel Mac
Someone has managed to get Windows XP dual booting on one of the new Intel Macs. The article below describes how to do it on a MacBook, but this is really only for the geeks out there as there’s a lot of tricky work involved.
Windows XP on Mac? at Ramblings of a Computer Guru
25 January 2006
Firefox plugin – Tabnail
The next version of IE has a feature that displays all of your open tabs as thumbnails in a seperate tab. Not to be outdone, a plugin has released which does the same thing for Firefox. It’s really cool – you can add the button to any toolbar or click on the icon in the [...]
¶Performancing for Firefox 1.1 released
Performancing for Firefox has just been upgraded to version 1.1 – you can read more here: http://performancing.com/node/945
I’ve been testing out a few desktop publishing tools for blogs recently and haven’t really found one that I like. I’ll give this one another go and see if I suits my needs or not.
21 January 2006
MaxxHouse on Vinyl
My brother just started up his own blog recently hosted on blogger: maxxhouse.blogspot.com.
He’s just published a cool post about vinyl and how some under-18’s have never even seen a record before. He’s a DJ over in Amsterdam so he uses vinyal all the time and he’s just bought himself a pair of excellent Technics SL-1200 [...]
stuart @ amanzi site also updated
I’ve also reinstalled my Wordpress installation – it was a bit messy after testing out a whole heap of plugins and wordpress nightlies.
I’ll be working on the theme over the next week or so to come up with something I like.
Deb and Stu site updated
Head on over to our Deb and Stu site as it has just been updated with a new theme and a new photo album!
Link here: http://www.debandstu.co.nz/2006/01/21/website-updated/
16 January 2006
Blog Hui 2006
I created a del.icio.us link to this a while back but wanted to create a new post to highlight this event in Wellington, NZ. Blog Hui 2006 is the first blog conference here and should be exciting to see how blogging is taking off in NZ.
Here are the details copied from the website – http://bloghui.org
New [...]
12 January 2006
Thunderbird 1.5 released
Hot off the press… Thunderbird 1.5 has just been released by Mozilla. I’ve been using the betas and release candidates and am very impressed with the new features. Best feature for me is the inline spell checking, but there are a whole heap of other improvements too. Read more here: http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/
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