In April 2007, I replaced a broken power supply in my PC with a Antec SmartPower 2.0 500W Power Supply. Check my review here. A few days ago, my pc has started producing a high pitched noise. Really annoying. So, I Google a little and what do I find: Antec SmartPower 2.0 500W Power Supplies [...]
Also tagged problemsandsolutionsScreenshots And Video Of The New Joost
Joost has announced that they are changing the way their service works. Having used it quite a bit, I think this is probably the best thing for them since it was based on a misguided channel/TV metaphore. However, I wonder (along with Techcrunch) what their added value really is. [...]
First impression: Google delivered, I’ve never used a browser this fast. It’s great.
Yesterday, a cartoon was prematurely leaked detailing Google’s vision for what a browser could look like. Now, 24 hours later I’m reviewing what until yesterday was a well kept secret.
So here’s my first impressions.
Fast and responsive. What can I say? Firefox 3 was [...]
Also tagged firefox, googleSongbird Blog » Songbird Beta is Released!.
Having played with several milestone builds of songbird, I was keen to try this one. This is a big milestone for this music player & browser hybrid. Since I’ve blogged on this before, I will keep it short.
The good:
New feathers (songbird lingo for UI theme) looks great. Only criticism [...]
Also tagged google, itunesLast weekend I ordered X-plane version 9. I bought version 8 early 2006 and since then I haven’t looked back. Sure MS Flight Simulator looks great but the flying sucks. Laminar consistently delivers with new features and bug fixes delivered. Version 8 got its last major update (8.64) about half a year ago and since [...]
Also tagged x-planeAfter a few months of doing python development, which to me still feels like a straight jacket. I had some Java coding to do last week and promptly wasted a few hours checking out the latest toys, being:
Eclipse 3.4 M7
Hudson
Findbugs for Hudson
Eclipse 3.4 M7 is the first milestone I’ve tried for the upcoming Eclipse release. [...]
Also tagged eclipse, java, osgi, python, subversionIt still looks butt ugly but at least this bug was partially addressed in the latest beta release of Open Office. The opening date for this one, “Dec 19 19:13:00 +0000 2001″. That’s more than seven years ago! This show stopper has prevented me from writing my thesis, any scientific articles, or in fact anything [...]
Also tagged Software in GeneralYou might have read my previous reviews of Ubuntu which were not very flattering. Basically they apply nearly in full to the latest edition. At least the “scanning the mirrors” issue was fixed. It times out and the installer continues, unlike with previous editions. However, the network driver for my SIS chipset is still broken. [...]
Also tagged linux, ubuntuI stumbled on this nice ‘article’ by Neal Stephenson that was published in in Wired 1996. He opens the article by announcing it is going to be a lengthy article in the end of his introduction, i.e. already well past the average length of a Wired article. The article length is a whopping 56 web [...]
Also tagged bookNormally when I play with a new browser (like a few weeks ago when I tried out Flock 1.0) I usually post at least something. In the past week I played with no less than three new browsers.
I started out by installing opera mini 4.0 on my N95. Earlier versions of this program were already [...]
