FON is the largest WiFi community in the world. FON is a Community of people making WiFi universal and free. There vision is WiFi everywhere made possible by the members of the Community, Foneros. The idea to share some of your home Internet connection and get free access to the Community’s FON Spots worldwide. There are plenty of locked wifi spots in my street, so i’m adding a open one. Will be interested to see how much use it gets.
You know that saying that all PR is good PR? Not sure it always works.
Never before have I seen such an abysmal start to an operating system release. For almost a year, people have been adopting Vista and becoming incensed by how poorly it operates. Not only does it cost too much, it requires more to run than XP, there is still poor driver support, and that draconian licensing scheme is a by-product of Microsoft picking on the wrong people.
The road ahead looks dangerous for Vista and Microsoft must realize that. With Mac OS X hot on its tail, Vista is simply not capable of competing at an OS level with some of the best software around. If Microsoft continues down this path, it will be Vista that will bring the software giant to its knees–not Bill Gates’ departure.
Of course, categorically dumping an operating system is quite difficult and with millions already using the OS, chances are Microsoft won’t find a good enough reason to do it. And while I can understand that argument, there’s no reason the company can’t continue to support Vista and go back to the drawing board for its next OS. Even better, go back to XP–it’s not nearly as bad as Vista.
As a daily user of Mac OS X, XP and Vista (i removed it after 2 weeks), I’m keenly aware of what works and what doesn’t. Mac and XP work.
Read the full article at - Why Microsoft must abandon Vista to save itself
I have recently released content management system that i co-wrote. It’s a lightweight content management system that uses standard data and data structure formats to represent content structure and content. It is Java for platform independence, and utilizes tags or Java objects to incorporate content into HTML pages. It has some great feature for relational content and a rich security system. It’s been used on sites for Daimler Chrysler, Disney, St Gobain and more recently Essent and is soon to be deployed on Sky Travel.
The sourceforge project can be found at Incendiary Blue on Sourceforge infromation will grow and a site created in the coming months.
which RSS feeds do i read. I subscribe to and read many different sites via the newsgator reader. However the feeds themselves change quite often, as its pretty easy to add a new feed by selection the little RSS (orange logo) on most content based sites. You can find my OPML file ( which you can import into a newsreader, such as newsgator) here. my opml file
Since I downloaded SuperDrive Update 2.1, whenever I restart my Mac, it still launches, telling me there are no devices requiring the firmware update. I know this, because I already updated it!
What the SuperDrive update doesn’t let me know is how to stop it from opening each time I restart my Mac.
Removing SuperDrive Update 2.1 from a Mac’s startup sequence is easy:
> System Preferences…original post can be found here Super Drive Not So Super
Google Mapplets are mini-applications that you can embed within the Google Maps site. Examples include real estate search, current weather conditions, and distance measurement. Mapplets are Google Gadgets that can manipulate the map using Javascript calls that are derived from the Google Maps API
On June 12th Apple announced the release of Safari for Windows, in 2 days it had 1 million downloads. But why was it released at all. Allegedly Safari have near 5% of the browser market, not bad considering to date it only runs on a mac. So it could be they viewed the success of Firefox and thought there was room in the market. However, they could have done this before and if you take a look at browsers statistics by w3schools you find the figure is much lower than stated. With a little more investigation you find that the IPhone (to be released end June) will have developer access using Safari. Now perhaps a release makes more sense, as most developers are on the windows platform and the IPhone will need these to gain momentum after its initial launch. Whatever the reason, it is worth downloading to see if it suits your needs.
Mind 42 have just released a free on-line mind mapping tool, The sign-up is fast and you’ll be mapping in no-time. It’s easy to use, offering some basic functions, but more are on the way. A great feature is the ability to collaborate by sharing your maps, coupled with other tools like basecamp (for project management) and you can have great control and communication around your project, especially if it’s open source and the team is at disparate locations. collaboration.
Microsoft have released a patch that fixes a number of issues around the performance of Outlook 2007.
Microsoft indicated that the problem stemmed from RSS feeds, email, and calendar files all being stored in the same .PSD file which as one might imagine could grow in size rather quickly depending on the user.
I loaded the patch and the performance increase is noticeable. Outlook 2007 does have an update facility, but it is unclear if this will be included, as it is not a security fix, also many people have the facility turned off. So i recommend you get the patch here.
Sony has developed a razor-thin display that bends like paper while showing full-color video. Sony says it has yet to decide on how to commercialize new products using the technology, but a future use may be targeted product package advertising.
Couple the flat and bendable screen with RFID and you have an aware marketing device. Of course prices to produce the screen will have to drop negligible levels, but packaging that can change dependent on the profile of the person walking past it will be sure to set marketeers thinking. Think about it for just a moment, you’ll think of a multitude of uses. Maybe you like to see the fat content of food more prominent than other details. Take it to the next stage and it may not just be the information changing, you could even find you wifes, children’s or even your mothers face looking back at you beckoning you to purchase the product. Linked it in with financial data and you could program your needs, prior to setting out for the shop and just look out for the neon highlighted item on the shelves. Once home the packages could be aware of each other and indicate to you a selection combination will make a tasty meal and even provide the recipe to create it. The combination of awareness and ability to change provide near limitless ideas for uses it will be interesting to see what happens when production costs reach a level to allow these type of ideas to be tried out.
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