Month: June 2007

  • Stop the bloated advertising-laden news websites!

    In New Zealand we have several excellent news websites, but these all suffer from the same problems – each page is loaded with advertising. So that tabbed browser, like IE7 or Firefox, with a few tabs open soon sucks up all the memory and CPU and your PC grinds to a near-halt. I’ve got sick…

  • Windows Live Mail beta released

    Windows Live Mail is the new mail client that will replace Outlook Express on Windows XP, and Windows Mail on Vista. It incorporates numerous enhancements over its predecessors. Microsoft has gone through several evolutions of the client, not least in its name: from WM to WLMd to WLM, and there is also Windows Live Hotmail, another…

  • New Windows Live Writer Beta Out

    WLW Beta 2 is now available. The new version has a new look as well as various enhancements. However, it still does not support text justification in posts, which is a shame as it’s a great way of creating posts offline. Download here