Month: October 2008

The latest version of Windows Live Mail (currently in development) has addressed a major reason why I couldn’t switch to it, the failure to update feeds. When it was clear that IE was able to update its feed count, there seemed no clear reason why WLM, which uses IE to supply it with feed XML,…

Unfortunately it didn’t take long to burst my bubble over the idea that we were going to roll out Vista on student desktops. It was not easy to predict. We have a modest amount of experience with Vista mainly on my own desktop where I have been using it all year, and I saw few…

We’re about to deploy the first Vista desktop for pupil use at our site. The hardware itself is nearly a year old, but has been in storage for most of the year. With 1 GB of RAM, I expect it should give satisfactory performance with this OS. When it comes to cloning this box, there…

Last year I posted a brief review of the Epson V100 photo scanner. The V200 succeeds the V100 at the low cost end of the photo scanner market and has similar features and pricing to its predecessor. Setting it up is very easy to use, with a USB connection that created none of the hassles…