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February 18, 2006

New FeedDemon beta released

- NevOn

Beta 2 of FeedDemon 2, the RSS aggregator for Windows, was released this week. If you've been testing FD's development versions since release 1.5, this latest beta is worth getting. I've just installed it and the first thing I... ›››

Category: RSS | Software | Web/Tech | Weblog Tools

February 10, 2006

QumanaXP public beta launched

- NevOn

For the past few weeks, I've been trying out the closed beta versions of QumanaXP, an offline blog editing tool that is available in versions for Windows and Mac platforms. While I've not been using it for every post... ›››

Category: Software | Web/Tech | Weblog Tools | Weblogs

February 09, 2006

The Firefox upgrade and plugins dance

- NevOn

Mozilla released an update to the Firefox browser earlier this month which, the release notes say, provides improved stability, improved support for Mac OS X, fixes for several memory leaks and several security enhancements among other things. Notwithstanding the... ›››

Category: Software | Web/Tech

January 31, 2006

Podcasting choices: Audacity or Adobe Audition?

- NevOn

When I started podcasting, I used the free cross-platform audio editor Audacity as my application of choice for recording and editing audio. This is a common route that many people go when they start out podcasting. Audacity is very... ›››

Category: Podcasting | Software | Web/Tech

January 30, 2006

Microsoft’s Windows Live power play

- NevOn

Participating in the first UK preview of Windows Live in London last Thursday evening was a worthwhile experience. This event was the first public (ie, to a private group) UK presentation of and discussion about the collection of new... ›››

Category: Communication | Innovation | PR | Software | Web/Tech | msn | windows live

January 26, 2006

Discovering Windows Live

- NevOn

Light blogging until the weekend as I'll be in London tonight for the first UK preview of Microsoft's Windows Live. Windows Live is a set of personal internet services and software designed to bring together in one place all... ›››

Category: Innovation | PR | Software | Web/Tech | windows live

January 19, 2006

FeedDemon 2 beta is out

- NevOn

If you use the FeedDemon RSS reader for Windows, you should definitely take a look at the first beta of the forthcoming version 2. As a long-time FD user and currently on the 1.6 beta (version 2 will repalce... ›››

Category: Software | Web/Tech

January 18, 2006

WordPerfect, Office 12 and a trip down software memory lane

- NevOn

CNET News: Corel on Tuesday announced an updated version of WordPerfect Office, its rival to Microsoft's dominant Office suite. This news item triggered some synapses to take a short trip down software memory lane, so here goes. I've been... ›››

Category: Software | Web/Tech

January 17, 2006

Filling the market gap for offline blog editors

- NevOn

Some readers of this blog have left some great comments to my post last week about offline blog editors. In that post, I talked about ecto for Windows, BlogJet and Qumana as examples of popular editors for Windows (and... ›››

Category: Software | Weblog Tools | Weblogs

January 05, 2006

Skype 2.0 out of beta

- NevOn

Lots of interesting news about Skype and some of the things they're announcing at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. (Heads up for visiting the CES website: loud Flash intro page.) More interesting news - version... ›››

Category: Communication | Software | Web/Tech

January 04, 2006

Who do you pay attention to for advice on Windows vulnerability?

- NevOn

When news about the latest Windows vulnerability gets talked about in the news all over the place, you tend to pay close attention. If you haven't been doing that, here's what this latest issue is all about, involving a... ›››

Category: Software | Web/Tech

January 03, 2006

The rigmarole of Norton Internet Security

- NevOn

Notwithstanding the Dell Hell saga of last year, I love my Dell Dimension XPS Gen 5 which I bought in August. From a hardware point of view, it works perfectly. No issues whatsoever, so I'm a more than satisfied... ›››

Category: Computing | Software | Web/Tech

December 31, 2005

Twiddling thumbs

- NevOn

Waiting for chkdsk to complete its diagnostics including a free space hard drive scan on a Windows XP computer is like watching paint dry. And about as thrilling. Continuing my housekeeping mode from yesterday, I'm now spending too much... ›››

Category: PR | Software | Web/Tech | Weblogs

December 30, 2005

Organizing for the New Year

- NevOn

Housekeeping's on my mind today. After enjoying Christmas in the UK with family, and being almost wholly switched off from the blogosphere for the best part of a week, I'm finding it quite refreshing to sit in front of... ›››

Category: Computing | Software | Web/Tech | Weblog Tools | Weblogs

December 17, 2005

Getting back up to speed with TypePad

- NevOn

A welcome sight for every TypePad customer - you can access the TypePad service again and you can update your blog to reflect accurate content. (Quick jump: I've included some tips below on how to republish your blog and... ›››

Category: Reputation | Software | Web/Tech | Weblog Tools | Weblogs

December 15, 2005

Yahoo! hammered by users over poor successor to Konfabulator

- NevOn

In my post on Monday about software hits and misses, I gave the new Yahoo! Widget Engine 3.0 a definite 'miss' verdict for the moment as this version for Windows really doesn't appear to be worthy of unleasing on... ›››

Category: Business | Marketing | PR | Reputation | Software | Web/Tech

A standard symbol for RSS?

- NevOn

One of the topics Shel and I discussed with Rick Klau of FeedBurner during our FIR podcast interview with him on Tuesday was about the challenges of helping 'normal' people understand what RSS is. The acronym itself and the... ›››

Category: Communication | RSS | Software | Web/Tech | Weblog Tools | Weblogs

December 13, 2005

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New software hits and misses

- NevOn (feed)

Three of my favourite software apps launched new or upgraded versions recently. Only one definite hit in this group, unfortunately. WindowBlinds 5.0. The latest version of the add-on for Windows XP that lets you completely change the look-and-feel of... ›››

Category: Software | Web/Tech

December 11, 2005

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Cool Nokia N70 is the business

- NevOn (feed)

Yesterday was a rare day, a day during which I enjoyed playing around with a gadget purely for the sake of it. Getting to know it a bit, trying things out on it to see how it works. Generally,... ›››

Category: Communication | Software | Web/Tech | Weblog Tools | Weblogs

December 05, 2005

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At the bleeding edge with Skype 2.0 beta

- NevOn (feed)

I installed the new Skype 2.0 beta for Windows the other day - and uninstalled it yesterday. Lots to like about it, especially the video calling capability which worked faultlessly when I tried it with a Philips Toucam webcam.... ›››

Category: Communication | Software | Web/Tech

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