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Look what I found in my loft: a 9-year old netbook
30 January 09 06:56 PM | Ewan | 0 Comments   

I splashed out a week or two ago, and bought a Samsung NC10 netbook – a bargain at under £300, and it runs Windows 7 really well. Impressed with the size and utility of the thing, I recalled a forerunner of the netbook, so went rooting around in my “box Read More...

Filed under: Exchange, Consumer Tech, Random Stuff, Win7

Windows Home Server - would you have it in your home?
16 October 07 12:24 AM | Ewan | 3 Comments   

I just read an interesting article from Adrian Kingsley-Hughes on ZDNet about Windows Home Server , speculating whether there really was a market for such a device, and who would buy it. Adrian's point - and it is a valid one, if you know anything about Read More...

Filed under: Exchange, Consumer Tech, Random Stuff

The lost art of the .sig
30 May 07 01:18 PM | Ewan | 1 Comments   

Whatever happened to elaborate and amusing '.sig's? It used to be common practice to have a signature with some kind of witty/pithy quote appended at random to every email. Nowadays, the autosignature that most email programs can insert (such as Outlook's Read More...

Filed under: Exchange, Humour, Outlook, Random Stuff

When interaction design goes bad
02 April 07 03:47 PM | Ewan | 1 Comments   

For various reasons, I've been testing & driving several different cars lately, a process I quite enjoy - getting to know the foibles of the car's cockpit, playing with the various toys and gadgets, as well as actually learning how to drive each one Read More...

Filed under: Exchange, Random Stuff, Books

Hosting of applications - the inevitable future?
29 March 07 06:44 PM | Ewan | 0 Comments   

I've been musing over some medium term IT trends lately and one idea that keeps coming back into frame is the seemingly inevitable trend towards hosting of applications. Take Exchange, as just one example... Hosted Exchange * has been available for years, Read More...

Filed under: Exchange, Random Stuff