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There was a short delay, due to the inevitable server overload, when more than a million people (I’m sure) tried to get a copy all at the same time.
A couple of hours later, and I downloaded a copy, installed on a Windows machine here in a couple of minutes. It certainly seems to run a [...]

Now, I make no secret that I’m not a Microsoft fan. Not any kind of anti-corporate stance particularly, just that by and large I think their software sucks.
I had to smile a few days ago though. I know it’s a beta version, but I installed a copy of IE8 on a winbox here. I NEVER [...]

Recently Firefox started acting up when attempting to display some images.
It would work fine with thumbnails for example but clicking on them to get the full picture gave me a message saying that the image couldn’t be displayed as it contain errors. After checking numerous sites and getting the same image, I tried a [...]

I didn’t. Well Wordpress didn’t. The new image uploader wouldn’t work when I tried to upload images from my hard drive.
Don’t worry, I posted a fix over at the Tech blog.
It works now for me. At least it does in Firefox. I try to avoid Internet Explorer where possible, but I’ll check it out next [...]

On the Windows machine, I use Windows Live Messenger, and also Skype. Now, I prefer Winamp to play my audio, rather than Windows Media Player.

However, I like the little listening to function in Messenger, but it only works for WiMP. Well, not now! I installed Messenger Plus! which gives a lot of [...]