Posts Tagged ‘software’

Twhirl 0.9 – Excellent work #teamseesmic

A new version of Twhirl hit the streets yesterday, as it came out of a beta where hundreds of people (including yours truly) have been testing and helping improve the new features. Here’s a feature rundown: In a nutshell, here’s what’s new in Twhirl 0.9 -spellchecker (currently English only, can...

Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 violates FireFox

My latest Windows Update run just downloaded an update to Microsoft‘s .Net Framework 3.5. Here are the details of the update: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 is a full cumulative update that contains many new features building incrementally upon .NET Framework 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 and includes cumulative services...

New Twhirl for Twitter users

Over the weekend I’ve installed the new beta of Twhirl and am happy to report that I really like the new features. I haven’t got round to testing them all, but the one I *have* tested and love is that ability to specify search criteria which gets merged into your...

Interesting WordPress Theme

I came across a WordPress theme that looks interesting today. It’s called WP Remix and is designed to help turn WordPress into a more “CMS-style” package, making use of a selection of different templates to let you create different page styles. I found the page layouts quite interesting, because a...

Google Chrome 2.0 Pre-Beta

There’s a new release of Google’s browser, Chrome that is doing the rounds; which has a set of new features including support for Greasemonkey (Yeay!). There’s still some way to go before it has all the features I’d need to make it my mainstream browser (I’m just too comfortable in...

Secure your ZIPs

I’ve just come across SecureZIP, a secure compression program by PKWare, the people behind PKZip. I used PKZip for a long, long time in the past, but I’ve never really used a compression program to secure my files. I had dabbled a bit with PGPDisk when I needed to encrypt...

6 Applications that made 2008 special

I wanted to list a couple of applications that made a difference for me in 2008. Some of these have changed the way I work on my computer, some of them have been instrumental to my knowledge and online experiences. I thought I’d share them here for others to learn...

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