Archive for September, 2005

Customise your own Google Start Page Friday, September 30th, 2005

Link: http://www.google.com/ig

Digital Life Episode - 7 Thursday, September 29th, 2005

 

Is a downloadable tech tv show. Its hosted by Patrick Norton who was a TV host of G4TechTV.

Link to their Website

Episode Link: DLTV.007.MED.wmv 191mb

The first ‘consumer’ HD camcorder? 1080i for under two grand: Sony’s HDR-HC1 HDV 1080i
Cheap graphics for gamers? NVIDIA’s 6600GT and ATI’s Radeon X800GT are both under $160.
ATI’s CrossFire and compares it to NVIDA’s SLI.
Louderback vs. the sub-$50 DVD players.
Some excellent options if you want better DVD player for your HDTV.
Dan Hsu from EGM debated portable gaming: the Nintendo DS and Sony’s PSP.
And, as always, your viewer questions.

Bill Hill - Typography Guru Wednesday, September 28th, 2005

 

Bill Hill is one amazingly impressive individual. This guy is a walking, talking living encyclopedia.

He is head of the Typography department at Microsoft.

Bill is responsible to some of the fonts that have ship in Windows. So his work has reached millions and millions of you.
Here is Bill Hill Pictured with Bill Gates (1998)

Other technologies Bill is involved in are Truetype and Cleartype, again widespread technologies.

I have gathered a couple of short video clips of interviews with Bill.

The famous Homo Sapien 1.o Interview.
bill_hill_2004_what_is_the_most_important_os.wmv
Early Influences
bill_hill_2004_what_were_the_influences_in_your_life.wmv

Bill’s Bio Link

Congratulations Bill Hill your a Tech Hero.

Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack2 Released today Tuesday, September 27th, 2005

 

Download Link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx

The Release Notes Link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/887616

List of issues that the service pack fixes Office 2003 SP2 fixes the issues that are described in the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Issues fixed in Access2003 by Office2003 Service Pack 2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906460/

Issues fixed in Excel2003 by Office2003 Service Pack 2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906342/

Issues fixed in FrontPage2003 by Office2003 Service Pack 2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906341/

Issues fixed in Office 2003 by Office2003 Service Pack 2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906234/

Issues fixed in PowerPoint2003 by Office2003 Service Pack 2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906340/

Issues fixed in Publisher2003 by Office2003 Service Pack 2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906339/

Issues fixed in Word2003 by Office2003 Service Pack 2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906338/

The Search Engine Space Tuesday, September 27th, 2005

 

If using an Internet Search Engine is key to your work based productivity I think the time has come to take stock of the main players.

The 4 largest search engines on the web are:

1. Google 56.9%
2. Yahoo 21.2%
3. MSN Search 8.9%
4. AOL Search 3.2%

However success has made a failure of Google’s happy home.

Fellow Blogger Robert Scoble pointed out a really simple test. When you Google…er….I mean search for
Google Headquarters

http://www.google.com/

http://search.msn.com/

The MSN search give better more accurate results.

Now search both Google and MSN for things close to you for example your own company website or things you are interested in.

My own results show MSN now works better for me than Google at finding stuff. Who knew.

This only means that Google are so highly targeted by Spammers/Hackers..er Search Engine Optimizers that they are being significantly less effective.

Dont worry Google the super glue you used on our eyballs is well intact and getting people to change their Search Engine is nigh on impossible.

Having said that…the next roll out of Windows (Vista) puts search at the top of the map both in and out the box.

Google is the Microsoft of the search engine space.