Cormac Moylan

I don’t generally use MSN for search. I find their engine to be as useful as window wipers on a submarine. But for one reason or another I needed to do a MSN search. I couldn’t believe it when I saw that they had auto populated the search bar with a search term!

So far MSN [...]

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It’s stupid alert messages like this which make me glad I switched from XP to OS X.

Windows is so secure that it blocks your anti-virus client from connecting to the net. Brilliant!

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Time to get things rolling. My installation of Vista begins now…
21.30 - Popped DVD into drive while XP is booted up just to take a look at the Promo Screens.
21.32 - After waiting for the autorun file to kick in I open up My Computer to automatically launch the relative .exe
21.33 - System Crashes - [...]

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Promised in December that it would be delivered in February and then mutters about a early March delivery date…Well, the wait is finally offer because Microsoft have successfully over-come any complications in placing four CDs into a brown pacakge and placing in the out tray. It was touch and go for a while but after [...]

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I’m becoming more and more familiar with my iMac. Today I have setup a local network which allows me to grab files - mostly mp3s and movies - from my WinXP machine. I’m getting there slowly and surely…

My biggest concern was that the change from PC to Mac would leave me in the lurch software [...]

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Chris has sent me on a link to an article by Life Hacker which tells you how to increase the resolution of video conferencing calls within Skype. It can be done for both Mac and Windows. The folk on windows have to do a bit of configuration to get this feature enabled but those on [...]

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