Links for 09/04/2006

Posted on April 9th, 2006 in Technology by Jim Prince
  • Dev Source has quite a detailed article on making apps work in Internet Explorer 7. They say
    “Don’t wait until Microsoft releases IE7 to begin testing your applications. Based on what I’ve seen so far, unless you’re using pretty much pure HTML on static pages, your application is going to break in some way.”

    IE 7 is looking pretty good but it remains to be seen whether It’ll be good enough for me to ditch Firefox. You can download the Beta 2 preview from here.

  • CNN has a series entitled “How I work”. This week it’s Bill Gates, believe it or not he has three 21″ NEC monitors acting as a single desktop. So what does he need all this screen real estate for? Outlook, SharePoint, OneNote and Communicator that’s what. He says
    “The screen on the left has my list of e-mails. On the center screen is usually the specific e-mail I’m reading and responding to. And my browser is on the right-hand screen”.

    Yes, that’s right he has two 21″ monitors just to read e-mail!

  • According to Microsoft FrontPage will be discontinued in 2006 to be replaced by Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007, Microsoft Expression Web Designer for the professional Web designer and Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 for the Web developer. Good I f*cking hate FrontPage.
  • And finally I didn’t want to be the only blog on the planet not to mention Apple’s Bootcamp. So…
    “Apple will include technology in the next major release of Mac OS X, Leopard, that lets you install and run the Windows XP operating system on your Mac.”

    This makes that Mac Book Pro all the more tempting. I just need VMWare to release a version of Workstation that’ll run on Mac OS X.


Gnarls Barkley number one

Posted on April 2nd, 2006 in Music by Jim Prince

gnarls-barkley.jpgI note that Gnarles Barkley has reached number one in the charts on download sales alone. The single isn’t even released on CD until tomorrow. This hardly a surprise, Radio 1 has been plugging it like crazy and CD single sales in general are continuing to plummet. I can’t even remember the last time I bought a CD single.

I was one of the people that bought the Gnarles Barkley track online and I’m sure they’ll be many more that follow. I also bought The Kooks track ‘Naive’. The bass player, Max Rafferty, is from Bridgnorth (my home town) so I was interested to hear what they were like. If you’re wondering, they’re pretty good.