Microsoft just announced that there will be a grand total of 6 different versions of Windows Vista. This is an approach well known of marketing specialists. A product is on a competitive market, the price goes down (or up) according to the laws of free market. If the market is not competitive, the price may…
Category: Software
Button Maker, your small button for free
The Adam Kasley web site draws images of the small buttons that you may need for your own web site. Simple and easy. Merely what you want without knowing where to look for it.
WSPR will tell you the power of your PC
This is a rather good surprise for the normal users of PC. Microsoft is rumoured to prepare a rating to evaluate if a PC will be able to provide a good, bad or excellent experience with Windows Vista. A PC rated 1 will be providing a minimal experience, a PC rated 5 will be near…
Half the PCs cannot run Vista
According to The Inquirer, it is a wooping 50% of all current PCs that will not be able to display the nice new graphic interface of Windows Vista. Be ready to buy a new graphics card in just a few months for this. This could become a real problem for Vista because one of the…
United Kingdom wants access to encrypted Vista hard drives
Her Majesty’s police force is worried by the promised arrival of Microsoft Vista and its feature to protect data on a PC hard drive by sophisticated encryption methods – to a result of leaving a foreigner unable to read any information from the PC hard drive. As a matter of fact, this feature could well…
Linux penguin
You may have wondered were the drawings of the Linux penguin come from. As a matter of fact, there was indeed somebody who draw the cute logo and it is rather easy to find the real author. Larry Ewing is this guy with a pen. You will find nearly everything you want on his web…
My test blog on Roums.WordPress.com
This is the blog I use to test the operation of the ready-to-be-used blog installment in WordPress.com: Roums.WordPress.com
Configuration of WordPress
When you use a blog engine software as WordPress, you soon discover (as I do right now) that one of the great helps this is bringing to the web site owner is the quick and easy reconfiguration and the fast adaptation of the web site that becomes possible. For example, the categories list (the news…
Ping services via XML-RPC and RPC2
WordPress users know that it is possible to automatically ping search engines (inform a search engine of the updates of the contents of the blog/web site. WordPress uses XML-RPC and RPC2 protocols for this. I collected a number of ping services that are compatible with WordPress