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Barney's blog. Just a load of old shite really.

Sunday, December 22, 2002
Popcorn - a lightweight POP mail client for windows. Useful, as it requires no install so you could run it off portable media, like a USB drive or even a floppy disk (the total file size when set up is about 245Kb!). Not a huge leap ahead over web mail, but if your ISP doesn't provide web mail, this is for you.

Thursday, December 19, 2002
rathergood.com

Wednesday, December 18, 2002
The OQO Ultra PC - a superb bit of kit: 1GHz CPU, 10GB disk, 256MB RAM, XP Pro and you can "snap" it into a full-size laptop chassis, desktop docking station or just use it on the run with a stylus. Makes PocketPC/TabletPC/Mira etc look a bit pointless.
When the little bugger runs Linux, I might well be tempted ;-)
....... design cues from the iPod anyone?

Tuesday, December 17, 2002
monkey lander - who needs a games console when there are free quality games like this available on the net? - just check out that cheeky monkey's moves as he flies his spaceship!

Man, would you look at that rant below! For those of you who aren't Jim, here's something interesting: the paper cd case - use this site to make paper CD cases with track listings and everything!
(Acrobat Reader 5 required).

So, there are many rumours floating about regarding a port of MacOS X for the intel x86 platform (look about halfway down the linked page - their link to more detail is unfortunately (conveniently?) broken).
At first I thought this was probably people getting their wires crossed about the Darwin Open Source code that Apple ships for developers, where some of the basic code of MacOS X is freely available, and is currently being ported to i386 by the Open Source community.
However, this article implies that something a bit more serious is going on, and that Mr Jobs might be quietly hedging his bets.
I was hoping that Apple would go 64-bit with MacOS X on the IBM Power4 architecture (a rumour I had heard at work), but it seems the velocity engine capability is giving IBM headaches. Motorola have undoubtedly been more than a bit shit in the CPU development stakes, but if Apple just jump on the Intel clock-speed bandwagon it would be a shame; there was always an element of superiority and class about the Mac processor family (even if they aren't as powerful any more).

Friday, December 13, 2002
Dominique - weird and lovely and scary all at once........
from alterfin.

Not to be outdone by sofabum's Etch-a-Sketch blog, I have found degenerate where you can play
Simon, the ultimate hi-tech game of the 80's.......

Friday, December 06, 2002
Some windoze XP tips, including the especially useful No.5 which adds mp3 encoding to Media Player.
(N.B. - for techies only - please don't mess with the registry if you don't know what you're doing as things can go very bad if you get it wrong).

Thursday, December 05, 2002
MCSE certification in .Net will now be separate from MCSE in Win2k - the microsoft site confirms.
Win2k MCSE's will now need to sit upgrade exams.
Arse.

Wednesday, December 04, 2002
Mini Motherboards from VIA. I could make a computer out of an old shoe or something.......

Monday, December 02, 2002
Cooking By Numbers. Are you a bit crap in the kitchen? Don't like shopping? Just tell this site what's in your fridge and cupboard and it will suggest what you can make from the few items that you have, thus saving you the trouble of going to the shop and eating properly.