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Microsoft aims to double PC base

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Microsoft software will sell for just $3 (£1.50) in some parts of the world in an attempt to double the number of global PC users. The firm wants to bring computing to a further one billion people by 2015.read [...]

19Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued

The Rule of three

I mentioned in a previous post about the rule of three. I firmly believe that whatever development methodology you use you can never get a complex development right the first time. The rule only applies to a certain kind of programming problem because some things are too simple to require a rewrite and large scale [...]

17Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued

Weekend away

Not sure I will get to post anything over the weekend as I am off to Bruge with wife and friends. It’s a great excuse to pick up vast amounts of Belgium fruit beer (yumm). I am traveling lite as I am meeting up the wife down in Kent so doing my best to do [...]

13Apr2007 | admin | 0 comments | Continued

Learning from your mistakes

Here is what I have learnt after yestardays post ‘Death of Google search’

Beware of Google Fanboys (I didnt know they existed!)
Dont put sensationalist news on reddit as it just gets buried instantly (It turns out the people who run reddit also play a significant part in removing what they deem ‘junk’)
Make sure your comments have [...]

12Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued

The death of Google search

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About three years ago I remember having a conversation with a close friend about Google and its dominance of the search engine market. I said at the time that I believed that Google would be replaced within 5 years by another innovation. We still have two years for my prediction to come [...]

11Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued

Cooking with apple

I have had my apple macbook for several months but just recently I have noticed that it’s been getting hotter underneath than is comfortable for it to just sit on my lap. A rather useful utility smcFanControl sorted the problem by allowing me to set a higher than default fan speed so during idle times [...]

10Apr2007 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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