There isnt much more to say other than, I told you so Bill. This is a compelling read about the growth of opensource. Its interesting to see the saas apps that use opensource too.

Microsoft have released more informaion about the extension name change to be associated with Office 2007 documents. You will now see they have added an ”x” to the end of the file extensions, so Word documents end in ”.docx”. Apparently this is because of the XML that is being used in the new Office version. [...]

I have recently moved PC’’s and migrated my iTunes music and podcasts, but somehow during the process I lost all of my podcast subscriptions. It wasnt too hard to re-signup for the 20 odd podcasts i sometimes listen too, but wouldnt it be easier to use an online tool that stores you playlist or podcasts [...]

All the different browsers that are availible, always cause problems for developers. Today we had a problem with Safari compatibility on one of our websites. Unfortunately we dont have a Mac in the office to test this with and because safari only makes up 4% of all webviews, we have never bothered to test compatibility. [...]

Everyone loves Ubuntu and what it has done for the linux community. Personally I feel even more affiliated to the project indirectly as I went to Junior School with Mark Shuttleworth, but Ubuntu was always difficult to sell into a corporate enviroment due to its lack of support and certification. Well they sorted out the [...]

Its only time till some oke in china builds this and sells millions! This is a simple tutorial on how to build a Battery based USB charger, that allows you to plug in any USB device and charge it without the use of a PC. I cant believe no one has produced one of these [...]

Ajaxian has posted a great Ajax enabled Directory Manager. Its not GPL”ed or freely availible, but it is great to play around with to see what is possible. It could easily be morphed into a photo uploader/manager. You can read the article, and especially read the comments, but to make it a little easier to [...]

Yip its true, PHP came in 4th in the latest Web poll, as the 4th most popular web language.
And yes Java did come in first, if you Java hackers want to boast!

Cameron Adams has created a great little first person shooter for Easter. If you love Bunnies dont try this one.

Any other Ajax games out there?
Update: a few links from Camerons blog, checkout the Webpod, an ipod for your website to play mp3′’s. Also a cool, photo viewer on the site.

The Ultimate Boot Cd is a very handy companion for any Techie. Its got hundreds of usefull apps for troubleshooting OS problems and PC issues. Now someone has put all of the boot Cd’’s together in one.
David’’s Ultimate Boot CD 2.0 (4in1) contains:
Hiren’’s Boot CD 7.9
Ultimate Boot CD Full 3.4
miniPE-XT 2K5.09.03
MS-DOS 7.10 Super Boot Disk
You [...]