I’ve been playing with Amazon’s S3 service the last few days, and it really is interesting. Now that some applications are starting to be built on top of it, even though it’s a relatively low-level service it can actually be useful for end users. The specific scenario I’ve found it useful for is backup. I [...]
There’s a new free version of Google SketchUp available, but it doesn’t install on Windows Vista. Or does it? When you run the setup, it tells you that you’re not using a supported OS, and exits. No option to install it anyway; it just prevents itself from being installed. Ever-foolish, I configured the SketchUp installer [...]
The release of Flex Builder for the Mac just makes it even more likely that there’s a new MacBook in my future.
This mention of Crackdown for the XBox 360 reminded me of something I was thinking about a few days ago. This next generation of consoles is different than any previous generation, in that one of the participants, the Wii, has nowhere near the graphical capabilities as the other two. This puts it at a serious [...]
There’s a video on Channel 9 of Charlie Kindel talking about Windows Home Server. It answers a few questions: Windows Home Server is based on a stripped down Windows Server OS. That’s good news, because it makes it more likely that the box will be capable of real server functions. It’s designed as a headless [...]
The question is, is Microsoft going to make something that really lives up to the name, “Home Server”? Or is this really just a rebranding of Media Center. I shouldn’t need both a Home Server and a Media Center. Recording and playing back video streams takes up a fraction of the potential of a Media [...]
Microsoft announced at CES that they’re adding TiVO functionality to the XBox 360. I’d be excited about this if it weren’t for the fact that it depends on support from your cable provider, and that sort of thing almost never makes it to Canada. I’m guessing that behind the scenes it requires CableCard support – [...]
…Finally.
Thanks, Microsoft, for the System Stability Chart in Vista. Now, how about some system stability?
After a few days of dithering, I decided that I could live with the C310s GPS I blogged about a few days ago. Even though the device itself doesn’t support geocaching, I believe you can manage points of interest using the PC software that you use to transfer things to it, and I figured I’d [...]