27th
April
2007
Most of the people reading this are most likely older than I am, but nonetheless I came across a not too bad website on PPP. This website is a free online SAT test prep school, allowing all people who are about to finish highschool (works quite a bit different here in Europe) to train in [...]
posted in Miscellaneous, The Internet |
27th
April
2007
It took long enough this time, but finally it’s time; the Vista bashing on ‘big’ sites has begun. Now Vista has been on the market for a couple of months, more and more criticism is coming up related to Windows Vista’s new features, such as the firewall and the changes in user permissions.
The first article [...]
posted in Software |
27th
April
2007
eBay and other auction sites are no new deal at all; there are perhaps a hundred of them, one more popular than another and all following exactly the same protocols. Of course, I’m not the only one who thinks about it that way, the company ‘bid4prizes‘ has come up with a whole new idea of [...]
posted in The Internet |
27th
April
2007
Backgammon, perhaps one of the oldest games played on the web – already started ‘real time’ in 1992 – might be a bit of a boring game these days. I must say I’ve played it a couple of times using Microsofts fantastic MSN Games thing, and I didn’t quite like it; too much randomness involved.
However, [...]
posted in The Internet |
26th
April
2007
While back in the early 90’s – before my digital time began, so I’m relying on Wikipedia – the company PKWare was big their their software ‘PKZip’, one of the first command line zip programs that allowed you to save and compress multiple files into one.
However, when a lot of other programs were made with [...]
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