Archive for August, 2005


IceTV (IceGuide) for MCE First Impressions

I’ve spent a weekend and a bit with IceGuide (I’m a dirty man) for Windows XP Media Centre Edition, and I think I’ll need at least another week to work out whether it’s something that’s robust enough to pay for, but so far – and this is preliminary – I’m liking it.
Installation
The installer offers the [...]

Google Talk: Day One

Google Talk steals my dialog boxes

MSN Messenger: Did You Know It Had Search?

Spong Bo says:
wow. did you know Messenger had search?
Spong Bo says:
just below the Send button
darryn is searching for:
pinkjoint
MSN Search finds:
Pinkjoint http://www.pinkjoint.com/
Pinkjoint ยป Foodage http://www.pinkjoint.com/index.php/archives/category/foodage/
Spong’s Blog http://blogs.andahalf.net/spong/rss.aspx
More Results …
darryn says:
never seen that before

tags: Software

Anakin’s Father

A theory on the identity of Anakin Skywalker’s father

Applet to bypass Character Map for common symbols

An applet that allows you to enter common non-keyboard symbols without using Character Map or fancy keystroke combinations.

Xbox 360 “Core” – No HDD

Xbox 360 pricing is now a known quantity, at least in the US and Europe, and it looks like this:
$299 (converts to around $AUD430 after adding GST) buys the “Core System” – a console without a hard drive. Or a memory unit. (With a wired controller).
And it looks like this version’s a little contentious (check [...]