Tom Raftery’s I.T. views

I wrote an article on Microsoft’s IE7 earlier today but it didn’t show up in a couple of places I’d have expected to have seen it.
Curious, I did a bit of looking around. I searched several search engines and was surprised to find that in Google’s BlogSearch, not alone does my article not appear, but […]

The Internet Explorer development team blog is reporting that they are going to distribute Internet Explorer 7 as a high priority update via Automatic Updates. The release date has been set as “the fourth quarter of this year”!
While this might, at first glance, seem a little heavy handed Microsoft have some safeguards built into the […]

I received an email yesterday from Shel Israel regarding his forthcoming road trip to Europe with Rick Segal.
Shel asked me who he should meet in Ireland. I said, “why don’t I post it on my blog?”
“Great!” he said.
So, Shel and Rick are
looking for people with great ideas who can help us see how tech […]

Skype have released Skype for Mac with Video Preview. You can download it here.
It is beta software so be aware that when you install it, you may have issues. Having said that, I installed it on my iMac G5 and so far so good!

This is a photo of my first video call on Skype. […]

Previously I wrote about how easy uploading photos to Flickr is using Flock.
Since then Thomas Hawk turned me on to Steve Cohen’s cross-platform, open source photo uploader JUploadr.
Why do I like it?

Well, it is GPL’d for a start.
Cross-platform
It allows me to upload photos to my accounts on Flickr and Zooomr

It allows batch editing […]

Like all bloggers, I find comment spam to be a constant annoyance. There are many ways to mitigate the problems it causes however and using the following techniques means that this site is subject to almost no comment spam.
Use WordPress’ built in comment spam tools -

In WordPress Options -> Discussion, fill in the list […]

Enrique was baptised yesterday - so how come my head hurts?
;-)
A great day was had by all.

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When you see something new being lauded by Matt Mullenweg (of WordPress fame), Kevin Burton (of TailRank) and Chris Pirillo (of GnomeDex fame) you sit up and take notice.
In this case they are talking up a new service called OpenDNS. OpenDNS is a very simple idea - it is a centralised series of DNS […]

Photo-sharing site Zooomr re-launched its site with a new version (2.0) in the last couple of days.

Zooomr screen shot
Hosted on Zooomr

The launch of the new version of the site was delayed by a DOS attack on the servers but Zooomr seem to have put that behind them quite successfully now. The main differences […]

In case you missed it, Dell started a blog in the last couple of weeks. So what? Well, Dell has been roundly panned on the Internet for around 12 months now for not being responsive to criticism, for not listening. The term “Dell Hell” came to be coined referring to Dell’s poor customer service. Dell’s […]