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Ruth’s quilting

I am biased, but I do think Ruth’s latest quilting projects have been very good. So take a look at what’s going on on at sew2speak!

Painted trucks

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30 days using Windows Vista

Brian Boyko has written up his experience of using Vista as his sole operating system for 30 days – a detailed report on installing and using the operating system, and on which programs ran without problems under Vista. A good starting point if you are thinking of upgrading to Vista.

He has also done . . . → Read More: 30 days using Windows Vista

Large pothole

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EMI / Apple remove the DRM locks

EMI and Apple have announced that iTunes will sell EMI’s albums at a higher quality (twice the encoding frequency) without any copy protection (DRM), for the same price as the other label’s albums with copy protection. Single tracks will be more expensive, but in my case I almost never buy individual tracks, so that . . . → Read More: EMI / Apple remove the DRM locks

Vista to be periodically re-checked for validity

John McBride on Ars Technica: …Microsoft is serious about piracy. It likes to refer to the Business Software Alliance—”the voice of the world’s commercial software industry”—which maintains that “35% of the software installed on personal computers world-wide in 2006 was illegal.” Windows Genuine Advantage, part of Microsoft’s antipiracy program, has been in a kind . . . → Read More: Vista to be periodically re-checked for validity

New Google service

Having taken on Microsoft by offering free web-based word processing software, Google announced today that they are muscling in on the telecommunications sector next, by offering a free in-home wireless broadband service.

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