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It actually happened several months back, after years of trying to get my sites working properly in Internet Explorer 6 and below I finally reached the end of my patience.

So, Grey Skies at least will no longer be supporting Internet Explorer 6 and below.
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I had been grumbling when the iPod Touch came out due to the low amount of storage capacity. Thankfully they upped it to 32GB which was more in keeping with what I was looking at seeming my G5 iPod Video has a 30GB storage capacity on it.
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Håkon Wium Lie posted an open letter in which is revealed that Opera has filed a formal complaint with the European Commission to force Microsoft to support open Web standards in its browser Internet Explorer.
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Hooray for lame titles.

Interesting day on the Apple front. Was keeping track with the live blogging Engadget was doing of the event.
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“PC users around the globe may find driver software is stopped from working by Vista if it detects unauthorised content access. Peter Guttman, a security engineering researcher at New Zealand’s university of Auckland, has written A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection. He reckons Vista is trying to achieve the impossible by protecting access to premium content. Users will find their PCs’ compromised by the persistent and continuous content access checks carried out by Vista.”
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Soeren over at his blog has a few words to say about Peter Gutmann’s paper which should be considered when reading Gutmann’s paper.

WGA, or Windows Genuine Advantage, is indeed an anti-piracy component. However, that one is not tied to “system hardware components” at all, but only to your Internet connection. The author likely means WPA, or Windows Product Activation, which is indeed completely tied to your hardware.
- Soeren Says

Now I can understand the need for protection, but at the risk of crippling ones system is unwise. As more reports come out regarding Microsofts “security” the less likely I find myself considering an upgrade to Vista.

The Optimus keyboard was looking pretty sweet at one point, back in the day when it had colour keys, and a nice group of “launcher” keys.

I like launcher/shortcut keys, I have them on my current keyboard to copy and paste, launch firefox, pause/play/control volume of media players. So being able to program these keys on the optimus was looking good.

Alas, over time the extra keys were removed, the colour display was changed for black and white they even cut down the screensize. Apparently this was done in order to cut down costs, so I am not quite sure why they are going to sell it for $1,200. Doesn’t seem like their cost cutting measures helped much.
What it did do is cut my interest in the keyboard, when they decide to impliment the features orginally billed then I’ll be happy to take another look at it and see where we go from there.

I’m dissapointed.

Not quite sure why I expected FireFox to automatically upgrade to version 2. I decided to download it myself in the end, pretty shiny looking. Not only that but before I was using an extension that set your browsing up into sessions so if you crashed you could bring up the pages you were looking at prior to the hiccup. Seems Mozilla incorporated it into version 2 which is nice, my only grumble is the fact that Aardvark doesn’t work with version 2 apparently, not sure about that given that the demo works just fine its installing the extension that throws up an incompatibility issue.

Was browsing digg and found this excellent Anti DRM advertisement

Just came across this and thought it looked great, Project Teddy is a java applet that takes your 2D drawings and makes them 3D.

Definatly going to have to play around with this for a while

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So apple have released iTunes 7 that comes with Movie downloads now which is nice, I am hoping they manage to get a nice selection on there (I have yet to install the new version).

One of the new features with iTunes is the ability (finally) to back up your library & iTunes purchases to a CD or DVD. Scott over at tuaw has posted a neat little tutorial to show you how to navigate the new feature, it should also be noted that you can backup to multiple discs incase you have a very large music collection.

The new iPod generation 5.5 has been shown to the public with the news that downloadable games will be available for both the G5 and G5.5. Having been bored with the games on my ipod for a while I was pleased to see that pac-man would be available, now if only we could get Myst ported.