Australia Daylight Saving ends 6 Apr 2008. Are your laptops, mobile phones and PCs ready for daylight saving changes?
Daylight saving ends on 6 April in NSW, ACT, VIC, TAS and SA, a week later than in previous years. It recommences on 5 October 2008.
All Windows Mobile, desktop and server systems need to be updated by 30 March to reflect these new dates and future events such as Outlook calendar entries and scheduled tasks need to be checked after updates are applied. Windows Mobile devices will require an update to ensure they continue to operate correctly.
In absence of a proper wikipedia entry, I guess this interview is the next close thing we have to a doisser of this GREAT and GENUINE Microsoft Evangelist and people manager - Frank Arrigo.
My wait is finally over! I can’t believe it took Apple such a long time to release iTunes 7.2, the first version of iTunes software that is fully supported on Windows Vista. I suffered so much inconsistent user experience, trying to synch or format my device with previous versions of iTunes with my PC. Since Dec 06, I basically left my shuffle basically on cold storage and my Zune (z-Berno) had been with me since then.
Now I reckon I’m going to give my shuffle another shot . But with only 1 GB and no FM receiver function, I think my usage is going to be pretty limited.
Btw, you don’t need to provide your email address to download the software. Beat the Q, just click on the “Download iTunes 7.2-Free” button straight away.
The Windows Media Player Team together with support with the Mozilla Foundation had released a plugin to run Media Player on Firefox. So now I can continue to have my favourite streaming radio within the Firefox browser environment. This plugin supports both Windows XP (x86, x64) and Windows Vista (x86, x64)
Windows Vista is now a directly supported platform for XNA runtime with the release of XNA Games Studio Express Refresh 1.0. If you have been interested in games development and running Vista, now is the time to jump onboard the wagon.
Zeddy Iskandar, the Academic Developer Evangelist from Indonesia made a video demo of Vista voice recognition with a robot. See how he control the robot to move directions and perform simple arithmetic calculations. Check it out!
I received my new personal laptop today. The Asus A8Js model came with
- Intel Centrino Duo T200 2GHz
- 1 GB (I ordered an additional 1GB, altogether 2GB) RAM
- 120 GB HD
- nVida GeForece Go 770 with 512 MB
- 5 USB ports
- Achieved a score of 4.5 on the Windows Experience Index