Just wrote a quick letter using ZohoWriter. An interesting product. Think of Microsoft Word on the Web. ZohoWriter supports the standard WYSIWG editor, document versioning, collaboration, blog publishing and export to Word/PDF formats. My document is saved safely on a server in the event of any media based disaster striking my PC.
The only comments I have was that it wasn't obvious how to suppress the header and footer when printing the final hardcopy, I couldn't see a speel checker and WordPress.com wasn't listed in the list of supported blogging platforms. But don't quote me as I never took the time to RTFM so all of this may be possible.
Otherwise a decent product although I suspect Google will be unleashing a revamped version of Writely soon which could be interesting competition (nail in coffin) for ZohoWriter.
I was seriously considering selling all my stock options and purchasing a 1GB USB memory
stick for an amazing 30 GBP.
Then I thought I would get an account at
box.net and upload all the precious files, that my wife sadly lost when my hard disk died a couple of years ago, there instead. This has the advantages that if I ever need to take my memory stick to Seattle to show Auntie Rita, this will be possible, I won't be able to leave the memory stick in a client's PC in Eastern Europe and, finally, it will cost me 30 GBP less.
I haven't used the box.net service much but there is a nice drag'n'drop interface for uploading folders and multiple files and it seems intuitive and quick. There is a free 1GB service available and you pay for additional storage which seems fair enough.
If you are interested in trying out the box.net service, then please, please click
HERE! (so I can upgrade to the Deluxe, Premium, Gold 512GB service free of charge) as all the worst Web sites (used to) say.
Buoyed by my recent, successful firmware
upgrade of my Linksys wireless router, and for the sake of completeness, I decided to upgrade the driver software of the Linksys Wireless USB adapters to the latest version (2.0.2).
In addition, prompted by my wife's perceptive question of 'Is it not working because someone has hacked into it ?', I also decided to increase the security on my embryonic wirleless network by disabling SSID broadcasts and enabling MAC address filtering so only specified PC's can connect.
Apologies to all my neighbours. This is probably undue paranoia on my part but if only you could have provided demerara sugar instead of fobbing me off with caster sugar all those years ago, none of this would have been necessary.
These simple configuration changes and software upgrades went surprisingly smoothly. Until, of course, I came to complete the very final task of upgrading the driver of USB adapter #2. This USB adapter is identical to the (upgraded) USB adapter #1, was purchased around the same time and was working perfectly on the old 1.x driver.
Inevitably, when I upgraded this driver, it stubbornly refused to connect to the wireless network. I uninstalled, reinstalled, rebooted, reinstated the original driver to confirm the adapter was still working in the new wireless configuration but, still no joy. So this irritating minor issue will now continue to nag away like a dripping tap until I can be bothered to revisit it.
The Killers (Glastonbury 2005) has successfully been converted from DVD to WAV format and to ATRAC format on a CD.
Thanks to two excellent software tools:
MediaCoder (DVD to MP3 converter) and
Audacity.
Microsoft announce Virtual Server 2005 is now
freely available.
Whatever
you can do, we can do (but a bit later).