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Re: Must be something in the water…

Neil T. — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 17:22:47 -0000

It's not really a 'new' system - it's been around for a good 10 years or so. Basically homeowners can use smartwater pens to mark their property with their postal code and house number and then, should any of their property be stolen, if police raid a criminal's house they then know that the items are stolen and where to return them to.

Most of my valuable stuff (laptop, printer, stereo system etc) is marked with smartwater.

Re: Onto Cork, Cardiff is delightful

Neil T. — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 06:26:33 -0000

I went to Cardiff briefly around this time last year - it's certainly a very nice place. Much of the new series of Doctor Who was filmed in and around Cardiff - in fact, the first episode of the most recent series was set there even though it was supposed to be London :) .

Re: CES, Day One

Neil T. — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 05:44:00 -0000

Actually, Chris Pirillo is now using Firefox, or so it seems. He says it's because the IE7 rendering engine in Vista is still rather buggy, and with Maxthon using the IE rendering engine it succombs to its bugs too.

Re: Microsoft to abandon Mac player?

Neil T. — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:07:21 -0000

I've never used Flip4Mac, but if it means that I can view Windows Media files in QuickTime without any issues then that means I need one less player on my Mac. Which is good for novice users since it's less confusing.

Right now, I have VLC, QuickTime, RealPlayer and Windows Media Player all installed on my Mac, with each playing a different subset of media formats. It would be nice if I could just have one.

(Incidently I have 3 of those on Windows too, RealPlayer being the exception since I use Real Alternative instead).

Re: Google bullish on Atom, Microsoft bullish on RSS?

Neil T. — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 06:24:46 -0000

To me, it shouldn't matter whether you choose Atom or RSS. If your application produces feeds, then choose one and stick to it since that's less confusing to the consumer. If your application accepts feeds as input, support both. This is what Microsoft is doing and I see nothing wrong with it.

Atom and RSS both have their own advantages and disadvantages - Atom is an agreed internet standard and has less ambiguity in its specification, whereas RSS is simpler and more ubiquitous. At the end of the day, it should not matter which format you choose.

Re: Be careful loading Yahoo’s latest stuff (I hate this)

Neil T. — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:58:08 -0000

Just as a response to Brian Sullivan - I checked the Apple QuickTime web site and the option to download QuickTime on its own (without iTunes) is shown very clearly.

Admittedly it never used to be, Apple have thankfully changed it. Not something that bothers me personally since I use both but I can imagine it being annoying to someone who only uses QT and not iTunes.