2005 July

It looks like Hotmail isn’t immune to the sudden surge of Upgrade Fever in the computer industry. A source at Microsoft has pointed me in the direction of the blog run by the (hold your breath!) Codename KAHUNA development teams.

Along with the limited beta release of Microsoft’s new Windows Vista came a beta version of IE7 (Internet Explorer 7).
Almost immediately, Vista and IE7 users began reporting that their Yahoo! and Google toolbars had… vanished, while other less, um, competitive toolbars (pop-up blockers and form-fillers, to name two) experienced no such mystical disappearance.

Every so often Aunty runs into some interesting things that make her life a little bit easier and her Google searches a little more productive or, sometimes, fun.
So here are a few that Aunty is going to pass on to you today. I hope that you enjoy them as much, or find them as useful, [...]

Do you remember Disney’s animated version of Robin Hood? Remember the
weird laugh that the King made throughout the movie? That weird
“Ah-ha!” That’s the laugh I used when I heard about this:
Microsoft’s new WGA (Windows Genuine Advantage) program was released
the other day (Wednesday the 27th of July). The system was set in place in
hopes
of denying pirates [...]

Gazette Reader Kathy W. writes:

Dear Dennis,

I love your newsletter! Thanks so much for doing it - it’s been a great help in the past! Here’s my problem: I have a lot of mp3s stored in the My Documents Folder, and I want to burn them all to a CD and then print out the playlist. [...]

You have seen them in action. They are usually where a person who is visually impaired is. The seeing eye dog is an animal that is specially selected for the life-giving tasks of helping them move around in a manner that you and I take for granted. Today we take a look at a site [...]

You should see what’s on HDTV - not a lot, from the looks of it. Certainly, we have a smattering of shows that look good in high definition - but not enough to make HDTV as essential as it should be. Prices are dropping for HDTV equipment (although it’s not economically sound for everybody to [...]

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