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My wife Véronique was on Studio Brussel (national radio) this morning with three of her favourite music tracks of all time. She picked these: LUC VAN ACKER – Zanna BLACK CROWES – Remedy EURYTHMICS – Love is a stranger >> Listen to the music and the interview (13 mb, 14 min.) >> Listen to the… Continue reading Vero on the DreamTeam (StuBru)

Microsoft today publicly announced that the availability of an updated Internet Explorer 7 beta will not be until Q1 2006. In real terms this means that the next IE7 beta for Windows XP isn’t likely to ship until January/Feb. An educated guess may place Microsoft revealing WMP11 Beta for Windows XP and the next IE7… Continue reading IE7 beta not until January / February 2006

7-Zip is a free file compression / archive tool. Changes in 7-Zip 4.31: * Speed optimizations * 64-bit Windows support * LZH support * CHM support * Multivolume CAB support * Drag and Drop improvements >> Download 7-Zip 4.31

The final release of Mozilla Firefox 1.5 is now available for download for most major operating systems. Users of the release candidates should receive the update soon. Firefox 1.5 introduces several new features, including an improved software update system, faster Back / Forward page navigation, a new options to clear private browsing data, drag-and-drop reordering… Continue reading Mozilla Firefox 1.5

Tired of the look of your XP desktop? Good old WindowBlinds is back in town with a new release! According to Stardock, the company behind WindowBlinds, version 5 consumes LESS memory than the standard XP desktop. And as far as I can check, it’s true … only 450 kb 🙂 Give it a go! WindowBlinds… Continue reading WindowBlinds 5.0

We’re back home since Monday night! It was a very pleasant journey through the “golden land” of Myanmar. A report will follow soon. To give you an idea, you can already see the pictures here or through the link in the Images section.

Portable Firefox allows you to carry your whole web browser along with all your bookmarks and extensions with you on an iPod, USB thumbdrive, portable hard drive or any other portable media. You can plug it right into any Windows computer and use it just like you would on your own. It is a repackaged… Continue reading Portable Firefox

Véro, myself and four friends are off to Myanmar tomorrow. If possible I’ll try to post something from there, but internet access is limited. Since this will be my first trip to Asia, I’m rather nervous about what to expect 🙂 Here’s an extract from the Myanmar Tourism Promotion Board site: Myanmar sits at the… Continue reading Myanmar 4/11 – 28/11

Firefox 1.5 RC 1 is a test preview of our award-winning Web browser. Firefox 1.5 RC 1 is available for our testing community, Web site and Web application developers, and our Extension developers. Here’s what’s new in Firefox 1.5 RC 1: * Automated update to streamline product upgrades. Notification of an update is more prominent,… Continue reading Mozilla Firefox 1.5 RC1

The changes are not difficult and do seem to have an effect. We can’t be certain how much this will affect the functionality but we pass these ideas on. Both changes involve going into the Tools and then options management sections. In the memory dialogue box, increase graphics cache to 64MB and memory per object… Continue reading Speed-up OpenOffice.org