Microsoft Surface

webDotWiz didn’t see the news story on TV the other night but there are plenty of videos online that show off the possibilities of this amazing piece of technology. Can’t think of a use for Microsoft Surface? How about this: place your mobile phone on the table top (you’ve taken lots of photos recently and want to [...]

Microsoft Popfly ready

Popfly, at www.popfly.ms, will be the place to go to create gadgets for your Live Space, blog or web site. Or you can create a complete web site without having to worry about writing any HTML code or know about CSS styles. In other words, you don’t need to know anything, or have ever heard, about HTML, CSS [...]

Online learning courses for beginning developers

In November 2005 Microsoft released Express editions of their most widely used lanaguage development tools – Vusual Studio, Visual Basic, C#, SQL database, and more. These development tools can be downloaded for free and there are no strings attached. See the Visual Studio Express site. Now Microsoft have released a complete series of learning packages [...]

Paint.NET version 3 can be downloaded

The latest version of the free graphics program, Paint.NET, is ready. Among new features is the ability to have several graphics files loaded at once and being easily able to access these files from the toolbar (either via a dropdown list or thumbnails). If you’re running an earlier version of Paint.NET, go to File — [...]

Vista and 2007 Office will be available from Windows Marketplace

January 30 is the day consumers can purchase Windows Vista and 2007 Office. If you’re so inclined (i.e., you can’t bear to leave home to find a retail store but you have a good, high-speed broadband connection), you can make your purchase of Vista and 2007 Office from the Windows Marketplace site. By the way, your [...]

Spam, spam, spam

You may have noticed a different kind of junk mail getting through your defences – the messages only contain images and this sort of junk can’t be stopped by the normal email defence systems which scan the text – there’s no text to scan! Those of you using Windows Live Mail, or Hotmail if you [...]

Some sites for you to browse

webDotWiz always seems to find sites on all sorts of topics – just have a look through his webDotWiz columns. Here are some that won’t fit into this week’s online column. There’ll be more listed here during the next few weeks when webDotWiz Online won’t be updated due to a break in publication of Rushworth’s [...]

Australia’s broadband disgrace – summary of links

The print media via their associated web sites, have run a number of articles and commentary on the sad state of Australia’s broadband services. Sites such as News.com.au, The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, have articles – here’s a list that Frank Arrigo has put together: Ziggy slams slow broadbandCourier Mail, Australia – 25 Nov 2006FORMER [...]

webDotWiz is a D-List blogger – humph!

According to Are you an A-List Bloglebrity? over at Kineda, the best webDotWiz can do is get to the D-List status of bloglebrity. Oh, well, blog on is the only solution . webDotWiz has some comfort from knowing that Frank Arrigo, the Microsoft Aussie blogger, is only a B-Lister. Here’s my Badge of Bloglebrity: Technorati tags: Technorati, [...]

It’s time! Vista is on its way to us

Yep, and with that simple entry in the Windows Vista Team Blog by head of the Windows Vista team, Jim Allchin, Windows Vista has finished all the testing and it’s off to the manufacturing stage (listen carefully and you might hear the presses hard at work churning out Vista DVDs). And the preses are also [...]