Code, databases, gadgets, words and a geek cornucopia
iTWire: Tim Sneath, passionate Microsoft Windows client evangelist, spoke today at the “Power to Developers” rally in Sydney, Australia, promoting Windows 7. Yet, the camera caught more than just Microsoft software on his laptop, with Mozilla Firefox plain to see.
iTWire: The much-hyped “year of the Linux desktop” may still not be with us but there’s no doubting the free open-source operating system has gained significant traction in the last year. One reason for this is, with equal certainty, the mess that is Windows Vista. Here’s how it’s actively driving new interest in Linux.
iTWire: I put Windows Vista Ultimate and Fedora Linux 9 to a test. The article hit the front page of Digg but received a lot of criticism by those disappointed with the performance of Internet Explorer. So, let’s dig deeper – here’s the ultimate showdown with IE vs Firefox under Vista. Does IE leak like a sieve or is SuperFetch a genius strategy?
iTWire: Firefox 3 is coming! It’s been years in the coming and computers users worldwide are waiting with baited breath. Here’s what’s new, how YOU can help get Firefox into the Guinness book of records plus news about an exciting development – Firefox for mobile phones!
Read it here, and check out my first ever YouTube video 
iTWire: A lot has been said of late concerning the way Apple slipped in a brand-new Safari installer into the Apple Software Update used by many hundreds of thousands of iPod-wielding Windows users. Let me offer a new perspective, from the open source point of view – why what Apple did was bad, and why open source developers wouldn’t do it.