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August 2005 - Posts

• The start of a VOIP war?

  Having tried out Google Talk today and being suitably impressed with the service. I did a bit of looking around other blogs to see what people thought of it. My friends all seem very happy with it so far however there are a few die hard Skype fans out Read More... Posted 24 August 2005 20:21 by rory.street | 0 Comments

• Google Talk

  Google Talk works and the VOIP quality is great (crystal clear). The calls take under a second to connect. Another quality Google product Read More... Posted 24 August 2005 15:34 by rory.street | 0 Comments

• Google enter the Messenger and VOIP market

  Interesting article on the BBC website . It looks like Google are entering the Instant Messenger and VOIP market in the way of Google Talk based on the Jabber open standard. Read More... Posted 24 August 2005 14:38 by rory.street | 0 Comments

• Yahoo Messenger the memory monster

  Busy working away on a Word document and my laptops fan starts wirring away. A quick check in the Windows Task Manager and MS Word has claimed 60megs of memory, followed by IE at 53megs and then followed by Yahoo Messenger at 50megs! Now I can understand Read More... Posted 23 August 2005 16:45 by rory.street | 0 Comments

• IE 7 Browser Detection problems

  Websites turning you away because of IE 7? Take a look at this article on Mark Harrisons blog about getting around this. Read More... Posted 22 August 2005 10:54 by rory.street | 0 Comments

• BT Introduce Cheaper call rates on BT Communicator

  Got an interesting email from BT about cheaper international phone rates using BT Communicator. The blurb reads: No call charges to Australia for up to an hour** until September 30th 2005 Calls to the USA and Canada lasting up to an hour** now capped Read More... Posted 22 August 2005 09:44 by rory.street | 0 Comments

• Problems with MTU on BT Broadband

  Had an interesting problem a few days ago with the mini network I have running at home connected to the Internet via BT Broadband. Problem was, some of the machines on my network could see websites on the Internet perfectly but others could only see a Read More... Posted 12 August 2005 10:01 by rory.street | 0 Comments

• IE 7.0 First Thoughts

  Having read a blog entry from my friend Owen I decided to investigate IE 7 for myself. What can I say? It looks almost like Mozilla Firefox! Tabbed Browsing, Search box in the top right hand corner and a little button that allows you to see all the RSS Read More... Posted 12 August 2005 09:47 by rory.street | 0 Comments