Mark Pack

Reading the software license from Microsoft for Windows Live Movie Maker (and it is a standard license that applies more widely to Microsoft products), I found this: 4. How You May Not Use the Service. In using this service, you may not:... use the service in a way that harms us or our advertisers, affiliates, [...] »

Welcome to a series where old posts are revived for a second outing for reasons such as their subject has become topical again, they have aged well but were first posted when the site’s readership was only a tenth or less of what it is currently or they got published and the site crashed, hiding [...] »

It’s Sunday. It’s 9am. It’s time for one of Microsoft’s best adverts (no, really) and the bicycle lane of the week but first the news. 2 Must-Read Blog Posts What are other Liberal Democrat bloggers saying? Here’s are two posts that have caught the eye from the Liberal Democrat Blogs aggregator: Really interesting health discussion: Sandy Walkington doesn’t [...] »

The following is from the "Overview" section at the top of the front page of the website for this technology. It's from the first sentence and is the first mention of the product's benefits. So you might expect it to tell you something distinctive about what the technology actually does: [It] enables you to connect [...] »

Cross-posted from the Mandate blog: The news that Habbo Hotel, the extremely popular social network for teenagers, is launching a tie-up with Facebook is not only significant in itself but a sign of things to come. It's immediate significance is in ease and convenience: Facebook users will be able to use Habbo Hotel without having [...] »

Microsoft and Navteq have unveiled some pretty newsworthy and geek-excitement inducing news this week, with improvements to Microsoft's mapping service that include new 3-D views and a nifty transition from bird's eye through to street level perspective. As this cnet report shows, particularly the film, there's plenty that's newsworthy and interesting here. But oh my [...] »

The outlines of a serious challenge to Google's domination have started to take shape in the last few weeks and, rather than being based on someone doing a better search engine (as per many of the previous ones), it is based on fragmenting data on the internet. We've already seen Rupert Murdoch's desire to take [...] »

The Jerusalem Post is one of several with the story: Apple Inc. on Friday approved for sale a Spanish-language eBook version of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf, complete with a swastika application icon. A day later, presumably due to the blogosphere uproar, the $1.99 offering disappeared from the Apple’s Application Store… 9to5Mac, a Apple Intelligence site, questioned Apple Inc.’s policy, [...] »

The evidence looks pretty damning, as you can see from these two screenshots of different Microsoft sites. The first is its main US site and the second is its Polish site: Screenshots taken from Microsoft's English site and Microsoft's Polish site. As you can see from the full versions on those sites, the person's hand [...] »

How do you make Private items in your Outlook 2003 calendar automatically appear in a different colour from other items? It's easy to have items in different categories automatically appear in different colours, but the Private setting isn't a category. The answer is rather buried away, so here's a note to help me remember in [...] »