Oli Trenouth

It is time. To The Mac!

In late 2006 I wrote an article about how I switched from PC to Mac, and through frustration over a few petty things I switched back. The main reason was simply that the Mac didn’t allow me to play my PC games, nor did it (perhaps more importantly!) allow

7 Days with Windows 7: Part 1

OK, jokes aside, I decided to take the plunge and upgrade to Microsoft Windows 7 this week. I was keen to see if it lived up to the hype, and wanted to see for myself whether this really was Windows “Vista Redux”. I was an early adopter of Windows Vista,

Setting Sail Across the C

I’m a Microsoft developer. There, I said it. I’ve grown up in a world of BASIC, from the early days of QuickBASIC through to VB.NET today. It’s a fantastic, easy going world to live in – particularly since .NET – as everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) is laid

Sync All Your Calendars

All this talk recently of browsers and email clients has distracted me from another problem that I’ve been struggling with for several years now: How do I keep all my calendars in sync? It sounds like a simple question, and in theory the answer should be simple. However, I

Tweetr

Hey folks, I just wanted to give you link to a great little Twitter desktop client I’ve been using recently. It’s called Tweetr, and runs on both Windows and OSX thanks to Adobe Air. Just as with Twitter, the application is clean, simple and doesn’t get in

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