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I’m not very good at it: perhaps I should try one or both of these?

Windows: Hippo Update Checker

Mac: App Update Widget

Well, after talking about it to everyone I know for ages, I’ve finally gotten around to doing it.

I’ve got me a brand new macbook sitting on my desk at work; it has a windows partition on it and an evaluation copy of parallels installed on the Mac OS.

The ol’ green and blue fisher pricing looks even more wrong on a mac screen…

I’ll be having myself a little look at how well the thing integrates the two OS together - mainly in the context of the sort of windows installation that would be expected in the uni. That means I’ll get to see how well novell works inside windows inside mac… the mind boggles.

Suggestions Please!

I know I’ve been mouthing off about how good this thing looks for a while now to various people, and I thought this might be a good place to collect together all those questions and concerns that people posed me: is there anything that you guys out there want me to test or look into on this system over the next week or so?

The British Library have a very nice thing they’ve made with microsoft technology.

It’s called Turning the Pages. And it’s preetty. They have made an interactive ‘hands on’ touchy feely access to some of the world’s oldest, rarest, most beautiful books, from the original Alice by Charles Dodson to the Diamond Sutra, the world’s oldest printed book (well, scroll technically).

Of course if I were feeling vicious, I’d point out the strong design ethic that you’d be forgiven for mistaking for mac design. But I’m not, so I won’t