Annoying by design

by | | Games, Hardware, syndication-floss, Windows

Microsoft claim that their UAC secur­ity prompts in Vista are designed to annoy you. I’m try­ing hard to take them ser­i­ously and to not laugh them off… but did they really think it’d work? OEMs and users have been dis­abling it in droves. Oth­er users have prob­ably...

“Summer lovin’, had me a blast…”

by | | Games, Hardware

I love Grease, don’t you? There’s some logic in the title. It is sum­mer here in Aus­tralia, and as many may know Aus­trali­an sum­mers are typ­ic­ally very hot and dry. A lot has happened over the past few weeks and I’ve been too lazy to type it out here. I’ll...