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A Practical Use For Twitter

For those that don’t know Twitter (www.twitter.com) is a micro-blogging web service that allows users to leave short messages, limited to 140 characters, online for anyone to read.  Each user can follow the “Tweets” of other people and have any user follow them as well.  Many people have asked me what Twitter is all about [...]

Back In Business

We had a technician from AT&T here this morning to apparently plug in a wire outside the apartment to turn on the new DSL.  We are still setting up some of the equipment and it should be business as usual in a few days.
Don’t forget about the Windows 7 Release Candidate coming out tomorrow to [...]

Down Time

We’re going to be offline for a few days while we move all the office equipment to a new location and get the new 6Mb internet service ramped up. All of our websites will function as normal. We will still have email and telephone access during the move. As soon as we are settled at [...]

Windows 7 Includes Windows XP Mode

Paul Thurrott has a great post on his SuperSite for Windows blog about a newly revealed virtual Windows XP mode found in Windows 7.
Have a read here.

Ubuntu Version 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” Now Available

The very popular Linux operating system called Ubuntu is now available in version 9.04 nicknamed “Jaunty Jackalope”.  According to the parent company, Canonical, this release is even faster than the previous version and has many great improvements to the user interface.  As always Ubuntu is free to download.  More information can be found at http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-9.04-desktop.
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More With Windows 7

Lets get things back in gear here at Argonaut Design.  Back in January I mentioned that I downloaded the beta version of Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system.  At that time I installed it in a virtual machine just to test the waters.  Well, I liked it so much that I took the plunge and installed [...]

We’re On Twitter

Hey, if Oprah can do it then so can Argonaut Design.  You can follow us on Twitter at . . .
http://www.twitter.com/argodesign

Working with Windows 7

The next version of the Microsoft Windows operating system was just released to public beta today and I had a chance to download and install it.  My first impression is about what I expected.  I had heard from many sources that this was a very stable operating system for a beta and that a release [...]

Welcome!

Thank you for visiting Argonaut Design.  We are remodelling a bit and will back to normal soon.
Jay