Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff

If you use a Tablet PC and use any Mozilla browser, you'll find that it wont work with the Tablet PC's floating recogniser, the TIP. You need to have the lower half of your screen filled with the standard recogniser - not to bad if you have a big screen, but a pain otherwise. If you wanted to fill in forms, you really had to use Internet Explorer.

At last, however, salvation is here! Here's GeckoTIP, which allows Mozilla to work with the floating recogniser...

Very useful indeed.

Huzzah!

Latest issue of Server Management is through the door, with my second messaging column (on Blackberries) - and a posterised picture of me in the list of regular contributors, listing me as Messaging Editor.

Simon Bisson, messaging editor, is a freelance IT consultant and writer, and a veteran of messaging from Usenet to IM. He has run the technical side of a national ISP and worked as a consulting architect on many larger web applications.

Go me.