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Over at glyFX we’ve released another great Vista icon set for the masses, the Vista Database I Icon Set.  We’ve got a few more Vista sets on the way too, so head over, check them out and maybe buy them too.

Something just occurred to me this evening and it has to do with software companies and the monopoly ‘lock in’ tactics that some use.  Microsoft was pulled up over forcing Internet Explorer on people in XP many moons ago now and I’m sure we’re all completely happy with how it eventually turned out, most of us use Firefox and Windows now recognises something called a ‘default browser’.

Fast forward a few years and we’ve seen Apple since day one, ram iTunes down the throat of every ipod owner in the world. This was understandable, after all

Wow! what a surprise, i awoke this morning to find that Newsgator are now offering their feed readers for FREE! So you can pickup Feed Demon (Windows), Net Newswire (Mac), Newsgator Go! (Windows Mobile, Symbian) and Newsgator Inbox (Outlook plugin) all free of charge.

Just kinda finished up some work on a new Wordpress widget i’ve been thinking about for a while. Last night i pulled the gloves off and started building the Steam Community Widget .

Today we watched some presentations from Microsoft on Windows Presentation Foundation, while it was nice to see some of the technology and how it can be used, theres no way this was presented anywhere near as good as it could have been.

The arcade machine stands at a huge 13 feet tall and has a 70 inchish screen. By the looks of it, its a custom built PC using emulation software to run an old copy of the game Rampage.

So we’ve all read it no doubt, but google aren’t releasing a Gphone, but rather ‘Android’ an open platform for mobile phones co-developed as part of the Open Handset Alliance. Video follows.

How many of you read more than 10 forums you like to be on top of? If you’re anything like me and have a very scattered hobbies, you more than likely find yourself reading through upwards of 10 forums, the difficulty of this task is directly proportionate to the number of forums you read.