My how time flies: The summer seems almost over already! Only a few weeks to go and it’ll be Autumn (Fall in the USA.).

Windows 7 is officially launching on 22nd October don’t forget. If you’re in the UK then you can order your copy at a large discount currently. As it says; quantities are limited, so order your copy today if you haven’t already done so. Time is running out.

I ordered mine from Staples and they had the nerve to charge me an extra £1.xx as it was my first online order from them. – ‘Cheeky f—ers! – ‘You see why I’m so cynical about British business: (Yes I know it’s the British arm of a multinational.) They’re generally out to profit any way they can at the customer’s expense, regardless. If they’d have said that they were going to levy a fee because it was my first online order from them I’d have gone elsewhere: I should have stuck with my gut instinct and ordered from ebuyer, who I buy from rather regularly anyway. As it was they either didn’t tell me about this, or they hid it somewhere in some tiny print on an obscure page.

Despite my cynicism with regard to British businesses, I have found one British business that appears to be rather ethical as far as I can tell. Their name is Daily and they’re a web-hosting company. Read all about them here.

While I was examining a number of companies earlier; some multinational, I took a look at dabs.com: Now usually I have my typical suppliers and I don’t go outside of my favoured supplier clique as a rule. Dabs.com, however, made me look twice, and some of their deals were so good that I even included them on my regular supplier list. Take a look for yourself. – Treat yourself to that new piece of hardware or peripheral that you’ve been meaning to get for so long why not?

You’ll now notice that the logo in the header has been redesigned; which can only be good: The old one was too big and too brightly-coloured; which distracted from the blog’s content.

What other goodies have I produced this last week? Ah yes: Yesterday I showed you how to get all your media files played by Windows Media Player 11. I’ve come up against this several times in the past where one of my customers has phoned up in desperation having just added Nero to find that most of their media files are now opening in Nero Media Player and half of them won’t play. The fix is very simple, and is in the article: -

Claim Back Files Hijacked by Other Media Players

Next some more electronics: I’m not going into details here. Read the article and see for yourself: –

The Dual Balanced Power Supply

That was fairly short and sweet. – Having said that; 4 articles a week, plus a newsletter, is my normal output. It just happened that 2 of the articles were advertising articles this time.

On that theme; I believe that I stated this in a membership-list mailing already. – But I’ll go for it again in a public article, namely this one: I’m thinking of adding podcasts to some of the longer articles, so that they can be listened to as well as read. I need to know if it’s worth my doing so: I don’t want to create podcasts that nobody listens to. Would people please give me feedback on this as to whether they’d like me to include a downloadable audio file or not. Leave a comment in the comments section below. If I get a decent amount of generally positive feedback I’ll certainly consider doing so.

I have a lot of things to get done right now; so I can’t really keep writing any longer. (I have to find and edit pictures from my library for this article too, before adding and positioning them.) Do have a great weekend, and stay tuned during the coming week for more articles from kkomp.com.

Blessings.

Shazza. x