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Winner of de-lurking day

Let's start with a service announcement. Here are the 3 winners of an iTunes Album of their choice.

• Kelly from Kortrijk
• Mike from Rochester New York
• Toriseng aka Snorre from Norway

Please send an email to veerle at duoh dot com with the correct email that I can use for sending the money through Paypal or the iTunes Music store in the case of Kelly.

As you probably have heard Microsoft is stopping support for it as of December 31, 2005. Back in the day this was a great browser but those days are long gone and Mac users have other options like Safari, Firefox, Camino etc.

As a webdesigner IE Mac can be challenge to support and users of this browser should realize there are other better options. Hiding your CSS for IE Mac can be a solution but that’s not always possible in certain projects.

Just when we thought we are finally done with it there comes along a technology commentator called Bill Thompson who thinks it would be a good idea for Microsoft to release the code without any copyright restrictions to the open source community. According to Bill Thompson this would prove that Microsoft is a changed company and that it would confound many of their critics. Do we need another browser? I don’t think so, life as webdesigner is already complicated enough and the less browsers the better. Choice is good but “trop c’est trop”. Let the dead rest and move on. So what do you think do we need another Internet Explorer for Mac?

Every so called “Teleboetiek” from Belgacom (big telecom operator) is going to sell iPods in the future. These shops are also going to play an active part in the selling of songs through the iTunes Music Store. Belgacom has about 100 of these stores spread over Belgium.

This news was confirmed by countrymanager Bernard Voglaire from Apple Belgium to the Dutch MacFan. Apparently this is only a small part of a much bigger deal between Apple Belgium and Belgacom. More details should become available later this month.

I have to think very hard to remember something of this magnitude in Apple Belgium’s history. If Apple and Belgacom play their cards right this deal could prove very lucrative. It’s another sign that Apple is doing very well and that stock is at an all time high. I own some stock that I bought at $45 and maybe I should start thinking about selling because it’s now at $71,50 ;-) Good times! 

Apple’s press event at PhotoPlus Expo 2005 has once again brought us some new toys. It wasn’t Steve Jobs but David Moody that had his moment of glory on stage. Not the usual break down of company figures but right onto the cool stuff.

This post is a bit of a rant towards KBC, a big Belgium bank. I use KBC Online, their online product for wire transfers and other tasks. Now the part that really gets on my nerves is their stupid system requirements.