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	<title>PC Pro blog &#187; Barry Collins</title>
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		<title>Why Britain&#8217;s watchdogs have fewer teeth than goldfish</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/11/20/why-britains-watchdogs-have-fewer-teeth-than-goldfish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Collins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Newsdesk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ASA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Information Commissioner's Office]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there’s one thing that makes me angry, it’s other people not getting angry enough. Britain has swathes of so-called regulators and “watchdogs” monitoring everything from advertising, to telecoms, to the protection of our private data, and they’re all about as much use as a toaster in a bath.
Take the Information Commissioner, for example. Christopher [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Windows 7 chkdsk bug that won&#8217;t go away</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/11/16/the-windows-7-chkdsk-bug-that-wont-go-away/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/11/16/the-windows-7-chkdsk-bug-that-wont-go-away/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Collins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows 7]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Back in August, I told you how two of us in the PC Pro office had been struck down with an irritating Windows 7 chkdsk bug.  The fault saw the check disk utility spring into life every sodding time Stuart Turton and I booted our PCs, yet report a clean bill of health once it [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s viewing PCPro.co.uk on an Amiga?</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/10/28/whos-viewing-pcpro-co-uk-on-an-amiga/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/10/28/whos-viewing-pcpro-co-uk-on-an-amiga/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Collins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday’s story on how more than 10% of PCPro.co.uk readers were already running Windows 7 caused something of a kerfuffle. However, it wasn’t the swift uptake of Microsoft’s newborn operating system that yanked people’s chains; it was the fact that 6.8% of our visitors were still running Windows 95 that sparked mild hysteria.
“Call me a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>39</slash:comments>
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		<title>Did Stephen Fry and Twitter really score a victory for free speech?</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/10/14/did-stephen-fry-and-twitter-really-score-a-victory-for-free-speech/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/10/14/did-stephen-fry-and-twitter-really-score-a-victory-for-free-speech/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Collins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Newsdesk]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“What’s the difference between libel in print and libel on the web?” the trainer on a recent legal training course I attended asked rhetorically of his audience. His answer: “None whatsoever – the law applies to both.”
You’d be forgiven for thinking after the events of yesterday, however, that the rule of law had completely collapsed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why ignorance isn&#8217;t bliss when it comes to NDAs</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/10/12/why-ignorance-isnt-bliss-when-it-comes-to-ndas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/10/12/why-ignorance-isnt-bliss-when-it-comes-to-ndas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:32:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Collins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Newsdesk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rant]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have acquired a rather unfair reputation in the PC Pro office for being a bit of a moaner. However, I’ll happily (or should that be grumpily?) confess that one thing is guaranteed to get my dander up: non-disclosure agreements (NDAs).
These horrendous documents are becoming increasingly common in the technology trade. For those of you [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why are iPlayer viewers exempt from the TV licence?</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/10/02/why-are-iplayer-viewers-exempt-from-the-tv-licence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/10/02/why-are-iplayer-viewers-exempt-from-the-tv-licence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:49:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Collins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Newsdesk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BBC]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[TV licence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There was a chap from TV Licensing on BBC Breakfast this morning, reminding Britain’s small business owners that they owed his employers £142.50 if they wanted to watch live TV on their computers at work.
“How you can possibly enforce that?” asked the BBC man, somewhere in between the 96 daily reminders of how you can [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>30</slash:comments>
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		<title>How to make the Windows 7 taskbar better in an instant</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/09/29/how-to-make-the-windows-7-taskbar-better-in-an-instant/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/09/29/how-to-make-the-windows-7-taskbar-better-in-an-instant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Collins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[How To]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows 7]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taskbar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a huge fan of the new Windows 7 taskbar. From Jumplists, to pinning icons to the taskbar, to the long-overdue option to juggle icons into whatever order you wish, it makes my working day precisely 62% easier.
However, there is one thing I&#8217;m not so keen on: the habit of piling multiple windows from the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s new motto: pi** off Microsoft</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/09/24/googles-new-motto-pi-off-microsoft/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/09/24/googles-new-motto-pi-off-microsoft/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Collins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Newsdesk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Chrome Frame]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet Explorer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Picasa]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=7456</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Google&#8217;s official motto may be &#8220;do no evil&#8221;, but I rather suspect the company has a new unofficial mission statement: &#8220;pi** off Microsoft&#8221;.
That can be the only explanation for the events of the past couple of days. First the company announced one of the most audacious moves I&#8217;ve ever seen with the Google Chrome Frame.
Not [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
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		<title>Microsoft Office Web Apps review: first look</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/09/22/microsoft-office-web-apps-review-first-look/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/09/22/microsoft-office-web-apps-review-first-look/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Collins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Microsoft Office 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Office 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Office Web Apps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OneNote]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PowerPoint]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Word]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been looking forward to getting to grips with the Office Web Apps ever since the first, highly impressive demos at Microsoft&#8217;s Professional Developers Conference (PDC) almost a year ago.
But do the limited apps on offer in the technical preview live up to the promise of those well-polished demos? We find out.

Excel
Excel is by far [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Internet radio exec: don&#8217;t mention Linux!</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/09/18/internet-radio-exec-dont-mention-linux/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/09/18/internet-radio-exec-dont-mention-linux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Collins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Newsdesk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Random]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pure Sensia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It might be used to run everything from PCs to power stations, but it seems some people are still a wee bit shy about using the (cough) L word.
Speaking at the launch of the touchscreen Pure Sensia digital radio, director of marketing Colin Crawford was pressed for specifics of the new device&#8217;s software. But after [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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