Just thought I'd give a link back to an app that I've found useful over the last few days - GSpot codec information app .  This is a handy utility that, amongst other things, tells you what codec is needed to playback some video files.

This seems like a cool tool, and does a lot more than [...]

Matt Cutts  of Google has posted the iPhone's user agent.  This is useful for the web developers out there wanting to write iPhone specific web pages and applications.

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543a Safari/419.3

Matt also lets you into a little secret - how to find [...]

File format fun!!!
We're pretty agnostic when it comes to photography gear here at the PC Doc HQ but for high quality stuff we do tend to use the Nikon D70 digital SLR.  This camera can output both .JPG JPEG files and .NEF Nikon Electronic Format files. For general stuff we use the JPEG file format [...]

Michael Hyatt gives us a lesson in email etiquette .  Some tips that I agree with 100% (and wish others I deal with would follow) include:

Keep messages brief and to the point.
Don’t discuss multiple subjects in a single message.
Don’t forward chain letters.
Don’t write in ALL CAPS.

Good medicine!

EETimes  has a fascinating article on how Semiconductor Insights took an iPhone and ripped it to shreds to see what was inside.

Semiconductor Insights' Allan Yogasingam waited in line for 12 hours and braved the elements get a hold of the just-released Apple iPhone. He and his intrepid co-workers kept the cameras rolling as they popped [...]

Your chance to get your hands on a cheap copy of Windows Vista has come to an end :

Around the time of the Windows Vista launch we announced the Windows Vista Family Discount Program to further persuade families to become early adopters of Windows Vista. The program was introduced with a sunset clause that takes effect [...]