I’ve just been having a play about with Windows live Maps (http://maps.live.com). At first look it does seem to have some pretty cool functions, such as the ability to install an activeX that gives you a 3D view, and you can rotate round it. This looks very good when viewing hills and large buildings

A lot of the images also seem to be of better quality than Google maps.

Problems do seem to happen when you start looking at different countries other than the US and the UK. I looked a the south of France and there wasn’t even any house’s being shown. So good features, but a long way to go yet if they want to challenge Google

Well I never thought I’d say this again, but I am quite impressed with Apples Safari browser running on Windows (download http://www.apple.com/safari/)

I am writing this post using it right now. It does appear to be far FAR faster than IE6, IE7 and Firefox.I’ve been to quite a few sites that might tax it, but so far it has performed very well.

It’s not all good though, I can make it crash if I try to surf through a proxy that wants me to authenticate. It brings up the login prompt, I enter my details and hit ok but the browser just dies on me.

Also, I can’t seam to get into the proxy settings in preferences/advanced. The change settings are greyed out. It looks like it’s getting its proxy settings from whatever the default browser is set to.
So if I make Safari the default I can’t surf. Plus I think it still might have a problem using an automatic config file (a .pac file). Old Macs used to have this problem (I think), I thought this might have been fixed.

Just a quick post to point you at my first ever article published at Aspfree.com, that right people are going to pay me to write articles for there web site. Read the first one at here

I’ve had a couple of ideas for other articles, if anyone out there has any ideas of things I can write about drop me an email. It doesn’t mean ill be stopping writting on this blog, in fact it might mean I write on here more.

Just as another side note, I’ve started to watch Hero’s, its a rather quality show that I suggest you check out