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Over the last couple of months I have been working hard on organising the-broken-link.com into a better experience for my readers.  There have been some changes in layout and themes so as to cut the clutter.  Content has been moved into different pages.  This means that the Linux readers don't need to wade through all my posts on Cloud Technology, and those who enjoy the Broken Tech links don't need to sift through the opinion posts.

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Here is a quick roundup of the month of February here on The Broken Link.

The Broken Blog

This month TBL weighed into the Flash debate with "The Fall of Flash: Adobe Flash" picking up on the iPad launch and the high profile blog fighting around its lack of Flash.  Since this post there has been a lot of good comparisons between Flash in its new rival HTML5.  It will be worth keeping an eye on this debate as the web will need to change to whoever is the winner.

Next was the look at Google's Buzz product which had been launched a couple of weeks earlier in the post "Google's Anti-Buzz".

Broken Technology

We have a look at the problem with the iPhone and 64-bit Windows 7 in the posts "iPhone and 64-bit Windows - A Hate Story".  Then we keep with the Apple/Microsoft theme by linking to a How-To on cross platform file sharing in "Peace and File-Sharing: Between Mac and Windows 7", very interesting as the Mac continues to gain market share.

Broken Cloud

Just the one post this month, even though cloud computing is one of my favorite subjects -  "UbuntuOne V's Dropbox".  Here we take a look at the UbuntuOne service and the news that they are planing to make it cross platform, like Dropbox.  Not that there aren't a number of these types of services starting to appear, but the importance of the move is more in what this will mean in the show of support for cloud storage and computing.

Broken Penguin

February saw the launch of the Broken Penguin blog which is to be the home for most of my posts dealing with Linux platforms.  Here I'm hoping to have reviews and commentary on Linux distributions and software.  Also How-To's, fixes and general notes on the Linux scene.

This month started with a look at Video Editing software with "Video Editing on Linux", which has always been a bit of a weak point for Linux.  Then there is a post on how many mobile devices, even from the likes of Nokia, are coming with a Linux OS in an effort to compete with the iPhone.  "To Beat iPhone we Need to go the Linux...Really?" asks the question - are mobile and smart-phone makers missing the point?  Also am I the worst headline writer in the world?

I hope you are enjoying the content here on TBL, I'm enjoying making it.  I want to provide an Australian point of view to a highly Americanised industry.  I hope that the information found here is useful, and somewhat entertaining.  Please comment and join the conversation, as I prefer to talk with my readers than at them.....

Jason Remnant

...if it's not Broken, please just wait till the next post :)