I've just discovered this tool which allows installation of Internet Explorer in Linux. I've just tried it out and it seems to work fairly well, though I've been having a couple of problems with focus and also with the control key being "locked on" while trying to fill in forms, which causes some interesting problems. Still, it at least renders the pages in roughly the same way that IE on Windows should, so it could be useful for debugging site layouts and that's one less reason to reboot into Windows. The last thing I want is better Bluetooth tools on Linux, and the capability to use SyncML over Bluetooth as reliably as Nokia's PC Suite does it. That might be the subject of a post another time, since it's not too far off with the MultiSync project.
On a different subject entirely, apparently Microsoft's new Zune
...will not play protected Windows Media Audio and Video purchased or "rented" from Napster 2.0, Rhapsody, Yahoo! Unlimited, Movielink, Cinemanow, or any other online media service.
That makes playsforsure.com look a bit daft in retrospect.
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