Windows
Living and Blogging with Live Mesh
For the last few months I've been using the Tech Preview of Microsoft Live Mesh to help create this blog. What is Live Mesh? I'll leave the detailed technical explanation to others who do it bet...
Windows
Playing with the new browsers - IE8 & Chrome
I thought I better check out all the recent activity in the browser world. There's nothing better to test them with than your own site so here are mine in Microsoft IE8 beta and Google Chrome. I'll re...
Top Gear on YouTube, and it's official!
Top Gear now have an official channel on YouTube, and you can subscribe, and they can (unlike other Beeb stuff) be embedded. So cool it will require an extension to the cool wall http://www.yout...
A word cloud resume?
I took the “about” page from my blog and pasted it into Wordle - http://wordle.net/ . It creates a “word cloud” based on the frequency of use and I must admit some of the results surprised me!
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My car gets Wordle'd
It’s the text from this post , made into a world cloud with www.wordle.net found via www.ted.com
Technical illustration, demonstration and art with Silverlight
Michael Scherotter created the impressive illustration, and functional demo, below with Microsoft’s Silverlight Epression tools. His post details the creation process, how it’s hosted and shared. It’s...
LinkedIn via RSS
I do LinkedIn but I don’t Facebook. However, thanks to this post on LinkedIn Vs Facebook I found out LinkedIn have added a personal RSS feed to the startup page. That’s cool! Log into LinkedIn and...
The Story of <strike>the</strike> a Ribbon
It’s the year of the Ribbon, but why? Jensen Harris, of the Microsoft Office User Experience Team, has posted a recording (and PowerPoint) of his awesome presentation at MIX. He tells the story of...
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Jimmy saves my desktop layout
Jimmy Bergmark posted a useful tip for anyone who, like me, spends time arrangng desktop icons just so – only to have a resolution change or similar mix them up again. Now it’s just right-click Restor...
Time flies, it’s Autodesk 2009!
Autodesk have announced their “2009” product releases including AutoCAD, AutoCAD Architecture/MEP and Revit Architecture/MEP. While there is a lot to see in these products some of the announcements ma...
ActiveWords and me
"Nobody needs ActiveWords, until they use it. Then you can't use a PC without it!" (Me)
Online Photo Sharing in Plain English
Lee LeFever’s latest video is a brilliant explaination of “ Online Photo Sharing in Plain English ”. Kiwis who use New Zealand's largest ISP Xtra, said to be 500,000, already have a "free" Flickr Pro...