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Remember a month or so back I was waxing lyrical about my new broadband provider . I just thought I would run a few quick tests today to see how they were doing. Here’s my speed test result: http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results/id/122080020459968828836.html Demon Internet (aka Thus Plc) on...
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Microsoft has launched its World Wide Telescope project , a free downloadable education/science application from Microsoft Research. This interesting project brings together lots of disparate data sources and also references another technology that I am deeply involved in, ASCOM (or, Astronomy Common...
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Tim Long
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05-14-2008
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Filed under: Reviews, Astronomy, ASCOM, Microsoft, Home Computing, Science, Technology, Endorsements, Internet, TiGra Astronomy, Emerging Technology
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Chris Rue has a stinging appraisal of Groove over at the funcave. "Groove has to be the worst software I’ve ever used in my life. [it] has the most idiotic user interface seen since cc:Mail. [...] To top it off, [...] this thing totally sucks at handling the group part of collaboration. Which is...
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Now that Microsoft CRM 4.0 (codename "Titan") has been released, I thought it was time to take it for a test drive. I've loaded up Windows Server 2008 RC1 on my virtual server and installed Titan on it. After just a few hours of tinkering, there are a few new features that are immediately...
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After what seems like forever (I've been involved with this product since May 2006), Microsoft Office Accounting 2008 ["OA"] is finally available in the UK, along with the Microsoft Professional Accountants’ Network (MPAN) . The basic (yet capable) edition is free to download and use while...
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LinkedIn is offering the first million UK members to join a special celebratory group, so if you're a LinkedIn user, toddle off over there now and claim your 'First Million' badge. So what is LinkedIn and why should you care? It is more useful than you might think... Essentially, it is intended...
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I was just reading Scott Hanselman's blog , where he was discussing the Windows Vista speech recognition. So I decided to try it for myself. Scott took a typing test, once using a keyboard and then again using speech recognition. I decided to use the same test as Scott . Here are my results. The...
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I was just reading Scott Hanselman's blog , where he was discussing the Windows Vista speech recognition. So I decided to try it for myself. Scott took a typing test, once using a keyboard and then again using speech recognition. I decided to use the same test as Scott . Here are my results. The...
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One of the coolest things I've seen from Microsoft in a long time is something called Photosynth. The basic idea behind Photosynth is to take a pile of photographs of a location, which it then analyzes and places each image in 3D space, so your photo collection becomes a 3D model of the location...
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By now, you'll have seen a ClustrMap like the one shown here. This wonderful little invention shows graphically how many people have been visiting a certain web page and from what part of the world. It is truly fascinating to add one to your blog or web site and watch the red dots appear and grow...
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There are only three types of people: those who can count and those who can't. According to LinkedIn. To be fair to LinkedIn, this condition only persisted for a few minutes. On a more serious note, I've been playing around with LinkedIn for a few months now and I'm finding it a lot more useful that...
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The campaign is hotting up here in Wales with Welsh Aseembly Government elections looming. Everyone is trying to win my vote on 3rd May - my birthday, by the way! I've just watched a party political broadcast by the Wales Green Party and I was completely blown away by it. No white haired politician in...
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There is a lesson in this tale for all of us IT professionals on what it means to have great customer service. A little while back I purchased a pair of tuner cards for a Media Center I was building. I chose a model called Black Gold Signature Tuners from a British company called GDI. A number of factors...
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Microsoft's Office Live service delivers a quick and cost-effective solution for small businesses and organizations wishing to create an online presence. One example is the Entrepreneuse Live web site, which showcases female entrepreneurs and was developed in association with TiGra Networks ( other examples...
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Based on the Small Business Technology Assessment toolkit, Microsoft has released a new version of this useful partner sales tool, renamed Business & Technology Assessment Toolkit . TiGra Networks took part in pre-release testing to review the question bank and beta test the application. The new...