I spent a fair chunk of today with Peter Gradwell and some of his colleagues from Gradwell.com. They were celebrating the company’s 10th anniversary and were kind enough to invite some of their customers to lunch in Cardiff Bay. We chose Gradwell.com as our preferred supplier of digital trunks for our...
I saw a post by Jesse Liberty, Silverlight Geek about the technology being used by the Democratic National Convention to stream HD video using Silverlight technology. Well, never mind the politics, check out the technology. If you have ever, EVER seen a flash video that can rival this quality, just point...
New broadband installation is complete but was not without some pain. That's not really surprising as domestic providers aren't really geared up for supplying businesses. The line was swapped over by about 10am and I promptly got a text message to inform me that I could connect my new "Be...
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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I have taken on a new customer this week and they have an interesting business that deals with energy (gas and electricity), measuring consumption with smart meters and ultimately using less of it to reduce your carbon footprint and save money. They showed me a neat little box that measures the power...
Poor Mike - perhaps he should have used PowerGUI . I have been catching up with Mike Ormond's blog today. Mike posts lots of stuff that will be interesting to software developers and if you're a Visual Studio user, even just a hobbyist, it's well worth checking out. Mike mentioned that Windows...
I was watching the Bill Gates keynote at CES the other day when one of the presenters gave a demo of Windows Live Photo Gallery stitching together a mosaic of images into a single panorama. I have a few panoramic images so I thought I'd give it a go, and I am so impressed with it! I decided to give...
Back in 2000 I was in Fry's Electronics in San Jose, California and I stumbled accross a little device called " U.are.U 2000 ". It was a fingerprint reader and some software that replaced the normal Windows login screen with one that allowed you to use your fingerprint to log in. It was...
David Overton - someone well known to UK SBSC partners - has started publishing a series of demos on his blog. I've watched a couple of them and they are really good, concise SilverLight videos packed with useful hints and tips. These would be great training aids for our customers or might even form...