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...
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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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...
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...
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...