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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I owe Rob Howard an apology. A while back just prior to the official launch I tried his BlogMailr service and gave it a less-than-complimentary review . To be fair, the results I got were poor. However, I tried again today and the results were much, much...
If you've seen the wonderful Get Safe Online web site, you may be interested in Get Safe Online (the blog) . This useful resource publishes regular information and advice helping you stay safe online and keep up to date with the latest security best practices...
Hot news - Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is available for download (news broken by Wayne Small on his SBS-FAQ site a few hours ago) and also by Susan Bradley . TiGra Networks has an intranet site up and running and I'm extremely pleased with how well...
Vijay from iQubed has blogged about the new Windows Powershell ('WSH'). The point he makes is that Microsoft has always accused Linux of being 'difficult to manage' because of its command line driven interface and now, suddenly when Windows finally gets...
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