Tim Long

Forever in Electric Dreams
The life and times of a Small Business Server MVP and all-round technology enthusiast. Tim is founder of TiGra Networks, a company based in South Wales UK specialising in small business IT. This blog is aimed at Microsoft Small Business Specialists, IT professionals, Astronomers and anyone interested in science and technology.

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World Wide Telescope
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...
Into The Groove?
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...
First Impressions of Microsoft CRM 4.0 codename "Titan"
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: Thanks a Million
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...
Windows Vista speech recognition
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...
Photosynth
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...
ClustrMaps - So Good. So Buy One
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...
The Art of Arithmetic
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...
Effective Marketing - A Lesson from the Green Party
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...
How To Lose a Customer: GDI Black Gold Signature Digital Tuners and Windows Vista
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...
Business and Technology Assessment Toolkit Released
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...
Blog by Email (again)
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...
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Stay Safe Online
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...
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 available
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...
More Power to your Shell
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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