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I am visited my parents last week and there was a large thunderstorm one night.  Because of the thunderstorm, their cable-box/DVR died.  The local cable company showed up in the morning and replaced it the old box with a new one.  One of the first things that my father wanted to do, was setup the shows that they wanted to ...

At first you would think that in a world cloud computing applications would look and behave the same as any other web application – after all it is the financial model for computing that has changed, not what is served up, right? For many of the large websites that we use today that is generally true – cloud computing doesn’t change much. What ...

Living away from home makes you miss friends, family… and, perhaps oddly, the place. VR Web Design offer a service which gives a Virtual Tour of London and other cities which is very innovative and cool. Note: the spheres are areas of focus / interest which can be clicked on to shift the focus to another part of the city.   This was ...

After months of planning, you touch down at your dream destination.  You’ve had a great flight, you’ve arrived on time and the weather is just perfect.  Feeling slightly smug that your bags turned up first on the carousel, you sail through immigration and are almost ready to start your vacation. However, leaving the arrivals hall, ...

I am currently working in South Africa where we are starting up an EMC Consulting practice – very exciting, daunting, awesome and frightening all at once. But this post isn’t about what we are doing as EMC Consulting but an observation of something that I have noticed since been out here – brand is important. Obviously there are a myriad of ...

You may have heard the latest developing trend around outsourcing the information worker such as the law firm Pinsent who outsource litigation work to South Africa, however I was very impressed by this article which Matt Harris passed on to me – essentially the Telegraph have had a fantastic couple of months with the expenses scandal and held all ...

I have come across a visualization technique called Here and There by Schulze and Webb from Alexis Kennedy (as ever thanks), other blogs and Wired Magazine (UK, June 2009). See below what it looks like:       As mentioned in Wired, it is like street view on a roller coaster – eye level and birds eye view. It is definitely ...

This is the bold claim by the web browser company - Opera. Watch this space on Tuesday. What this actual means is unknown and any conjecture is circumspect but there is an article on The Register here which explains what this could be…   So on Tuesday at 9 AM (8 AM BST) the web will be reinvented here – it is great that outlandish claims ...

Microsoft have launched a new Search Engine called Bing incorporating the technology comes from Microsoft’s acquisition of Powerset (not just a rebrand of Windows Live). It is being marketed as more than just a search engine, rather as a decision engine. It is in preview and you can try it out here, the video is worth a look too. ...

A few months back I posted a collection of Microsoft Surface tips from the Twitter hashtag #Surfacetip. The 140 character limit is somewhat challenging so I'm planning to tackle these tips one-by-one in a tad more detail.I’ll start with a simple tip, but one that resonates with me from recent projects, and that is ensuring that everyone ...