Changing Times
You might think we've been kinda quiet lately. But we haven't - we've just been making a lot of noise on this blog over here instead.
So until further notice, please consider that other site the place to check out all our ramblings. In the meantime we'll be sorting out this one, and sorting out a few other things too.
Now please take a moment and listen to this and to imagine a big epic send off to a much loved blog. But treat the send off with some cynicism, because you know that really whilst one chapter is closing, another one is probably opening somewhere else.
Just like in Sex & The City when they stopped doing TV for more money and longer holidays doing cinema.
Posted by: Simeon at is transient on Tuesday, 1st December 2009
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More Windows 7 News
Our very own Cherie has installed a preview release version of Windows 7 and discovered something a bit lol worthy.
After the EU ruled that M$ wasn't allowed to bundle Inter
net Explorer within the EU because it breaks anti-competative laws, Microsoft decided to release Windows 7 without any web browsers installed. Obviously without a web browser, you aren't able to go online and download one - as you need a browser in the first
place to get there.
So if you're doing a fresh install of Windows 7, make sure you have a copy of Google Chrome, or Firefox on a USB stick or on a CD for browser installation otherwise you'll have a whole lot of fun trying to work out how to check your e-mails.
If you're buying a new PC or laptop from a manufacturer like Dell, then this won't be an issue as they regularly install 3rd party junk like Google Desktop before shipping their systems so it would be highly unlikely they ship a system without a browser pre-installed on it.
Posted by: Ramzi at LoL Hour on Tuesday, 28th July 2009
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Pre-Order Windows 7 Today
From today, you're able to pre-order Windows 7 on Amazon (and other places) whilst stocks last. The RRP is £150, but you can snap it up for this short period for £45 which is truly a bargain for what is being heralded as an actually GOOD operating system from M$. The OS isn't actually released until October, so don't expect it to turn up on your doorstep next week if you pre-order it today.
I've bought my copy. I think you should as well. Unless you use a Mac. If you do, feel free to come to the Crown & Sceptre with us in Farringdon one Friday evening and join the PC vs Mac argument. Its not much of an argument at the moment as I'm one of a very small number in the office who haven't moved over to a Mac.
*Update* The price has already gone up to £70 as of 28th July 09 so be quick.
Posted by: Ramzi at Microsoft Time on Wednesday, 15th July 2009
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Geekmented Reality
Faris talks quite a bit about augmented reality over on his blog. Its pretty interesting stuff really - overlaying digital information over the real world through some handy display or even and eyeball implant (yum..), and in doing so making the real world a more connected place where the infinite information available on the internet can enrich peoples' lives in new and unexpected ways.
Some really smart people at MIT (those guys are always up to some clever stuff) - have "developed a wearable computing system that turns any surface into an interactive display screen. The wearer can summon virtual gadgets and internet data at will, then dispel them like smoke when they're done."
Have a look at this pretty cool video which they've made, demonstrating the life hacking ability of their gizmo.
Posted by: Ramzi at Hammer time on Friday, 6th February 2009
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Feast your eyes on this
It's not often you'll find me asking to sit through 3 days worth of conference talks, but Amsterdam's Picnic conference is no ordinary conference. Rather, it's 3 days worth of grazing at the banquet table of digital creativity and technological development. Yes, that's right: it's a geek-fest.
So in the spirit of sharing and passing off everything I learnt as my own work, here's a link to a short presentation summarising what interested me most.
Please email me for more meat on what I confess might otherwise be quite a skeletal deck: simeon@hyperhappen.com
[image by jsc.]
Posted by: Simeon at oh so hungry on Monday, 27th October 2008
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