Technology
Microsoft launch Photosynth
Microsoft have just launched Photosynth an amazing new website with software that “takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a reconstructed three-dimensional space.” With Photosynth you can: Walk or fly through a scene to see photos from any angle. Seamlessly zoom in… Read note →
Make Windows XP look nicer
If like me you spend a lot of your day looking at a PC then you want it to be as easy on the easy as possible. The standard Windows XP look does get quite boring after a while, so for the last year or so I have had the Royale themeinstalled on both my… Read note →
How to create or edit a Firefox quick search
I like the quick search facility in firefox; the dictionary search is particularly useful. by typing “dict search-term” into the address bar you get a dictionary definition. The definitions used to be provided by dictionary.reference.com but for some reason in the last couple of versions it’s been the Merriam-Webster website. I just don’t think the… Read note →
Dreamweaver 8 losing FTP login settings
Recently I’ve been having a frustrating time using Dreamweaver’s FTP client. For some reason, it kept losing the FTP user name and password whenever I restarted dreamweaver, and it seems I was not alone. It appears that the problem was caused by a conflict between the version of Dreamweaver I was running and IE7. Downloading… Read note →
Internet Explorer Seven has arrived
IE 7 is finaly out. Do yourself a favour, go to the Microsoft site and download it Today. It’s just so much nicer to use than previous versions and it’s supposed to be more secure too. Read note →
Sharing your printer on your home network
There are a number of approaches you can take to sharing your printer. You could physically plug it in to the USB port on your PC or laptop when you want to print, but this isn’t very practical. You could use the printer sharing feature in Windows XP, but this means you need to have… Read note →
Adobe “Fully Loaded” Tour
I’m sitting in the Brighton Odeon Cinema in the “Fully Web” Session of “Fully Loaded” Tour it’s being presented by Steve B(something). It’s basically Adobe trying to sell their suite of web development products. It’s not really holding my attention. There are two reasons for this: Firstly, all they have covered in any detail so… Read note →
Life is about to get a lot more complicated
Or easier, I’m not sure which! IE7 is due to be released this month. Initially it’ll be available via optional download from the MS website but they are going to push it out through windows update which means that take up is likely to be very quick. I’m not sure if it’s going to break… Read note →
A whole batch of good new stuff – Part 1: Browsers
I spend an awful lot of time on line so I’m always keen to find ways to make it a more productive and enjoyable time. In the past few weeks and days there have been some interesting new versions of some of the major web browsers released, I’ve been playing with them to see how… Read note →
moblogging…
It would be dead handy if I could post to my blog from a mobile. I rarely find time to right entries for my blog at the moment, being able to post quickly from the phone would be realy nice. I’ve been playing about over the last day or so with lifeblog from nokia. It’s… Read note →