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For those of you who have been reading my Blog for a while now you might remember that back in November 2005 I blogged about how us Managed Beta testers of Windows Live Mail would be getting some cool Windows Live Mail Frisbees for helping out in the Managed Windows Live Mail Beta. Well some of us Managed Beta Testers including
Photosynth is an amazing new technology from Microsoft Live Labs that will change the way you think about digital photos forever. Photosynth takes a large collection of photos of a place or object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a reconstructed 3-Dimensional space. With Photosynth you can: walk or fly through a scene to see photos from any
According to the BBC, The large James Bond stage at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire used for the filming of Casino Royale has been destroyed by a blazing fire, at least eight fire engines tackled the blaze at the set, but none of it is thought to be salvageable. Read more about this on BBC News Website.
You’ll be happy to know that I’ve just Upgraded this blog from WordPress 2.0.3 to WordPress 2.0.4, which should hopefuly fix over 50 bugs that apparently laid in wordpress: WordPress 2.0.4, the latest stable release in our Duke series, is available for immediate download. This release contains several important security fixes, so it’s highly recommended for all users. We’ve also rolled in
The Windows Live Spaces Team needs a Gadget Evangelist, read below for more information of what it consists of and what you need to do to apply if you think you have the qualities needed: Are you the kind of person that looks at a website and says “they should add this feature, I could do that”? Well, we may
Microsoft’s Zune project is now starting to ripple through the rest of the industry. Here’s what RealNetworks Chief Executive Rob Glaser had to say on his company’s quarterly conference call yesterday: “Apple’s success with the iPod and iTunes has raised a fundamental question: Is this going to be an industry based on proprietary vertical platforms, each from a single company,
In a meeting that will go down in internet history, the United States government last night conceded that it can no longer expect to maintain its position as the ultimate authority over the internet. Having been the internet’s instigator and, since 1998, its voluntary taskmaster, the US government finally agreed to transition its control over not-for-profit internet overseeing organisation ICANN,
Microsoft issued yet another Windows heads up on Wednesday in a briefing with PC Magazine. This one is for a suite of Windows Live products slated to be available sometime in August. The suite includes Windows Live Toolbar, which actually became available this week, Windows Live Safety Updates, and Windows Live Spaces, Microsoft’s version of MySpace. One of the most
Microsoft is challenging developers worldwide to create conversational robots, or ‘Bots’, for MSN Messenger and Windows Live Messenger. The most original, useful robots collect $40,000 in total prizes. And now you can win loads more cool prizes when you enter the UK competition that runs alongside the global competition. Bots are software programs that you can add to MSN Messenger
The Facet Technology Mobile360 Van used for taking photos for Micrsoft’s Street-Side Technology Preview of Windows Live Local Beta has once again been spotted on the road but this time it wasn’t actually spotted in the Street-Site Imagery found at: http://preview.local.live.com/ But instead by kimopupule a Flickr user who spotted this black (normally white) Windows Live Local Van while driving, he says his first words when seeing it were