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ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

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Say Hello to the all New Genpets from Bio Genica!

I think I remember seing something about Genpets posted ages ago on some forum, but as I was just reminded about it after seeing it posted on Miel’s Blog I thought I might as well post it here as well. Say Hello to the all New Genpets from Bio.Genica! The Genpets are Pre-Packaged, Bioengineered pets implemented today! That’s right, Genpets are not toys or robots.

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Coming Soon: @live.com and @windowslive.com domains

The title of this post says it all, on the 20th of June 2006, two new domains will be available for customers signing up for a new Windows Live ID. According to the Windows Live Mail Support Team Blog the two new domains @live.com and @windowslive.com will be available to register when you sign up for a new account with Windows

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Msn Spaces Mobile now has Stats

Starting today, when you go to your space from your mobile phone (http://mobile.spaces.msn.com/) and sign in you’ll see statistics for your space at the bottom of the page: you’ll see the number of page views from the last hour, today, the current week, and total page views since the inception of the space. The page views are tracked when your

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The bugs, beauty and benefits of beta testing

Just found out about this article which has some advice for becoming a beta tester along with the bugs, beauty and benefits of beta testing, it’s quite an interesting read. here’s an extract of the last paragraph: Advice for beta testers Beta tests are not something to enter into lightly. You may need to put lower priority projects on hold or delay other

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Windows Live Messenger 8.0 Managed Beta Comes to an End!

The Windows Live Messenger 8.0 Managed Beta has now come to an end, and what a great beta it was, congratulations goes to the Windows Live Messenger Team, it was very well managed and it was great to talk to other beta participants. I don’t think it could have got any better, well not unless we were all invited to

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CGI Animated Meteorite Collision Simulation Video

Check out this impresive CGI-animated meteorite collision simulation video, it’s pretty cool but scary if you ask me. The diameter of the meteorite is slightly bigger than the breadth of Honshu Japan. The collision point is located at the 3,000km south from Japan in the ocean. The velocity of the meteorite is 70,000km/h Via: TecheBlog | A Welsh View

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My thoughts on the Farecast Private Beta so far!

Ok so I’ve been on the Farecast Private Beta, an airline fare prediction tool, for less than a week now thanks to Mark and I kind of like what I’ve seen so far, but to be honest there’s still quite a lot of limitations. Now I know this is a very early private beta (invite only) but I think they really need

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30 Boxes Webtop!

30 Boxes co-founder Narendra Rocherolle has now posted on the 30 Boxes Blog about their new Webtop Service called 30 Boxes Webtop! And so far it’s looking pretty good as you can even choose a different background image by giving the webtop an URL, it also ties in nicely with your calendar, but yeah anyway I won’t go into depths

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Windows Vista Beta 2: Biggest Download Event in History

For those of you that don’t know yet, the Windows Vista Beta 2 Download is set to make it into the Guinness Book of World Records for 2006 because it has set the record for the biggest download event in history with its 3.5GB Windows Vista ISO Image that contains the Windows Vista Installer. We are pumping out bits as

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Robert Scoble is leaving Microsoft for PodTech.net so what’s next?

Ok so you’ve probably already heard the news about how Robert Scoble, one of the worlds most noticed bloggers and technical evangelists for Microsoft, has announced (10th June 20060) that he is leaving Microsoft to join a new start up called PodTech.net where he will work as Vice President of Media Development. But have you heard the new news about