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ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

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The Windows Vista Demo Readiness Toolkit

The Windows Vista Partner Demo Readiness Toolkit (DRT) enables you to check out the product for yourself, and gain the expert skills needed to effectively demo it to your customers. It includes Windows Vista RC1 and Microsoft® Office Professional 2007 Beta 2, and has been pre-populated with settings and media to simulate an end-user PC experience. You will also find

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UK Windows Vista And Office 2007 Launch Tour

Just noticed on Ian Moulster’s Blog that from Monday 22nd to Friday 26th January the Microsoft UK developer team will be touring the country to bring the story to many organisations of all types. In that week the Microsoft UK developer team hope to deliver 12-15 sessions of around 90 minutes each depending on the amount of travelling between each location

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Skype users to get lie detectors

Callers using internet phone system Skype who might be tempted to tell a few porkies should beware – the user on the other end may have a lie detector. As Skype is set to offer the KishKish Lie Detector, which is made by BATM, as an add-on for customers. The software will analyse audio streams over a Skype call in real

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UK Developer Launch of Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007

So on tuesday I visited Microsoft’s Technet Launch for IT Professionals of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office System (aka the EVO Launch). And well now on the 19th of January 2007 I’ll be visiting Reading once again, this time for the Microsft’s MSDN Launch for Devolpers of Windows Vista and Office 2007. And with

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Flickr Xmas Easter Egg HoHoHo!

Heard word from Robert Gale yeserday that Flickr have implemented an easter egg for Christmas. It’s pretty funny, you can add a beard to a someone in a photo by naming a photonote called “ho ho ho hat” and add a beard by naming a photonote “ho ho ho beard”. Check this one out of me, found on Robs Flickr

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Yesterday’s UK EVO Launch was great!

Yesterday myself and three others from the University of Kent headed down to Reading for Microsoft’s Technet UK Ready for a New Day: Launch of Microsoft Exchange Server, Windows Vista and 2007 Microsoft Office System (aka the EVO Launch). And well we just want to say that we thought it was brilliant! So well done to everybody who helped orgainse it, you done a

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Christmas BritBlog Blogmeet 2006

Well I went to the Christmas BritBlog blogmeet in London last night with Robert Gale and well what can I say it turned out to be pretty good, there were around 15 people at one point! 🙂 Here’s a list of attendees with the corresponding links to their blogs, sorry if I misspelled any names, the list isn’t in its best

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Great Escape Festival 2007 plans to be bigger and better!

Barfly are proud to announce the return of The Great Escape Festival which will bring the best of live music from across the World back to Brighton on the 17th 19th May next year, after this years The Great Escape Festival reportedly became Europe’s best global export ready showcase festival.  Which isn’t bad at all considering it was it’s first year! The

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Artist Registration now open for The Great Escape 2007 Festival

The Great Escape Festival www.escapegreat.com is Europe’s most established showcase event for both new and signed artists and is THE place to get your music heard by both media and industry, as well as 5,000 punters! And this year Live Sessions has teamed up with The Great Escape Festival to provide the event’s unique registration system for unsolicited applications. If

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Free trial of 2007 Microsoft Office system

Try out your choice of suites or programs from the 2007 Microsoft Office release for 60 days! Trial programs contain the same functionality that you get when you buy the perpetual versions-but only for a limited time. UK and Ireland: http://ukireland.trymicrosoftoffice.com US: http://us1.trymicrosoftoffice.com http://us7.trymicrosoftoffice.com http://us20.trymicrosoftoffice.com Canada: http://canada.trymicrosoftoffice.com Germany: http://germany.trymicrosoftoffice.com France: http://france.trymicrosoftoffice.com Japan: http://japan.trymicrosoftoffice.com/ Available downloads: Microsoft Office Professional 2007 Microsoft