Windows 7 RC expiration coming soon

1st February 2010, 19:42 | No Comments | Filed in Technology News

Just a heads up that Windows 7 RC will start displaying expiration notices in two weeks and users should reinstall with the RTM release or reinstall a previous version of Windows.

Effective February 15, 2010, the expiration notification process begins:

  • Windows 7 RC users receive an expiration notification in the task bar one time per day.
  • Windows 7 RC users are presented with the Notification Wizard one time every four hours and then one time every hour.

Effective March 1, 2010, Windows 7 RC enters the next phase of expiration:

  • Expiration notifications in the task bar continue.
  • Computers that are running Windows 7 RC restart every two hours.
    Important When the computer restarts, your work will not be saved.

Effective June 1, 2010, Windows 7 RC expires:

  • Windows starts to a black desktop.
  • Windows 7 RC users are presented with a Windows Activation screen. The screen states that the Windows that you are running is not genuine.
  • Computers that are running Windows 7 RC restart every two hours.

End of the recession and Upshares Downshares

26th January 2010, 21:25 | No Comments | Filed in News and politics

Today the UK finally came out of it’s recession at long last. The PM programme has been charting the economic crisis daily from November 2008 with a slot named by the listeners as Upshares Downshares.

Out of the blue listeners started sending in their rendition and interpretations of the theme music. So each week listeners were greeted with a different rendition sent in by the listeners.

Listeners have expressed interest in a charity CD with all the versions of the theme music and the BBC are looking into whether that’s possible.

Below is the extended version by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.

Mozilla Firefox 3.6 released

21st January 2010, 21:55 | No Comments | Filed in Technology News

Today as expected Mozilla Firefox 3.6 has been released and is “20% faster”. I’ve ran the Acid 3 test and scores 92/100 so is getting better with every release.

I would expect when version 4 is released it would finally pass the Acid 3 test.

Below are some of the new features.

  • New Personas
  • Outdated Plugin Detection
  • Full Screen Open Video support
  • Web open Font Format
  • CSS Gradients and Backgrounds for Developers
  • File API
  • Drag and Drop
  • Desktop Orientation Sensors
  • Improved Speed

Download your copy today

Renault – Drive the Change

9th January 2010, 22:05 | No Comments | Filed in Audio / Video

AT&T stops selling iPhone in New York

28th December 2009, 15:49 | No Comments | Filed in Apple

AT&T have stopped selling Apple’s iPhone in the New York area.

Customers who enter a New York ZIP codes will be greeted with "Sorry this Package is not available in your area."

AT&T appears to be taking next step in dealing with the high data usage in some US Cities, buy not selling the iPhone online.

An AT&T spokesperson called Fletcher Cook said in a written statement to The Consumerist

"We periodically modify our promotions and distribution channels." It appears that AT&T has temporarily stopped selling the iPhone 3G and 3GS to new customers. Consumers can still purchase the iPhone through the Apple Store with an AT&T contract.

Merry Christmas

24th December 2009, 19:21 | No Comments | Filed in Weebl

Merry Christmas to everyone and hope you enjoy yourselves. If your drinking don’t get too drunk and regret it the Morning after.

There’s no new Christmas video form Weebl and Bob but here is one of the best ones which happens to last year’s :-)

Outlook 2010 supports 15 Exchange Server e-mail accounts.

8th December 2009, 21:48 | No Comments | Filed in Office

Steven Bink over at Bink.nu has found a rather cool feature in the Beta of Outlook 2010, adding multiple Exchange Server accounts from different organisations.

Below is a screenshot of his Outlook accounts.

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When you compose a new e-mai you can specify which Exchange mailbox you can use in the same way as with POP3 and IMAP mailboxes.

Steven  Bink says:
“Before Outlook 2010 you could add extra mailboxes, but only from the same organization and sent items were saved in sent items folder of the main mailbox.

Now in Outlook 2010 by default it will let you connect to 3 Exchange mailboxes maximum, in or outside default Exchange organization.

But Group Policy settings (GPO) for Outlook 2010 can change this maximum behaviour from 1 to 15 (!).”

I personally won’t use this but it’s a rather handy feature for some users with multiple Exchange Mailboxes.

Now have a Blackberry 8520 Smartphone

5th December 2009, 20:51 | No Comments | Filed in Blackberry

On Thursday I received a Blackberry 8520 to replace my faulty 8310. The 8520 is a darn lovely phone and an improvement over 8310.

There is no longer the trackball button which is replaced with a trackpad type style of control wish is more responsive and has built in 54g Wi-Fi which one can use to have a wireless broadband connection to your company’s Blackberry Enterprise Server if you use one.

Here is a link to the 8520 specs
http://uk.blackberry.com/devices/blackberrycurve8500/

Come to Farnborough !

20th November 2009, 17:04 | No Comments | Filed in Audio / Video

So true and even though I live here makes me laugh :-)

Microsoft Office 2010 Public Beta now available

18th November 2009, 19:51 | No Comments | Filed in Office, Technology News

Microsoft has made the Beta of Office 2010 available today, this comes after the release on TechNet and MSDN the other day.

Over on Neowin they have had a look at some of the new features, these include social networking integration and smart pasting options.

Download: http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/en/default.aspx