Monthly Archives: July 2009

Virgin Media to lower price of their 50Mb Broadband

According to their Press Office Virgin Media will lower the price of their flagship 50Mb Broadband service to £28 a month when taken with a phone line or £38 as a standalone product. Also Virgin are trailing 10Mb upload speeds … Continue reading

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Installing an “E edition” of Windows 7

As Windows 7 for the European Union Economic Zone, Croatia and Switzerland will not include Internet Explorer or related technologies users will need to manually install a web browser of their own choice like Internet Explorer, Apple Safari or Mozilla … Continue reading

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Best Western Window Fail

Well I stayed in a Best Western Hotel and never saw this, how on earth was this possible?

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Windows 95 on an iPhone

Not exactly usable but interesting indeed.

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Upgraded to 50Mbps Broadband

This afternoon Virgin Media came round to “install” their 50Mbps Broadband service. This means that this website will now load a bit faster due to a 1.65Mbps upload speed rather than the meagre 768kbps upload that I had before. Also … Continue reading

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Microsoft update on the Widnows 7 RTM

Microsoft blogger Brandon LeBlanc has published an update on the Windows 7 RTM and this is a quote from the Windows Team Blog. Over the past week, there have been many rumours surrounding RTM. We are close, but have not … Continue reading

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VNV Nation – Kingdom

This track kicks ass but annoyingly it’s not on the UK iTunes store at present. But thankfully it’s on YouTube to listen to :-)

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Office 2010 The Movie

According to Neowin.net the Office 2010 Beta will be released to a private beta group along with an announcement of the “Release to Manufacturing” of Windows 7. It’s believed the Beta won’t be too different from the leaked “Technical Preview”. … Continue reading

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Windows 7 Family Pack Licence ?

My friend Kristen Kenny has uncovered an interesting licensing clause for Windows 7 Home Premium known as a “Family Pack” licence. This licence allows a single copy of Windows 7 Home Premium on up to 3 computers in a single … Continue reading

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