Tag: Microsoft

  • Trendpedia launches Blog Search

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    Simon from Attentio pinged me yesterday to let me know about their latest offering, Trendpedia. In Simon’s own words Trendpedia: is in essence a European Blog search with a lovely trend function. We have some more cool stuff to come, will keep you in the loop. In the example above I looked for mentions of…

  • Live Maps Bird's Eye now includes (some) Irish towns

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    Via Clare Dillon the Virtual Earth blog and Martha Rotter on Twitter I spotted that Microsoft’s Live Maps now includes images of Cork, Galway, Carlow, Limerick, Navan & Wexford – cool! The Bird’s Eye button becomes active when you are over an area that Microsoft has detailed aerial imagery of. The image below is of…

  • Get off your high horse Ed!

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    There was a big bruhaha on the intertubes over the weekend when Apple ran its software update on Windows and offered the Safari 3.1 browser download as the default selected option. Now I am not for a second condoning this kind of behaviour. I believe opt-in is the only way to do optional updates, especially…

  • Microsoft Vista performance issues

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    Vista is buggy. That much is obvious to anyone who runs it but it has been improving in stability as the patches are rolled out. However it runs extremely slowly too and this became startlingly obvious to me in the last few weeks as I have been testing browsers on different platforms. It turns out…

  • Yahoo! indirectly upping the cost of acquisition for Microsoft?

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    Microsoft made an offer of $44.6bn for Yahoo! recently which Yahoo! rejected saying it “substantially undervalues” the company (personally I think it waaaaay overvalued Yahoo! and Microsoft caught a lucky break that the offer was spurned). The New York Times is reporting today though that Microsoft are determined to follow through on this. However, both…

  • Microsoft Wireless Laser Keyboard 6000 not very wireless!

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    I bought a Microsoft Wireless Laser Keyboard 6000 V2.0 a few weeks back because I needed an ergonomic keyboard (was suffering from an RSI) and went wireless to avoid cable clutter. However, I have had lots of issues with the reception on the wireless devices. They report poor signal quality when 2-3 centimeters apart! How…

  • Ubuntu deleted my Windows partition!

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    I installed Ubuntu (a Linux distro) on my Vaio a few months back and loved it. It was fast, it was stable and I felt I was achieving a certain amount of geeky street cred for using it! Then, more recently there was a new version of Ubuntu released – 7.10. I upgraded to 7.10…

  • Popfly mashups

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    After Steve Clayton demoed it to me last week, I decided to try playing around with Microsoft’s Popfly. Popfly is a tool for creating Mashups in Silverlight, with a drag and drop interface. It comes with a tutorial (on right) and the interface is easy to get used to. In fact it is even easier…