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“THE BEST WAY TO PREDICT THE FUTURE IS TO CREATE IT.” - Peter Drucker

Can your PC run Windows 7?

As the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor website says, in general, if your PC can run Windows Vista, it can...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 05/11/2009

Zune Pass Takes it to Apple’s Wallet

Now Zune is going after Apple where it hurts most right now – in the wallet. the Zune pass is sadly...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 05/11/2009

Windows 7 Ship Date and Office 2010 Tech Preview

At Tech•Ed North America 2009 today, Bill Veghte announced that Windows 7 is on track to be...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 05/11/2009

Microsoft’s Open Government Data Initiative with Windows Azure

I can tell it’s a busier than usual time at work as my blogging has slowed (a little) and...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 05/11/2009

A World Record Print

I attended a world record event last Thursday in Shoreditch, London. Ben Eine and Nelly Duff...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 05/10/2009

Microsoft’s PDC 09

Just a quick one to remind you that the The Professional Developer Conference, PDC09, will take...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 05/10/2009

Download Windows XP Mode Beta for Windows 7

It’s been talked about a lot and I think it’s a super smart solution to ensuring legacy applications...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 05/08/2009

Facebook for Windows Mobile - free download

I’ve been playing with this for a while and it’s pretty cool – and now it’s freely available to...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 05/08/2009

Windows 7 Wallpaper Quiz

A pal of mine just pinged a few fellow softies asking if we could held identify the architecture...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 05/07/2009

My Adamo Experience

  Thanks to some friendly folks at Dell UK I had the chance to play with an Adamo over the...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 05/06/2009

NYC Infoporn

  Thanks to Richard Jones for sharing this with me – views of Manhattan by Schulze & Webb...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 05/06/2009

VisibleTweets

would make a great screensaver but for now, just a great website https://visibletweets.com Enter a...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 05/05/2009

Multimap for Outlook – A Killer (free) App

    I’ll be honest with you, when I first received an email from the team suggesting...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 05/05/2009

Windows 7 RC Now Available

The Windows 7 RC is now available to all. Let the downloading commence! Available in the following...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 05/05/2009

Le Tour De Clayton

This summer I'll be cycling over 200 miles over 3 days in France with a group of mates from St Malo...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 05/04/2009

A Dell Week

I’m a Sony man really – I’ve had Vaio’s for the past 4 years and love them (apart from their screens...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 05/04/2009

Funky Ford Ad

I like the new Ford ad by Ogilvy. Watching at home a few nights ago I wanted to know which city it...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 05/03/2009

T-Mobile Does Trafalgar Square

I didn’t make it down there on Friday but 13,500 did and were joined by Pink to belt out The Beatles...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 05/03/2009

Twitter is Stressed Out

Just tried to change my profile picture back to Banksy’s copper and got this Poor Twitter. I’ll send...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 05/02/2009

iBrowz Brings RSS to Windows Mobile

  Sarah just posted an entry about iBrowz which looks like a well presented RSS reader for...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 05/02/2009

Windows Azure Geo-Location Goes Live

  Steve Marx from the Windows Azure team just tweeted about something I think is very cool and...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 05/01/2009

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence

  Ayrton Senna - certainly the finest F1 driver of my era – even if the statistics show...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 05/01/2009

Sheila: Microsoft’s Latest Laptop Hunter

Video: Laptop Hunters $2000 – Sheila gets an HP HDX   I’ve been checking regularly to see when...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 05/01/2009

Windows 7 Release Candidate Now Available

The Release Candidate is now available on Technet and MSDN if you’re a subscriber – try the link you...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 04/30/2009

Lego garden candles

LEGOesque candles – could be tres handy for the garden this summer. $48 a pop tip o’ the Fez to...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 04/29/2009

Cloud Computing in 70 seconds

At mashup* Cloud Computing this evening in London we couldn’t get to a definition of cloud computing...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 04/28/2009

Office 2007 SP2

If you have the former, you should install the later.  Download (290mb)   small print:...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 04/28/2009

I Heart Pie

TwitterMagnets is a beautiful new site for Twitter poetry. Totally addictive and perfect music....

Author: stevecla01 Date: 04/28/2009

Kids are talkingaboutwindows.com

Very cuddly…Jon Devaan, Senior VP of Microsoft’s Windows Core Operating System (COSD) in a Window,...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 04/28/2009

A Hybrid Exchange

I’m doing a lot of cloud reading of late which is handy as I’m off to present at mashup* Cloud...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 04/28/2009

Making Art with Microsoft Tag

What the hell is that? Well the image on the left is my Microsoft Tag and using software on your...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 04/28/2009

More on Microsoft’s Gen 4 data centers

Video: Microsoft Generation 4.0 Data Center Vision   Hmm, I’d always thought Gen4 was the...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 04/27/2009

Backdrop Liverpool

Liverpool, the 2nd most filmed city in the UK, is the star of this advert for Hovis bread. Gives me...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 04/27/2009

Jobs Speaks

Made me smile. Apparently it’s Wired’s last in their popular “Artifacts From the Future” page....

Author: stevecla01 Date: 04/26/2009

Fill Your Sunday with Cloud Computing

I read a tonne of great stuff on cloud computing last week – a lot of it from CIO Magazine including...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 04/25/2009

UseTheColor.com

Lime green Porsche sir? Salmon pink Ferrari perhaps? No I didn’t think so and thankfully neither are...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 04/25/2009

Onwards By James Jarvis

I’m a big fan of James Jarvis and love this video he’s done for Nike called “Onwards”. The animation...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 04/25/2009

Web Trend Map 4 with DeepZoomPix

PhotoMetadataUrl=https://deepzoompix.com/API/PhotoMetadata.ashx?alias=stevecla01&album=8, Oliver and...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 04/24/2009

I’m A PC stickers landing all over

      Maybe I’m A confused PC from the guys at EMC/Conchango :) thanks to @poleydee....

Author: stevecla01 Date: 04/23/2009

The Mobile Web Is Borked

An Internet Watered Down   A cool presentation by John Pettengill who work at Razorfish (a...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 04/23/2009

Hardware Issues

Wise words from GraphJam this morning. Never done this myself of course… tweetmeme_url =...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 04/23/2009

Get Insight from a Microsoft Data Center

I saw an internal email regarding a webcast called Transforming the Data Center with Energy...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 04/23/2009

Belkin Micro Auto Charger - On My Wish List

  Sometimes the smartest ideas are the most obvious ones. Add to this list the Belkin Micro...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 04/22/2009

Gapingvoid Galley Goes Live

My buddy Hugh MacLeod mentioned to me last week he had a new project he was about to reveal and...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 04/22/2009

Wines Of Substance

I finally got around to trying one of these beautifully labelled wines whilst in Seattle a few weeks...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 04/21/2009

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