Archive for March, 2008

Flickr / Popfly Game

Posted on28. Mar, 2008 by Andrew Watson.

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Following from my visit to the Microsoft Popfly website earlier this month, and the ease at which I was able to tap into the Facebook api… I thought I would see what quick and aimless game could be created for a little Friday fun.

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Can I open 2 Excel files side by side using seperate monitors?

Posted on18. Mar, 2008 by Andrew Watson.

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As technology is used more, people demand more, and more people are now using multiple monitors, both work and home. According to a survey by Jon Peddie Research and highlighted in The New York Times, adding an extra monitor gives your output a considerable boost – between 20 and 30 percent.
Often to maximise the boost [...]

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VTech Kidizoom Review

Posted on07. Mar, 2008 by Andrew Watson.

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As camera’s have moved from film to digital, concern about taking a poor picture is a thing of the past. So much so that I have found I past my digital camera to my young child and let him snap away… a simple delete and the poor pictures are removed.
The VTech Kidizoom provides the perfect [...]

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Facebook / Popfly Apple Style Carousel

Posted on02. Mar, 2008 by Andrew Watson.

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Popfly is a tool / website from Microsoft, that allows users to create web pages, program snippets, and mashups using the Silverlight applications through a set of online tools. The Mashup Creator is a tool that lets users fit together pre-built blocks in order to mash together different web services and visualization tools.

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The End of an Era – Netscape Browser

Posted on01. Mar, 2008 by Andrew Watson.

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Today marks the end of an era. Those of us who used the internet between the late 1990’s and early 2000’s will remember the fateful browser wars. They saw Microsoft totally dominate the browser market and Netscape slowly lose more and more market share.
For me though, Netscape was about more than the browser war… in [...]

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