[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4vDClhnJjs[/youtube] If you work on an IT helpdesk this spoof of a US TV News Anchor reporting on how a user crashed the internet by having one too many programs running just might raise a smile..

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Someone sent me a snip they had read about Blackle, a version of the goggle search engine which could save vast amounts of energy by virtue of the fact that visitors are presented with a black background rather than white google background. At first I thought perhaps google were having some fun like they did [...]

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Earlier today a colleague sent me a link to the £77 ‘Celebrity‘ laptop, Medison Europe say they can deliver a 1.5 GHz 14″ colour screen laptop with 40GB drive and 256MB ram for £77 plus taxes and shipping (from Brazil). So, Mr Jackman or Mr Abbott, which one of us will be the first to [...]

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Well, not quite but for a techno-trog like me who seldom gets the inclination to play games on a computer these days the Simpsons Movie website is ‘not too shaby‘ as Lenny might say. This is Flash on steroids and then some… try the ‘Tour Springfield‘ or a quick game of ‘3 card Moe‘ and [...]

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Having done the ‘business travel‘ thing in the past I’m very aware of how boring it can be stuck in a hotel room with just the local TV channels, or maybe an iPod, laptop or MP3 player to keep you company. If you’ve yet to discover Audible “Talking books” LibriVox could be a site to [...]

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For my chums in the sat-comms and radio community you can download Prof Martin Sweeting’s Hotine lecture at last week’s Cambridge Conference here (mp3, running time 1 hour 12 mins, 33MB). One of Martin’s team goals is to be the first ISP on the moon, probably within the 10-15 years. I have fond memories of [...]

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  For any of my GIS savy chums who weren’t at Cambridge Conference 2007 you can download the audio section of Michael Jones – Google Earth presentation here (mp3 podcast – 28 mins, 13MB) You can hear the other Cambridge Conference presentations in MP 3 here..

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I’m feeling guilty about this post because I (like many) have been ticked off by the over-whelming publicity the iPhone has been receiving in news feeds and forums. So yesterday Michael Jones – Google Earth’s CTO let me try his iPhone out. .. both myself and Jonathan Field (who took the photo on the left [...]

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  If per chance you are marketing type you might want to take 8 minutes out and watch this video? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U[/youtube] You can download varous formats of the above incl. PowerPoint, Flash, WMW and .mov here… (Sent from the Cambridge Conference Wireless network.. which funnily enough I put together.. now there’s a thing…)

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Zoho Online Office Suite – worth a closer look?..

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