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Why Skype is Bad (part 2)

posted Thursday, June 29, 2006 9:04 AM by Allister_Frost
I received a lot of communication since my last blog posting in which I explained how the Skype client can start behaving as a supernode and using your bandwidth to facilitate communications between other Skype users. Several people thanked me for bringing Read More
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Windows Live Messenger - just launched!

posted Thursday, June 22, 2006 6:08 AM by Allister_Frost
Windows Live Messenger, the brilliant successor to MSN Messenger, is now available for download. This great new product came out of Beta just yesterday and we've already notched up more than 2 million downloads in just 36 hours! There are loads Read More
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Still using paper and pen and Outlook??

posted Monday, June 19, 2006 8:09 AM by Allister_Frost
I come across this so often when meeting with customers and friends. Some people continue to use both a paper-based personal information manager (or a 'little black book' as some like to call it) and Outlook even though this is clearly highly inefficient. Read More
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It's Friday...

posted Friday, June 16, 2006 5:35 PM by Allister_Frost
...and Frost is all over the news. So now you know what to do on Monday. Stay at home and get some work done! Have a nice weekend. Read More
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Useful Technology for Sport Spectators

posted Monday, June 12, 2006 8:07 AM by Allister_Frost
I had the privilege of watching the British Grand Prix at Silverstone as a guest of Vodafone/Ferrari yesterday. It was a great day with excellent hospitality, some star appearances, oh, and a bit of racing thrown in as well. The race itself was a bit Read More
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See Windows Vista

posted Thursday, June 08, 2006 10:06 AM by Allister_Frost
Keith Combs' blog points out a nice link that gives an overview of some of the goodies coming in Windows Vista. I'm not sure what that guy's doing with his left arm. Contrary to my first suspicion though he does have one; as you'll discover Read More
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More Windows Live Local collections for the UK

posted Wednesday, June 07, 2006 3:49 PM by Allister_Frost
Microsoft recently invited employees to submit their favourite Windows Live Local map collections for the UK. Here are some of my favourites: UK Premiership Football Stadia (figure out how far from your seat to the hot dog stand) UK Hedge Mazes (print Read More
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Hallelujah! At last: an intelligent spell checker

posted Wednesday, June 07, 2006 10:31 AM by Allister_Frost
Great news for fast-fingered slow-brained writers everywhere: the 2007 Microsoft Office System features a new contextual spelling feature that detects many of the glaring errors that traditional spell checkers miss. This could be the cure I've been looking Read More
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Get your suduko fix

posted Friday, June 02, 2006 11:58 AM by Allister_Frost
I don't know what it is about the magical 81 square grid but I'm hooked. Microsoft has a couple of free applications available to help you get your Sudoku fix even when in front of your computer. Check these out: For tablet PC only:http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/technologies/mobilepc/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dntablet/html/tbconsudokusamplefinal.asp Read More
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Microsoft World Cup Scoreboard

posted Tuesday, May 30, 2006 1:28 PM by Allister_Frost
You may recall my blog posting showing how to add the Football (aka Soccer) World Cup fixtures to your Outlook calendar. Now there's a handy Microsoft Soccer (aka Football) Scoreboard available for download from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=df6a6e6e-21af-4786-ad1d-a38e8bfda82f&displaylang=en. Read More
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BBC gets the wrong Guy

posted Friday, May 19, 2006 9:16 PM by Allister_Frost
If you recognise the "guy" above you may have already heard about the BBC's recent gaffe when interviewing Guy Kewney, one of the UK's most respected IT journalists. Instead of interviewing Guy Kewney, the respected IT journalist, they interviewed Guy Read More
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Windows Media Player 11 Beta is out

posted Thursday, May 18, 2006 4:01 AM by Allister_Frost
If you use your computer to store or listen to music you're going to love the new Windows Media Player 11 Beta that was released in the last few hours. Searching through my music collection using album art instead of text transforms the experience and Read More
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The Power of Icons

posted Thursday, May 11, 2006 10:07 AM by Allister_Frost
At a recent TechNet evening that I hosted with my pal Darren Strange one member of the audience pointed out the absurdity of Microsoft using a floppy disk as the icon for 'Save'. That got a big laugh and he's right; it is pretty daft that we still associate Read More
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Why I'm loving Internet Explorer 7 beta

posted Friday, April 28, 2006 2:51 PM by Allister_Frost
I'm a long time user of the Maxthon browser which does everything you expect from Internet Explorer and a bit more like tabbed browsing, address line shortcuts and mouse gestures. But having recently started testing the Internet Explorer 7 beta I've just Read More
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Laptops doubling as LCD TVs and HD DVD players

posted Wednesday, April 12, 2006 2:38 PM by Allister_Frost
This makes perfect sense to me. Intel has unveiled a new laptop concept machine where the machines folds to allow the screen to face away from the keyboard so it can be used as an LCD TV in a docking station. Given the quality of modern laptop displays Read More
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