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How to change the ringtone of your windows mobile device

Thanks to Mike Ormond for letting me know that the ringtones are stored in the following directory: My Device\Windows\Rings Bizarrely enough I can't "see" the \Windows directory from my PC when the mobile device is connected. Initially I used the "File Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 10:12 PM by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments

How to make time for blogging

Thanks to Hugh for posting about PhilTube . In particular there's a great sketch depicting a guy trying to make time for blogging - now clearly it's a bit of fun but many people tell me that while they'd like to blog that they just don't have the time. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 2:00 AM by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments

keeping youtube honest proves difficult

According to a post on SlashDot which itself cites an article from the Wall Street Journal YouTube's management team are finding it very difficult audit the site's content for valid copyright signoff. I don't envy them as the shear rate at which the community Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 1:12 AM by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments

will zune be released in the UK any time soon?

I'm sure I don't need to tell you that there's a great deal of momentum around the upcoming release of Zune in the USA. As you can read on the Agwire blog and News.com the North American release schedule is public. Earlier this week I heard that currently Read More...
Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 1:55 PM by Steve Lamb | 3 Comments

Not sure what to do at the weekend? Try a random day out!

I noticed the randomdayout site on a PC in a meeting earier in the week. It's a fun way to get suggestions for something interesting to do for the day. It's useful for those of you in the UK, USA, Canada and Australia. You simply pick from the options Read More...
Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 12:24 AM by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments

Microsoft - change the world or go home!

Thanks to Hugh at GapingVoid for the following wonderful image: Hugh's cartoons make me smile and I can highly recommend browsing the GapingVoid website . Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 02, 2006 12:17 AM by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments

Windows Vista Gadgets are cool - I've just found a great one for Windsurfers

Windows Vista's Gadgets provide a cool way to customise your desktop with handy tools and information feeds. I'm an enthusiastic Windsurfer so you can imagine my delight when I stumbled across WindGuru's windspeed gadget. It's cool because the gadget Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 12:06 AM by Steve Lamb | 2 Comments

Please can the miscreant that keeps posting "Well done" and "Nice Design" comments on my blog STOP wasting everyone's time!

The only reason I moderate the comments to this blog is to stop this rubbish getting through thereby increasing the number of hits to bogus websites. I'm sure many of you recieve comment spam on your blogs and are equally frustrated. I know that the chances Read More...
Posted Monday, October 02, 2006 3:57 PM by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments

The Magic of Software can improve the effectiveness of Jet Fighters

I recently watched a TV programme that covered a major airshow in the UK - Farnborough. There were many impressive displays including one by the new European "Typhoon" fighter. Shortly afterwards a rival manufacturer (Saab) demonstrated their aircraft Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 07, 2006 9:48 AM by Steve Lamb | 3 Comments

Here's a short machinima film showing an excited IT Pro receiving his copy of Windows Vista

It's been a long time coming but Windows Vista is nearly ready for Prime Time. Steve Horne's posted a machinima short film (2:30 minutes duration) that pokes fun at the time it's taken to design and build Windows Vista - it's titled " Hunting Vista ". Read More...
Posted Monday, August 21, 2006 6:01 PM by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments

KUDOS to James for the nice intro to Taking Microsoft - I'd love to hear your suggestions for people you'd like us to interview

James wrote a great introduction to Talking Microsoft and I'm glad to see that folk out there in IT Pro land are starting to talk about this new resource which takes you behind the scenes at Microsoft Ltd. Our aim is to connect you to the people that Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 16, 2006 9:36 PM by Steve Lamb | 2 Comments

It's time for another UK Girlie Geek Dinner!

Eileen beat me to it in posting about the upcoming Girl Geek Dinner. I was glad she mentioned it as I hadn't realised there was one coming up. I've thoroughly enjoyed joining previous Girl Geek Dinners as there are always so many interesting people there. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 16, 2006 4:16 PM by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments

I'm so sad - I'm going stir crazy as my mobile phone's been offline for nearly four hours!

This must say more about me than I perhaps intend and I dare say it's not good! Earlier this morning I happily received a brand new shiny phone with all kinds of bells and whistles including 3G and a touch screen. My new device is an Orange M3100. Paul's Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 15, 2006 2:11 PM by Steve Lamb | 3 Comments

Here's the first "Talking Microsoft" video - an interview with Gordon Frazer - Microsoft Ltd's new Managing Director

Thanks to James for boldly inviting Microsoft Ltd's new Managing Director to be our guinea pig for the first in a series of interviews titled " Talking Microsoft ". We've been looking for interesting alternative ways to share information with you - the Read More...
Posted Monday, August 14, 2006 5:18 PM by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments

Join Tim O'Reilly for a podcast discussing OpenSource, Architectures for Collaboration and Mashups

There's an interesting podcast (of approx 20 mins duration) hosted by Bill Hilf where Tim O'Reilly discusses where OpenSource is going and how Open Access to data is of principle importance. Tim talks about how the best applications are those that get Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 02, 2006 3:30 PM by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments
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