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On my UK blog I have been really upset lately by the poor specification of PC Laptops - specifically the graphics capability. Basically, PC laptops are spec'ed in the main for business use and price is paramount in this world. So the graphics capabilities of these machines are pretty low. Well, how…

The launch of a new OS always brings cool applications to demonstrate its capability. For Windows Vista one of the most impressive applications to be demo'ed at the UK launch event was the British Library's Turning Pages application. An application exploiting Windows Presentation Foundation…

As part of the UK launch of XNA Games Studio Express, Microsoft Games Studio company Rare ran a series of XNA workshops for academia at the Rare offices. I tagged along to get the tour of Rare and discuss game development with workshop organiser and Rare software engineer Nick Burton.I've had…

The XNA UK user group have just launched their first competition! There are three categories one for each of the key skill sets required by modern games: Artist, Musician, Game Dev. There is a fantastic prize fund of £5000 worth of software and hardware including the latest graphics cards,…

This last week I have been following the adventure of four UK teams taking part in the First LEGO League Open European Championship in Bodo, Norway. It wasn't until I was flicking through the in-fight magazine on my SAS flight that I realised Bodo is inside the Arctic Circle! I could have packed…

The UK final for the 2006 First Lego League competition completed recently. The competition is an excellant way for young people to get involved with technology; from researching the technical theme to building and programming a lego robot to complete tasks against the clock.The teams can be of up…

I picked this up via TechCrunch. Jim Gray - famous computer scientist who led research into transaction processing and database development - is missing at sea. The US coast guard has searched for days but gave up after finding no sign of his 40-foot yacht. Amazingly, the DigitalGlobe satellite did…

I just found these little video nuggets (one and two) on the NextGen user groups site. If you want to see a demonstration of Windows Vista's speech recognition in action have a watch, they are each 3mins in length. In the first, Richard uses the speech recognition to write text in…

The purpose of this video is to explain Windows Vista to my Mum and Dad, and help them (and others like them) upgrade or buy a new PC with confidence. The Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor can be found here. Be warned this is another of my experimental videos

Madeleine McCann disappeared on the 3rd May. The latest Police call is for holidaymakers who were at the resort a few weeks before Madeleine disappeared, to upload their holiday pictures that contain strangers to the web site http://www.madeleine.ceopupload.com. The Child Exploitation and…