Category: Digital Living

With a hat tip to The Next Web, I enjoyed reading about a new survey by Lewis PR that graphically demonstrates Britain’s digital divide. Amongst the 1,000 survey respondents 20% have no idea that Steve Jobs is the CEO of Apple, with one in 20 thinking he’s a second division footballer. Five per cent thought…

You’re not going to believe this. After mentioning BigPockets.co.uk’s clever ‘Bag O’ Crap’ promotion several times on – this – blog, I decided to enter my own video. And it only went and won the top prize of £200! Fancy that! My son, the real star of the video and undoubtedly the only reason my…

With the local elections upon us today here in the UK, here’s a timely reminder of the nifty voting feature in Microsoft Outlook. Whenever you wish to poll your email recipients on their preferences, you can save them and yourself time by using voting buttons as follows: Create your email in Microsoft Outlook Tick the…

I’ve noticed more and more email signatures carrying a ‘Think before you print’ reminder. And that’s a good thing, because the less we print, the less damage we do to our fragile planet. Or course, if you do want to add a reminder to people to discourage them from printing your email, I suggest you…

Back in the day, my family’s lives rotated around a month-to-view calendar that my mum pinned to the kitchen wall. These days, the kitchen calendar may still be there but things are a bit more complicated with our 21st century lives being busier than ever and electronic diaries stretching our pockets to the limit. I’ve…

Exactly two months from now, on the 27th May 2008, the UK Banking Industry will finally introduce a new system that will reduce the time taken for standing orders and payments made online or by telephone banking to reach the payee’s bank account. Today, it typically takes 3 working days for payments to reach the…

Red Alert!   I love the web when it turns out brilliantly relevant information like this! Curtain twitchers across the UK should immediately log on www.fixmystreet.com to find out what’s going on around their neighbourhood. Put in your postcode and be amazed at the goings on all around you. Dog mess, abandoned fridges, and potholes…

I’ve done Facebook a favour this morning. I deactivated my account. Facebook should be delighted; it’s people like me who are way past their social networking heyday who are killing social networking sites. Here’s why: young people have always needed somewhere to hang out, but they only do this when it’s ‘their place’. For a…

This is extraordinary! Yesterday, Roy Gould, researcher at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics, and Microsoft’s Curtis Wong gave the first public preview of Microsoft’s new WorldWide Telescope. By combining a very clever rich visualisation environment with feeds from satellites and telescopes all over the world and the skies, Microsoft has created a comprehensive and interactive…

Some of the guys in my team launched their latest digital creation today. Well done Anna-Lisa and Chris! It’s a new website designed to help people see how some of Microsoft’s newest products work together, and has been built entirely in Silverlight. Check out the site here and explore the digital lives of four British…