Category: Digital Living

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…

This has to be the very pinnacle of geekdom gift buying. By wearing an ‘8-bit Dynamic Life’ t-shirt you can now boldly sport six red hearts across your chest. "So what?" I hear you cry. Here’s what: give the other t-shirt to your lover/partner/target, and your hearts will light up the closer you get. How…

If, like me, you love both photography and Microsoft Outlook, today is your lucky day! Pro-Photo Shoot is a new free add-in for Microsoft Outlook (versions 2003 and 2007 only) that allows you to add a list of the photographic equipment you need to any Outlook appointment. That way you need never forget an important…

"A tidy desk is a sign of a tidy mind," my old boss used to mutter under his breath as he passed my office. And so it is with computer desktops. I try to keep my desktop space free from the clutter that inevitably builds up through daily use. The desktop is a great place…

Philips is touting this as the future of hotel windows: a natty display panel that mimics the outdoor world and responds to the hotel guest’s ever wishes. Feeling jetlagged after a long flight? Then day shall become night in front of your very eyes. Tired of yet another dreary cityscape? Then virtual foliage and a…

This, unquestionnably, is exactly what I need. Except maybe a bit smaller and lighter. And probably cheaper.     Find out more about the three-headed beast, AKA the Acme Portable Machine, here.

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I’ve been really excited about Photosynth since it was first publicly demo’ed about a year ago. But now you can go and play with it yourself and explore some of Britain’s most striking buildings along the way. Photosynth is (for my money) the most exciting thing to happen to digital photography in a long time. And…

This has to be good news for photographers and lovers of digital imagery everywhere. Today Microsoft formally announced the new Windows Media file format (also known as HD Photo) and released plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop as well as a device porting kit to allow manufacturers to add HD Photo support to their devices and services.…

Before anyone accuses me of being Mac Fan Boy after yesterday’s posting, please let me clear something up. While Microsoft does many, many things wrong, that doesn’t mean that we’re alone in the IT universe in being a little sloppy from time to time. There’s still a huge amount that we do right. I just…