Last week saw the push of the latest release of the Zune desktop software, normally a new release is the indicator of new functionality. Following the update there was a flurry of postings to the Zune community forums complaining about the mysterious disappearance of serveral parts of functionality, namely all of the social functionality and [...]
…well damn its been a while since I’ve written a post on here. But life has been more than a little hectic over the last few months, exams, moving house, graduation and starting a new job.
Well four years after I started there I have graduated from the University of Kent with an upper second class [...]
Last December I was fortunate enough to attend the ‘Annual Centre of Excellence Distinguished Lecture’ from Dick Wall (of The Java Posse fame). At the time I was intending on writing a short post about it but it never quite materialised, however the other day while rummaging around the departments open-lecture series announcements I came across the [...]
Chris has written an interesting introduction to our final year group project on his blog. Our project has been an to implement a working secure peer-to-peer file system over the internet with anonymity as the key. I can honestly say it’s without a doubt one of the most enjoyable projects I have worked on in [...]
A while ago I wrote about my experiences with the Zune, my only complaint was the fact that the Zune social features are locked out if you live outside of the continental United states. Well this evening I returned to my attempts to get access, first I tried the FroxyProxy plug-in for FireFox I but [...]
I got a pretty good reaction to my post about DropBox so I thought I’d share my latest experiment with synchronisation software. Microsoft have released a new version of their Live Mesh software, I had a developer licence for this several months ago but never really had chance to use it in anger. I’ve just [...]
How often are you at an event and join a mailing list? How often are you on the other side of that table trying to get people to join you mailing list?
Every year for the past three I have been convincing of freshers to join a mailing list. I help run the paintball society at [...]
Yesterday without any fanfare or spectacle Amazon threw open the doors to their music store for the first time outside of the United States.
I’m glad to say it was worth the wait, I gave it quick try last night and I’m glad to say it’s what I’ve been waiting for. Once you have downloaded the [...]
Just a quick update on what was mentioned by Dom in the comments of my previous post, I’ve just tried the region switch and still can’t access ‘the social’ elements of the Zune. It is asking for a confirmation of terms and conditions on the Zune website which appears to be doing an ip look [...]
My tiny Creative Zen 4gb has been on its last legs for a while now so when it finally died the other day I was not massively surprised. I had been looking around for a new MP3 player for a while but nothing out there caught my fancy, Creative’s design team seems to be on [...]
