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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Things have been a bit hectic since term has began in earnest so I my posts will be a bit sporadic but we’ll see how it goes. I’ve got to do quick shout out to my housemate Chris who is running his blog over at ChrisNolan.me.uk he’ll be blogging on various technologies he’s playing with [...]
I was lucky enough to get hold of a beta invite to DropBox several months ago and really enjoyed working with it. DropBox is a online synchronisation tool allowing files to be held in the cloud and accessed from their website or from the desktop using a client. While reinstalling my system before returning to [...]
This morning I caught this article on the register, a group from the University of Michigan has developed a bluetooth based broadcasting system called Talking-Points, designed to relay information to mobile devices about the surrounding area. Bluetooth beacons are be placed throughout a location, when a bluetooth enabled device passes a beacon it receives the [...]
