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The QuikSilver Pro France surf championship is underway, and QuikSilver have built out an awesome real-time web site to enable us to get in with the action. Using Microsoft's new Silverlight technology you get to see recorded video and live video streams as well as real-time scores. Check it out! Technorati Tags: QuikSilver , SilverLight , Benjamin Gauthey , Microsoft
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iRobot have launched two new robots at DigitalLife expo in the US. The ConnectR(tm) Virtual Visiting Robot hits to spot for family tele-presence. Providing a robot equipped with web cam enabling remote friends, relatives and traveling parents to interactive with people at home. It particularly appeals to me - a geek dad who does more than his fair share of nights away on business. However, A1-DW has beaten them to the role in the Foster household, however, a cheap packaged product will obviously...
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Postie has just delivered Halo 3!! I asked if there had been lots to deliver - nope Norfolk is truly the back of beyond. Postie is happy with her PS2!!! I retreat to play Halo 3 work from home.... Technorati Tags: Paul Foster , Halo 3
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I've built myself a Windows Home Server! A what? you might ask. Well Windows Home Server (WHS) provides not only a central backup solution for all your networked PCs at home, but it can also provide a central place for all media files (Video, Photos, Music) to be used from your networked PCs. It also allows you to have remote access to your server by setting up a domain name which is routed to your home server - I.E. dynamic DNS. This means that you can get to your home server and all its resources...
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Here I am, 'working at home' quietly waiting for my Amazon delivery. They've told me it is dispatched, but will it arrive today? Yes Halo 3 is out and my copy is on its way...
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Technorati Tags: Cross Channel , Alpha Micro , UK , Air Ambulance Congratulations to the Microsoft UK Cross Channel Charity swim team. As reported early on this blog six brave individuals from Microsoft UK had been training hard for a cross channel swim to raise money for the Thames Valley and Chiltern Air Ambulance Trust. Well, while I was sleeping in Seattle the intrepid team have successfully completed the swim! The swimmers were tracked in real-time using a solution by ALPHA MICRO Systems who...
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You need to see this stuff esp. the live combat part 1 video. Awesome recreation... Oh yeah, this is all presented from the Silverlight video platform :-) Technorati Tags: Halo 3 , Silverlight
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Steve 'Chippy' Paine has just completed a 450km cycling adventure across Germany with the purpose of exploring mobile computing using only Solar power. Using only solar power to charge his UMPC, Phone, Camera, GPS and Torch, Chippy has blogged his 10 day trip and mobile computing experience here . It has been interesting following his trip blog, and although he made it with just over an hours battery life, it is quite clear that current retail solar technology is still very inefficient. Current...