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First thoughts on the Acer Aspire One

You can’t say that things never change. I nipped out to Tesco last night for a few bits of shopping – you know, some beer, spices for cooking, etc – and came back with an Acer Aspire One. As you do… To be fair, I have been looking at them closely, and Tesco are by far the cheapest place to get one. I...

Posted to When software attacks! (Weblog) by Rik on 10-07-2008
Dell Mini 9: A Day In The Life

Colour me impressed. I managed well over four hours’ battery life today and found the Mini 9 a joy to use. I have encountered a snag, however, and it wasn’t one that I expected. You see, I’m now sitting on the 21:30 train from London Kings Cross to Wakefield after having been in the big smoke for a day...

Posted to When software attacks! (Weblog) by Rik on 09-30-2008
First thoughts on the Dell Mini 9

I’m down in London tomorrow, and rather than lug my laptop on the train I’ve borrowed Richard’s shiny new Mini 9 . Overall, I’m quite impressed with it. I’m still not sure about the keyboard, even after a couple of hours typing away – the keys are small and some of them are smaller still, which makes...

Posted to When software attacks! (Weblog) by Rik on 09-29-2008
First thoughts on the Dell Mini 9

After Alt.net I had thought getting an ultra light notebook was a good idea. At most conference I need to browser, blog and read email; I don’t need to carry around a full development desktop replacement laptop. Whilst at ReMix I had enough of the old battery in my Acer laptop, so just before it ran...

Posted to But it works on my PC! (Weblog) by Richard on 09-24-2008
Post ReMix thoughts

So how was ReMix? well a bit like last year not earth shattering, but what can you expect. We have PDC in a month so there is going to be no major announcements, also this is a rerun event from the US MIX conference , again reducing the chances of anything new. So if you are a developer and been to TechEd...

Posted to But it works on my PC! (Weblog) by Richard on 09-20-2008
Blend and Source control

It is all well and good Microsoft saying that a developers and designer can share the same project WPF/Silverlight files in Visual Studio and Expression Blend , but whilst Blend does not have the ability to use a source control repository (TFS, SVN or anything else for that matter) and actually strips...

Posted to But it works on my PC! (Weblog) by Richard on 09-18-2008
Remix UK 08 Keynote

Just seen the keynote for Remix in Brighton, I must say that Bill Buxton 's part was one of the best keynotes I have seen (watch out for the streamed webcast). For me the most important thing for a keynote is to set the tone, the meme , for the conference and his session certainly did. OK it is good...

Posted to But it works on my PC! (Weblog) by Richard on 09-18-2008
Browsers are like buses

You wait around for ages and then two come along, all at once! No sooner have I downloaded IE8 beta 2 than Google announce Chrome ! I've been using IE8 for a few days and I'm quite impressed. I've just downloaded Chrome and I have to say, it's a darn good browser. The feature I most wanted...

Posted to When software attacks! (Weblog) by Rik on 09-02-2008
Argh... more media rights issues

I posted about NBC Olympic coverage - today I discovered I cannot stream BBC provided media content from the Olympics on my Windows PDA using Opera via the Vodafone 3G service. Seems the BBC does not think I am in the UK. I know Yorkshire assumes it should be independent, but I don't think it has...

Posted to But it works on my PC! (Weblog) by Richard on 08-10-2008
No Silverlight NBC Olympics for us

After the announcement at Mix of the NBC Silverlight Olympic streaming service I was looking forward to have a look at what had been created. Turns out you have to be in the USA to watch it, I assume due to media rights issues, a bit of a shame. I hope something can be worked out with a small fraction...

Posted to But it works on my PC! (Weblog) by Richard on 08-09-2008

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