My iPod Touch (soon to become an iPhone tomorrow) is almost perfect – it now does everything I need it to do – but one thing I really want is ‘Smart Playlists’. I know we build Smart Playlists in iTunes. For example – I have a list that is of my unlistened podcasts. When I listen [...

At the moment when you do a search you get results formatted by Google, Google does have the Google Custom Search Engine product which allows you to restrict results to certain sites and the ability to (partly) customise how the results look but if you don’t want ads displayed you have to pay anything from [...

A new feature currently in Gmail Labs prevents those accidental emails that you really didn’t mean to send either late at night or perhaps after a little too much liquor by giving you a mathematical challenge to complete to verify your state of mind…it’s description from the Gmail labs page (settings > labs in gmail) Google [...

Last week Amazon announced that it will be offering Windows based EC2 instances as well as Microsoft SQL server instances later this fall (incidentally I had to look up when ‘fall’ is – apparently it starts 23 September). Their press release obviously talks about hosting ASP.NET applications but it will be interesting to see how [...

So on the 12th September, Marie and I tied the knot and started out our married life. We held the ceremony near to our home town of Guildford, UK – of course in traditional fashion the bride was late (15 minutes) but other than that the day went without a hitch. We had a great [...

A while ago I heard Google may be working on a browser, but on arriving in the office this morning I find out that Google Chrome is due to launch today, this moring all I could find was the ‘comic book’ talking Google Chrome up and highlighting the features it will have. Well now [...

At last there’s an RDP client for the iPhone/iPod - it appeared on the app store on 20th August, I’ve been running it for a while now and it’s great. There’s a trial version and a paid for version - free version is limited to 10 saved connections and macros (key press recordings when you [...

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Yesterday around 300 people attended Flex camp London - not bad considering it was arranged in under 3 weeks. Starting at 2pm through till beer and pizza at 8pm various speakers including our own Nikoas and Neil presented on a wide range of topics from flex & cf through to ‘who do you need on [...

….then I’ll begin. Over a month since I last blogged, jez, anyone would think I’ve been busy? Time to dust away the cob webs and do some blogging. I’ve got a lot to talk about, Shado (CMS), Virtualisation and hosting environments….