I got my new laptop the other day.
It's a Dell Latitude D830
The reviews are positive :
It has the best Windows Experience Index of all the machines I have had so far, which isn't saying much really,
I am pretty happy with this little fella, but I do miss my tablet.
I recently installed Flotzam on my new laptop and it's really really cool. I've got it running as a screensaver
From the Flotzam site:
Watch the flotsam and jetsam of data that you care about in this mash-up of Facebook, Flickr, Twitter and blogs. Using this simple application, you can configure what you want to watch and the speed in which you see it. Want to view what your Twitter friends are doing? Want to see the photos your friends have posted on Facebook? Or maybe their photos on Flickr, too? Download now and have all of your photos, Tweets, Facebook invites & pokes and feeds come to you! What people are saying about Flotzam:"Flotzam is controlled information overload.""Flotzam takes the ADD Twitter generation to a new level of channel surfing.""Flotzam is the digital panopticon."
Watch the flotsam and jetsam of data that you care about in this mash-up of Facebook, Flickr, Twitter and blogs. Using this simple application, you can configure what you want to watch and the speed in which you see it. Want to view what your Twitter friends are doing? Want to see the photos your friends have posted on Facebook? Or maybe their photos on Flickr, too? Download now and have all of your photos, Tweets, Facebook invites & pokes and feeds come to you!
What people are saying about Flotzam:"Flotzam is controlled information overload.""Flotzam takes the ADD Twitter generation to a new level of channel surfing.""Flotzam is the digital panopticon."
Tip 'o the hat to the authors Karsten Januszewski and Tim Aidlin
I've been enjoying playing around with Tafiti - a funky silverlight search front-end
Well, it's just been updated with a Halo 3 skin. More from Major Nelson and Soma
We're all getting into the Halo 3 mode right now. Even the Windows Mobile guys have skins and ringtones on the Windows Mobile Owner's Circle.
I have been using a service from Callwave for a few weeks now.
It provides a replacement voicemail system for my mobile cell phone with a range of really useful services.
It has a Windows Vista Sidebar gadget that hooks up to your voicemail and lets you listen right from your desktop.
Plus, it has a voice to text feature which sends an email with the gist of the message, so that you can see any keywords and decide if you want to listen to it.
I really like it - it's like having a personal assistant screening all your calls.
It's only taken 30 days, but I now have my name on the door
I'll be keeping my Visitor's book up too and the price of admission
Excerpt from New York Times Article:NBC to Offer a Free Video Download Servicehttp://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/19/business/20nbc-web.html
NBC Universal, acknowledging that viewers areincreasingly moving away from traditional television viewing, announced planstoday for a service that will make popular NBC programs available to downloadfree to personal computers and other devices.
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Christian Longstaff has kicked off a wonderful initiative downunder - A little thing he calls Partner-TV Australia
Following the success of Channel 9, ON10, we now have an Aussie video blog for Partners: Partner-TV Australia. This new blog consists of short videos of fellow Microsoft’ies and partners with some cool solutions, which you can watch via stream or download and even listen to with an audio podcast. As always, we are keen to hear what you think. Please send us any feedback, especially on what you would like to hear and watch via OZPTV@microsoft.com.
Good luck to Christian and team with this initiative.