Jeremy's World of Random Stuff : Randomness

It’s an Ideal World!

jpalmer — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:33:55 GMT

I’ve always had a hidden desire to appear on a home shopping channel, and I got my chance this weekend. I appeared 4 times on Ideal World with MESH computers to demonstrate Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 as part of the “Pick of the Day" this weekend.

I got to work with Janice, Ideal World’s guest technology presenter who did a great job of showing off the wonders of Windows Vista Home Premium in all of its glory. Here are a few photos from my 2 days spent in snowy Peterborough!

Fonebook for Facebook

jpalmer — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:04:11 GMT

Most of my colleagues at Microsoft, like many other people all over the world, have gone Facebook crazy. I even found out that one of my coworkers actually got engaged this week, you guessed it, via Facebook.

I picked this up from Steve Clayton's blog this morning. Fonebook is a little tool that you can download and install on your PC running Microsoft Outlook 2003 or 2007 which will pick up photos for your Outlook contacts from Facebook. It can even update your contacts web site and about me information.

Cool Stuff and Gadgets ;-)

jpalmer — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 10:27:14 GMT

I stumbled across this site in The Times T2 supplement yesterday. iliketotallyloveit.com lets uses submit "cool, hot, beautiful stuff" and if enough people agree that it's cool, hot and beautiful, it gets pride of place on the front page.

Is your display Snap Happy?

jpalmer — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 00:35:56 GMT

I've recently entered the world of digital SLR photography so I thought I best learn how to get the best from my investment. I booked on a 1 day seminar event hosted by Experience Seminars which was a really valuable day where I learned plenty about exposure, white balance and some of the features specific to my Canon 30D.

Toward the end of the course was the topic of colour management and we were reminded that you should calibrate your monitor (which something which I have long forgotten) . There's plenty of great information on the Windows Image Color Management website if you want the low down on how Windows manages this. You can access Windows Vista's Color Management settings in Control Panel

So, I need to calibrate my monitor once a month and make sure that I edit my images in a blacked out room (next time you are at your computer, open up an image, have a look at it, turn of the lights and then see how much more vivid the colours are. I think I need one of these!