Microsoft have released their new operating system. Vista, the new OS is the upgrade from XP, this version of the OS has been in development for five years and has been plauged with some problems, but some remain hopeful that Vista will do well.
Vista will only be released to businesses as of today and come the new year will be released for private use.
On Friday1st December all Apple stores in the UK will be putting on a one day event aimed at helping pick out the best Apple Gifts for Chrsitmas.
There will be live musical performances and DJ’s playing at every store, seems like a great opportunity and an excuse to get some great Apple stuff, I unfortunately will not be able to go as I will be at uni, then going straight to work.
But if anyone else is planning on going tell me about it when you’ve been.
Heres a list of all the UK stores:
You can check out the details on the Apple UK site here.
I’ve been working on some CSS tutorials for the blog, while juggling some uni work and in the process I decided to host the CSS tutorials I have done on my site Twilight Town. I have put the tutorials in like a subsection of the site called Twilight Town Tutorials.
So from now on when I post tutorials on here I will also post them on my site, where they will be a bit more colourful and possibly graphical (depending on how much time I have). It’s just a basic site that I whipped up in a short while that uses simple CSS (I was having withdrawal symptoms of not doing any html/CSS coding in a while).
My site Twilight Town is still under construction, i’ve been too busy lately to do anything with it. So hopefully come the Christmas holidays I should have something up there and should get back to regular posting on this blog as well.
Linkage: Twilight Town
Sony have admitted backwards compatabily issues with their newly realease playstation 3. Sony admits that some older games are having problems with either audio or graphics.
They did however offer to fix these glithes via online upgrades, the problems are affecting sony estimates around 200 games.
Source: bbc.co.uk
At University i’ve been learning C and yes I have been finding it difficult, I find the lectures on C to be some of the most boring ever, there is alot to learn in a short space of time. But anyway I downloaded Dev C++, and I have to say I love this program. It’s pretty easy to use and I was coding withing seconds of it being installed.
I highly recommend this program, for beginners anyway, it may look a little windows 97, but at least all the stuff you will need is there (compiler etc).
Now i can start using C at home and not have to rely on myself being at uni coding mundane code into the hours of the night.
Dev C++ is in beta at the moment, I downloaded Dev C++ version 4, which you can find here (scroll down for the latest stable version).
Linkage: http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html
Just got to get this off my chest, why do people who don’t no much about computers or the internet always download so much rubbish. Now, i’m going to have to spend time getting rid of all the rubbish.
Why?
The Winners for Doodle4Google 2006 has been announced, you can check out the winning entries on the Doodle4Google website.
Check out the winning doodles below, and congratulations to you if your a winner.
I came across this site, a few days ago and realised it was pretty neat, so a blog post was in order. Video Jug is a site filled with video’s on how to do certain things, such as “How to eat sushi” or “Hot to unblock a toilet”. The videos usually last a few minutes and a surprisingly detailed with clear instuctions. You can even print the instructions for later reference. You do not need to join to watch any videos, though if you want to submit your own ‘how to’s’ then a registration process is required.
Overall the site was very easy to navigate, and load times are quick, check out video jug now.
Over in the UK, we have a technology show called The Gadget Show, and one of their presenters Jason Bradbury was probably one of the first in the world to play all the next generation consoles, they have posted the review on the gadget show website here, you can also visit Jason Bradbury’s blog where he speaks of all things gadget related, a definite must read.
The BBC have launched a search , looking for gamers in Japan and the USA to help them answer the questions “Can the PS3 beat the acclaimed Xbox 360?Have the reports of problems and delays damaged the brand? Can the console ever live up to the hype?”
The launch date for the PS3 is the 11th of November in Japan and the 17th of November in the USA.
As part of the launch coverage, the BBC are looking for people to write about
All the details can be found on the BBC’s Website here,
This seems like a nice opportunity for budding journalists to put on their CV.
