May 19 2009

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 released

If you’re an MSDN subscriber you now should have access to the download of Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1. For the first time Microsoft have made TFS available for an x64 platform (x86 still supported) which is good news as most servers are going 64 bit these days. The IDE of VS sports a WPF based interface which is probably nothing to get excited about (after all a developer should demand speed and stability above all else). Read More…

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Apr 13 2009

MotoGP spins up a new season… Live on Eurosport

A lot of the news between last season and this was the change in UK broadcasting. British Eurosport would no longer be showing MotoGP as the BBC had brokered a deal with Dorna. However an eleventh hour change meant Eurosport could show the pinnacle of motorcycle racing albeit with the MotoGP class time shifted so the BBC retained the live distribution rights.

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Mar 05 2009

Home of the Underdogs Revival Project

Although HOTU sadly went down last month it looks like there might still be life in the old dog yet!

To support the revival project(s), some of the data has been released and I’m providing some links from my site to share the bandwidth!

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Feb 15 2009

SCI finds its way into ScummVM

Great news!

After many years of hope [and the occasional false promise] the retro adventure gaming community have been gifted a rather large present… As of today the FreeSCI interpreter for Sierra’s advenures has been added to ScummVM. Athough we should not expect anything too amazing in the short term, only good things can come of this action!

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Jan 21 2009

Word 2007 navigation

Ever been editing a lengthy document to find that you want to add some text to another section then forget where exactly you were previously editing? It’s not a big deal to use the TOC links or perhaps even do a search (Ctrl-F) but Microsoft have already addressed the ‘problem’ with a little known keyboard shortcut.

Shift-F5 will navigate back to the last edit point no doubt saving a few ‘frustrating’ mouse scrolls :)

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