Twitter apps on Adobe Air

Twitter is starting to buck a trend, everywhere you go it seems every other blog post is about Twitter, and with the official launch of Adobe Air, all sorts of apps have been coming out, here are a some of the best Twitter apps currently out using the Adobe Air platform.

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Mesh Computers & the Service of Doom [Rant]

I recently purchased a brand new Mesh Computer which cost just under £2,000. Six months went by without any problems and then one day I shut my machine off, came back to switch it on and I got red lines on the bios screen. Read the story »

Looking for Desktop Blogging Software?

How do you write your blog posts? do you use the online interface, or a 3^rd party application, I’ve listed a few good desktop blogging software applications, if you know of any more please add them.

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Make Microsoft Office 2007 look like 2003

I’ve gotten used to the new 2007 menu “Ribbon” layout now but at the start it was frustrating spending a good while looking for stuff, well if you are in the same boat or just want office to look like the 2003 version I came across this bit of software from addintools
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Virgin Media is Managing Traffic

Both in the offices and at home we are connected through Virgin Media, they provide all our broadband services. A week back I noticed a slow down in the connection, and going home i noticed the speeds their too were sluggish for some reason. I checked the website for information and found this little doozy under the live problems page.

Here at Virgin Media, we want all our customers to get the best service possible from their Broadband. That means speedy downloads for all users – not just a few.

When someone is downloading and/or uploading a particularly large amount of information over a long period of time, it can slow down the Internet speed for other users who might just be checking their email or browsing online. So to make sure our service is fair for everybody, we sometimes moderate the speeds during peak times (4pm till 9pm) for customers who are downloading and/or uploading an unusually large amount at these times.

This ensures that the service doesn’t get blocked up with people using more than their fair share – which means a lot fewer traffic jams.

This is weird, I’d not received any kind of letter or anyone calling me up to tell me what was going on. It just sort of happened, so if you are on Virgin Media and experiencing really weird lag, slow download speeds etc… give em a call and tell em what you think.

Full Traffic Management Link

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