Luke Smith Write today, wrong tomorrow

Vista speech recognition flawed!!

I'm sure by now you've heard about the Speech Recognition flaw in Windows Vista (my mom knew about it before me...my excuse is I was busy working all day and didn't have time to catch up on the news). The one that if a dodgy mp3 played on your PC...

And on the day before the Vista launch the Gods said….

...let's break lukes tablet for shits and giggles. The screens gone. I either get red lines, as seen above, or blue lines (when the background is white). The great thing tho is if I move a Aero Glass window over a screwed up area it looks perfect :) glass rocks....

Web based news reader?

I'm looking for a web based newsgroup reader, so no matter what computer I'm on I have access to what I've marked as interest and what I've replied to. Currently I'm using Windows Live Mail Desktop, I have used MS Outlook in the past and a NNTP plugin for Office...

More popular than superbowl.com

I've been getting shitloads of traffic to my blog lately from msn search. Last year I blogged about 'superbowl sunday', and since that time of year must be almost upon us (i have no idea when it is) people must be googling for it. It turns out its because everytime...

SportsDo on Ski Sunday

Graham Bell briefly showed SportsDo on tv the other day. Check out his camera run from Val D'Isere. I doubt I'll be going as fast as him in 2 weeks when I'm there.

Managed Nabaztag API

I blogged about wanting a Nabaztag a while back. we got one in our office the other week. It reads notifies us when someone joins the portal, purchases stuff and you can even send it a message to read out. I worked on a managed api in the evenings to wrap...

I want javascript code behind

ASP.NET provides a great feature, code behind files, where the high level language (C#/VB.NET) can sit in a separate file to the UI markup of the page. But what about Javascript? Well you create a javascript file and shove it in a folder, I tend to use /scripts, and then add...

You gotta love M$ haters

I'm trying to find out why when right clicking on an image and selecting 'Save Picture As...' causes the following error message in IE7 Could not complete the operation due to error 800700de. Theres not much on google but a few people have the same problem. One forum post reply...

Let’s get Gyrating

This is a neat Media Center Remote. It has gyration technology allowing the couch potato to move the cursor on their Vista Media Center PC. All it needs extra is to be a Windows Visa SideShow Remote!

My pick of CES goodness

I'm shattered, I stayed up like a good geek and watched Bill Gates CES (Consumer Electronics Show) Keynote. The keynote being at 6:30pm Pacific time making it 2:30am my time. A few cool things I can't wait for from the keynote: Windows Ultimate Extras - well mainly just the one...