One of the most impressive talks came from Kate Swanborg of Dreamworks Animation. Kate has been with Dreamworks through releases like Shrek, Madagascar, The Croods, A Sharks Tale and the last release Turbo. During her speech we got an insight into the processing power and time needed to produce these movies and how they come to life. She also spoke …
Kickstarter – beware its addictive
For the last few months I have been following quite a few projects on kickstarter and can admit, I’m hooked. What did we do before this? Spacemonkey had me spellbound, I’m not sure why I kept going back to check on it, once you have placed your backing it is not like much can change but you find yourself wanting …
Amazon Cloud Drive vs Google Drive vs Dropbox vs SkyDrive vs iCloud
Wow only a year or so ago Clouds were just that, today however we seem to encountering a thunderstorm of Cloud options. As they have come out I have been trialing each one. I cannot remember if I signed up to Microsoft’s LIVE Skydrive as it was formerly know or Dropbox first but those two kind of set the benchmark. …
Amazon Cloud Player comes to the UK
Amazon has brought its cloud based service to the UK. Amazon are still adding features and lowering prices, and agfter you see the prices you will probably agree, they are going to have to! An important thing to note though, is that the Cloud player and Cloud Drive are two separate services. Music that was uploaded to your Cloud Player or Cloud …
Google Drive to offer 5GB storage and 100GB in total
Google are getting set to launch their much anticipated Google Drive. We expect to see this in the next few days, as with previous launches though I would expect it to go into Beta mode first with a limited user base. There is however the possibility that we wont get GDrive, after all it has been rumoured for the last …
Office 365 Webmail and Tahoma 8pt
We have been made aware of a bug in Office 365 that is causing quite a lot of frustration for webmail users. Fortunately it is only for Chrome and Safari users at the moment so as a work around you could use Firefox, IE or any other non Webkit flavour that works. When you compose a new email message in …