Born from the bowels of the Microsoft Research Labs, Songsmith was deemed not to be a product by the head-honchos there. And for good reason. The software creates a backing track after listening to the microphone of your singing. The problem is the music sounds as though it’s coming out of a Casio keyboard from [...]

And it gets better – apparently the current release candidate is "platform complete" – meaning that this version will be identical to the final release, which is due in the near future. IE8 looks to remove, or at least diminish, the previous bad press with the browser by being more web standards compliant. The web [...]

It’s easy to slip into the trap of always using technology to help you out – however, what would happen if someone detonated an ECM over your city? It sends shivers down my spine just thinking of the internet blackout.. Courtesy of XKCD

Anyone who has seen the Michael Caine classic will know the ending to the film well.. A coach teetering over the edge of a cliff. Pallets of gold temptingly close, but ever creeping towards the end of the coach, and away from the team that had just stolen it – trying desperately to keep the [...]

It’s a subject on everybody’s lips, but HAS Steve Jobs got cancer?? I know, it’s stupid, but there are hundreds of thousands of people asking themselves this question all the time. Just recently Steve has announced that he had a hormone imbalance that was causing him to loose weight. Well, apparently things have got a [...]

Planned limited copies of Microsoft’s latest OS have been removed. Anyone can now download Windows 7 Beta without restrictions. The beta will be time limited up until the 1st of August – which should be long enough to find all the bugs and get them ironed out. I’m impressed by Microsoft’s approach to Windows 7. [...]

Dell has announced this morning that it will cut jobs in a move to reduce costs in the current climate. The manufacturing of desktops and laptops will be moved to factories in Poland, with redundancies starting April this year up until January 2010. According to economists in Ireland, every job at Dell directly effects another [...]

I was recently sent a copy of Partition Manager Server 3.0 from EASEUS so I decided to check it out and see if it was any good. Firstly, the software itself is simple to install and get up and running. Although aimed really at the techie, the software does have a comprehensive help system, which [...]

In what seems like a bit of a tradition here, I’ve stumbled into another YouTube video with a retro computing slant. This advert touts the “enormous 64K memory” and a price of less than £230! A great machine, that I will be covering in the “Retro” section of Tech Snake soon.