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Windows Live™ for TV Beta is a rich, graphically-driven interface designed for people who use Windows Live Spaces and Messenger and Live Call on large-screen monitors and TVs. Microsoft is still in the early stages of this beta, and access to this beta is very limited. It works only in Windows Vista Ultimate and Home Premium, so users with these operating systems are ready to go already!

• Browse millions of Spaces in rich 3D graphics with new Gallery views and full keyword search
• Find out what your friends have been doing and saying on Windows Live Spaces
• Have real-time text and voice conversations
• Call your friends’ mobile or landline telephones by signing up with Verizon Web Calling to make affordable domestic and international calls
• Easily navigate with your mouse, keyboard or a TV remote (remote navigation requires Microsoft Media Center Remote and IR)
• Make free PC-to-PC calls to other Windows Live Messenger users.

You can be part of this beta! We have only 2 invites (small number, but more coming soon) and if you want to be in with a chance of getting in on this amazing beta, take part in our rather unconventional contest!

How this works
Technology has got me into trouble before. I was at a party, this weird girl gave me her number so I typed it in and put as the name (without her seeing me) “Hayley - weird”. I went to the same club a few weeks later, the same girl saw me and asked why I hadn’t called her. I told her I didn’t have her number - she persued this and took my phone, and entered in her number again. When she went to save it, it said “Do you want to replace ‘Hayley - weird’?” That got me into hot water with a few of her friends. So… the question is:

“How has technology got you into trouble?”

The two best comments will get the beta invites - leave your name and email address and your comment so we can get back to you.

Cutting down time on the ransom notes

Ransom Note Generator via Lifehacker

p.s. Doesn’t seem to generate the most important symbol ,’$’. Dammit!!

Yeap, it is Free!

“The cost of postage is offset with the help of relevant, targeted, unobtrusive advertisements, which will appear on the back of your Gmail Paper prints in red, bold, 36 pt Helvetica. No pop-ups, no flashy animations—these are physically impossible in the paper medium.”

Well seems to be another Google April 1st prank along with Google TiSP. So the the 20% of time that Google employees get to think creatively is spent mostly on April 1st gags? They all seem so well thought of and made!

Google Paper

April Fools, haha! Need I say more, Google embark upon their usual annual April Fool’s gag.

http://www.google.com/tisp

That’s right - those in England should know what I’m on about. A figurehead for all that is British - the Teletubbies, one of the sickest, weirdest concepts on British television have reached the grand old age of 10 years old. From left to right, Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa Laa and Po (of which we all grasp the fact that the purple one is obviously gay with the addition of carrying round a handbag most of the time). Happy birthday to you all! May you have another 10 years decade, oh just get cancelled already.

Something every single iPod should be shipped with…

via Flickr

Hasta la ‘vista’ Bin!

Our inspiration was a letter from reader Rachel Hurley (right), of Perth, Australia, who is moving back to these shores with her husband John and their young daughter. “Has anything changed?” Rachel asked, innocently enough. On the one hand, there have been seismic, and obvious, political changes, on the other, some rather predictable and prosaic ones.

But the Magazine Monitor, the BBC News weblog, asked readers to tune into the more nuanced differences; the subtle, but significant, changes to have crept up on us in the past decade.

1. Coffee is served by the pint and it will cost more than a pint of beer.

2. Once you received your gas from British Gas, your electricity from your local electricity board and your phone service from BT. Now, you will get your gas from your bank, your electricity from British Gas, and your phone service from Tesco.

3. The DFS sale which started just before Rachel left will be ending soon.

4. I remember arranging to meet friends at a given location/time many days in advance. If they were late you had to scratch around for 10p to ring from a phone box (and their mum would always tell you they had set off). They would never stand you up, as the cowardly way of cancelling without warning by text just didn’t exist then.

5. It’s OK to take photos at concerts, so long as you use your phone.

6. Marmite now comes in a squeezy jar.

7. Elaborate descriptions adorn food packaging: “freshly made”, “perfectly ripe”, “deliciously creamy” or (a recent favourite) a “hand-stretched” pizza.

8. Beach huts used to be for nannas and grandads rather than property speculators.

9. A “C” in the middle of a circle meant “copyright”.

10. The M62 and M25 were still motorways rather than car parks.

11. “I was following my Sat Nav” is now the excuse for driving where you shouldn’t.

12. Helen Mirren was occasionally called “Ma’am” by junior officers in Prime Suspect, but not by anybody else.

13. “Decking” now refers to something you do to your garden, rather than what one boxer does to another.

14. Swear words are no longer asterisked in a newspaper.

15. Headline puns are no longer the sole property of the tabloids.

16. A wag was something a dog did with its tail.

17. If children carried guns, they squirted water.

18. Policeman are still nominally unarmed but wander around in body armour - even in the Lake District - that makes them look like battle scene extras from Starship Troopers.

19. You can no longer wear a hat or a hooded top inside a shopping centre.

20. A family seaside holiday in Britain is considered chic.

21. Northern Ireland is one of the UK’s top tourist destinations.

22. The customer is no longer wrong all the time.

23. The phrase “Big Brother is watching you” should actually be the other way round for many people.

24. Naked bottoms in TV ads!

25. Noel Edmonds is still on telly, but at least his Crinkly Bottom has been banished to oblivion.

26. Daleks were reduced to scraping a living in Kit-Kat adverts 10 years ago. Today they’re appearing on a lunchbox, annual, poster, t-shirt, DVD, sticker collection and life-size cardboard cut-out near you.

27. Passwords were for international spies and entry to gang huts a decade ago. Now you can barely buy milk without the need for some secretive alpha-numeric code.

28. People go to hospital to become ill.

29. The UK will be just like Australia except the weather is worse and the coffee isn’t as good.

30. And everyone wants to move to Australia.