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Currys.co.uk are currently selling a refurbished Acer AS7730 for just £329.99 This Acer 7730 is a fantastic laptop packed full of features. It comes with a 4GB Memory and Intel Core 2 Duo Processor so it can store a huge amount of data and still run smoothly and quickly. Features: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T5800 (2 GHz, 800 MHz, 2MB Cache) Genuine Windows Vista (R) Home Basic 4 GB Memory Size 160 [...]

30th September – 2nd October 2009, Kensington Town Hall, London. Full day of workshops on 30th Sept followed by a 2 day, 1 track event at Kensington Town Hall on 1st- 2nd Oct. How to build Facebook Connect + openID into your site – Dave Morin Building Web Apps Using Atlas – Francisco Tolmasky Kick-ass Online Marketing Techniques – Alex Hunter How to Build a Web App from A-Z [...]

So Microsoft joined the twitter party today. Although they already had accounts for the various departments, today’s the day they finally started Tweeting from the /Microsoft account. @Microsoft is being managed by 4 people from the Communications Team. Their first tweet was “Anyone can make games now, Kodu is available on Xbox LIVE Marketplace http://bit.ly/3wlWKo #microsoft #xboxlive #kodu” [...]

Google have just launched a set of new features on Gmail which changes the way users interact with labels. So what’s new: Labels are now on the left hand side, according to Googles blog above the chat box, however I have the right hand side chat enabled so it’s above my documents box now. Hiding less used labels is something you have control over now, which is great, I usually underscore my most [...]

Image via Wikipedia The Legend that is Tetris is 25 years old today. What a milestone! It’s still as popular as it was back then. It was created on June 6, 1984, by Alexey Pajitnov in Moscow He came up with the name from the Greek numerical prefix tetra and tennis, his favourite sport. Tetris was sold on a range of 1980s computers, however it was the hugely successful handheld version for the Game [...]

Microsoft have announced, they will be releasing the much anticipated new operating system on October 22nd, Windows 7 is going to be available to all new computers from launch and on a cd for other pcs. It’s been alleged that free upgrades to windows 7 will be available to pc buyers before launch, which could be as early as August. This news comes a day after Microsoft unveiled their new gaming control [...]

Opera has announced that it is set to release the first edition of Opera 10, codenamed Peregrine, the browser is alleged to offer an assortment of new features, including compression technology that is said to be 40% faster than it’s predecessor (Opera 9.6). Opera 10 has also got a new tab design, “we introduce a resizable tab bar. Drag the handle underneath the tabs to reveal thumbnails of your [...]

It’s been rumoured that iPhone 3.0 will have TV and Film Direct Downloads straight to the iPhone, similar to the iTunes desktop service. This news comes from Open Salon, where you can see screenshots of the iTunes iPhone app going through the motions of trying to download a movie. We at Sporkings are very interested in iPhone app development and as such have iPhone 3.0 already running, we noticed [...]

Sporkings have been trialling WordPress 2.8 beta recently and we have to say we Love it! One of the best things to come out of this release is the editor for themes and plugins, see screenshot, this is what an editor should look like! 2.8 when officially released offers a plethora of new features: User Features New Theme Installer routines Use “Custom Header” for menu text and revise [...]

We have 3 cars in our household and over the course of 2 days we realised that all the remote locking wasn’t working on any of them! We tried all the different keys we had for each car, but nothing. batteries even seemed ok. Then we realised that the recent HQ 5.8GHz Video Sender Kit we had bought when switched off didn’t stop our remote locking from working! Problem solved. The reason [...]