Tempting Fate

Last night at my talk I mentioned viruses and nasty programs. I mentioned that I used the Windows Defender part of Microsoft Security Essentials. I also said that I hardly ever get problems with this kind of thing as the only programs I install come from boring places and I don’t go to strange web sites and click “OK”.

Of course, this morning Windows Defender popped up an alert. I’d been searching for some drivers for my Canon printer yesterday and inadvertently visited one of these nasty “driver archive” sites who try to sell you drivers that you can get for free from the manufacturer. And they had given me a little present, as you see above. Good news is that it was a doddle to remove. I left the machine doing a full scan when I went off to a meeting and all is well.

Rob at Cottingham WI

Just spent a very nice evening talking to the folks at Cottingham Women’s Institute about computers. Thanks for inviting me ladies.

Windows Dev Center Open for Business

I’ve just registered as a Windows 8 “Metro Style” developer. It went very smoothly, most of the stuff carried over from my Microsoft account. For the princely sum of 32 pounds a year I now have the ability to publish Windows 8 applications to the world. I wonder if the world is ready for a “Metro Style” Cheese Lander?

You can sign up here.

Hull to get 4G Phone Coverage

I don’t often shout “Yay!” while I’m watching BBC Look North. But today I did. They announced that Hull is one of the 16 cities in the UK that will be getting 4G network coverage before Christmas, courtesy of the phone network EE, which is being set up out of the merged Orange and T-Mobile networks. The news is even better for me, because the new Nokia phone that I’m presently coveting, the Lumia 920, has LTE support and should work on this new, superfast network.  So, Yay! indeed.

Windows Phone Game Action

These are a couple of games that our students have made over the summer. Robocleaner is a development of the Sweepy Cleaner coursework from Alex Rogers (I’ve actually bought that one and it is fun). Not tried Pigs Might Fly yet, but it is worth a look just for the artwork.  Click on the image to go through to the Windows Phone page for the application. You can even buy and deploy the program straight from the web if you fancy it.

I’m compiling a page of “Stuff wot folks from Hull made”, so if you have something you’d like me to mention, send me an email (you know the address) and I’ll put something together.

Update on Tuesday, September 11, 2012 at 07:48PM by Rob

Ooops. Forgot to mention fhat Pigs Might Fly is from Adam Brookes.