Archive for January 2007

Bay Area Comcast Tivo – First Look

Wednesday, 10 January 2007 Applications, Communication, TV No comments

Wow, CES this year is bringing some gems. At last we get to see the first stab at a Comcast Tivo interface. There’s not much news yet in terms of pricing or release date, apart from it’ll be very soon. (But we’ve heard that since March 2005!) It’ll probably come in the spring and only be initially available to users with a Motorola DCT6412 box.

The service will cost you a monthly fee in addition to your current subscription and you won’t need an engineer to visit, it’ll be a remote automatic install. Let’s wait and see!

You can find loads of Comcast Tivo, or will it be Tivo Comcast UI images at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wahiggins3/sets/72157594469660371/detail/

Microsoft Web Exchange and Windows Vista

Wednesday, 10 January 2007 Applications, Web One comment

I’ve been using Microsoft Windows Vista since the Beta and RC1 and so far I’ve been very impressed. There are quite a few buggy issues that I hope will be rectified sooner rather than later. Vista encounters many issues with websites that utilitise ActiveX components.

One of the biggest issues is that you cannot use Outlook Web Access with Vista. Outlook Web Access will not function correctly due to ActiveX issues. Vista does not recognise the DHTML ActiveX component. There is a download fix available, but this is for the Exchange server end – so you need to find a friendly Exchange administrator to do the update for you. You can find out more here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5bc06e8a-08eb-4976-bc68-a03ebe3a2552&DisplayLang=en

As I mentioned, some websites refuse to display correctly, or display at all, thinking that IE7 for Vista is not a standard web-browser. Microsoft have released an interim fix (User Agent String Utility) for this problem to make IE7 appear to servers as IE6 SP2.

You can download it by clicking here.