Author: Matthew Eaves

Hal MacLean, myself and Director of Ultralab (1990-2006), Richard Millwood from the Ultralab (1990-2006) team at Anglia Ruskin University spent the afternoon and evening with the BBC Blast team in White City’s Media Centre, London to share and celebrate with the wider BBC the progress made by Blast, the BBC’s creative platform giving kids a

Justina and myself headed off on a trip to ‘do as many countries as we could’ in just four days. This blog entry won’t tell you about where we went, or what we did, it simply gives advice on booking a budget ferry and accommodation on route. First thing to book was the ferry….. We’ve

I’m conscious that I’ve not written much about the time I spent late last year with Jonathan Furness in Thailand. I’ve written a news article now, and here it is: Ultralab (1990-2006) commissioned by British Council to work in Thailand with communities after the Tsunami It is hard to believe that the beautiful beach town

After hearing news that our local regions biggest publishing group have abandoned paying for Microsoft Office in favour of a free Open Source Software alternative, I decided to explore NeoOffice for Mac. PC users, you can explore OpenOffice, NeoOffice is written on the same code. So, for free, all the products offered in Microsoft Office.

Why oh why don’t Microsoft make products that don’t crash? All I wanted to do was open a PowerPoint presentation. I’ve been using a Mac now for five years, it never gets a virus, it never crashes and simply works. Microsoft have been making computer software for well over 20 years, why does this still

Wow! I followed the instructions and now don’t need to use MSN Messenger to talk to my MSN buddies (who usually have a Hotmail email address) as I can now talk to them using iChat using a Jabber server. Fantastic, it works! The above screen grab shows my ‘Buddies’ (AIM iChat users) ‘Bonjour’ (local Network

Wow! How cool is this? Working with both iChat AV and GarageBand 3 part of Apple’s iLife product suite I can record audio conversations straight into iChat and it splits the participants into their own GarageBand tracks. This means contributions can be credited after the call without guessing who’s voice it is, just imagine the

Leonie and myself had a play with Photo Booth on the iMac G5. Very cool application!

Monday 11 December 2005 Anglia Ruskin University’s Ultralab (1990-2006), the world class learning, technology and research centre was invited to present our work. Ultralab (1990-2006) team members speak at conferences and seminars, we disseminate our research findings and radical action research projects to governments, corporations, charities and academics globally. Malcolm Moss and myself were kindly

I’ve been so busy the past month, that I’ve not had the chance to update this blog, so I’m sorry, you’ll have to ‘Mind the Gap’ as I reflect back on what I’ve done. I’ve got so much holiday still to use up, that I’m in the lab, working on this stuff, catching back up