We all know how difficult it can be to purchase the latest Nintendo technology, and I don't think the upcoming Wii U will be any exception. If you think back to when the first Wii console was released shortly before the Christmas rush it was nigh on impossible to get your hands on one. People were forking out way over the odds on ebay so they could play Wii Tennis on Christmas Day. It was bit ridiculous. I imagine it will be the same this year with the Wii U.

Now, for those in the know it was actually quite easy to pick up a Wii on it's release from a major retailer for not a penny over RRP. I registered with a website which monitored all the major retailers and displayed alerts when a retailer (Argos, John Lewis, Amazon, etc) had any in stock. As soon as they listed them it was possible to jump to their website and order away, in multiple (for your friends of course)!

I recommend this year you stay ahead of the game. Keep your eye on www.wiiuorder.co.uk which will, come crunch time, let you get your hands on a Wii U.

I was talking to Andrew Spooner a few weeks ago and he reported that one of his Laptops were having an issue with displaying Flash in IE9. I assumed the issue was limited to just his laptop and suggested that he uninstall and re-install flash to fix the issue. However, it turns out that the issue wasn’t just Andrews… in fact it affected anyone with IE9 + Intel HD Graphics and would result in Flash elements being drawn at the wrong position on the screen.

The fault was caused by an update from Adobe. They acknowledge the failure here and on the 31st of May they sent out an update to flash which fixes the issue.

It seems Abobe just forgot to test IE9 across all major graphics cards. Which is a little bit complacent… but everyone makes mistakes I guess. With that said it’s good to see they solved the issue so quickly.

I was putting together a WP7 presentation recently. I needed to use all of the WP7 colours as background for the slides. It took me a while to collate all of the colours so I thought I'd post them up here in case anyone needed them.