May, 2008

If you are a developer then you need to see Live Mesh . I also recommend PDC 08 (I have previously been to PDC 03 and 05 but will miss this one - no longer in full time dev role) :( I joined up to the mesh (Tech Preview) a few weeks ago thanks to Yuri...

A few weeks back, Microsoft released the Windows Live Messenger Facebook Application .  Members of Facebook can chat with their friends using this application that runs on the Facebook site. T he application also shows the WL Messenger online presence...

I revisted PopFly this weekend. It now contains a game creator .... which may help in a Silverlight Charity game we were thinking of making. Naturally I will be struggling to justify this to our team at work for a business case. I am thinking that the...

As Xobni is re-indexing its throwing up some nice little quotes.   I realised I never blogged about Xobni prior. Thanks to Michael Kordahi for the link from his blog. Are you drowning in email? Xobni is an add-in to Outlook that analyses email sent...

Tim Dawson, our local Financial Services Industry Manager, has kindly been providing me with some headlines for a newsletter I post to my financial services customers. I thought I would share some of them, as they are really quite interesting. Offshoring...

  Peter Ulm, who now looks after Virtual Earth etc. in Australia, walked me through some new features in live maps a couple of weeks back. Both impressed by the technology and Peter's passion I decided I would (finally) blog about it. It surprised...

Photosynth is a software technology preview from Microsoft Live Labs and the University of Washington that analyzes digital photographs to build a three-dimensional point cloud of a photographed object. (wikipedia) I blogge about it before, but it seems...

After fixing up a couple of user issues with my two BlackJack II devices: 1) locking would stop the media player  - fixed by changing options on playback not to pause on other applications running (obvious) 2) Volume - fixed not by side earphone...

Uploaded the full document here: http://cid-ae675263055adfd1.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Microsoft%20Products/BizTalk%202006%20R2/BAM_Infrastructure.pdf

Loved this email from Andrew May today. Andrew gave Microsoft some great performance coaching tips based off of his apparent many years supporting athletic and business professionals Have you ever had one of those days when you return home and friends...

As discussed here: http://www.itwire.com/content/view/18174/53/ You can now see the world wide telescope from Microsoft Research: http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/experienceIt/ExperienceIt.aspx Using Microsoft’s Visual Experience Engine technologies...

Help Microsoft raise $100,000 for the Smith Family’s Learning for Life program, to help Aussie kids get the education they need for a brighter future. From May 15 2008, for every short Microsoft® Office 2007 Charity demo that is viewed, Microsoft...

Here’s a great collection of security white papers focused at FSI and Professional Services industries. Electronic Signature Assurance and the Digital Chain-of-Evidence Enabling Secure Collaboration for Professional Services Firms Establishing the...

Neal Cross, Angus Logan and crew have been creating a small business banking reference site. As part of a sequence of videos I created one on advice for the small business in data privacy. Here are my notes: Initial steps Encourage staff to learn multiple...