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OneNote Testing
OneNote as a karaoke machine: no powertoy needed!
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over 5 years ago
by
John Guin
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I was playing around with Jeff's media tuner addin the other day and trying to align some notes I had taken a little better with the audio I had recorded. Then it hit me - OneNote is a "poor man's karaoke machine." You can take a song, drop it on a OneNote...
OneNote Testing
Welcome Ali Babaoğlan to the Shared Source OM team
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over 5 years ago
by
John Guin
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I just got finished sending this email to the OM team on www.codeplex.com/onom . This is incredibly exciting, and I wanted to let everyone know what we're working on next. I’m very happy to announce Ali Rıza Babaoğlan has joined our OM team! He...
OneNote Testing
Two new case studies on OneNote, and how they will affect testing
Posted
over 5 years ago
by
John Guin
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Last week Alceste mentioned, in a comment about using personas for testing, that the sample set we have on www.microsoft.com/evidence may be self selected and skewed toward the educational market. That's a good point. If we had thousands of case studies...
OneNote Testing
Testing themed controls for OneNote addins
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over 5 years ago
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John Guin
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About a week ago, Shu updated his OneNote Favorites addin to support themed controls. In short, themed controls display in a more "modern" fashion than unthemed controls, but work the same. If you think back to Windows 95, you can see unthemed...
OneNote Testing
Tracking too many interrupts with my tablet PC
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over 5 years ago
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John Guin
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I have been very happy with my tablet once I scanned my fingerprint to "calm down" the fingerprint reader software. I happened to notice the fan on the tablet was still running more often than what I expected after making that change. I figured...
OneNote Testing
A OneNote Tips blog has started
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over 5 years ago
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John Guin
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This is great news: Jeff Cardon, the fellow who brought us the Print Manager powertoy, the CRM addin for OneNote and more useful powertoys than I can list here has started a OneNote tips blog over at here: http://blogs.msdn.com/onenotetips [update: new...
OneNote Testing
Living in the cache - the rest of the story
Posted
over 5 years ago
by
John Guin
2
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My big plan to "live in the cache" and automatically consolidate my offline changes when I got my tablet back backfired. If you remember, I have my working notebook stored on my Gateway tablet, and share the folder it is in over the domain here at work...
OneNote Testing
Welcome Carlos Rivera to the OM team!
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over 5 years ago
by
John Guin
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I’m very pleased to announce Carlos Rivera has joined us on the Shared Source OM team for our project at www.codeplex.com/onom . He will be working on creating a Sudoku addin for OneNote using the OM. This should be a lot of fun. Here’s what he has...
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Triaging our "tools" bug list
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over 5 years ago
by
John Guin
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Last week we took a look at bugs we have opened in the "Tools" branch of our bug database. For OneNote, "tools" is a catchall for a wide range of differing areas: automation bugs, performance work needed, bugs with out test tools (which is probably the...
OneNote Testing
OneNote infiltrates the US Treasury?
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over 5 years ago
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John Guin
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Hey, check out the back of the new five dollar bill here in the USA (and yes, I'm probably breaking 15 major laws by scanning a bill): Hmm. That color sure does look like OneNote purple. Maybe we can sue the government and claim we own purple. I mean...
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