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30 September 2009
A Guide to the Internet Explorer 8 Developer Tools
This is a follow up post for a talk I recently gave at the The Ajax Experience conference in Boston about using the developer tools included with Internet Explorer 8. Want to see the tools in action?   I have a screencast on Internet Explorer 8 from Read More...
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30 September 2009
Free Antivirus Protection with Microsoft Security Essentials
A short and simple post…  Need antivirus and antimalware protection?  Want it for free?  Then download Microsoft Security Essentials now: Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, Read More...
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03 February 2009
Roundup of 11 Recent Microsoft Technology Releases
There have been quite a few developer and technology releases in the past couple of weeks, so in case you’ve missed any, I’ve collected pointers to 11 of them in this post: Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) IE Team Post Release Notes ASP.NET Read More...
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11 October 2008
Presentation Tip - Randomizing Giveaways
A simple tip for those times when you have things to give away randomly to your audience and forgot your bag of dice...         Random.org ! This site features a Random Sequence Generator which is simple, but effective.  Read More...
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21 August 2008
Photosynth is Live - Take it for a Spin
The Microsoft Live Labs project Photosynth has just gone live, letting you create your own synths.  What's a synth?  Consider taking a whole bunch of your pictures of a certain place, dropping them in Photosynth, and getting a 3D representation Read More...
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27 June 2008
Office 2007 Search Commands Add-On
Prompted by recent feedback on a Roadshow visit, I set off to research a bit about the " Fluent " (ribbon-based) interface in Office 2007.  Though it surfaces more functionality to users, it can clearly take some time for those used to Read More...
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27 May 2008
Tips from My Technical Presentations
My role involves spending a good deal of time with technical audiences. Recently, I've been getting reactions like this - "I enjoyed your presentation! I have an odd question - how did you zoom in like that?" or "How did you set those colors in Visual Read More...
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31 March 2008
Presentation Zooming with ZoomIt
After my Heroes Happen Here talk in Boston about web development with Visual Studio 2008, I got a few emails from people asking me how I was able to zoom in to areas of my screen during my demos. There's a handy and free utility, ZoomIt, originally a Read More...
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20 December 2007
World of Warcraft Meets Visual Studio 2008
In an bit of good timing for some holiday season downtime, Dan Fernandez has announced the first release of AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft on CodePlex. World of Wacraft supports user-generated utilities and interfaces, called AddOns. Now we can use Read More...
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16 August 2007
Office 2007 Document Inspector
I have a new favorite feature in Office 2007. I often need to send documents to contacts, but I want to ensure there's no extra information tagging along for the ride (revision history, document properties, speaker notes in PowerPoint, etc.) You used Read More...
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22 February 2007
Reflector 5.0 Released
Lutz Roeder posts word that he's released version 5.0 of his (free) Reflector tool. If you haven't heard of Reflector, it's truly one of the top 10 tools that every .NET developer must have. Adding to the already indispensable functionality of Reflector Read More...
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