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Chris Johnson

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December 2004 - Posts

First In....
A new shopping experience for NZers online ... http://www.firstin.co.nz For a limited time ... and for a limited number of units ... you can purchace stuff really cheap. Offer changes daily. Read More...
How can I trust Firefox?
With all the hoopla going on around the browser wars starting again and how IE is dead etc... i thought this post was really well written and clear. Its shows the issues, the reasons and the implications of some poor design decisions. I personally think Read More...
Halo 2 Game Viewer
Most people don't know about the awesome Halo 2 online stats you can get on www.bungie.net . You can get all your game stats/scores etc... This is really cool information! Must be a MASSIVE sql db somewhere :) Anyway ... the COOLEST feature on the planet Read More...
Nice workaround to permissioning lists in SPS Areas.
If you have ever wondered how you secure a list or doucment Library in an SPS Area ... Bil has a nice post on a work around to this... Applying Permissions to Lists in Areas One of the issues security in an area is that if you have say several document Read More...
OneNote shortcut...
Just found this and it rules! .... Shortcut Windows Key + S to do a selectable screen capture into OneNote. Awesome. Read More...
Digital Image Pro 10
I take quite a few digital photos ... and up until now have used a number of different editing packages to work with them. Up until now I have been dissapointed by Microsofts previous versions of image manipulation and editing software. Today i installed Read More...
SPS Document ratings tool....
IanM pointed to this as a good out of the box document ratings add on to Sharepoint: http://www.pilothouseconsulting.com/htm/products/rating_experts_features.htm Read More...
Good place to get help ...
I get lots of people that want to know how to ask Microsoft questions about various things without having to engage MCS etc... Most of these people are MSDN subscribers (most of the questions i get are dev type questions). Most people dont know about Read More...
Changing search engines...
Today i decided to make the move to the new MSN search service, desktop search etc... Up till now i have used google. I remember making the same move to google years ago. Now it is time to try something new. Only the first few hours of using it ... but Read More...
Infopath forms -> ASP.Net forms
I did some work a while back for a company based in Australia called Unique World Software. One of the products they make is InfoView. This takes Infopath forms and turns them into ASP.Net forms! At the time it was in development ... but it seems it is Read More...
SmartPart...
There has been lots of talk around on SharePoint related blogs about the Smartpart and how it allows people to develop for SharePoint. So much in fact that i decided to pull finger and get around to looking at it. I have to say that i am really impressed! Read More...
2 new SPS branding documents
Branding SharePoint Portal Server Well this is a topic very close to my heart. Having spent a significant part of my life last year (<grin>) helping a very large customer in the UK deploy SharePoint, I understand how important it is for a product Read More...
Halo 2 and Excel...
I am no typical business user .... and i have not found a good use of pivot charts for my use ... UNTIL NOW.... http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/202357_msftnotebook06.html Read More...
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