May 2007 - Posts
Hi... if you can read this LW works fine ;-) Get it yourself... http://writer.live.com CU 0xff
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Hi... a new way of interaction with computers is simply touching it. But on a large scale... I saw something like this at the TechFest in Redmond this year. Now its getting public... see http://www.microsoft.com/surface/ CU 0xff
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Hi... ever tried to use your smartphone with one hand? Ever wondered why your finger is so thick and the button on that form so small?? Yepp, relax, you are not the only one and a solution is on its way. It's called Shift and is yet another gizmo by MS
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Hi.. it might seem only a bit of a help but some Microsofties from the UK set up a special page within the British MS web (see http://www.microsoft.com/uk/citizenship/madeleine.mspx ). Being a father of a 4 year old girl myself it really strucks me. My
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Hi... a famous German fighter for socialism and womens-rights, Rosa Luxemburg, once said (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Luxemburg ) Freiheit ist immer die Freiheit des Andersdenkenden. ("Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who
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Hi... to be honest: The name is somehow strange, the product is killer...and I like the rubber ducks... I just started to play around with popfly and it can really change the world. It is so easy and cool... you got to like it... As usual I just started
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Hi... In his last TechTalk Dirk showed some strange behaviours of VB.NET and C#...Dirk, have a look on this. Look at this construction (which is by the way found by Clemens Hintze): def a print "Function 'a' called\n" 99 end for i in 1..2 if i==2 print
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Hi... during WinHEC Bill Gates showed some of the winners of a PC design contest done regularly by IDA / ICSID and Microsoft. (See here for more info http://www.nextgendesigncomp.com/ ) I found one of the winners very interesting..it is my personal favourite...
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Hi... some people download Longhorn Beta 3... others might get hit on their head by a beta... Why? Watch this... Find even more of this here http://www.microsoft.com/winhec/virtualshow.mspx CU 0xff
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Hi... this time I will simply repeat what others said... Quote: "For too long, Microsoft has allowed other people- the media, the competition and their detractors, especially- to tell their story on their behalf, instead of doing a better job of it themselves.
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Hi... I had the chance to take part in Dirk's TechTalk (see http://www.techtalk.ms/Vorträge/Mai0710DingedieSienichtüberNET/tabid/69/Default.aspx ) and saw some of the "pearls" he mentioned. Oh, man. I would like to have more time to code... The TT has
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Hi... OK, to be actor in a video is nice but in my opinion the camera man should be recognized, too. Isn't there an Oscar even for the camera-crew?? So, my latest recording ;-) OK, Lori did the interview and the cut... so, she had the most work with it.
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Hi... at the MIX I've been (after being adviced to have a look at the session) at "Accessing Data Seervices in the Cloud". Pablo Castro gave an overview on project "Astoria". Not only is Pablo a very good speaker, the project is really a hit. After working
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Hi... now Mix is over... what is left?? First they sessions are all online under sessions.visitmix.com ... and there is a Silverlight player with it. Secondly I was thinking (one has plenty of time during an 11 hours flight) how Silverlight will change
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Hi... to say "I am looking forward..." does not describe what I feel right now. I am sitting at the last day of the MIX in LasVegas and today (yes, today!!) the website for XTOPIA went live!!! MIX was an impressive experience and I learned a lot. Some
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Hi... yesterday I had a discussion at the MIX about blogging with two quite famous German bloggers. The interesting thing was how diffferent they use their blog for. The one guy (and I won't tell the name, sorry, I am a German guy and we are very aware
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Hi... I don't think I need to repeat what has been announced on MIX 07 (if you don't know just visit www.visitmix.com ). So I think I rather describe my insights. You could call it a Dejavu or to stay with Britney Spears "Ups, I did it again...": With
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