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April 2009 - Posts

Microsoft Office SP2

You may have heard that the second service pack (SP2) for Microsoft Office is now available. There are loads of fixes and updates but the one that leaps out at me is this one: Data file checks Greatly reduces the number of scenarios in which you receive Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 30, 2009 2:59 PM by ianm | 2 Comments

Fortune and Glory with IE8

Short Round : What is Sankara? Indiana Jones : Fortune and glory, kid. Fortune and glory I'm wondering whether we can edit the script so that Short Round says "What's the opportunity with IE8?". Ok maybe I'm reaching. However, as my colleague Mike Ormond Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:44 AM by ianm | 2 Comments

More IE8 Accelerators

I like this one from my colleague Mike Ormond : http://ieaddons.com/gb/search/?search=trafficify . It shows traffic problems for any UK address you highlight as well as speed camera locations (note this is UK only). Mike has used Azure to do his data Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 15, 2009 3:40 PM by ianm | 1 Comments
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Running browser applications in dedicated windows

Like many people I use my browser all day long, not just for searching but for running applications, whether they’re intranet ones such us our internal finance systems, or external ones such as hotmail, Office Live Workspace, or mindmeister (a mind mapping Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 08, 2009 9:49 PM by ianm | 1 Comments
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Currency Conversion using Live.com

In some previous blog posts ( here and here ) I talked about some little-known features of the live.com search engine that I find really useful. Here’s another one: currency conversion. I don’t know about you but I’m always searching for currency conversion Read More...
Posted Monday, April 06, 2009 9:57 AM by ianm | 3 Comments
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IE8 Addons from TeSco, Ebay.co.uk, Rightmove, Directgov and ASOS

Back in March, as I’m sure you know, we released the final version of Internet Explorer 8 for download . There’s plenty to like about IE8 – not only is it faster than any previous version (and faster than any other browser on most of the top 25 websites Read More...
Posted Friday, April 03, 2009 2:25 PM by ianm | 1 Comments
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