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There's been a lot of fuss about the User Account Control (UAC) feature in Windows Vista. A recent story even made headlines when a Microsoft manager was quoted as saying Microsoft deliberately deigned UAC to "annoy users". I've
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If you read my blog via its actual web site, you probably noticed some changes yesterday. After a while of planning and slowly putting the pieces into place behind the scenes, I finally completed an upgrade to the look-n-feel of my blog. For
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Thank you Live Search for Mobile! (<- yes, the name is a mouthful, but it gets the job done.) Yesterday was Easter Sunday here in the US. In the morning, my 2 year-old son had tough congestion and was wheezing, a sure sign of croup . He's had this
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Next week, I'm off to Mix '08 in Vegas! If there's anyone from NY/NJ/Philly/CT area planning to be out there, hope to see you at the poker tab-- uh, in all the great sessions! Mix has sold out, so if you haven't been able to get tickets you
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So, I thought Silverlight 2.0 would have it's big coming out party at Mix 08 next week in Vegas. To my surprise, Scott Guthrie published a whole bunch of details about it on last Friday! If you haven't read it already, see his post "
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Thank you to everyone who attended the Silverlight 1.0 Firestarter events in NYC and Philly . I had a lot of fun participating in both events. Folks seemed to be excited about the content, and the feedback I received was very positive from both events!
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The new version of Live Maps is being rolled out this week. Lots of new features. Check out the post from the Virtual Earth team for more details. In summary: New & streamlined user interface Party Maps! Formally known as 1-Click Directions Route
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After Brad Abrams completed his Silverlight portion of the keynote, he did a demo of PopFly. PopFly is a mashup tool that was built with Silverlight 1.0. It was designed so that average Joe could build neat things out of different services on the web.
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I'm at ReMIX '07 Boston today. ReMIX is all about connecting web designers, developers, and business decision makers and showcasing topics and solutions that bridge Microsoft and non-Microsoft perspectives, and emphasize the inclusive and participatory
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ReMIX07 Boston – Monday-Tuesday, October 8-9, 2007 On the frontiers of the Web, boundaries are blurring—developers and designers, advertisers and publishers, software and services, media and technology, TV and PCs, PCs and mobile devices, producers and
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Okay okay... so for all those Windows users with Mac jealousy, now you can have the fancy icon bar with animations too. Check out Rocket Dock. It's free, and it works well. http://www.punksoftware.com/rocketdock So far, so good. My only complaint is that
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Via Scoble ... Check out these cool mashup applications from Thirteen23 that take advantage of the Windows Presentation Foundation on Windows Vista. These applications also work on Windows XP, but you'll need to install the .NET 3.0 Framework first. The
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