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Cloud computing explained

I've been asked a lot more recently about "Cloud Computing" and especially how Microsoft is playing in this area, I'll link to the articles when they come out. In the meantime David Chappell has written a nice summary of the current state of cloud computing Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 3:11 PM by pooyad | 1 Comments
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How to split a powerpoint slide into 2 - Community Clips

I just uploaded my 1st video on Community Clips :) It came from a discussion we had this morning in a meeting as we were previewing some powerpoint slides. The slide had gotten quite long with a lot of text and we wanted to split it into 2 slides. One Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 04, 2008 11:34 AM by pooyad | 0 Comments
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Easiest Screen Capture tool I've ever used

I've been looking for a good, free and easy to use screen capture tool and today I finally found one I like, Community Clips , and it turns out it's from the Microsoft Office team . It uses Media Encoder underneath and does a good job of compression with Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 29, 2008 10:58 AM by pooyad | 0 Comments
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Deep zoom composer

If you liked the Hard Rock demo from MIX , here's how you can easily build something similar yourself with the Deep Zoom Composer . It's based on the same technology that powers PhotoSynth (SeaDragon) and makes creating these deep zoom applications very Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008 8:53 PM by pooyad | 0 Comments
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Day 1 at MIX

After a long long journey from Dubai, I finally arrived in Las Vegas for the first day of MIX08. A very exciting day for me to see Microsoft make some big announcements around the future of our technologies on the web. Check out the official MIX blog Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 06, 2008 7:25 PM by pooyad | 1 Comments
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Popfly: Building simple and quick apps - Sharjah Airport Arrivals

As those who've attended my sessions will know, I really like Popfly , I think it's the future of how people will build applications, and it's also incredibly cool to demo. It qualified as one of PC World's top 25 most innovative products of the year. Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 26, 2008 7:12 PM by pooyad | 1 Comments
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lIVE writer for x64

Forgot to mention in the last post but the new Thinkpad is 64 bit. One drawback of this is that Windows Live Writer (Beta) does not support x64 yet . Fortunately there is a workaround, it is currently unsupported but if you can see this blog post then Read More...
Posted Monday, October 29, 2007 2:50 PM by pooyad | 1 Comments
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Microsoft Tagspace: Web 2.0 for Microsoft technical content

Here's a very useful new way of classifying technical information on Microsoft technologies. One of the hardest things I've found is to locate the right technical information form reliable sources. There's always MSDN, but there's so much more out there Read More...
Posted Monday, April 16, 2007 9:47 AM by pooyad | 0 Comments
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Microsoft Virtual Earth

In my previous post I mentioned 2 great uses of mashups for business. The wow factor in both of those applications is based on Microsoft's Virtual Earth. This mapping technology is great and easy to use. Anyone can incorporate the maps into their site Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 15, 2006 11:04 AM by pooyad | 0 Comments
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Mashups for business

John L. Scott , and Coldwell Banker Bain real estate companies in the Northwest United States have some of the most impressive applications to take advantage of the mashup concept. They make great poster children for Web 2.0 being used in the business Read More...
Posted Monday, August 14, 2006 11:06 AM by pooyad | 0 Comments
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