Microsoft NZ 2007 Technical Briefing on the way

on General

The first MS NZ event for ‘O7 after the launch is coming next month, lots of awesome content and also some nice give aways and all for just $199. Details are here I even noticed that JD– 2006 Blogger of the year award winner -will be co presenting with JBthis year. Nice stuff JD. The next generation of Microsoft tech geeks is emerging. Looks like me & JD are leading the wave but in slightly different ways(Shameless self promotion here :-)) I’m sure JD would agree this is just the beginning!…

read more...

Live Search vs. Google

on Windows Live

Just read this post on Scoble’s blog and it got me thinking. I don’t really care what Microsoft’s intentions are to take Google head to head by offering similar services or what but I personally am very happy with the Windows Live family of services and Live Search specifically. I think the problem is Google is just good enough for the search needs of most people and it also seems to fit very well when speaking about it– I mean when saying “I googled this and that”, it doesn’t sound as easy to say I Yahoo’…

read more...

Visual Studio Orcas new Web Designer

on Visual Studio 2005

I read this morning on ScottGu’s blog about the new Visual Studio Web designer. It looks promising! I’ve always found the Visual Studio 2003 annoying especially when switching views… Visual Studio 2005’s designer is less annoying but still not perfect. So it’s about time we see the *Least Annoying – *this is going to be my word – expectation – on it till I try it ! :-). Here’s a list of some of the new stuff in the designer taken from Scott’s blog. Split View Support (the ability to have both HTML Source and WYSIWYG design open…

read more...

Live Search on your Mobile

on Windows Live

I thought I was keeping a good eye on what’s happening with Live Search but Chris was faster to post about the ability to have Windows Live Search on your mobile. See his post here I still have a couple more posts I was meant to write uplast yearand haven’t yet, they should be coming soon. Stay tuned for more on Live Search.…

read more...

Errors Installing VS 2005 SP1 on Windows Server 2003

on Visual Studio 2005

I was trying to install VS 2005 SP1 on Windows Server 2003 last night but kept getting an error about an invalid signature (or something like that anyway – can’t remember the exact error now) The cause of the problem as stated on the Microsoft websiteis *“This problem occurs when the computer has insufficient contiguous memory for Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP to verify that the .msi package or the .msp package is correctly signed.” * The solution can be found here.…

read more...

Windows Vista Shutdown Options

on Windows

Here goes my first post in 2007. Happy New Year to you all. I was recently reading this post on Joel Spolsky’s blog about the number of shutdown options available in Windows Vista. Even though they are quite a few and can be narrowed down like he suggests. I thinkI have a better idea! I have been using Vista for almost a year now but for some reason I never thought about this. But for me I tend to shut down my computer most of the time if I’m not using it and to do so I…

read more...

Microsoft Word Save As PDF Addon

on Office

Probably those of you who already downloaded and are running Office 2007 RTM know this but anyway. The Microsoft addon for the save as PDF feature –which wastaken outfrom the beta versions of Office – can be found here…

read more...

Adding Live Search to your web site 'The Easy Way'...

on Windows Live

I was playing with the MSN Search web service to try and enable Live Search into websites a couple of days ago and I lost the article reference that I was reading through with the examples. Today while searching for that article I stumbled across this link. Apparently there are easy ways of integrating Live Search into your websites without having them embedded. The link above allows you to implement the search in two ways, one by having the search box only and redirecting the results to the Live Search results. The second is by having afloating window that…

read more...