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Defrost Microsoft Outlook

2008-07-11T17:17:00.000+05:30

Some of the Users of Outlook have experienced freezing or hanging of Outlook 2007 SP1 some times. Danielissimo has released Defrost Outlook on CodePlex to help such cases. Try this out until formal fix is released from Microsoft. You can also send what makes your outlook hang (messages,ical,vcal,vcard etc) to defrostoutlook at gmail dot com Download Defrost Outlook from here (Source:Office

Microsoft to improve efficiency of Indian Railways

2008-07-11T08:45:00.000+05:30

“……Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS), the umbrella organization for all computer activities on Indian Railways, along with Microsoft, has come out with a unique system for effectively monitoring the movement of trains operated by the Indian Railways. Built on Windows Vista, the Control Office application (COA) will ensure that the 17 million passengers who travel by the

IE-on-acid Logo Wallpaper

2008-07-10T17:41:00.000+05:30

Few days back I had posted about IE Fan Art Gallery , where one will find various interesting photographs by IE Team.But, now I want to post about one photograph specially because I liked it very much and now I am using it as my wallpaper. Its the logo of IE with interesting codes in it, may be for the AcidTest2? Its called ‘IE-on-acid Logo’ - designed by Harel Williams of IE Team. Though I had

Angus Logan on Windows Live

2008-07-06T19:01:00.000+05:30

Angus Logan from the Windows Live team shares his thoughts on the evolution of Windows Live and Windows Live services, social networking, Live Mesh, and what it all means for developers. TechEd: Angus Logan on Windows Live

MSN Toolbar gets Weather Button, Themes

2008-07-06T00:41:00.000+05:30

Those using MSN Toolbar must have noticed the new addition; Yes, now MSN Toolbar is auto updated to get weather button showing Current temperature with graphic display for Sun, Cloud etc.. This feature was very much requested and now its provided. Thanks ! Its a nice and useful addition. On clicking the button, one gets the 5 days forecast, option to change location and a search bar to

IE Fan Art Gallery

2008-07-04T17:34:00.000+05:30

IE8 team has put up an IE Fan art Gallery on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/ieteam/ where it has posted some pictures including pictures on the theme of ‘eight’. It is also accepting fan art or image mashups to put up on IE Team’s Flickr site. All the IE8 beta testers have just been informed via newsletter about it first, so one will not find any fan art yet put up on the site.To submit

DeepZoom Obama

2008-07-02T00:58:00.000+05:30

Check out this Masterpiece from Donovan West, at http://www.deepzoomobama.com/ This gigapixel (10000x10000) mosaic image was created from over 12,000 thumbnails uploaded by Obama supporters on www.BarackObama.com. It uses Deep Zoom, a cool new technology from Microsoft in Silverlight. To see Deep Zoom really shine, zoom in on Obama's left eye where you will see a thumbnail of Obama waving. Now

Windows Desktop Search: Add-ins for Outlook saved mail, Internet Explorer History and Files on Microsoft Networks

2008-07-01T11:49:00.000+05:30

Check out these Add-ins for Windows Desktop Search : Windows Desktop Search: Add-in for Outlook saved mail (.msg file) indexing Easily find all Microsoft Outlook MSG (.MSG) files and the contents within. This Add-in allows you to perform a search on all elements of your MSG (.MSG) files including Message Body; Subject; From; From Name; From Address; To Name; To Address; CC Name; CC

Build Live Writer Plug-ins:Charles Teague Interview

2008-07-01T10:02:00.000+05:30

Check out this interview with Charles Teague from Microsoft who is a part of those building Windows Live Writer. Charles discusses the Windows Live Writer SDK for extending Live Writer. He demonstrates the Polaroid Picture Plug-in and also shows how to build a "Hello World" plug-in in Visual Studio.

Twitter, Digg Button and other Social Bookmarking Plug-ins for Windows Live Writer Technical Preview

2008-07-01T00:55:00.000+05:30

Here are some plug-ins for Windows Live Writer. These Plug-ins will only work with the June2008 release-Technical Preview of Windows Live Writer. If you haven’t yet tried it, install it now. In this post we check these plug-ins: DiggThis Plug-in Twitter Notify Plug-in DotNetKicks Plug-in DZone Plug-in Social Bookmarking Tool which supports 20 bookmarking websites (Old plug-in

New features in Technical Preview of Windows Live Writer

2008-06-30T00:03:00.000+05:30

Since the announcement of Technical Preview of Windows Live Writer earlier this month, I have shifted to this edition and have been using it without any problem. Although it says that this release is largely about updates to the Writer SDK, but there are some improvements and new features also added which a general user of Live Writer will notice. Let us check out these new features: As soon as

Favorite Bill Gates stories by Softies

2008-06-28T07:35:00.003+05:30

To remember Bill Gates's last day at Microsoft, Larry Osterman, Bill Hill, Joan Hoshino, and Soma Somasegar share their favorite Bill Gates stories,thoughts and reflections.

Free e-book: Foundations of Programming

2008-06-28T07:19:00.001+05:30

Check out this e-book by Karl Seguin for .net developers, where he teaches you not just how to build software but how to build better software. Foundations of Programming- Building Better Software. Download the Book while its Free from here. (pdf format, 79 pages, 1.2 MB) (Source:Channel9)

ShutterSpeed Episode 02

2008-06-24T07:15:00.000+05:30

Check out the ShutterSpeed episode #2, an excellent series on Photography and Cameras. This 40 min. video edition covers Photosynth,Microsoft Pro Photo Tools with Geotagging ,What is Metadata and why is it important for photography and Hands-On: Using Windows Live Photo Gallery to import digital photos directly from the camera and much more... Get the opinion, tips from the experts. If you are

NBCOlympics.com and Silverlight

2008-06-24T07:03:00.000+05:30

As I had posted (Olympics and Silverlight) earlier about the Beijing Olympics which are scheduled to begin from 08-08-08 has signed an agreement with Microsoft to partner with NBC Universal to build a Silverlight 2.0 based Web Broadcast which will provide users with over 3000 Hrs. of Live and on-demand video content via Silverlight Streaming. Users can experience the rich content of every event

ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office

2008-06-24T06:19:00.001+05:30

Last month Microsoft had announced about expanding its list of Formats supported in Microsoft Office with the release of Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2). With the install of SP2, customers will be able to open, edit and save documents using ODF and save documents into the XPS and PDF fixed formats from directly within the application without having to install any other code.It will

Live Mesh Updated – Available Globally

2008-06-20T16:26:00.000+05:30

Live Mesh Tech Preview got a new update with some key fixes and improvements. The user will be automatically notified of the update by Live Mesh client software, or one can right click the Notifier icon in the system tray and choose "Update Live Mesh" to force an immediate upgrade. The updated version is 0.9.2815.17. These are the updates: Live Mesh is now available in all

Cloud Computing – Explained Simply

2008-06-20T15:23:00.000+05:30

(Source: Geek and Poke)

Windows Search 4.0

2008-06-20T06:35:00.000+05:30

Few days back the final ver. of Windows Search 4.0 was released. You can use this search engine to index a program's content and to obtain instant results when you search in a particular program. It helps you find and preview documents, e-mail messages, music files, photos, and other items on the computer. Recently Live Mesh has updated so that Index for Desktop Search works with Live Mesh

Free e-book : First Look Silverlight 2

2008-06-18T23:07:00.001+05:30

Get this e-Book ‘First Look Microsoft Silverlight 2’ by Laurence Moroney from Microsoft Press.It covers chapters like Introducing Silverlight 2, Using Expresion Blend with Silverlight 2 and Using Visual Studio with Silverlight 2. You can download this booklet from here : This is a part of the complete book Introducing Microsoft Silverlight 2.0, 2nd Edition, available for purchase at Amazon,

Live Search xRank now ranks Bloggers

2008-06-16T08:47:00.000+05:30

Live Search Team at Microsoft has been working behind the scenes and have been adding lots of new features recently to Live Search and it is indeed becoming better. To this list of feature a new option in xRank* has been added now. Earlier you had option to rank celebrity, musicians and politicians, now to this a new category ‘Blogger’ has been added. This will bring more people to try this new

Weird white box or Office logo in Messenger

2008-06-14T14:36:00.000+05:30

Since couple of days some Windows Live Messenger users were seeing a weird white box or a Office Logo in the chat window below ones display picture. I am using Messenger 9 beta but I haven’t seen this. Today there has been an official confirmation from Aaron of Messenger team which says: “We are seeing an issue where Messenger versions 8.1 and 8.5 are experiencing a technical issue that

New version of MSN Toolbar released

2008-06-12T21:21:00.000+05:30

As I had posted couple of days back to watch out for a MSN toolbar update soon, and here it is, a new version of MSN Toolbar is available. There’s no major change. Just as was expected the withdrawn Live search options of Books, academic sites , classifieds have been removed. And along with it, some more search options present in earlier version of toolbar such as Feeds, QnA, xRank are also

TCP/IP Fundamentals for Microsoft Windows

2008-06-09T21:03:00.000+05:30

Check out this book ‘TCP/IP Fundamentals for Microsoft Windows’ from Microsoft which describes the fundamentals of TCP/IP in Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003. The book is a structured, introductory approach to the basic concepts and principles of the TCP/IP , how the most important protocols function, and their basic configuration in the Microsoft Windows

Renault Laguna coupé – site uses DeepZoom and Silverlight

2008-06-09T16:39:00.001+05:30

Here is cool new site of Car maker Renault making use of DeepZoom and Silverlight for the promotion of the Laguna coupé. http://www.laguna-coupe.com/ Just Zoom them smoothly from a thumbnail to a size where you can view details such as the number plate or even a bolt of the car. I think this site has not been yet put on the Silverlight Showcase, which is a showcase of next