Well, I still haven't got my new phone and even though Optus have the 02 XDA Atom in store, it's not on the Insurance list! So my choices are limited and I'm getting really impatient with a pen and paper notepad and a Nokia 8210!I can go the Blackberry route with a 8700g, which would be fine if it had not lacked a external storage slot and capability to play mpgs and mp3s. I'm not worried about i
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I've been using Digg [TechCrunch][Sourcelabs] for a while now, it's a great way to find out what's new and interesting out there and is an alternative to having lots of RSSs agregated in Google Reader or the like.I like the fact when you register it has the "recommend a friend" option where you can virally promote the service to your IT buddies. I will definately add this feature on my
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I can't believe how moving this flash map could be on the fatalities of the armies across the world in Iraq. This must have taken a fair bit of time to put together, but it's effect is so astounding. Every day something appears to flash on the map!Reading through the comments is also quite shocking, with the death toll for US presidents showing that both the Bush's are up there, but Regan's reign
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Jonathen Hawk has published a great article on ATLAS and creating a mashup with Virtual Earth. I really can't wait to get my hands dirty with ATLAS and get it into my pet site to benefit the community and hopefully pump up some promotion of the site!Australia is still not mapped on VirtualEarth except a few main suburb names, GoogleMaps only has an outline! The USA/UK is mapped on both. VirtualEa
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I'm going to sell my FujiFilm S2 Pro [1] camera as I don't use it anymore and hardly have since moving to Australia because I haven't been running my photo booths at sports events etc.On Ebay they are maknig about AUD $750 for the body. I've got 2 1Gb Microdrives, a 70-200mm Nikon lens and a 20-70mm Sigma lens, it's all in a nice backpack specialist bag with 3 sets of rechargeable batteries.If
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I've also got a Apple 17" Powerbook which I haven't used in about a year since getting a Windows machine primarily for development work and moving over to all Internet based applications for calendaring, email etc. and not relying on the OS for anything but Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Visual Studio for development purposes.This machine is very very sexy and has a great slim case witha
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Just seen that Andrew Connell is going to be doing a web cast on M$ new CMS on 18th April (public holiday in Aus!). Sounds like there is a lot of interest about the CMS as well as Sharepoint 2007. Andrew mentioned that Ryan Rogers also noticed the interest.The Sharepoint bloggers have been busy also.I believe it when I see it, but so far the features they are talking about are very impressive.
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Found a great site on this blog, it's got a really nice design but more importantly lists the best web2.0 sites out there. Hadn't even heard of some of the ones that had won such as NewsVine. The blog is very good on the site aswell.
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Saw this link and couldn't resist it...this is amazing!http://everyonehasavice.com/?p=803 These guys deserve some serious tippage!
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Just found Tim Anderson's blog whilst hunting around for XAML information. Interestingly, M$ are looking at a cross platform solution for XAML, which is a good step forward for M$...they are going that way with all their LIVE products being less dependent on M$ OS...it will be interesting to see how compatible these are in different browsers on different platforms. This blog article also mentions
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Well, the ads out with Ben Afflick 1. Firebox has the 'clicker' for sale. The Flash game isn't that special and clicking isn't that responsive on the Girls in the game.Talk is suprisingly quiet online about it being as it was released on March 1st. Google has hardly anything on this.It's a shame when marketing back fires like that...although maybe they are holding off a bit...usually Lynx are eve
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This link is so funny...translations of Chinese restaurant menus gone wrong!
On this note too...check out the "Best fight scene of all time" on YouTube...watch it to the end too! Imagine paying to see this at the cinema...do you think they'd be anyone left after this scene?!?Graeme pointed me to engrish.com too.
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Found a good set of ASP.NET 2.0 tutorials here, very useful for getting started in the new features available.Still not got my new phone yet, since my last one got stolen! Optus Phone Insurance still haven't got the 02 XDA Atom on their list...even though it is in their stores! I ring up each week and they say "try back in three weeks" or "maybe at the beginning of next month"
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Anyone who's seen Tom Cruise in Minority Report and gone..."man I want that screen"...are that bit closer. Apple have bought the patent for this awesome multi-touch screen technology which is shown off in this video. Again, the link is on Google Video which seems to be getting more and more take up. Interestingly it can also be found at YouTube which even Bill Gates was happy to promote
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M$ have a migration wizard that does the upgrade from 1.1. to 2.0 and it reports on areas it struggles on. I did try this directly with my pet project and it seemed to convert the class files fine. There seem to be a fee issues I think it just comes down to how M$ .Net pure you wrote your application.CodeBetter seemed to have no problems at all with their upgrade. The main advantages are performa
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Okay, I shouldn't really have a new post for every new feature that Google comes up with...but I've been using the Google Reader for a while now and use it to surf the web every day. They've now made a new way to virally market this product with the ability to share your feeds you have and also starred items with the public! Either by a link or by putting a code snippet on your web site!The code
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As mentioned yesterday, M$ was really pushing WMC at MIX06. This blog discusses the amount of sales they've pulled through the door in the last year and it's quite amazing. The Xbox 360 has the ability to run as a WMC aswell and the roll out of that is going to push this technology through the roof.Apple have got their own version of this software, FrontRow, which they are pushing with their mac
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Great summary of Mix06 from Robert Burke's blog. The MySpace stats are incredible, I didn't realise it was the 2nd biggest visited web site on the Internet...above Google etc.! This shows how community sites can dominate the Internet! The .Net 2.0 conversion stats are also quite impressive with regards to performance increases etc.
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I'm pumped to try and get Atlas March CTP going and getting in their show case. It'd be great to get the new skin on the web site and get my GoogleMaps stuff happening with some Atlas in there as well.First off I need to get the site going in .Net 2.0 which shouldn't mean too much work. I'll get to a point in the Google maps where it actually works and then start upgrading it.Interesting comments
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There is a good web cast here which outlines what they are covering, after 20 minutes it goes into
migration details. In summary, they claim: Document Management, Records
Management, Web Content Management and Forms Management with regards to
Workflow, Metadata, Policy, Search, Security, Collaboration, Deployment etc.
I’ve
put my name down for the beta 2 program. Be interesting to see if they
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As mentioned yesterday, MIX06 has started and Bill's web cast is very interesting talking about where the Internet is going with multi devices and methods of accessing it.Bill was pushing Atlas, IE7.0, Office 2007 (RSS), XBox 360, Origami, Pocket PC and Vista and has some big showcase speakers (list) there too.The Q&A with Tim O'Reilly was very good to watch, whether it was rehearsed or not.N
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I thought this link was worth a mention because it pretty much lists everything out there at the minute that is web 2.0. The list could take a seriously long time to pan through but the main aspect is the breakdown of sub categories that he's used.There's so many out there and they're all after a buck! Be interesting to see the winners and the losers...they either need VC or to be acquired by th
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I've been looking for references on web site response times with reference to pshychological studies etc. but everything seems to be locked behind user names and passwords. Here's what I've found so far:http://www.useit.com/papers/responsetime.html
http://lef.csc.com/foundation/library/mni/rp05.asp
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/1/
http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/1S/tim
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The $13,854USD bounty has been paid to Colin Nederkoorn by the community who put out a request as soon as the Intel Mac's were announced. It's taken a while, but it was inevitable. Nothing is hack proof!I can see some potential in this with regards to using both OS on one machine...especially if you are mobile. Although I currently have a Mac Powerbook and a Asus PC laptop. The Mac laptop sits in
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Found some interesting links related to the internal views of ex-Google people. Obviously the grass isn't always greener. If this is true, and they are bringing back pop-ups etc., then this could be an interesting turn to see how loyal Googlers are and whether or not they stick with them or whether they move onto something new...I mean, I believe it was their main differential and MSN Search sea
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Found and interesting article on TechCrunch where the blogger Nik Cubrilovic praises 30Boxes and then the comments come in and slam it down. But with very good points about lack of drag and drop facility, syncing in and out with Outlook/PDAs, the iCal representation of the calendar etc.It'll be interesting to see how it goes and how much it gets used. I think the interface may look a bit to progr
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I've been having a play with the GoogleMaps API and found the .Net GoogleMaps control which makes it even simpler to add Maps to pages. The boys over at codeproject also had a nice tutorial using it.There was also a very helpful portal site which I found various links to Geocode sites etc.I'm hoping to get this in place for my project site for events utility very soon. The main steer here is the
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I have been doing some research into the new release of Sharepoint again after inital readings yesterday. I found Dustin Miller's (Dean of sharepoint universtiy) blog article where he basically lists the best places to look for information on the release.Interestingly Arpan Shah was discussing how he know has Sharepoint 2007 running on his production laptop without many glitches and lists some of
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Ever wanted to sync your PDA/mobile phone with iTunes, check this iTune Agent out! Now...just got to wait to get my new PDA after the last one getting stolen!
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I've been trying to watch the Microsoft PDC web casts, but on our corporate network it is very very painful! I found this neat link to software that will grab the stream and save it as something to watch once it's all done...gee...Microsoft could learn some lessons from Apple's Quicktime technology heh! I downloaded one called HiNet Recorder and saved the asx file and opened in the program and cl
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So Microsoft two years ago was hyping up Tablet PCs that seem to have been pushed to the side to promote the new UMPC! Personally, I don't think they'll take off either if PDAs haven't due to the price being the major factor. I mean, what can this thing do that a iPod and a mobile can't?Does your average consumer have access to the internet via WiFi or through 3G and want to pay for this subscrip
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Well, the M$ .Net 2.0 and SQL 2005 exams are finally officially released. So now I really have to start to settle into this and get the books and cram for these once they are available in Perth, Australia! Probably not for a while!
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Well, had time to go back to Team Foundation Server RC. Got it all up and running fine now but still got issues...I can't access the web pages, comes up with HTTP Error 403 - Forbidden!Found some useful links in my travels:MSDN2 Help TeamSystem RocksThere doesn't seem much doco in the way of administrating it and using it etc. Haven't been able to find any basic tutorials or anything! I'll keep h
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Well as predicted, Calendars would be a big thing, in a previous post Google are just about to realease a calendar application called CL2 according to TechCrunch. The interface is similar to GMail so it'll get huge uptake as people are used to it. I guess the main question I have is can you get to it using a Web Service or API because you could use this calendar system to add, edit, insert and
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Okay, now Google Earth made everyone go..."OMG!". Well, this will too! Windows Local Live is basically a computer game on steriods linked into Microsofts own mapping technology. It is quite scary how they manage to get photos for all views along all streets. The implications for this are unbelievable. These pictures include people, cars in the roads etc. Would be interesting to see the
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After the last CMS Microsoft released I was really hoping they'd sort something nice out to match Visual Studio 2005 and Office 2007 product sets. It turns out they are rolling it out with Sharepoint 2007.
From reading
around the web, there’s been a lot of activity in February this year with beta
of Sharepoint 2007 which is going to be released with Microsoft Office 2007 to
encourage sales.
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Just got my new machine at work...2 19" flat screen monitors and a beefy 2Gb Ram, 200Gb HDD machine! VM heaven!Anyways, I pulled a solution down from Visual Source Safe and got a non-friendly .Net error ("Requested registry access is not allowed")..found the solution here at Marshall Jones blog. It basically points to Tom Hollander's blog where it shows that you need to install Ent
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I saw the Under the Radar event mentioned here at TechCrunch regarding Fox Interactive announcing 'acquiring' 5 of the 32 companies that were at the event. Pretty impressive for these web 2.0 start ups.They actually mentioned they weren't acquiring Tagged, I had a quick look at this and it looks very similar to something a lot of my university friends use called Bebo and hi5. All very high use yo
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