From the monthly archives:

March 2008

THOUGHT: When will recruiters take to Twitter?

March 31, 2008Main

These days it seems the best indication of when a particular social media source has reached it’s used by date is when recruiters are using it more than your ‘real’ connections
Take LinkedIn for example. A year ago, this was a valuable tool, allowing us all to connect to business associates. These days, [...]

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TIP: Fixing IE so it doesn’t go mental with lots of tabs open

March 27, 2008Main

This one has bugged me for ages – you open up stacks of tabs in IE and after a while weird things start happening. Perhaps its the menu not appearing on some tabs, another tab has missing toolbars, etc.
And it affects other programs as well including File Explorer, shortcuts, and in my case SharePoint Designer [...]

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CLARITY: CRM Live becomes CRM Online

March 27, 2008Clarity

The main interest in this article from Mary Jo is not about CRM (who cares about a name change after all) but rather how Microsoft are clarifying their terms:
Live: Consumer focus
Online: Business & Enterprise focus, hosted by Microsoft
Hosted services: hosted by Microsoft partners
And don’t miss the revenue sharing snippet at the bottom – Microsoft will [...]

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TIP: Repairing Outlook .ost and .pst files

March 24, 2008Main

I’ve had issues recently with Outlook crashing when I shut it down. Initially I thought this was due to a rogue Outlook Addin (eg I’ve got Xobni, ClearContext, OutTwit and others installed). So I went through systematically getting rid of them. Put the problem persisted.
Finally I found the issue was to do with the actual [...]

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SBTUG: Unified Communications – this Wed 26 March

March 23, 2008Main

This Wednesday we’ve got another great Sydney Business & Technology User Group (SBTUG) lined up.
This month: Unified Communications: What is it, and why does it matter? Presented by Craig Pringle.

When: This Wed 26 March 2008
Time: 6pm (until approx 8:30pm)
Where: Microsoft, North Ryde
Contact: Craig Bailey : 0413 489 388
Cost: Free [...]

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Silverlight 2 Developer poster

March 18, 2008Link

Thanks to Brad Abrams, here’s the Silverlight 2 Developer poster (JPEG).
Technorati Tags: Silverlight

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Visual Basic 6 Runtime supported on Vista and Windows Server 2008

March 18, 2008Link

Yes, it's officially supported. But I don't think it is installed by default – your installer still has to do that – however I may be wrong…

Technorati Tags: Visual Basic, Windows Server 2008, Vista

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Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Controls Source code released

March 18, 2008Link

Not only does the download (a whopping 687 KB include all the source code for the S2B1 controls, but also all the unit tests. Check out Brad’s post for other useful links as well. Like this one from Shawn Burke which gives a nice overview.
(via Brad Abrams)
Technorati Tags: Silverlight controls source code, Unit [...]

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SitePoint HTML and CSS References

March 18, 2008Link

You’ve no doubt used SitePoint before. So I probably don’t need to tell you about their excellent CSS Reference. And it’d be silly to think you don’t also know about their freshly released HTML Reference. Great resources.
Technorati Tags: SitePoint, CSS, HTML, Reference

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Sydney BarCamp – 5 & 6 April 2008

March 18, 2008Community

A quick note to promote the upcoming Sydney BarCamp (or more correctly: BarCampSydney), being held at the Uni of NSW on April 5 & 6.
Don’t know what BarCamp is? No problem – here’s the details.
‘BarCamp is an international network of unconferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — focusing on [...]

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Microsoft Announces New Accessibility Tools

March 17, 2008Link

Great to see more developer stuff coming out that focuses on (or at least highlights) the need for improving accessibility of web sites.
This particular site (released a week or so ago) is Microsoft’s take on it. If this were to come from Google or Mozilla it would of course be praised for its progressiveness, but [...]

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Microsoft licenses Flash Lite

March 17, 2008Link

Microsoft is licensing Flash Lite for use on mobile devices. This announcement can only be a good thing right? The more options I have on my mobile the better. It doesn’t mean I won’t be using Silverlight of course (nice double negative for you).
Technorati Tags: Microsoft, Adobe, Flash Lite

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New Sydney Business & Technology site coming (SBTUG)

March 14, 2008SBTUG

We’ve been working on a new site for SBTUG. Check it out here.
The new site is a Wiki and allows anyone to make changes (simple registration required). The aim over the coming months is to build into a much more community driven site (to date it has been static and updated by me once a [...]

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Get ClearContext for free

March 14, 2008Link

I’ve been using ClearContext for the last two months and I love it. But it costs over $100 (Australian). That’s a lot to pay. But I paid it and haven’t regretted it.
However, what if you could get a license for free? Well you can. Check out the ClearContext blog for details – you just have [...]

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Google Sky

March 14, 2008Link

Google’s freshly released Google Sky is nice. But having seen the demos for the upcoming Microsoft World Wide Telescope I can’t help but be under-whelmed. btw when in Google Sky try clicking on Earth (from the Solar System link, bottom left) – it takes you to Google Maps…
Technorati Tags: Google, Skype, Microsoft, World Wide Telescope

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New version of OutTwit released

March 14, 2008Link

For all those people using OutTwit as your Twitter client (it basically brings Twitter into Outlook), you’ll be interested I’m sure to get the latest version (released yesterday).
The best things about this release (0.4.2.22) is that it pulls in all your replies. So, even if you’re offline for a few hours, once you reconnect it [...]

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Elcom upgrade of Microsoft CRM 3.0 to 4.0

March 14, 2008Elcom

Brad Marsh has a few screenshots of our upgrade experience from Microsoft CRM 3.0 to 4.0
Summary: it went extremely well.
My comment: CRM 4.0 seems to be slower than 3.0 but since it’s running on an old server, it was expected (new server infrastructure coming in the next few weeks – Yay!). Overall, no real [...]

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TIP: How to uninstall IE8

March 9, 2008Main

If, like me, you rushed out and installed Internet Explorer 8 last week, then you may, like me again, be regretting it.

IE8 has been slow, unstable and ugly. By ugly I mean that most of the sites I viewed looked really bad (or didn't render at all). The price of progress you may say? After [...]

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TIP: How to create a Microsoft LiveID with your own domain name

March 6, 2008Main

This one crops up from time to time. You need a Microsoft LiveID for use with say Windows Messenger. But when you go through the sign up process, you only have options for a .hotmail.com or .live.com domain on your alias.

If you have registered your own domain name, then ideally you want your LiveID profile [...]

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TIP: The Top Mistake of public speaking

March 6, 2008Main

I mentioned in a previous post that I was really nervous when I presented at the Microsoft Launch last week.

This actually caught me by surprise, because I am usually pretty comfortable presenting in front of groups.

At home that night I was wondering why I had suddenly tensed up. Was it the large crowd (the room [...]

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