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Microsoft Tag (For Mobile Devices)

January 28, 2009
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If you have seen the new Android (Googles phone) adverts where the guy grabs his phone takes a picture of a barcode and ...

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Live Mesh for the Phone (beta)

January 26, 2009
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I have been reviewing Live Mesh recently and simultaneously helping my wife synch information between her notebook and ...

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Writing to My Documents using .NET

January 23, 2009
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It has been a while since I have done significant UI work for a Windows application, however, the last product I ...

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Xbox 360 and Netflix

January 16, 2009
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I recently purchased an Xbox and I must say, considering that have yet to acquired a sports game, that I am very ...

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DRM Free Music from Apple

January 09, 2009
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I thought the recent announcement from Apple and EMI was really interesting. Apparently there will be more DRM free ...

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Case Statements in VBScript

January 07, 2009
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I have been doing some with XSL transformations, and VBScript has been my enemy recently. What little grey matter still ...

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Enabling Telnet in Windows Vista

January 07, 2009
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I was recently having some problems with setting up POP email at home and I wanted to verify what port were open and I ...

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AT&T Web Remote Access

December 26, 2008
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I was away from home this Christmas and realized that I was missing the highly anticipated Basketball game between the ...

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Free Online Storage

December 23, 2008
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I briefly mentioned about SkyDrive (25gb free), however, I am not sure I really realized the variety of free online ...

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