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When I am not doing the day job I like to draw and paint to relax so I have combined a bit of business & pleasure for the SQL Bits Goes West conference by doing a few cartoons for them… As you can see the event has grown to three days. While
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A lot of teenagers are on work experience at the moment, and as I don’t have any of my own children I got to be cool uncle for a week and took my nephew Harry to spend a week inside Microsoft. We run a full week course of lectures and practical
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One of the Microsoft guys at the last SQL Bits events was Chris Guest who works in the Media Room team which is all about TV over the internet. I wasn’t sure why he was at a SQL Server event so I grabbed a camera (well two camera and and cameramen)
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Sadly I am not as reliable as SL Server and so the blog has not been updated for a couple of weeks while I have been recovering form an operation. My events have also been affected so Keith Burns will be on hand in Scotland tomorrow instead of me,
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One of our evangelists ( Marc Holmes ) has managed to get Ray Ozzie (Microsoft’s chief architect) to sign a copy of the pre-release previews of Windows 7 and Windows 2008r2 and he’s giving these away. To win you’ll need to make a cool video of some aspect
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My wife Juliet asked me a stupid question about all those Christmas Videos Viral , James and I made.. where’s the stuff? What she meant was where are the links to try it yourself so here you are Mrs Fryer… Virtual Earth Photosynth Windows Live Writer
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In my final video of free stuff from Microsoft, Viral is showing my Community Clips a screencasting tool that we actually use to make most of our videos. However the Community Clips site is also a great resource of videos for learning Office … Technorati
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Live Mesh is the brainchild of Ray Ozzie and is cooler than the weather outside at the moment. To see why Viral has put together a short video to explain all.. Technorati Tags: Live Mesh
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Viral has made another video for my Christmas series, this time on Windows Live Sync, which allows you to aggregate and share your digital life.. and sorry it’s a little late! Technorati Tags: Windows Live Sync , home computing
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The remaining videos in my quest to show 12 cool free things that you can use form Microsoft have been made by good friend Viral . Viral is the Office and Sharepoint evangelist so it is entirely appropriate that he shows you PPTPlex, a PowerPoint
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The OfficeLabs guys have been busy in the run up to Christmas and have release a gizmo called Thumbtack. It’s a sort of web based OneNote and allows you to quickly aggregate research from lots of web sites. My wife Juliet explains it better than
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I still love to watch the Royal Institute Lectures at Christmas, and I am please to see Microsoft supporting them this year. In this spirit I wanted to show the Microsoft World Wide Telescope so if you haven’t tried it yet hopefully this will convince
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Deep Zoom actually does what it says on the tin. However while many people have seen demos of it I am not sure many have actually tried it or know how it works and that it’s free. To rectify that Viral Tarpara (he’s the good looking one in the shot
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This blog is written using Windows Live Writer as are many of the others on TechNet and MSDN. In this video Giorgio Sardo shows how he writes his and how to control your PC with a Samsung Omnia.. Technorati Tags: windows live writer , silverlight
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Although Photosynth has been widely publicised in the general and IT press I still come across load of people who don’t know what it is. In this short video James O’Neill in fine Blue Peter tradition shows a synth (the buzz word for what you make
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