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Friday, May 16, 2008 7:41 PM

The amazing Worldwide Telescope

Wow! I downloaded the Worldwide Telescope today and I'm totally transfixed. no wonder the press has been raving about it so much. The mission of the WWT is twofold: To aggregate scientific data from major telescopes, observatories and institutions and
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Thursday, May 15, 2008 4:06 PM

Right Brain or Left Brain illusion

My mother showed me something which has been driving me totally mad since yesterday. (Click on the icon for the web page with the animated version) It's an illusion which apparently tests whether you're using your right brain or your left brain. I've
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 3:46 PM

Trojans in MP3's

Oh heck. I need to phone my friend June after her PC became infested with worms and trojans the other week. McAfee have reported that trojans are hiding in MP3 files (there's a really great and informative blog post on the site by the way) Her reaction?
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 3:19 PM

Save your Word documents in DAISY format and create your own talking book

I was interested to see this article the other day about a new technology we've announced to help people who can't see too well and would prefer things to be read out using text to speech. This add in allows you to translate Open XML documents into DAISY
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Friday, May 09, 2008 9:49 PM

Coders hack Microsoft website? They need to learn DNS...

I was amused at Viral's take on the fact that we'd hacked our own website the other day with the Live to Code ethic that developers seem to embrace so much. More so, as I recently met Josh at our Technical conference this year. Josh had admired my Women
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008 3:43 PM

Too many worms

I didn't get a chance to blog on Friday due to the words all IT professionals hate to hear from their friends: " My computer is running slowly, could you come over and take a look at it please ?" My friend June is a nurse who uses her computer for emails,
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Thursday, May 01, 2008 8:18 PM

Much more scary than doing live demos

I get nervous enough when I'm on stage, demoing beta products - especially the first time I demo stuff live (remember all the problems I had when I demoed Exchange unified messaging to a live audience when there was lots of background noise). But sometimes
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 4:37 PM

Build your own Photo Zoom demo...

Oooooh! I've found a demo that the IT pro's will love, and the developers will have a great time creating more images. I'm at our team offsite. It's a great opportunity to find out what other parts of the Evangelism team is doing, find out our challenges
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 2:20 PM

Playing with Live Meeting 2007

I've just been showing Claire and Maxine in the Developer Marketing team how to use Live Meeting 2007 this time as a presenter instead of a participant. I often forget how confusing things may seem when viewed from the other side of the fence so to speak.
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Monday, April 28, 2008 8:18 PM

Get 30% off the TechNet plus subscription

We're running a little competition in the UK where all the team have been given promotional codes to give out so that you can get 30% off the cost of a new TechNet plus subscription or 10% off your renewal subscription either Online or on DVD Steve so
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:33 PM

More champions in IT needed...

We announced the winners of the last Champion IT award - read their stories here. So we've started to think about our next Champion IT guy for next quarter (the 3rd time that this has been done. We are currently looking for a new Champion of ChampionIT
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Monday, April 21, 2008 6:34 PM

Things you didn't know you didn't know

There's always something you can learn about in technology - even with tools you've been using for years. so when the It evangelists from around the world got together for a summit day, we had to create a fun video about being an evangelist. So our team
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008 8:57 AM

Splitting the document window in Word

I've always been baffled by this so it's my turn to ask you for some ideas. I found this tip in the Microsoft at Work newsletter and I have no idea why I'd use it. Quick Tip In Microsoft Word , you can split the document window horizontally into two panes,
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Monday, April 14, 2008 7:07 AM

Customer Satisfaction Survey

We're deep in planning for our next financial year which starts on July 1st and we've sent out some surveys to find out how you feel about what we've been doing so far this year. I'd like to see a response to the survey so we can gauge whether my ideas
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008 2:49 AM

DesignIT - your turn to vote

I was lucky enough to get the chance to be on the judging panel to decide which entries would be on the shortlist. I was blown away by the quality of the entries and it was really hard to decide. Well we managed to get the list down to a shortlist, and
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