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Wednesday, September 17, 2008 5:15 PM

How can I join the VistaSquad meeting remotely?

A couple of people have asked me this very question as they live too far away from London to be there in person. The sessions are not yet streamed though the community leaders have thoughfully recorded every session and published them to Vimeo - click
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008 5:16 AM

When's a laptop not a laptop?

When it's red hot! I'm sat in an airport waiting at the gate for my flight home. Like all good travelling geeks I've found somewhere to plug my laptop in to mains power. I've been sat here typing away and browsing the web/email for the last couple of
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008 5:09 AM

I'll be on holiday until 6th October hence any comments posted to this blog won't be published until I return

I really enjoy reading the comments people like you leave on my blog - I appreciate people taking the time to share their ideas, frustrations and general feedback. I moderate the comments on this blog to remove any comment spam that sneaks past the automated
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008 4:49 AM

What if your Windows Mobile phone fails to sync email even though it can browse the Internet?

I’ve been in Seattle for the last couple of days and when I first arrived I was somewhat frustrated that my HTC S620 phone was unable to sync email with our corporate Exchange server. It worked perfectly at home and I was able to browse the Internet quite
Posted by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 4:49 AM

How to configure Windows Mobile to roam to the network provider of your choice

This post follows my earlier one citing what to do if your phone can browse the web but not sync email . The following instructions are for Windows Mobile 6.0 and were taken from my HTC S620 - other handsets are very likely to have exactly the same options.
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 2:45 PM

Join the VistaSquad to learn about being a Geek 2.0 and WPF/Silverlight applications

The VistaSquad are meeting again tomorrow night – Wednesday 17th September at Microsoft’s office in London. To sign up (for free) simply head on over to the VistaSquad event page here . Topics this month: WPF/Silverlight Application Deep Dive (Richard
Posted by Steve Lamb | 2 Comments
Tuesday, September 16, 2008 2:37 AM

How can Public Key Infrastructure technologies improve your information security posture?

There’s a really good (free) TechNet webcast coming up on the 17th September which will be a great resource for those of you who’d like to learn how to take advantage of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) in your organisation. The full details of the event
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008 6:22 PM

Which EEE PC is best and when does a subnotebook make sense?

First things first - there are many vendors other than ASUS (who produce the EEE PC range) who produce comparable machines - I don't have any commercial or personal reason for advocating ASUS devices. Last weekend I a friend of mine visited most of the
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008 1:43 PM

Is Google becoming the new Microsoft?

Clearly Google is successfully growing it's reach and has ambitions to dominate far more markets. With growth comes responsibility. If their vision becomes reality they will surely attract far more attention from the forces of government regulation. In
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008 1:18 PM

Chrome is often used to distract prospective customers from the underlying product

I've read with interest the storm that's brewing regarding Google Chrome. Does Chrome signify the death of the client? Can you really "live in a fancy browser" and be totally agnostic of the underlying operating system? At what point does the operating
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Monday, September 01, 2008 12:20 AM

Beware - if you install a new browser such as IE8 you'll loose your cookies

This may not be a problem for you but it's worth being aware that any websites that automatically sign you in (after you've logged in the first time and asked the browser to store your password for the site) will forget who you are - therefore make sure
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