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Thursday, May 29, 2008 5:35 PM

Documentum and FileNet Connectors for SharePoint Released

  The links went live on May 23rd: - Enterprise Search Indexing Connector 2008 for EMC Documentum - Enterprise Search Indexing Connector 2008 for IBM FileNet We also have tutorial videos set up – you can view them at: - ESIC2008 for DCTM tutorial
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008 1:45 PM

Masses Rejoice: Xobni Goes Public Beta

Xobni , the small San Francisco Bay start-up, has gone public with their Outlook, and now Yahoo Mail, plug-in.  If you recall, I wrote about Xobni a few months back.  Having been on the private beta, I can only say, that Xobni has really changed
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Friday, May 02, 2008 5:58 PM

How To: Fix Outlook Data Corruption

So I had a weird morning today. My computer woke up from sleep a little grumpy, definitely not the typical experience which is usually smooth as a baby’s bottom. Anyway, I fire up outlook and I’m greeted with an error that says Outlook can’t launch because
Posted by Viral Tarpara | 2 Comments
Thursday, April 03, 2008 6:05 PM

Create Hollywood Quality Music Videos Cheap

It's been a really hectic month for me this last March, hence the utter lack of regular blog posts. For this I apologize. Even though I'm was on vacation at my home in Dallas, Texas, I wanted to let everyone know about a really cool site called Animoto
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Thursday, April 03, 2008 5:06 PM

A Better Way To Defrag

What year is it?  It’s 2008 and I’m still writing about how to defrag my Windows machine.  It’s pathetic.  The whole idea is ridiculous especially considering that as the size of partitions have shot up almost exponentially,
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Monday, March 10, 2008 10:25 PM

MiniBar: London's Premiere Web 2.0 Geek Night

Browsing Upcoming.org for some interesting social events, I came across fun little event called Minibar, ironic I know.  Minibar is essentially an evening "geek" night thrown at local bar/lounge where influential people from the community,
Posted by Viral Tarpara | 2 Comments
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 7:11 PM

The Universe Like Never Before, Microsoft WorldWide Telescope Blasts Off

The 27th of February 2008 will be a day ingrained into the head of every man, woman, and child *2/27???* .  No, it is not because of the momentous launch of Windows Server 2008, although a great achievement in its own right.  Today Microsoft
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 7:45 PM

Office Binary Formats Released to the Public under Open Specification Promise

Finally what the open-source community has been asking from Microsoft has come to fruition, we've released the Office Binary Format in it's entirety and put it under our IRREVOCABLE, GPL-compatible, legally binding Open Specification Promise .  This
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008 2:24 PM

Really Interesting Zune Hack

I recently had the opportunity to play around with the new Zunes at Best Buy while attending MacWorld.  I was definitely impressed with how much the Zune team has accomplished in a year *sorry I doubted you J *.  The biggest improvement, in
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008 11:35 AM

Live At BETT 2008 - Day 1

Hello Everyone, For the next three days I will be talking with customers at the Microsoft booth. For those that do not know what BETT is, it is the largest Education-focused tradeshow in the UK. There are a lot of exciting technologies on showcase here
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Monday, December 24, 2007 3:10 PM

Outlook and Search Server Christmas Webcasts

I always get into the holiday mood late. While people graciously spend their Novembers shopping, feasting, and buying plane tickets to spend time with their loved ones, I get a head start in my procrastination efforts. The reality is I don't get into
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007 3:01 PM

Tafiti Brightens Up SharePoint Enterprise Search

Microsoft announced yesterday that Tafiti , the experimental Silverlight front-end for Live Search, has been released under the Microsoft Shared Source Permissive License *it's like BSD*.  Here is the announcement.   Internally this caused a
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Monday, December 17, 2007 6:09 PM

Index PDFs Lightning Fast with Foxit's PDF iFilter

iFilters are like plugins for search products that extend the functionality of the indexing service.  Windows Indexing Service, MSN Desktop Search, Internet Information Server, SharePoint Portal Server, Windows SharePoint Services (WSS), Site Server,
Posted by Viral Tarpara | 2 Comments
Wednesday, December 12, 2007 4:00 PM

Office 2007 SP1 is Out - GoodBye Outlook Problems

My colleague James O'Neill beat me to this one.  SP1 for Office is finally here, and none the sooner as I was ready to destroy my laptop and beat it with a sledgehammer because of the stability issues with Outlook. Funny story, a lot of the bad rap
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Thursday, November 29, 2007 7:28 AM

Connectors and Investing in Open Technologies

So I presented at Falkirk to an awesome audience about Search Server 2008 and had some interesting questions.  I've learned in my travels that geography plays a huge part in the sophistication of an audience.  Don't get me wrong, I am not insulting
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