UPDATE: Some people are still getting the page saying Live Mesh is only available in the U.S Only. I am chasing up the Live Mesh team for a update to the issue.

UPDATE 2: If your having troubles signing up please check your Passport profile doesnt have missing or incorrect information in the Country/Region field.

Live Mesh Tech Preview is now open to Australians without being on a waiting list. I have been using this since it was in Beta and really like it! Live Mesh is a great way to keep things synchronised across multiple devices through the web. It even supports P2P sharing and has a live desktop to access your files through the browser.



What is Live Mesh?
Watch this hands on video thanks to on10.net

Sign up at www.mesh.com

Something cool from the people at Microsoft Research, check out the Pong game.


Article - http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/372594_msftsphere29.html

The "Mojave Experiment" is a experiment where we disguised Windows Vista as codename "Mojave", the next Microsoft Operating System so people who have not used Vista can see what it does. Check out the results for yourself.

 
From Derrick Buckley, User Group Lead for SWIG:

Hi All,

See you all at SWIG on Tuesday for great talks, prizes and free food and drink.....

We have a great talk on preparing for your Windows 2008 MCITP exam with Ken Schaefer

Ken’s Bio - Ken Schaefer is a systems engineer consultant for global systems integrator Avanade. Avanade is a joint partnership between Microsoft and Accenture and focuses on enterprise projects across the Microsoft product stack.

Ken has worked with IIS for around 10 years, and been a Microsoft MVP for IIS since 2003. He has presented at numerous Microsoft Tech.Ed events across the US, Australia and Asia, written articles for Microsoft TechNet and spent countless hours talking about IIS at other events, user group meetings and roadshows. He was lead author for Professional IIS 7 (Wrox/Wiley) and co-author of Securing IIS 6.0 (Syngress Press)

He is currently an MCITP (Win2k8 EA), MCSE+Security, MCDBA, MCTS and holds a Masters in Business and Technology from UNSW. Ken blogs about IIS at http://adopenstatic.com/blog

Our second talk is now confirmed and Amit Pawar has agreed to give us a talk on the new Windows Hyper V technology. Amit Pawar is a Technology Solutions Professional specialising in Windows Server technologies. As a technical specialist, his role involves being able to explain and demonstrate the features and benefits of the Windows Server platform as a infrastructure platform to customers and partners. In the past 7 years Amit has worked in a varied roles within Microsoft Australia ranging from Microsoft Consulting Services to Product Support Services.

We also have a Demo from Chris Mohan on File Server Resource Manager for Windows 2008. Have a look at Chris’s blog - http://www.chris-mohan.com/ The demo will  be recorded and entered into the Microsoft Demo competition....best of luck Chris!

See you on Tuesday
Derrick Buckley

Tue 15th July 2008 6pm
Healey Room, Ground Floor
50 Bridge St Sydney
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Having just bought the latest Offspring Album - Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace I used Windows Media Player to rip it to my music library but it didn't pick up the album art. I have been using Live Search for finding images lately because it has some pretty handy features.


On the right hand side there are a variety of filters you can apply to the search. Since Im looking for the highest resolution album art for my library (good if your using Media Center) I just select large or desktop and it comes back with the filtered results. I then click the the image link URL where then it opens a new window with the image. I simply drag and drop the Album Art into Windows Media Player and I have my new Album Art sorted. Of course you wouldnt need to go through this if it picked up the album art in the first place..